Key Takeaways:
- Gerrymandering is a redistricting technique that should be used to reflect the overall statewide Democrat/Republican voting preferences.
- Instead, it’s being used to overrepresent one political party and underrepresent the other.
- Both Democrats and Republicans engage in gerrymandering, but the Democrats are much better at it than the Republicans.
- In most states, Democrats are overrepresented and Republicans are underrepresented.
- This is especially true in California.
- When Texas redistricted to correct the gerrymandering disparity, California Gov. Gavin Newsom retaliated with a legislature-controlled redistricting map that violates the state Constitution.
- Californians will vote on November 4 to approve or reject the new map – which is being advertised as a referendum on President Trump.
Across America, all eyes are on Texas and California.
A term many people haven’t heard of before – called “gerrymandering” – is now a hot topic of conversation.
Why?
Because this can determine the outcome of important issues as:
- The future of all of President Trump’s policies
- Whether or not Congress becomes controlled by the Democrats – which would lead to another impeachment attempt
- What type of policies – both foreign and domestic – will be pursued
- Whether these policies will help America or hurt America
- Whether they will help families or hurt families
- Whether they will help you or hurt you
Probably the greatest national attention is on California and Governor Gavin Newsom – and his war against President Trump.
Newsom is seeking to create a massive database of donors and supporters to fuel his 2028 presidential run.
What America doesn’t need is partisan politics.
What America is seeing is partisan politics at its worst.
We are seeing attempts to rig elections so that they do not represent the will of the American people – but rather the will of a minority subset of a political party.
To “gerrymander” means to manipulate the geographical boundaries of an electoral district so as to favor one political party or class of people.
Here are 6 things you should know about gerrymandering, and why it matters:
- Congressional voting districts should be created to represent the overall voting patterns in the state, and state voting districts should represent the voting patterns on city and local issues.
For example, if a state typically votes 60% Democrat and 40% Republican in statewide or federal elections, then the congressional representation in the House from that state should be roughly proportional to that aggregate vote proportion.
The same should be true of the Democrat/Republican proportion in that state’s legislature.
Also, cities and local interests should not be divided across voting districts.
But that is not what is happening.
Instead, the political party in power always seeks to strengthen their power and remain in charge by any means possible.
- Democrats have become experts at using gerrymandering to skew the political representation in their favor.
Democrat gerrymandering went on steroids during the Obama administration.
President Obama – as a community organizer – understood the power of redistricting, and how to use it to the advantage of the Democrat Party.
All blue states – and most red states as well – have an overrepresentation of Democrats in congressional seats and an underrepresentation of Republicans.[1]
That’s because while both political parties gerrymander, the Democrats are much more effective at it than the Republicans.
In California, for example, 38.3% of the voters cast ballots for Donald Trump in the 2024 election.
But in Congress, 43 California Democrats hold House seats versus 9 Republicans.
That’s a ratio of 83% Democrat and 17% Republican.
And the Democrats have a 60 to 19 advantage in the California State Assembly – 78.5% vs. 21.5%.
These super-majorities have been created through radical gerrymandering of congressional and state assembly/senate districts.
- Now that Texas has increased Republican representation in their state, California Gov. Newsom has declared redistricting war.
In the past two years, Texas has gained over a million new residents.[2]
The Texas legislature recently passed a redistricting act to remove a few “majority-minority” seats that the Department of Justice says are unconstitutional,[3]and to account for the new residents.
The redistricting added 5 Republican congressional seats.
Governor Gavin Newsom is incensed that President Trump would ask the state of Texas to redistrict their state to give Republicans more representation in Congress – in the same way he has already done so in California to give the Democrats a huge and unfair advantage.
Newsom has retaliated by creating a new Democrat-dominated district map for California – which he wants to be used for the 2026 midterm election.
He calls it “fighting fire with fire.”[4]
Here’s what he wants to do:
- Spend $250 million – despite the state’s estimated $2 billion deficit[5]
- Suspend the California state Constitution[6]
- Undermine and suspend the California Citizens Redistricting Commission – established by voters in 2008, and already dominated by the Left – and allow legislators rather than the “independent” commission to create a new redistricting map[7]
- Radically gerrymander the already-gerrymandered map to add 5 Democrat congressional seats and eliminate 5 Republican seats
- Reduce the Republican representation from 17% to 8%
- Ask California voters to approve of all of this in a special Referendum vote on November 4th
The radical gerrymandering will create new districts in which two Republicans are in the same district – requiring them to compete against each other – and will turn “safe” Republican districts into “toss-up” districts.
These radical gerrymandering tactics could eliminate even more than 5 Republican seats.
- Governor Newsom is positioning his redistrict map as a referendum on President Trump.[8]
The November 4th referendum is called Proposition 50 – the “Election Rigging Response Act.”
Newsom is marketing a vote for the new district map as a vote against President Trump and his agenda.
The president is being portrayed as the bully and the bad guy who is trying to rig elections, when in fact California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York and other heavily blue states have been rigging elections for decades.[9]
California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas) said, “California will not be a bystander to Trump’s power grab. We will not stand by while the House is hijacked by authoritarianism.”[10]
Accusing President Trump of election rigging, election stealing, and of destroying democracy, may cause the Russian collusion hoax, the Hunter Biden laptop Russian disinformation hoax, and Trump’s two nonsense impeachments seem mild by comparison.
Never mind that President Trump has already done far more for the American people – and for America’s respect among world leaders – than the two previous Democrat administrations ever did.
- The battle between California and blue states vs. red states could determine which political party controls Congress after the 2026 election.
Now that Gov. Newsom in California is retaliating against Texas, the “redistricting war” may quickly spread to other states.
Indiana and other red states are considering redrawing their House districts in time for the 2026 midterm election.
So the retaliation started by Gov. Newsom could end up being a “tit for tat” affair of red states vs. blue states between now and November 2026.
- The relationship between the decennial census and gerrymandering: what’s the best solution?
Redrawing district maps for congressional representation is normally done every 10 years following the decennial census.
The reason for connecting redistricting to the census is to adjust district boundaries to account for population shifts.
It should not be for the purpose of upending the balance of state-wide aggregate votes for each political party.
Mid-cycle redistricting prior to the 2020 census was rare, but was more frequent in states in which the state legislature controlled redistricting.
Independent citizen commissions are theoretically the best solution for redistricting authority – however, so-called “independent” commissions can become corrupt if career politicians are a part of the process.
- Why does all of this matter to me?
If the proportion of congressional representation of your political party for your state is far less than the aggregate proportional party vote in your state in national or statewide elections, your party is underrepresented in Congress – and in the Electoral College.
Your political party may also be underrepresented in your state legislature for the same reason.
This means you are being treated unfairly – your voice and your opinions are not receiving the exposure and the attention they deserve.
Most conservatives don’t pay much attention to the redistricting and the gerrymandering that occurs every 10 years following the decennial census.
But these activities are very important, for they determine your state’s congressional seats for the next several elections.
And therefore, they determine the balance of political power in the House of Representatives for the next several elections.
Action:
- Find out how your state voted in the 2024 election – for president and for the statewide races. Then compare the aggregate Democrat/Republican vote to the Democrat/Republican proportion of Congressional House seats for your state.
- If the proportions are way out of balance, speak out. Post comments on social media. Share what you learn with family and friends who live in your state and congressional district.
- Read my book, The Great Deception: 10 Shocking Dangers and the Blueprint for Rescuing the American Dream. Especially read chapters 5 and 6, “Weaponization of Government,” and, “Voter Fraud vs. Election Integrity.”
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[1] Victor Davis Hanson, https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/08/19/is-gavin-newsom-rigging-california-for-2028/
[2] Jack Flynn, https://www.consumeraffairs.com/movers/moving-to-texas.html
[3] Joel B. Pollak, https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/24/newsom-hopes-to-turn-gerrymander-fight-into-referendum-on-trump/
[4]https://lists.theepochtimes.com/archive/rth7nCDkj/usJwMxGAB/Ev0bV50ov
[5] https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4939
[6] George Skelton, https://link.latimes.com/view/65329f3a25b3640666ad47baoklzd.1buz/306b1fb2
[7] Victor Davis Hanson, op. cit.
[8] Joel B. Pollak, op. cit.
[9] Victor Davis Hanson, op. cit.
[10] George Skelton, op. cit.