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Zohran Mamdani waves at an election night rally in Brooklyn | REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY, edited by Russell Nystrom

Democrats sweep the 2025 elections.

What do the results portend for the 2026 midterms?
2025 election

All Gerrymandering posts

Supreme Court of the United States | Jimmy Woo, edited by Russell Nystrom

Is the Voting Rights Act in danger?

The Supreme Court considers a challenge to Louisiana's congressional map.
Voting Rights Act
Lisa D. Cook sworn in as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System | Federal Reserve, Flickr — edited by Russell Nystrom

The Fed's independence faces its biggest test yet.

Plus, can changing party registration prevent gerrymandering?
Lisa Cook
The Sunday — August 10

The Sunday — August 10

This is the Tangle Sunday Edition, a brief roundup of our independent politics coverage plus some extra features for your Sunday morning reading.  Reminder: Tangle will be on break this week, so we will not be sending a Sunday newsletter on August 17. We’ll be back in your inbox
The Sunday
Dome of the Texas Legislature | Lewis Ashton, Pexels

Republican gerrymandering in Texas, and Democrats' response.

Plus, why did Congress introduce rescissions in 1974?
Gerrymandering
Image of how South Carolina's new congressional districts are drawn. Image: Zach Solomon / Wikicommons

The Supreme Court's ruling on racial gerrymandering.

Plus, an intelligence agency you've probably never heard of.
South Carolina
Chief Justice John Roberts joined three liberals in a majority opinion.

SCOTUS rejects independent state legislature theory.

Plus, a reader question about abortion polling.
Independent state legislature theory
The Supreme Court's voting rights ruling in Alabama.

The Supreme Court's voting rights ruling in Alabama.

It was a surprise ruling.
Supreme Court
North Carolina's Supreme Court makes a splash.

North Carolina's Supreme Court makes a splash.

Plus, why do we sometimes skip reader questions?
North Carolina
The independent state legislature theory.

The independent state legislature theory.

Is the theory a threat to democracy, or true to the Constitution?
Supreme Court
Gerrymandering in New York.

Gerrymandering in New York.

The state's maps are so overtly partisan even some Democrats hope they fail.
New York
Photo: The Trump White House archive

Gerrymandering is a bipartisan crisis

There are plenty of potential solutions available.
Gerrymandering