Fearful of what will happen in the fairly likely event Dems retake the House majority next year, convicted felon President Trump is urging Texas Republicans to take a “ruthless” approach and re-draw the state’s congressional district lines, corralling many of the 25 Lone Star Republicans into an “emergency” Monday meeting to get them on board with the effort, the New York Times reports.

The response was less than enthusiastic as some members believe that, as their gerrymandered advantages are more or less maxed out in the state, a redrawing to put more MAGA voters in bluer districts could actually end up even backfiring if 2026 is anything like 2018, putting their seats in unnecessary jeopardy. The only member of the GOP delegation to comment afterward was Pete Sessions, who told the Times they all need to be “on the same page” with the plan. “We assured each other, you need to bone up. We need to have conversations. We need to think about what those impacts would be on the entire delegation.” Any effort would also require Gov Low Energy Greg Abbott to call a special session as the Texas state legislature does not reconvene until 2027.

Houston-area Dem state House Representative Ron Reynolds says he’s heard from a Republican colleague that’s what’s in the works. “From my understanding, this would be in July. This is something that they’re keeping very tight-lipped,” said Reynolds. Their chances of successfully jamming through the gerrymander before next March’s primary are unclear as there’s still an ongoing case over the 2021 redistricting brought by organizations representing Black and Hispanic voters.

That the actual Republican US House members from the state are tepid at best, the projection’s from Trump’s political team that they can net four or five seats in 2026 probably bullshit at best, and the path to making it happen without being snared by a federal court narrow with enough time to spare at best probably says more about Trump than it does Texas Republicans. It tracks with not a small amount of reporting in recent months about how the Orange God Emperor is becoming fixated on the Midterms and hanging onto the GOP’s majorities. Last month Politico put out a long piece describing the fat bastard as “obsessed” with hanging onto the majorities so he can avoid committee investigations and impeachment. “He knows what happens if we lose the House,” said one minion. The fat bastard’s also micromanaging to avoid primaries and talk members out of retiring, per Axios. He’s got a $500 million and growing war chest, the Independent reports.

Maybe the most honest way of putting it was not Trump’s, but that of his ketamine-brained ex-bestie, who in March while wearing a cheesehead hat framed the Wisconsin state Supreme Court election as deciding the fate of western civilization – and humanity writ large – because that bench seems likely to end up redrawing the Badger State’s lines ahead of 2026, which was why the two assholes put so much political capital into the race backing that shitweasel what’s his face. One of the endangered Wisconsin MAGA Congressmen, drunken asshole Derrick Van Orden, said it himself the day of. “We both lose,” Van Orden told CNN’s Manu Raju, referring to himself and fellow MAGA Wisconsinite Bryan Steil. “So that’s why everyone’s paying attention to this on a national level.”

So their guy lost, the Wisconsin Supreme Court is still 4-3 liberal, hopefully those two cunts are as doomed as Van Orden said they were, and now Trump is looking south to pad the GOP’s House majority before having to do any actual campaigning for the members themselves. May that backfire just as badly as Elon Musk’s stupid cheesehead hat and drug-induced existential delusions did.