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Republicans are playing Follow the Leader, and in Republican circles, Texas is often the leader. It recently re-gerrymandered its map to try to flip five Democratic seats. Missouri is going second. The legislature has already passed a bill changing the boundaries of MO-05 (was D+12) to make it impossible for Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) to get reelected. Gov. Mike Kehoe (R-MO) has said he will sign it.
However, there is a rub. The map was drawn under an emergency clause in the state Constitution that allows a ballot initiative to overturn it if the vote was not a two-thirds majority in both chambers, which it was not. This could mean that the voters—who hate this kind of stunt—may get to weigh in on it, although the timing is not clear.
Ohio may be up next in the gerrymandering contest. It was actually going to do it anyway because the state Constitution says that if there is not enough bipartisan support for the map (and there wasn't in 2022), then the map lasts for only two cycles. The legislators are expected to try to kick Democratic Reps. Marcy Kaptur and Emilia Sykes out of their jobs. If there is not enough bipartisan support, then the process goes to the Ohio Redistricting Commission. If the Commission can't agree on a map, then the legislature gets to do it in the end. In the end, the Republicans will win this. (V)