In states across the old Confederacy and beyond, Republican lawmakers are scrambling to carve up districts once drawn to give Black voters a chance to choose their representatives in government. While districts at the local, state and federal level are all at risk, the most urgent objective, for these lawmakers, is helping Republicans hold Congress in the 2026 midterms.

A Supreme Court decision last week annihilating the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — a crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Era — opened the floodgates for this last-minute, map-drawing scramble. One state, Louisiana, has gone so far as to suspend an election already in progress.

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