It all amounts to the opening salvo in what is likely to become a national showdown to grasp power through gerrymandering.

California Democrats may have successfully muscled a new congressional map through the state legislature this week, but the redistricting fight in the Golden State is only just beginning.

It’s 1962 again, only this time the Cold War pits Democrat against Republican for control of the US House of Representatives — and potentially over the last two years of the Trump presidency. A mid-decade redraw of congressional maps gone nationwide would have implications far beyond the 2026 midterms,