Three Florida Cities Participate In ‘Fight The Trump Takeover' National Rallies

By Christine Sexton, Florida Phoenix

August 13, 2025

The Texas for All Coalition announced that three Florida cities will participate in a National Day of Action Saturday designed to stop the Donald Trump-inspired redistricting plan before the 2026 midterm elections.

There will be rallies in Palm Coast, Jacksonville, and Tallahassee, an interactive map indicates.

The Texas for All Coalition’s goal is to mobilize as many rallies nationally as possible, and the group created FightTheTrumpTakeover.com as a digital headquarters.

“Across Texas, and across the country, communities are speaking out in a united voice to call for an end to the Trump takeover,” Drucilla Tigner, executive director of Texas For All, said in a prepared statement.

The announcement comes as the Texas Senate approved new congressional lines in a mid-decade redistricting effort that could help Republicans keep control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2026 election, the Texas Tribune reported Tuesday.

“The vote was 19-2, with nine Democrats absent after exiting the Senate floor moments after the maps were taken up, a show of protest against what they framed as a ‘corrupt process,’ ” the Tribune reported.

Dozens of Texas House Democrats left for Illinois and other parts of the country, bringing work on redistricting in that chamber to a halt as the chamber continues to lack the minimum headcount needed to conduct business.

Trump, concerned Republicans could lose control of the House of Representatives after next year’s midterm elections, called on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott last month to add new GOP seats.

Once Abbott agreed to do that, however, the gears began working in other states — blue and red — to follow suit.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said last month that his state had been “malapportioned” — and has touched on the need to redraw congressional districts since a Florida Supreme Court ruling upholding a map promoted by the governor that ultimately netted Florida four additional GOP seats and eliminated Black representation in North Florida.

Writing for the majority in that case, Chief Justice Carlos Muñiz concluded that legislators had a “superior” obligation to follow federal equal-protection law, and not Florida’s Fair Districts Amendments, which say districts can’t be drawn in a way that diminishes the ability of minorities to “elect representatives of their choice.”

House Speaker Daniel Perez also appears on board and announced last week that he’s creating a Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting, with the goal of conducting hearings when the Legislature returns this fall for its already scheduled committee meetings.

“As many of you are aware, there are national conversations ongoing in other states related to midterm redistricting,” Perez wrote in a memo to members of the Florida House.

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