Six months into his second term, Trump’s Ukraine pivot is shaky, his Epstein strategy is backfiring, and Republicans are torching congressional norms because they can. The Washington Monthly politics roundtable unpacks the week’s unraveling.

If Texas gerrymanders its House seats to boost Republicans, Newsom threatens to do the same for Democrats. But it's not in the governor's power after voters created a nonpartisan commission.

Newsom, who has spent much of the second Trump administration pitching himself as a party leader for Democrats, justified his California redistricting plan as necessary to reporte

California’s governor keeps talking about creating new House seats in response to a Texas gerrymander. But the gambit could backfire on Democrats.

House Democrats are pushing back against President Donald Trump’s directive to eliminate Democratic seats in Texas by launching an aggressive redistricting strategy of their own—hiring top attorneys to help cut down the number of GOP-held seats in five key states,

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez backed a Democratic redistricting initiative after President Donald Trump pushed Texas to do so and create more House seats favorable to Republicans

Democrats and Republicans are considering an aggressive strategy to gain an advantage in next year’s midterm elections that will decide the balance of power in

In this edition: The muddled state of redistricting, the Newsom-free debates in California and the question of Herschel Walker. There are days when I regret starting every issue of the newsletter ...

Why is this about the Texas Republicans' redistricting gambit a story with importance far beyond the Lone Star State? Several reasons, actually.