North Carolina remains a true swing state — elections are nearly evenly split — yet the new map locks in a lopsided 11–3 partisan advantage.

Rigged Maps

HOW WE GOT HERE:

In 2023, the Republican-majority North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that partisan gerrymandering is once again legal. Republicans immediately went to work to take our evenly-split, 7-Democrat 7-Republican maps and distort them to give the GOP a 10-4 majority. Every seat became heavily Democrat or heavily Republican except for one: North Carolina’s first congressional district, which in 2024 re-elected Democratic Congressman Don Davis despite being redrawn to be R+3.
In 2025, Donald Trump’s unpopular agenda has Republicans dreading the electoral consequences coming in the 2026 midterm elections, so they’re scrambling to rig congressional maps across the country to steal enough seats from Democrats to keep their majority next year. North Carolina Republicans are trading petty political favors with Donald Trump; it’s been reported that they’re giving him one of our congressional districts in exchange for endorsements.

BAD PROCESS, BAD POLITICS:

There was no public notice. Maps were revealed on Friday and then the only public comment period was scheduled for Tuesday. On Sunday, it was moved to Monday at the last minute. Republicans are rushing the process because they’re trying to avoid accountability from the people they’re disenfranchising.
North Carolina is a purple state, and this map is anything but. Roughly half of North Carolinians vote for Democrats, roughly half for Republicans. When a court ordered an independent, nonpartisan redraw of our gerrymandered maps in 2022, the districts were drawn to reflect how North Carolina votes. Seven safe Republican districts, six safe Democratic districts, and one competitive district that leaned Republican—but that a Democrat could (and did!) win. An 11-3 map is a mockery of North Carolina voters’ right to a “free and fair election.”

ANYTHING BUT THEIR JOBS:

North Carolina is one of only two states without an operating budget. The Republican-led legislature is over one hundred days overdue in passing a budget.
State employees—like teachers—aren’t getting pay increases to cover the massive toll of inflation. Our teachers are already the worst paid in the Southeast.
Medicaid is currently underfunded by $300 million, which has forced them to cut provider rates and threatens access to healthcare for millions of North Carolinians, especially those that live in rural communities.
North Carolina Republicans have avoided fulfilling their responsibilities to you for over a hundred days, but they scrambled back to Raleigh to force through a gerrymander as soon as Donald Trump called. The GOP’s priorities? Trump first, North Carolinians last.

BUT WHAT ABOUT CALIFORNIA?

Donald Trump demanded that Texas Republicans steal five Democratic seats for him, and they caved and drew an aggressive gerrymander. California Democrats have asked their voters to authorize their legislature to draw a map that would counteract that gerrymander. It’s up for a vote on their November ballot.
North Carolina Republicans know that if they asked the voters of North Carolina for permission to draw this map, they’d say no. 84% of North Carolina voters believe that partisan gerrymandering is unacceptable.