Texas Republicans could now lose seats in the November 2026 midterms, not gain them.
Because of a ruling on redistricting in the state, the party is unlikely to pick up new seats from redrawn electoral maps.
Meanwhile, according to unrelated analysis by political scientist Larry Sabato, the party may find it more difficult to keep hold of two seats it won in the November 2024 election as they are shifting toward the Democratic Party.
My favorite part of this is that the redistricting would have had no problems in court if the Republicans had simply not talked about their race-related motives in public.
With that said, I don’t have high hopes for the Supreme Court here.
This was always going to be the end result of gerrymandering. When you’re constantly abusing razor-thin margins, and a political sea change comes along due to your party worshiping a child raping monster, election results will be bad.
This is why repugs will almost certainly cheat in the upcoming midterms. Since elections are run by the state, I wonder if anybody will be able to stop them in Texas.
They’re well on their way to that. Former Republican election official buys Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems https://coloradosun.com/2025/10/09/dominion-voting-systems-sold/
Womp womp.
I’m a little curious how this impacts CAs efforts, as I believe those were meant to be contingent on TX but with appeals existing and the timeframe, I’m not sure when or if they’ll undo what they were going to do in CA. And CAs is pretty obviously not race driven, even if it’s blatantly partisan (yet that’s legal because fuck us).
Would be really funny though if this backfires such that Ds get more gerrymandered seats overall, though, lol.
I think that requirement was removed.
And of course the illegitimate, corrupt SCROTUS stepped in to allow the Republicans racist disenfranchisement.
Oops.
