As someone who has worked on campaigns, I know that Election Day often feels like catching your breath after a very long, tiring sprint. This year feels different. While Virginia, New Jersey and California are facing consequential elections, regardless of the outcome, there will be no time to rest. We will still be fighting battles on all sides.

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November 4, 2025

As someone who has worked on campaigns, I know that Election Day often feels like catching your breath after a very long, tiring sprint. This year feels different. While Virginia, New Jersey and California are facing consequential elections, regardless of the outcome, there will be no time to rest. We will still be fighting battles on all sides.

Many of those battles are taking place in the courtroom — and in many of those battles, we are winning.

That is especially clear in California, where lawsuit after lawsuit has been filed to prevent the redistricting ballot measure from proceeding with today’s vote.

In fact, something quite extraordinary happened on Friday in a federal court in Texas. A judge dismissed a lawsuit filed just two days earlier by two Republican congressmen challenging California’s new redistricting law sua sponte — that is, on his own initiative, without even waiting for the defendants to respond to the complaint.

While it is highly unusual for any judge to take such an extreme action, this is particularly noteworthy because the judge who dismissed the case is...

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