[Applause] [Music] People showed up in big numbers in Austin, Texas today, cheering Texas Democrats as they returned to the state amid a huge Texas fight that has huge national implications. Texas has been at the center of this extraordinary demand by President Trump that Republicancontrolled states like Texas should draw new congressional districts in an effort to effectively guarantee Republican control of Congress for years to come. Um, and it really is not just Texas. Vice President JD Vance flew to Ind ...

Donald Trump takes election advice from a dictator who doesn't have free and fair elections. Number one. Number two, it shows that all of the legacy media outlets that told us breathlessly last year that no, no, no, Donald Trump now loves mail-in voting.Republicans love mail-in voting. Why are people like you, Mark Elias, continuing to say that they hate mail-in voting when when after all, you know, the RNC issued a press release now they say mail mail and voting. It was all nonsense then. It has always bee ...

And joining us now, Democratic State Representative James Telerico, who represents District 50, which includes much of Austin. He joins us now from Illinois. Why do you think uh that your fellow Democrats think that this is the best way to push through, push back against Republicans that are trying to redistrict.Well, usually state legislators adjust district boundaries at the beginning of a decade to account for population changes after a new census. Texas Republicans did that in 2021, four years ago, and ...