Gavin Newsom, Trump and Redistricting
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House Speaker Mike Johnson told the Republicans' national House campaign committee to mobilize to stop the Democrat-led maneuver .
As Texas hurtles toward a flashpoint on a GOP effort to redraw congressional districts, California Democrats are answering with a plan of their own.
California has an overwhelmingly Democratic delegation in Congress. Gov. Newsom’s plan could give his party five more seats and offset a Texas gerrymander.
A group of masked U.S. Border Patrol agents showed up in trucks outside of the press conference at the Japanese American National Museum.
Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected to roll out an official campaign on Thursday in Los Angeles advocating for California to redraw its congressional districts and offset a similar GOP-led effort in Texas to net the party an additional five U.S. House seats in the 2026 midterms.
California Governor Gavin Newsom has doubled down on his new nickname for Vice President JD Vance —"Just Dance Vance." Newsom's team posted a meme of Vance's face on the body of Australian break-dancer Rachael "Raygun" Gunn, who went viral when she scored zero points in the 2024 Olympic breakdancing competition.
The California governor’s fight over district lines is no defense of democracy but a ruling-class ploy, exposing the Democrats’ complicity with Trump in austerity, repression and war.
The governor connected President Donald Trump's request that Texas Republicans redraw districts to eke out another five House seats to the Jan. 6 insurrection, rollbacks on abortion rights, Trump's dismantling of federal agencies and targeting of law firms, universities and museums, and federal deportation raids in California.