“President Trump’s high-stakes push to create more Republican House seats and keep the majority from flipping to Democrats has erupted into a cross-country fight, prompting the exodus of Democratic state lawmakers from Texas and leading blue-state governors to hatch their own plans,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Both parties are now racing to remake congressional lines in a slew of mid-decade redistrictings, breaking with traditional once-a-decade changes and injecting further uncertainty into what is expected to be a down-to-the-wire fight for control of the House in 2026.”

Axios: Democrats go nuclear in redistricting arms race.

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“Democrats in California’s congressional delegation have privately agreed to a new congressional map that could net them as many as five seats in 2026,” Punchbowl News reports.

“The GOP targets: Reps. Ken Calvert and Darrell Issa in southern California; Rep. David Valadao in the Central Valley; Rep. Doug LaMalfa in the north and Rep. Kevin Kiley along the Nevada border.”

Politico: California moves to dismantle GOP map — and Trump’s grip.

Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is ready to campaign against a partisan gerrymandering plan that current officeholder Gavin Newsom is hoping to place on the November ballot, Politico reports.

Said a Schwarzenegger spokesman: “He calls gerrymandering evil, and he means that. He thinks it’s truly evil for politicians to take power from people. He’s opposed to what Texas is doing, and he’s opposed to the idea that California would race to the bottom to do the same thing.”