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Louisiana v. Callais Isn't Over yet — and Could, in Fact, Eliminate Another Democrat District

Black voters of Baton Rouge’s Scotlandville community face new political reality after Louisiana redistricting

The Baton Rouge community’s Black voting-age population has fallen from 53% to 25% under the state’s new congressional map. A

PODCAST: Color or community? Supreme Court ruling reshapes Louisiana’s congressional map

Journalist Emmanuel Felton talks about traveling through Louisiana’s disputed congressional district, examining the communities at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on rac...

After redistricting, a Black community in Louisiana faces a future without a champion in Congress

Scotlandville is a predominantly Black community in Louisiana, that's facing challenges in its political representation. Residents fear losing a representative who understands thei...

8th Circuit Drops Major Missouri Redistricting Ruling: New Map Must Be Used in November

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On May 8, hundreds of civil rights protesters, carrying signs that said, “No Jim Crow Maps” and “Hands Off Our Vote,” descended on Baton Rouge to oppose a plan by Louisiana’s Repub...

Jim Crow Returns…One Congressional District at a Time

2026 would have been a reelection year for Rep. Cleo Fields, who represents the majority-Black 6th Congressional District in Louisiana. But in April, the US Supreme Court handed do...

When does Black history become history, not just race, in the eyes of the law?

Black communities stretching across Louisiana did not suddenly become connected when legislators drew a congressional district around them. [...] Read More... from When does Black...

Hundreds gather in Mississippi to protest Republican redistricting: ‘This fight is familiar territory’

Dozens of residents testify to legislature’s redistricting committee in heated hearing, the last of eight Hundreds of people gathered across from the Mississippi state capitol buil...

Hundreds in West Feliciana reassigned after voting in wrong district for 4 years

WEST FELICIANA — A candidate for the West Feliciana Parish School Board says a voter district error moved him out of the district he is running to represent.Lifelong West...

Ribbon of Black enclaves reflects deep Louisiana history

The neighborhoods that the old 6th District gathered up—strung along rivers, railroads, and interstates from Shreveport to Baton Rouge—are the exact communities left scattered apar...

Six Republicans compete for Louisiana's 5th Congressional District seat

Six Republicans are competing for Louisiana's 5th Congressional District seat in the upcoming November 3 election.

Louisiana wins court battle over Title VI disparate-impact requirements

BATON ROUGE, La. (KLFY) -- A federal judge has blocked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Justice from enforcing certain Title VI disparate-impact requireme...

West Feliciana Parish district error may have affected about 10% of registered voters in the parish

WEST FELICIANA — A mapping error left hundreds of voters in West Feliciana Parish assigned to the wrong districts for years.According to the West Feliciana Registrar of V...

2025 map proponents say Missouri should use same districts for primary, November election

Bob Onder and other plaintiffs are asking the Supreme Court to allow Missouri's 2025 congressional map in November, arguing more than 1.2 million voters already used it in the Augu...

Rosedale election change proposal draws packed crowd and community opposition

ROSEDALE — Residents in Rosedale are pushing back against a proposed ordinance that would change how the small town selects aldermen.The proposal would shift from voting...

Redistricting battles have reshaped the 2026 midterms. How do voters in redrawn districts feel? 

A Dallas-area neighborhood has been carved up by redistricting, and neighbors on either side of the dividing line have very different feelings about the outcome — highlighting the...

Meet the three Democrats running for Louisiana's 5th Congressional District seat

Three Democrats—business owner Antonio Wilson, attorney Dan McKay, and State Rep. Pat Moore—are competing against six Republicans for Louisiana's 5th Congressional District seat in...

Redistricting that cracked Memphis raises questions about the meaning of representation

New political maps have flowed from a Supreme Court ruling reinterpreting the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. Tennessee has splintered the state’s one Democratic stronghold int...

5 Republican candidates running for Louisiana's 6th District to debate

Five Republican candidates running for the 6th Congressional District seat in Louisiana are set to have a debate in Denham Springs.

Supreme Court rejects Missouri's push to use new Republican-drawn U.S. House map in November

Missouri's new districts were used in the August primaries, but the Missouri Supreme Court ruled in September that the state must revert to districts adopted after the last census.

Missouri's election maps in chaos after conflicting rulings

With less than two months until Election Day, the fights over congressional maps are still raging. Republicans are not seeing as much gain as they may have liked from redistricting...

Supremes Block Missouri Gerrymander. Again.

Republicans will win 6 of 8 House seats rather than 7.

Louisiana senator calls for repeal of new health care background check law

(The Center Square) — A Louisiana senator called for the repeal of a law backed by state Attorney General Liz Murrill after health care providers raised concerns that new criminal...