Ahead of the 2026 midterms, you have states right now basically racing to change their congressional maps before the actual election, to basically redraw the lines in order to benefit the party in power.

You have both Democrat as well as Republican states playing the same game right now, a game I should mention which might actually determine who controls Congress.

It's a game in which, at the moment at least, Republicans are winning, both numerically

by having gained nine extra districts, but also legally, with the U.S. Supreme Court just

ruling that Republicans can go ahead and ignore both race and ethnicity when redrawing the map in order to

bolster the GOP. Let me give you a bit of backstory on that particular case that appeared before

the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as how that case might help determine the winner of the next

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the case at hand, every 10 years, the boundaries of a state's voting districts are redrawn

based on the results of the most recent census. In total, the U of a state's voting districts are redrawn based on the results of the

most recent census. In total, the U.S. is divided into 435 different congressional districts

with the U.S. citizens living in each one of those districts responsible for electing one

member to the U.S. House of Representatives. Each district is supposed to have roughly the same

number of people living in it to make sure that everyone's vote counts equally. That's why,

for instance, you have the state of Wyoming, which is huge. It's about the same landmass size

as the U.K., but they only have one congressional district because even though they're big,

not too many people live there. Anyway, every 10 years, once the new census numbers come out,

every state that has more than one congressional district. So for instance, Wyoming doesn't have to do

this, but other states, they must go back and redraw the lines of the districts on the map in order to reflect the changes in the population to make sure, again, each district is still representative of the same number of people on average as every other district in the country.

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