Check out this new report from our NRF Policy Lab: gerrymandering enables corruption—from legislators whose artificially safe district allows them to avoid consequences for self-serving behavior, to new laws that gut ethics commissions.
NEW REPORT SHOWS: When lawmakers are insulated from voters, corruption can take hold of our state legislatures.
📍In Ohio: $60M bribery scheme
📍In Florida: Weakened ethics oversight
📍In Wisconsin: Dismantled ethics board
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Ohio. Florida. Wisconsin.
Across these states, gerrymandering has created conditions where corruption can take hold. Our latest Policy Lab report lists real-life examples of how partisan maps have weakened oversight: https://bit.ly/3NWusgp
REPORT: Gerrymandering doesn’t just distort representation—it weakens oversight and enables corruption.
Our new Policy Lab report shows how gerrymandered maps have insulated politicians from accountability. redistrictingfoundation.org/policies/how-partisan-ge...
NEW: Plaintiffs supported by the NRF have filed an appeal to the Missouri Supreme Court in Healey v. Missouri, a legal challenge to Missouri’s mid-decade gerrymander.
We’re proud to support Missourians fighting for voters’ constitutional right to fair elections. https://bit.ly/4dwZJB0
Our new NRF Policy Lab analysis shows how gerrymandered legislatures are more likely to raise thresholds and create barriers in order to block citizen-led ballot measures — consolidating illegitimate power at the expense of voters. Read it now: https://bit.ly/4b0lzLK
💻 NEW REPORT: Gerrymandered legislatures in states like Florida and Ohio are targeting ballot initiatives and referendums, further eroding direct democracy.
These tools are often the last line of defense for voters in gerrymandered districts — and they’re under attack. https://bit.ly/4b0lzLK
Gerrymandered maps don’t just skew political power—they also enable lawmakers in gerrymandered districts to further erode direct democracy.
Our latest Policy Lab report breaks down the growing effort to block voters from shaping their own laws and how we can fight back. https://bit.ly/4b0lzLK
🚨BREAKING: SCOTUS has granted an emergency stay in Malliotakis v. Williams, intervening in NY’s congressional map case before state courts finished their work.
An unprecedented breach that tilts the scales for partisan interests. More updates to come.
BREAKING: A federal court has rejected an attempt by Utah politicians to block the state’s court-adopted fair congressional map.
Utah voters will use the fair map in the 2026 midterms — and we’ll keep working to defend it for the rest of the decade. https://bit.ly/4s68mXf
🚨BREAKING: We have filed an amicus brief in a federal lawsuit to defend Utah’s fair, court-adopted congressional map.
We are standing up for fair maps and pushing back against the fringe “Independent State Legislature” theory that the Supreme Court already rejected.
NEW: The NRF Redistricting Dashboard lets voters explore state districts through our interactive political and demographic map.
Understand your districts and what’s at stake for fair maps: redistrictingfoundation.org
NEW! Explore the NRF’s digital hub for tools and insights on fair maps, including:
✔ Interactive map analysis
✔ Litigation & policy updates
✔ An active litigation tracker
✔ A data-driven Policy Lab
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We’re excited to launch our new NRF website, featuring our Policy Lab and Redistricting dashboard! 🗺️💻
We’re at a critical point for redistricting in our country, and these tools are designed to connect people to the facts. Check it out now: redistrictingfoundation.org
BREAKING: SCOTUS has stayed a federal order blocking Texas’ racial gerrymander.
This decision clears the way for the map’s use in the midterms and the widespread disenfranchisement of voters of color.
We will remain in the fight against this unconstitutional power grab. https://bit.ly/4iAWIjE
BREAKING: A federal court blocks Texas’s 2025 mid-decade congressional map from use in the 2026 elections.
The court found that Texas’s map cannot take effect while the litigation concerning its impact on fair representation continues. Our full statement: https://bit.ly/3LJRs0U
This week, NRF-supported intervenors moved to join University of South Florida College Republicans v. Lutnick, a federal case brought by college Republicans seeking to overturn the 2020 Census.
This case is an attempt to ultimately conduct an unnecessary mid-decade census. https://bit.ly/47ku2aN
🚨Today the U.S. Supreme Court is re-hearing oral argument in Louisiana v. Callais.
Central to this Section case is a fundamental question about who the politicians in this country answer to and who they represent.
This should be a straightforward decision for the court—uphold Section 2 of the VRA.
A federal court has reaffirmed that the VRA must be enforced in Alabama—meaning the state must continue to have 2 Black opportunity districts.
Today’s ruling confirms what we’ve known all along: Black Alabamians have a fundamental right to *real* electoral power.
"This is a clear-cut case and it should be an easy decision for the court." — @marinakjenkins.bsky.social
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The court should make Alabama’s current, Voting Rights Act (VRA)-compliant map permanent for the rest of the decade. That map, which was adopted by the lower federal court following the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Allen v. Milligan, includes two Black opportunity districts.
Yesterday, a two-week trial began in Caster v. Allen, a redistricting lawsuit that will determine the fate of Alabama’s congressional map.
The NRF is calling on the district court to reject the state’s attempts to re-install a gerrymandered map that includes just one Black opportunity district.
“The conservative states behind this lawsuit are attempting to depart from the bedrock theory of the Constitution that everyone—every person—should be counted equally for the purpose of congressional apportionment.”
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The case is an effort to exclude undocumented & temporary residents from apportionment & undermine the 2030 Census. The Constitution requires that “Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers counting the whole number of persons in each State."
Census news: The NRF is supporting a group of California & Texas voters in moving to intervene in Louisiana v. Dept. of Commerce—voters who are seeking to protect their congressional & Electoral College representation from a challenge by conservative states to a fair and accurate census count.
We're more than ready to take on this next critical chapter of protecting our democracy. We hope you'll join us in the fight. You can learn more at: redistrictingfoundation.org
Major progress has been made in our efforts to create more representative districts
across the country. We've fought in court to defend the right to vote & protect the Voting Rights Act, expanded policy work in key battleground states, & worked to cultivate our state-of-the-art mapping tools.
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