If there was one silver lining in the dark clouds hovering over the U.S. Supreme Court last week, it was the ruling that requires Alabama to redraw electoral maps, finding likelihood that they were drawn to dilute Black voting power in that state. By popular demand, we've convened with Common Cause's Texas Voting Rights Program Manager Katya Ehresman to walk us through that organization's ongoing work for redistricting justice and describe what to expect on the path ahead nationally, including here in Texas.
Learn more about Common Cause Texas at https://www.commoncause.org/texas/, and follow Katya Ehresman on Twitter at https://twitter.com/EhresmanKatya.
Find the hilarious (and frustrating) Twitter thread referenced in this episode comparing gerrymandered districts to Pokemon characters at https://twitter.com/MEPFuller/status/1354904383708934153?s=20.
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