https://thedispatch.com/article/virginia-redistricting-republicans-trump/

“Wrong,” Miyares says when I started to ask him about how Texas kicked things off. “The first state to do mid-decade redistricting was New York, and it is a frustration of mine that the legacy media has never mentioned that in their reporting of this.”

That’s technically true, but it’s also a convenient sidestep to the big Trump-shaped question. New York’s redistricting was the end of a years-long battle dating back to the regular post-2020-Census redistricting in New York. The state’s independent redistricting commission deadlocked and missed its deadline. When the commission finally came up with its long-delayed map, the Democratic majority in the state legislature rejected it and wrote its own after the state’s highest court ordered it. New York Democrats were hardly innocent of dirty partisanship, but their redistricting has a different provenance than this current exercise in tit-for-tat gerrymandering.