November Huddle Links and Resources

Meeting Slides and Recording

National Redistricting Scene

• Will the Voting Rights Act Survive? What happens in the south doesn’t stay in the south (source: Fair Fight Action and Black Voters Matter)
• Louisiana v. Callais (source: SCOTUS blog)
• Kyle Kondrik’s redistricting table (source: Kyle Kondrik from the University of Virginia Center for Politics via X)

Ohio Redistricting Commission hearing on October 30 & October 31

• Recording of 10/30 hearing (source: Ohio Redistricting Commission via the Ohio Channel)
• Recording of 10/31 hearing (source: Ohio Redistricting Commission via the Ohio Channel)

Poem here by Erin Salva

A close look at Ohio’s New Congressional Map

• Would a more rigged map have been worth it? Rating the Ohio House Map: Democrats Get a Better Map than Expected (source: Center for Politics)

• Did the 2018 Redistricting Reform Work as Intended? Did Ohio’s bipartisan congressional map process work? (source: cleveland.com via Tribune News Service)
• Redistricting Data Hub (RDH) analysis of Ohio’s new map (source: Redistricting Data Hub)
• Changes to Ohio’s congressional map (source: Andrew Green via Dave’s Redistricting)
• Have you read The Rooster? Inside the Ohio Democratic Congressional heist (source: The Rooster/DJ Byrnes)

What’s Next for Redistricting Reform in Ohio?

• Action Alert links for SB153
  • ACLU
  • Common Cause Ohio
  • League of Women Voters of Ohio: here & here

Redistricting in the News

• 11/5/25 Both parties get heat for Ohio’s new congressional district map as citizens look to future fights, Ohio Capital Journal, Susan Tebben
• 11/3/2025 Winners and losers with adoption of Ohio’s new congressional districts – cleveland.com Jeremy Peltzer
• 10/31/2025 Ohio approves new House map giving Republicans a leg up in two more seats, Washington Post, Patrick Marley and Kadia Goba
• 10/30/2025 [sic] Ohio Republicans Push Through New Districts in Bid for More Seats in Congress, New York Times, Billy Witz 
• 10/31/2025 Ohio Redistricting Commission unanimously OKs map of new congressional districts – cleveland.com Jeremy Peltzer  
• 10/31/2025 Ohio officials approve new congressional map that favors Republicans to win two more U.S. House seats, Signal, Andrew Tobias 
• 10/31/2025 Republicans notch redistricting win in Ohio — but it could have been worse for Democrats – POLITICO Jacob Wendler
• 10/31/2025 Ohio adopts new congressional map with 12-3 GOP advantage, Dayton Daily News, Avery Kreemer 
• 10/31/2025 Ohio Redistricting Commission unanimously passes congressional map furthering GOP advantage, Ohio Capital Journal, Susan Tebben 
• 10/31/2025 Ohio panel and Virginia lawmakers move forward with congressional redistricting plans | CNN Politics 
• 10/31/2025 New Ohio congressional redistricting map introduced to criticism, but may have support to pass, Ohio Capital Journal, Susan Tebben

Some Redistricting Resources

• fairdistrictsohio.org
• davesredistricting.org
• redistricting.legislature.ohio.gov
• redistricting.ohio.gov
• bit.ly/AlltheCongressionalMaps
• Updated “Find My District Tool” to reflect new congressional districts (source: Ohio Secretary of State)

Next Fair Districts Huddle

• Tentative 1/14/26
• Register here