Redistricting fights are springing up nationwide as states grapple with the final stages of redrawing state legislative and congressional district lin...

Texas Republicans had a strategy to circumvent the Obama Department of Justice to implement their partisan gerrymanders for Congress and the state legislature. They had a strategy that turns out to have backfired badly.

Not a fan of your new GOP-dominated House of Representatives? You'd better get used to it. After winning almost unprecedented power over the congressi...

Forget the Senate and House. That's short-term thinking. The real prize in Tuesday's midterm elections is the power to draw congressional seats and de...

On November 2, 2010, California voters weighed in on nine ballot measures, all initiatives. Their votes sent one very important messages: We don't tru...

With the midterm over all eyes will soon turn to state capitols for redistricting decisions that will likely echo out for a decade to come.

At the tail end of two weeks of travel, I'm a little too tired to put together coherent thoughts about the trip and the state of things, so I've pasted below some videos I shot along the way with my phone.

Republicans and Democrats, hoping to pick up seats in Congress through redistricting, are pouring money and political muscle into statehouse races in ...

Part of the allure of making this film was the possibility of traveling the country, meeting different folks, investigating different situations. The film may be called Gerrymandering, but our real subject was America.

As the Census Bureau prepares to report the reapportionment count, a new challenge awaits the Latino community: redistricting. Redistricting is the redistribution of power, and power is not given away, it is taken

Redistricting typically happens every 10 years, to capture the population changes recorded by the US Census. In most of the country, state lawmakers u...

Not long ago, a passing familiarity with Bible verses, a flair for rhetoric, and hunger for a following could be enough to land someone in a small-tow...

Using prison populations to inflate the populations of the districts that contain prisons serves to dilute the political power of everyone else. It's almost the perfect crime.

This is really the moment to be actively involved in redistricting reform. There are battle lines being drawn that will determine what our legislative bodies look like over the course of the next decade.

In the few months since Gerrymandering premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, "Jeff Reichert Gerrymandering" has rocketed to the top of my most frequently Googled phrases. Like all filmmakers I am a nervous parent.

As ugly as the redistricting process can be, this is one year in which the reality of democracy meshes with its rhetoric -- an individual voter/donor/activist can make a difference,

WASHINGTON — Federal election officials said Friday that members of Congress helping their parties finance redistricting fights can raise soft m...