California voters have passed Proposition 50 by a comfortable margin, codifying a freshly-gerrymandered congressional map for the rest of the decade.The passage of this new map — which is designed to protect a slew of vulnerable Democrats and will cost Republicans three to five seats in 2026 — is the most consequential development to date in the mid-decade redistricting wars due to the sheer number of seats that it impacts.

A last minute push brought U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to Illinois to try and convince lawmakers to redraw the state’s political maps. While he was unsuccessful in convincing lawmakers to pick the issue up during the veto session,

The North Carolina House on Wednesday gave final approval to a new congressional map aimed at helping Republicans eke out an additional GOP seat to help shore up the party’s majority in the US House after next year’s midterm elections.