Right now, which is August 2025, let me show you the makeup of the House of Representatives

at the national level. You have 219 seats currently held by Republicans. You have 212 seats

currently held by Democrats. And then there are four vacancies. You have three Democrat lawmakers

who died earlier this year in separate unrelated events. And you also had a Republican

lawmaker who resigned. This left 219 Republicans and then 212 Democrats. And so obviously,

the Republicans are in power, but with a very slim margin, just seven votes. In a situation like

this, getting things done, especially getting legislation passed,

is dependent on the entire party being in lockstep. They have to be in agreement with each other

and any small dissent can lock up the entire process and make getting anything past impossible.

Now, the midterms are coming up. They're going to be held in November of 2026, a little over a year

from now. And historically,

the party of the president usually takes a shalacking during the midterms. In fact, if we'll look

back over the last 100 years, out of 25 midterm elections, in only three of them, did the party

of the president gain seats. In the other 22 midterm elections, the party of the president

lost seats in the house. As just one stark example, during Trump's first term in office, the Republicans

lost 41 house seats in the 2018 midterms. Now, I'm not saying that's going to happen again.

Next year, the political landscape is obviously very different now than it was back then,

but I'm just saying from a historical perspective, the party of the president is likely going to

lose seats. And again, given the fact that the Republicans currently hold such a slim majority,

just seven seats, well, they wouldn't have to lose much in order to lose power altogether.

So with that as the general backdrop, we now get to the

redistricting story that's taking place over in Texas. You see, every 10 years, the boundaries

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