The Democratic National Committee (DNC) announced on Thursday that it will help support California’s redistricting ballot measure by directing their organizing team toward mobilization efforts ahead of the November election.
The DNC said it will employ a 41,000-person volunteer team to encourage Californians to get involved in the election effort. These volunteers will be involved in phone banking and canvassing efforts and will reach out to harder-to-reach communities via text messages and phones to promote the ballot measure and get voters to the polls. The effort is aimed in particular at mobilizing Spanish-speaking Californians.
“California is home to the most Latino voters in the country, and too often, this core group gets ignored,” DNC Chair Ken Martin said in a statement. “With a 41,000-person-strong volunteer base, the DNC is making sure we leave no stone unturned. When you organize everywhere, you can win anywhere.”
The effort represents the DNC’s first investment in California Democrats’ redistricting ballot initiative. California Democrats have teed up a map ahead of November that looks to effectively neutralize the gains expected to come out of Texas’s new Republican-favored House map.
The DNC was also involved earlier this year in raising awareness around Texas Democrats’ walkout, when several members left the state to temporarily deny the Texas GOP a quorum as they looked to redraw their congressional lines.
Texas Democrats ultimately returned to the state and a new map was passed, but Democrats and civil rights groups have sued over that new map.
Texas and California are involved in a broader redistricting war that has started to manifest itself in other states. President Trump and the White House pushed Texas and other Republican states to redraw their maps ahead of 2026 as Republicans brace for a challenging electoral environment next year.
Democrats have responded in kind, saying they’ll redraw their maps where possible, arguing they can’t unilaterally disarm themselves by not doing redistricting in response. While Maryland and Illinois could also see new maps, the path to redistrict in either state is tricky and leaves very little wiggle room for Democrats as both maps already heavily favor their party.
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