Freshman Sen. Patrick Schmidt, a Topeka Democrat, talks about property tax relief and other topics on the Kansas Reflector ...

along with unexpected wins in a handful of red-state districts (in Kansas, Utah and Oklahoma) helped Democrats retake the House. It wasn’t that they defeated gerrymandering in 2018, more like ...

Of these methods, perhaps none has proven itself to be as effective and pervasive as that of gerrymandering, the process by which legislators draw and redraw electoral districts in such a way as ...

Here’s another assumption punctured by the 2024 election: that gerrymandering and Democratic vote-clustering give Republicans a structural advantage in the battle for control of the House of ...

After decades of gerrymandering and political polarization, a vast majority of members of Congress and state legislatures did not face competitive general elections last year. Instead, they were ...