#100: A Hundred Episodes Later, We FINALLY Talk About Gerrymandering

In The Thick

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🗓️ 27 February 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

It's our 100th episode (thank you!) and Maria is reporting around the country for the next few weeks so we ask, "Where is Maria?" before we finally discuss topics you have told us to do for a while now: gerrymandering and other forms of limiting the power to vote. Julio talks with David Daley, senior fellow for FairVote and the author of "Ratfucked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America's Democracy" and Desmond Meade, executive director of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition and chair of Floridians for a Fair Democracy, about how communities of color can be better represented electorally.

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0:00.0	There is no voter fraud problem in the country.
0:02.6	We are creating all of these roadblocks
0:06.6	in the name of a problem that doesn't even exist.
0:09.6	O'
0:10.8	Hey, welcome to In the Thick. This is a podcast about politics, race and culture from a POC perspective.
0:18.0	I'm Maria In a Hosa in an undisclosed location.
0:22.0	And I'm Julio Riciorico Barela.
0:25.0	Maria, this is our 100th in the thick episode.
0:30.0	Can you believe it?
0:32.0	100. 100.
0:32.6	So cool.
0:34.6	We created in the thick out of nothing.
0:36.6	It was the alchemy out of ideas and wanting representation and the political conversation in our
0:40.9	country and poof, boom. This is like a special hundred episode
0:46.2	announcement because you're traveling virtually every flipping day in the month of
0:52.0	March like you're everywhere I don't even see you,
0:55.3	we're actually introducing a new segment called Where's Maria?
0:59.3	Where's Maria?
1:02.3	Where's Maria? Where's Maria? Where's Maria now? Hey have you guys seen Maria?
1:07.1	Maria, where are you now and what are you up to?
1:10.4	So right now I am in downtown Santa Fe New Mexico. We're reporting the story of the
1:17.9	cultural and political and environmental tensions around the Pueblo people and the
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