Gerrymandering is almost as old as the US republic itself. It’s the process of drawing electoral district lines in sometimes ...

The current national fight over congressional maps ties back more than 200 years to a legendary moment in Massachusetts ...

The term “gerrymander” was coined in 1812, after a political cartoon in the Boston Gazette showed a proposed redistricting ...

A decision on the state’s new congressional map will affect five House seats and could help determine control of the chamber next year. By J. David Goodman Reporting from Houston Lloyd Doggett had ...

Matthew Chapman is a video game designer who attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and lives in San Marcos, Texas. Before joining Raw Story, he wrote for Shareblue and AlterNet, specializing in ...

President Donald Trump demanded that Indiana Republicans commit to a mid-decade gerrymandering effort to help Republicans hold on to the House of Representatives in next year’s midterms over the ...

People all over Missouri are getting a scary text message Tuesday afternoon. With a giant red stop sign reading “Missouri alert,” and decorated with emergency light emojis, it warns: “Black Friday ...

As a lifelong Utahn, I especially care about issues that affect everyone. Proposition 4, also known as the Utah Independent Redistricting Commission and Standards Act, was signed into law after Utahns ...

Protesters gather in Raleigh, NC in 2022 against the election maps drawn in 2021. In blocking Texas from using its new congressional maps, a federal judicial panel painstakingly discredited Republican ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily restored Texas’s new congressional map that’s designed to allow Republicans to win up to five additional House seats in next year’s midterm elections. On Friday, ...

The state filed an emergency application with the high court on Friday. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito put a temporary hold on a lower court order that would have blocked Texas from rolling out ...