As California pushes to eclipse Texas’ gerrymandering effort to win the House of Representatives at midterm elections, the first draft of the newly drawn congressional maps became public Friday.

A day after Gov. Gavin Newsom announced plans to redraw California's congressional districts, a proposed map of the new districts was released.

Maps made public Friday afternoon show how California Democrats hope to reconfigure the state’s 52 congressional districts. The plan targets five of California’s nine Republican members of Congress, and is designed to counteract the redistricting efforts in Texas that would favor Republicans.

A partisan move by Texas to redraw its congressional maps in the middle of the decade to secure five more GOP seats in the U.S. House set off a clamor to replicate the effort in statehouses

The fight over redistricting continues to heat up. This week, in response to efforts in Texas to redraw their Congressional map, picking up five GOP seats in the House, California Governor Gavin Newsom pushed for a special election November 4th to "fight fire with fire,

The California Assembly on Friday released a proposed map of new congressional districts that voters would weigh in on a special election, if approved by the state legislature next week. See a breakdown of the map in the video above KCRA 3 first obtained the maps earlier Friday,

The latest POLITICO-Citrin Center-Possibility Lab survey found that strong majorities in both parties prefer an independent panel draw the House district lines.

Ohio lawmakers are preparing to draft new congressional districts. Several progressive organizations calling themselves the Equal Districts Coalition are joining forces again to push for fair maps. Lawmakers are going back to the drawing board because they approved maps along partisan lines in 2021.