where we start the show today. With me now is Congressman Vicente Gonzalez and State Representative Venton Jones, both Democrats of Texas. Starting with you, State Representative Jones.You're joining us from Chicago, Illinois. Yesterday was the deadline set by Republican Texas House Speaker uh Dustin Burroughs for you and your Democratic colleagues to return from Illinois to vote on Texas Republicans congressional map in addition to legal threats we'll get to. But Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has calle ...

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 ...