The last sunset of standard time silhouettes the Kansas Statehouse in downtown Topeka, Kan., Saturday, March 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Some Kansas Republicans have expressed willingness to follow in Texas and Missouri’s footsteps to gerrymander the state before the 2026 midterms.

President Donald Trump and his allies have been pressuring Republican-controlled states to redraw their congressional maps early and give the GOP an advantage in keeping the House of Representatives in 2026. Texas and Missouri have already called special sessions and voted in new maps that project to give the Republicans an additional six congressional seats in total, while Indiana Gov. Mike Braun (R) has expressed willingness to do the same in the coming months.

Kansas Republicans are now considering their own special session to target the district held by U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids (D), who condemned the stunt earlier this month as “political games” that do not benefit her constituents.

“Politicians are once again focused on political games to benefit themselves and their extreme agenda, not hardworking Kansans,” Davids said. “Voters should pick their representatives, not the other way around, and this unprecedented step would only further polarize this country and harm our democracy.”

Davids is the only Democratic congressperson from Kansas, while Republicans firmly control the state’s other three districts and both Senate seats. Despite more than half a million (41%) Kansans voting for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, and less than half of the state comprising of registered Republicans, the Kansas GOP is looking to eliminate Davids’ and the entire state Democratic Party’s representation in Congress.

Earlier this month, Kansas Senate President Ty Masterson (R-Andover), who is running for governor in 2026, told the Kansas Reflector that a special session is being considered to further gerrymander the state for Republicans.

“I am actively engaged in the battle for the heart and soul of America, helping the president to Make America Great Again,” he said.

The plan has also been approved by U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS), who argued that Democrats have the gerrymandering advantage so Kansas should rig their maps even more.

“Most of the blue states are gerrymandered to the point that … I don’t know what else they could do to change the ratio,” he told the Kansas Reflector. “The Democrats have always led in this gerrymandering.”

Republicans have enough members in both chambers to override a potential veto by Gov. Laura Kelly (D), which already happened when the GOP implemented the current maps without her approval in 2022.