Kansas Congressional districts are gerrymandered enough. Let’s not make it worse. Poor Elbridge Gerry. He wasn’t even a fan of this. Toeing his party’s line, he approved a newly drawn Boston district ...

How long has gerrymandering been a part of U.S. politics? Consider that the man who gave the strategy its name wasn’t some conniving Lee Atwater-style operative from the 1970s—he was a signer of the ...

As Hoosiers committed to the principles of democracy, we must confront a practice that continues to undermine fair representation in our electoral system: gerrymandering. The term itself dates to 1812 ...

When Democratic lawmakers left Texas to try to prevent the Republican-led Legislature from redrawing the state's congressional districts, it marked the latest episode in a long national history of ...

Ever since the Founding Fathers’ “Great Compromise” — equal representation for each state in the Senate and representation of each state based on population in the House of Representatives — ...

The Elbridge Gerry Chapter, NSDAR presented a donation to Devonshire Acres in May 2025. Chapter member Darlene Harnly made eight lap blankets and there was an anonymous donation from a non-member of ...

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Poor Elbridge Gerry. He wasn’t even a fan of this. Toeing his party’s line, he approved a newly drawn Boston district that was lampooned as a mythological menacing-winged dragon, or salamander. While ...