On Tuesday, Virginia voters will decide whether to approve a constitutional amendment that would allow the state legislature to redraw congressional districts ahead of the 2026 elections, temporarily overriding the state’s bipartisan redistricting process until after the 2030 census. The referendum follows President Donald Trump’s push last year for mid-decade map changes in Republican-led states.
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The “yes” side is funded primarily by the Virginians for Fair Elections referendum committee, which has received $64 million in contributions between December 2025 and April from these nonprofit organizations. All figures are based on campaign finance records reviewed by TIME.
Virginians for Fair Maps referendum committee, despite its similar name, has funneled at least $23 million in large contributions to the “no” side. In addition, anti-redistricting Justice for Democracy PAC has received $9 million from a group linked to tech billionaire, PayPal and Palantir co-founder, and GOP fundraiser Peter Thiel. Thiel was the first major tech figure to declare support for Donald Trump ahead of his first election as President in 2016.
Per Aspera’s designation as a nonprofit allows it to keep its donors secret, but Thiel’s history with the group and its tactics has drawn scrutiny. Thiel previously gave a six-figure donation to Per Aspera as it was funding ads in Kris Kobach’s failed bid for Kansas governor, according to The Kansas City Star.
“Peter Thiel, one of Donald Trump’s top billionaire backers, is spending millions in Virginia to push a campaign built on lies and racial division,” Jones said. “These ads deliberately exploit the history of Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement to mislead Black voters and suppress participation.”
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson speaks at the Virginians for Fair Maps rally in Bridgewater, Va., on April 11, 2026. —Bill Clark/CQ“It's not a fight only about Virginia,” Holder said on Sunday on CBS News’ Face the Nation.
“And so the question I have for people who are critical of what we're doing, is: what were we supposed to do? Nothing? Just allow them to try to stack the deck, to try to steal seats,” Holder said. “All we're trying to do is meet them and try to make the system as fair as it possibly can be.”
With the 2026 midterms approaching, Virginia would be a huge prize for Democrats attempting to take the House. While the state currently hosts a majority of six Democrats to five Republicans, passing Tuesday’s referendum could lead to a map with a 10-1 advantage.
“Over the past year, several Republican-controlled states have taken the unprecedented step of redrawing their congressional maps in the middle of the decade, and they’ve done it for a simple reason—to give themselves an unfair advantage in the midterms this fall,” Obama said in a video last month. “In April, Virginians can respond by making sure your voting power is not diminished by what Republicans are doing in other states. This amendment gives you the power to level the playing field in the midterms this fall.”
“Virginia is under assault because we have leadership in Richmond that is trying to take away your vote,” Youngkin said at a rally in Lynchburg in early April.
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