Four-and-a-half years ago, President Donald Trump phoned Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and demanded a reversal of the state’s 2020 election tally.

"All I want to do is this," Trump told the Republican official. "I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have." It sounded as if the president thought he was ordering a DoorDash dinner.  

Raffensperger rightly refused — despite facing denunciations and threats from the ruling faction of his party during the scandal-ridden end of Trump’s term in January 2021.

Now that Trump is back, he's looking to bias next year’s congressional contests, this time in advance. He wants Republicans who control Texas to carry out an ad hoc redistricting of its U.S. House seats to pave the way for five more GOP districts. His party now has an uncomfortably close 219-212 majority.

Unlike Georgia’s officials in 2021, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton, the state’s........

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