Maps, Pressure, and Party Fractures: Why Jeffries Can’t Force Unity on Redistricting

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Maps, Pressure, and Party Fractures: Why Jeffries Can’t Force Unity on Redistricting

By Anne Webster | Editorial credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com Redistricting is fast becoming one of the central political battlegrounds of 2025. Republicans in several states are pushing mid-decade map redraws that favor their party, and Democratic leaders — including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries — have responded with warnings that Democrats will “fight fire […]

Rust Belt Voters aren’t all White, but Election Coverage of the Region often Ignores the Concerns of People of Color There

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Rust Belt Voters aren’t all White, but Election Coverage of the Region often Ignores the Concerns of People of Color There

Every four years, national media turn their attention to the Rust Belt, a term that describes Midwestern industrial and manufacturing states whose economies were decimated by the decline of those industries in the 1970s. This region contains the coveted states of Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Many rural parts of these states have a majority of white […]