Six months into his second term, Trump’s Ukraine pivot is shaky, his Epstein strategy is backfiring, and Republicans are torching congressional norms because they can. The Washington Monthly politics ...

If Texas gerrymanders its House seats to boost Republicans, Newsom threatens to do the same for Democrats. But it's not in ...

House Democrats are pushing back against President Donald Trump’s directive to eliminate Democratic seats in Texas by launching an aggressive redistricting strategy of their own—hiring top attorneys ...

Newsom, who has spent much of the second Trump administration pitching himself as a party leader for Democrats, justified his ...

President Trump and Texas GOP leaders push for mid-decade redistricting to create five new winnable seats, as both parties ...

The California governor is threatening to make a controversial tit-for-tat response if Texas Republicans redraw their state’s ...

California’s governor keeps talking about creating new House seats in response to a Texas gerrymander. But the gambit could ...

The Texas GOP knows the risk. In the 2010s, the Republican-controlled Legislature drew political lines that helped pad the ...

Republicans in Texas are gearing up to redraw the state's congressional maps this week, aiming to secure five new seats for the GOP.This move is part of a broader strategy to maintain control of the ...

In this edition: The muddled state of redistricting, the Newsom-free debates in California and the question of Herschel Walker. There are days when I regret starting every issue of the newsletter ...