Trump’s push for states to redraw political maps and create more GOP-friendly House seats in time for the 2026 election has led to Democrats showing they’re willing to use whatever power they have to win.

Thousands assembled around the country to demonstrate against a Republican effort to redraw congressional maps in their favor for 2026.

But in some of the nation’s biggest Senate races, Democrats are relying on an old strategy of recruiting—and then clearing the field for—long-serving party leaders with whom voters are already familiar.

Democrats' absence has halted work in the Texas House, which must also approve the new boundaries, for more than a week.

SPRINGFIELD — As national Democrats continue looking for a message that will resonate with the American public enough to put them back in power, U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Tuesday it could be as simple as: “America is too expensive.”

Former President Barack Obama praised a group of Texas Democratic lawmakers for fleeing their state to stop a vote on a redistricting bill, calling their actions “inspiring."

A half-dozen Indiana House Democrats met with their Texas colleagues Wednesday in Chicago to oppose unprecedented mid-cycle redistricting efforts, a process that typically occurs once in a decade. Earlier that same day,