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December 11, 2025
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The Florida House Redistricting select committee met for the second time Wednesday.
Conversations around the effort continue to be centered on President Donald Trump pushing Republicans across the country to redraw congressional maps ahead of the midterms. But it’s against Florida’s constitution to create maps for partisan reasons.
Orlando Democratic Representative Bruce Antone asked a redistricting expert presenting to the committee about those perceptions.
“There’s been some statements made that if we redraw districts, they are intended to favor a particular party. What are your thoughts on that, as we talk about the potential for redistricting this time around?” he asked.
The chair of the committee, Republican Representative Mike Redondo, shut that question down.
“We’re talking about statements by unknown folks and hypotheticals. Let’s try and keep it to the presentation if we can, terms of questions,” he said.
The committee has also not allowed public comment so far in either meeting. Abdelilah Skhir, a policy strategist with the ACLU of Florida, said that’s unusual.
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December 8, 2025
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The redrawing of states’ congressional districts typically happens only once per decade, following the release of new U.S. Census data. But we’re now up to six states that have enacted new congressional maps for the 2026 midterms; that’s more than in any election cycle not immediately following a census since 1983-84. Even more are expected to join the fray before voters head to the polls next year. Ultimately, more than a third of districts nationwide could be redrawn, threatening to confuse and disenfranchise voters.
The truly unusual thing, though, is that four of those states passed new maps totally voluntarily. Texas, Missouri, and North Carolina all redrew their districts after President Donald Trump urged them to create more safe seats for Republicans to help the GOP maintain control of the House of Representatives next year, and California did so in order to push back against Trump and create more safe seats for Democrats. (The other two states redrew for more anodyne reasons: Utah’s old map was thrown out in court, and Ohio’s was always set to expire after the 2024 election.) To put that in perspective, only two states voluntarily redistricted in total in the 52 years from 1973 to 2024, according to the Pew Research Center.
So the current “redistricting wars” are truly unprecedented in modern politics — and that’s had some chaotic consequences. In Texas, for instance, voter advocacy groups sued over the new map, arguing that it discriminated against Black and Latino voters. They scored a temporary win on Nov. 18 when a panel of federal judges struck down the new map and reinstated the old one. That ruling, though, came less than three weeks before Texas’ Dec. 8 filing deadline, sending candidates and election officials scrambling to readjust their plans.
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State Voices Florida is a statewide civic engagement organization committed to bringing together progressive 501(C)(3) organizations to work together in building power around civic issues. If the progressive movement works together and speaks with one voice, great things will happen.
We believe everyone should have the right to vote, and voting should be simple and easy. We also support reproductive rights, environmental justice, criminal justice reform, economic justice and affordable housing for everyone.
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