In less than a month, Missouri opponents of U.S. House redistricting have collected half the signatures they need to force a referendum on the bill that changes the districts. The campaign has until December to finish the petition. The effort has 3,100 volunteer petitioners. Assuming enough signatures are collected, the new law can’t go into effect until after the voters vote on the bill. Therefore, the bill would not be in effect for the 2026 election, and the old district boundaries would be used.

Three candidates for Mayor of New York City will debate each other on the evening of Thursday, October 16. They are Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa.

On October 9, Jane Nelson, Texas Secretary of State, notified the U.S. District Court that she does not agree with the Texas Attorney General about whether the open primary is unconstitutional. She notified the court that she has retained her own attorney, and that she and her attorney will defend the open primary. The Attorney General had told the court that the Attorney General’s office thinks the open primary is unconstitutional and therefore he wouldn’t defend it. The case is Hunt and Republican Party of Texas v State of Texas and Jane Nelson, n.d., 2:25cv-200.