U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) holds a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 5, 2026 in Washington, DC. Joe Raedle | Getty Images House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries , D-N.Y., on Monday promised a "massive Democratic redistricting counteroffensive" and said House Democrats would huddle Thursday on the ongoing partisan gerrymandering wars ahead of the 2026 midterm elections . Jeffries, in a letter to the House Democratic caucus, called the meeting after a series of blows to the party in the last two weeks on the redistricting front. On Friday, the Virginia Supreme Court struck down a referendum that would have allowed new congressional maps in the state that could have netted Democrats as many as four additional seats. A week earlier, the U.S. Supreme Court weakened a section of the Voting Rights Act , paving the way for GOP-led states across the South to redraw their congressional maps and eliminate Democrat-controlled, majority-minority districts.…