The direction comes amid Trump's push to weaken the political power of those voters less likely to support him.

Trump called for a "new and highly accurate" census that he wanted based on "modern day facts and figures" gleaned from the 2024 election.

Spurred on by Trump, Texas Republicans redrew the boundary lines for U.S. House seats in the state. The new map creates five more GOP-leaning seats.

Republicans hold just nine of California’s 53 congressional seats and Gov. Newsom is ready to cut that in half to battle Texas' partisan redistricting push.

What is gerrymandering, and why has it turned into a political flashpoint in Texas? We explain the saga, in 8 points.

Houston State Rep. Gene Wu, who Gov. Greg Abbott called the "ringleader" of Texas Democrats who fled, and other party leaders reported a bomb threat on Wednesday.

Gov. Gavin Newsom, meanwhile, is attempting to stop the steal by asking California voters to approve a new Congressional map ...

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President Donald Trump’s push to find more Republican seats ahead of next year’s midterms has launched a nationwide ...

As Democratic legislators in the Lone Star State fled to block a new congressional map, a handful of both blue and red states ...

People who are in our Country illegally WILL NOT BE COUNTED IN THE CENSUS,” President Trump wrote on Truth Social.

For now, the Voting Rights Act imposes some restraints, but the court has also signaled it could further weaken the landmark ...