Republicans are facing a defining period of redistricting after the Democratic takeover

Republicans did not start this decade’s war on redistricting. But we have to finish.

States traditionally redraw districts only after the annual census. In 2022 and 2024, Democrats fired the first salvos by hitting New York, eventually flipping four Republican seats in the Empire State.

Texas contested in 2025, relegating the GOP’s two- to five-seat advantage. A loud howl went up from Democrats — and much of the nation’s left-leaning media — saying President Trump and Republicans had started a retaliatory war and challenging its legitimacy. Thankfully, the US Supreme Court ruled that the Texas move was constitutional, with Justice Alito noting that the motive was “pure and simple interest” for the group.

VIRGINIA DEM AGREE PUSHES AIMED TO ‘STOP TRUMP’, NOT ABOUT ‘FAIRNESS’

After all, despite the small number of Republicans, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, Hawaii, and Delaware all send zero Republicans to Congress.

Democrats only seem to hate fraud when Republicans do it.

Last year, a majority of Indiana Republicans rejected redistricting — a move that would have given up two more Republican House seats. Perhaps they believed they were setting a good bipartisan example.

Virginia took that idea out of Tidewater.

The Old Dominion currently sends six Democrats and five Republicans to the House. The new lines moved five districts in the Washington, DC area, threatening to eliminate four of the five Republican seats.

“Democrats did not back down. We fought back,” cried House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. If Republicans stick to the conservative playbook, Virginia’s gamble will likely give Democrats the House in November.

Think about that. A Democratic-controlled House means more impeachments, bogus investigations, more government shutdowns, and two years of impeachment to end President Trump’s tenure.

Strong Republicans haven’t changed after losing in Virginia.

Florida is expected to redraw its map, changing between two and five seats this cycle.

Now that the US Supreme Court has ruled that racial discrimination is unconstitutional in Louisiana v. Callais as fifteen seats could swing to the GOP – if Republican-led states really do.

Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Tennessee could all increase their Republican representation. Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, North Carolina, and Texas could go deep into the red.

Our state of Alabama – which voted for President Trump by 65 percent in 2024 – by all rights should send an entirely Republican delegation to Washington.

Now that the court has ruled, Alabama’s attorney general and secretary of state must file a motion to vacate the state’s district court order that locked the current map in 2030. The argument is straightforward: the order was issued under a defunct legal framework, making its continued enforcement unequal.

An immediate repeal of that law would allow the governor to call a special session for redistricting. Both chambers must pass the new map — a process Alabama completed in one week in 2021 — before the governor can sign it into law. Because the general primary filing deadline has passed, the legislature must at the same time authorize a reopened special congressional election that qualifies the candidate. New nominees must be approved by the Secretary of State before August 24 to stand in the November general election.

In a state where only twenty House seats are truly competitive, two more Republicans from Alabama could mean the difference between gridlock and President Trump’s advanced agenda.

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If the Republicans do nothing now while we still hold the White House, the Senate, the House, and a majority of the Supreme Court we are in danger of being voted into the minority again for a decade or more.

We owe it to the nation to lead

Morgan Murphy is running for Alabama’s 7th District election.