U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) holds a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 5, 2026 in Washington, DC.

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries , D-N.Y., on Monday promised a "massive Democratic redistricting counteroffensive" and said House Democrats would huddle Thursday on the ongoing partisan gerrymandering wars ahead of the 2026 midterm elections .

Jeffries, in a letter to the House Democratic caucus, called the meeting after a series of blows to the party in the last two weeks on the redistricting front. On Friday, the Virginia Supreme Court struck down a referendum that would have allowed new congressional maps in the state that could have netted Democrats as many as four additional seats.

A week earlier, the U.S.…