You notice they go to Illinois for safety, but that's all gerrymandered. California is gerrymandered. We should have many more seats in Congress in California.It's all gerrymandered. And we have an opportunity in Texas to pick up five seats. We have a really good governor. And we have good people in Texas. And I won Texas.I got the highest vote in the history of Texas, as you probably know. And uh we are entitled to five more seats. >> Whatever it takes, Sean. Whatever it takes, we're going to get it done.T ...

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Two Republicans making moves straight out of the authoritarian playbook. First, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has just filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court of Texas aiming to remove state representative Jean Woo, the chair of Texas's House Democratic Caucus for helping his colleagues flee the state to block Republicans from passing that severely gerrymandered congressional map. Also tonight, Donald Trump now indicating he might get the FBI involved to force Texas Democrats back to the state house.Well, I thi ...

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Let's talk about a word we've been hearing a lot lately. Maybe it's one you've heard for a while and you've just never been quite sure what it actually means. We're talking about gerrymandering.You've been hearing about it a lot in Texas because Texas Democrats actually just fled the state to try to stop Republicans from doing it there. What we're talking about when we say gerrymandering is just the redrawing of electoral lines to benefit one party or another. What we're talking about in Texas is one kind o ...

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And joining us now is Democratic Congressman Greg Casar of Texas. His district in Austin would be merged with another in this new GOP plan for Texas if it gets approved. Congressman, the president says the GOP is entitled to five more seats in your state.You say the new map violates the Voting Rights Act. So explain which Texans are most at risk of losing the power of their vote. When the Voting Rights Act was signed by LBJ, a Texas president, that law from 1965 was passed in order to ban maps like the one ...

Uh there are a group of legislators who are not home. Who are they. >> Wow, what a newsy segue.Uh the Texas House has issued arrest warrants for Democrats who have left the state to block congressional redistricting. As the Texas Tribune reports, the warrants apply only within state lines, making them largely symbolic. As most of the legislators who were in Illinois, New York, and Massachusetts, Texas House Speaker Dustin Burroughs yesterday criticized the missing members.>> They've left the state, abandone ...

Why can't What is Why is it so hard for people to not get that this is all bull crap? That this is just just another pile of BS they're laying on top of all the other BS that's come out of this administration. Um fermented by conspiracies, fermented by uh a lot of ignorant people uh who are wholly incompetent in their government jobs to begin with. um who have nothing better to do than to seize on storylines that have been disproven. Tell me, sir, what substantive charges could possibly come out of this? We ...

Now, former Attorney General Eric Holder, he is the chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee and co-author of our unfinished march, the violent past, an imperiled future of the vote, a history, a crisis, a plan. >> General, that that book is aptly titled uh the march continues for sure. And you know, I'm looking at this moment and would love to get your assessment um uh at the ground level because my attitude is right now, to be honest, Democrats, the more the marrier.I'd be breaking out ...