Please support redistricting reform. All Texans deserve the right to equal representation and the guaranteed freedom to choose their own elected officials. Please join me in supporting legislation that would create a nonpartisan independent redistricting commission that would depoliticize the process of drawing district maps and ensure that all voters are represented fairly.

I would like to urge Rep/Senator _______ to cosponsor legislation that would create an independent redistricting commission for our U.S. congressional districts. Such a commission could be created by passing a state statute, since the Texas State Constitution does not specify any standards for the state’s congressional districts. In the 2018 midterms, Democrats won 47% of the votes in TX's U.S. congressional races but only won 36% of the seats (13 of 36 of the seats.) This is the definition of gerrymandering and shows that partisan redistricting disadvantages voters on the basis of their political views. Texans deserve for the voices to be heard and for their votes to count equally.