Strong workforce groups support redrawn California Congressional map fighting Texas and Trump
One of California’s most influential labor organizations endorsed a redrawing of the state’s congressional map to oppose President Trump’s efforts to push the Republican state, especially Texas, in next year’s midterm elections.
The California Federation of Trade Unions voted unanimously on Tuesday to support November measures to vote. The proposal, supported by Gov. Gavin Newsom and many Democratic leaders in the state, requires voters to temporarily change the borders of the congressional district proposed by the independent redivision committee four years ago and under certain conditions.
Republicans could lose up to six seats in a delegation of 52 members in California to the U.S. House of Representatives. After returning to its summer recess on August 18, the California Legislature is expected to vote to pass measures to vote across the state in a special election.
“Republicans have the right to get another five votes in Texas in Congress. Well, they don’t have the right to steal the 2026 election. California’s coalition refuses to follow the test of democracy,” federal president Lorena Gonzalez said in a statement. “California’s laborers are united in our determination to fight President Trump’s anti-workers agenda.”
Rezoning – an esoteric rezoning of the 435 U.S. congressional districts – usually happens every decade after the U.S. census divides the national population. Population transfer can lead to changes in a state’s allocation of seats to congressional, for example, when California lost a seat after the first census in state history.
The process of elected officials re-dividing politics has long given the party an advantage or protecting the incumbents – sometimes in clumsy, weird areas. Californians voted in 2010 to create an independent committee to map congressional maps based on communities of interest, logical geography and ensuring representatives representing minority communities.
If Texas approves reconfiguration of the region to increase the state’s Republican-owned congressional seats, the voting measures Newsom and others will push will allow state lawmakers to help determine regional boundaries for the next three election cycles. Painting will return to the Independent Commission after the 2030 census.
The California Labor Federation is committed to spending millions of dollars in support of the mid-decade redistribution voting measure, besides the expense it already plans to spend next year’s competition for Congress, a person familiar with the plan said they asked the anonymous plan to speak frankly about the strategy, according to a person familiar with the plan.
A spokesman for several organizations working to fight for efforts to change the state’s redistricting process, said the billionaire’s son, Charles Munger Jr.
“Although Charles Munger has been out of politics since 2016, he said he will vigorously defend the reforms he helped pass, including the nonpartisan re-division,” said Amy Thoma, a spokesman for the Voters First League. “His previous success in passing the voting measures in California means he knows exactly what it takes to succeed. We will have the resources necessary to make our alliance.”
