If you thought the midterm elections wouldn’t start until 2026, think again. Control of multiple House seats will now effectively be decided this fall.

The California Legislature is soon expected to advance a new congressional map for the Golden State that is heavily biased in Democrats’ favor. It’s the party’s first move in the mid-decade redistricting arms race that broke out when President Donald Trump, seeking to tilt the House playing field in Republicans’ favor, pushed for a redraw of Texas’s congressional map that would likely flip several seats from blue to red.

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