Team,

Donald Trump is behind a political pressure campaign to have Republicans in Texas and other states redraw the borders of voting districts to help Republicans in the 2026 midterms.

This scheme isn’t just happenstance​​. It was manufactured. Congressional districts are typically redrawn once a decade after the census, but Trump asked Texas Republicans to do it now because he thinks Republicans are heading for a wipeout in the midterms after voting for his Beautiful-for-Billionaires bill.

The Supreme Court paved the way for this to happen. Here’s how:

The GOP plan was called RedMap – a Republican dark-money project to increase control of congressional seats by reshaping electoral maps. In 2019, the Supreme Court greenlighted for state legislatures that gerrymandering is open season.

Like many of the Roberts Court’s anti-democratic decisions, this one stood on false facts.

Citizens United v. FEC is another example. Remember when Leonard Leo’s justices said that all the unlimited political spending they were unleashing would be “transparent”? The tsunami of dark money in politics proves them factually wrong several billion times over.

In that case, the Roberts Court ignored factual records that Congress and lower courts had compiled, and it has protected dark money by refusing to go back and correct its error.

When the Supreme Court does the dirty work of the Republican Party and its billionaire backers, look out for false facts, developed in the Court’s secret, unreviewable, private deliberations.

I won’t give up my fight to improve transparency and accountability at the Supreme Court. If we want to get it done, we need to flip the Senate next year. Donate today to help Democrats take back the Senate so we can protect our democracy and make sure our Court is giving Americans a fair shake. [link removed]

Thank you,

Sheldon Whitehouse

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