President Donald Trump’s encouragement for Republican-dominated states to revise their congressional boundaries has ignited a nationwide gerrymandering frenzy that is now impacting both political parties as they gear up for the 2026 midterm elections.

This has escalated into a significant national conflict over which party will hold sway in the U.S. House of Representatives in the coming year.

In a strategic move, Democrats in Virginia have introduced a plan that would permit the state to re-evaluate and potentially change its congressional maps in the middle of the decade, provided that other states engage in similar actions.