October 2025 Fair Districts Huddle Resources 

The next meeting is November 12 at 6pm, register here.

You can view the slides and  the recording from the meeting. 

Fair Maps Day

• Ohio Fair Maps Day video 
• Photos 

Why 2025

• Current Ohio congressional map on Dave’s Redistricting App
• Bad map 13/2 on Dave’s Redistricting App

2025’s Congressional Redistricting Timeline

• 2025 Redistricting FAQ (source: Redistricting in Ohio, Ohio Legislative Service Commission 2024)

Joint Committee on Ohio Congressional Redistricting

• Joint Committee on Ohio Congressional Redistricting (source: Ohio House of Representatives)
• Ohio Redistricting Commission (source: Ohio Redistricting Commission)

Where’s the Map?

• Maps submitted by members of the public (source: Ohio Legislature)
• Map submitted by Democratic caucuses: SB 259; HB 422 (source: Dave’s Redistricting App; Ohio Senate; Ohio House of Representatives
• ACTION: Call members of the Joint Committee, and/or the Governor, the Auditor, and the Secretary of State (sources: Fair Districts Action Network, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine; Ohio Auditor of State Keith Faber; Ohio Secretary of State)

Ohio Redistricting Commission

• Ohio House Speaker Matt Huffman— “I don’t think introducing a map accomplished anything.” (source: cleveland.com)
• Ohio House Redistricting Committee (source: Ohio House of Representatives)

What’s Mappenin’?

• Bowling Green: 10/23 from 6-7:30 @ Wood County Public Library
• Dayton: 10/28 from 6-7:30 @ IBEW Hall 
• Kent: 10/30 from 6:7:30 @ United Methodist Church

Fair Districts Good Trouble Brigade – Sign up form

Referendum: 248,092 = # of signatures needed to get on the ballot (source: Ohio Secretary of State)

National Redistricting Scene

California

• Election Response Act signed by Gov. Newsom proposed state constitutional amendment (source: California Governor Gavin Newsom; California Legislature

• Also signed bill redrawing the maps (source: California Legislature)

• Analysis: 46/52 districts in the proposed map are bluer than D+5 (source: Inside Elections)

Utah

• Utah state court struck down Utah’s congressional districts as unconstitutional (source: All About Redistricting)

• Utah’s 2018 Prop 4 (source: Perma.cc.record)

Texas 

• Gov. Abbott signed the state legislature’s new congressional map (souce: Texas Legislature)
• New district lines keep all 25 seats held by Republicans “safe” and creates five additional districts that favor Republicans (source: Texas Tribune)
• Map now faces federal court challenge (source: All About Redistricting)

Missouri

• Gov. Mike Kehoe signed the mid-decade congressional redraw. (source: Missouri House of Representatives)
• Opponents are pursuing a challenge in court and a  referendum petition (source: Missouri Independent)

Utah again 

• New congressional map signed by Gov. Cox after being passed by state legislature—still needs approval by judge before implementation (source: Utah State Legislature)
• Analysis—all 4 new districts favor Republicans (source: Salt Lake Tribune)

National

• More states are moving to redraw US House districts after Trump urged it for partisan gain, (source: Associated Press)

SCOTUS to re-hear Louisiana v Callais

• Louisiana v. Callais (source: SCOTUSblog)

Redistricting in the News

• What happened to DeWine’s plan to seek changes to Ohio’s redistricting process?, Ohio Public Radio, September 15, 2025 
  • Advocates again call for fair redistricting with new Ohio congressional map coming soon, Ohio Public Radio, September 17, 2025
  • Ohioans rally for fair, transparent congressional redistricting process, Crain’s Cleveland Business, September 19, 2025 
  • Land vs. population? Ohio Republicans and Democrats argue which matters more when drawing congressional maps, News5 Cleveland, September 24, 2025 
  • From bipartisanship to power politics: why the promises of Ohio’s redistricting reform unraveled, Cleveland.com/Plain Dealer, September 28, 2025 

• Top Ohio Republican defends redistricting delay: ‘I don’t think introducing a map accomplishes something’, Cleveland.com/Plain Dealer, October 1, 2025 

• Ohio lawmakers miss first congressional redistricting deadline with no negotiations and no GOP map, Ohio Capital Journal, October 3, 2025

Redistricting Resources

• fairdistrictsohio.org 
• davesredistricting.org
• redistricting.legislature.ohio.gov
• redistricting.ohio.gov
• bit.ly/AlltheCongressionalMaps (column Q has the maps in Dave’s Redistricting App)