Lodi Mayor Cameron Bregman is sounding the alarm over the newly redrawn California congressional maps that would cut his city into three separate congressional districts.

State legislators are scheduled to hold floor votes on Thursday, according to a schedule from Democratic leadership.

California lawmakers have released a draft map that could reshape congressional district lines across the state. If approved by voters in a special election this November, the new boundaries would take effect before the 2026 midterm elections.

A Democratic Texas lawmaker has chosen to spend the night in the state House chamber to avoid being shadowed by law enforcement.

Gov. Gavin Newsom continues to push California into a redistricting cold war amid President Trump's bid to bolster House Republicans' power ahead of the midterm. Why it matters: Trump has positioned Texas Republicans' redistricting efforts as a strategy for GOP congressional control,

California is a crucial battlefront in a coast-to-coast political civil war over congressional redistricting, a war that Republicans nationally appear better positioned to win.

Legislators, taxpayers and others debated passionately Tuesday for several hours as Democratic-led election committees in the California Assembly and Senate advanced congressional redistricting legislation.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s redistricting effort is receiving pushback from Republicans who are accusing the Democrats of “disenfranchising Californians."