California’s Democratic Legislature is expected to counter Texas’ mid-decade redraw of its congressional map with one of its own.

The national redistricting battle enters its next phase with California Democrats scheduled Thursday to pass a new congressional map for voters to consider in November that would create five more winnable seats for their party,

New polling shows that California Democrats would take Gavin Newsom over Kamala Harris in a 2028 presidential primary.

Until Gavin Newsom. Through happenstance and his oft-demonstrated political guile, the California governor is quickly raising his national profile. And you could forgive Democrats for seeing him as the potential future national leader they’ve been begging for.