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Music Welcome.com. Welcome one and all to a big old day of news here at the damage report.

Me, John and Rola, and another John who will be joining us.

Not right now, it's a solo show, no co-hosts, but for those of you watching live in the aftermath,

as promised yesterday, we have tracked down one of those wily Democrats fleeing the gerrymandering attempt in Texas.

Representative John Busey III is going to be joining us from Chicago to talk about the effort to stop this insane gerrymandering.

Gonna have a good conversation and give you all the details on what the planning is, how long they think they can hold out.

But the strategy is going forward and what you can hopefully do perhaps to help.

And before that, we have only so very much news to get to concerning

Donald Trump's early plans to manipulate your access to the ballot potentially in 2026.

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