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pillow. And Sarah, the other day I was watching and I saw you had a little Kenyan flag on your screen. That was yeah. Yeah. It is, it is, it is, it is unfortunately you can't, I was talking to Beto O'Rourke, not that long ago. I was talking to him. I was, I somehow managed to tell him I went to Kenyon within the first 30 seconds of talking to him. My colleague Sam Stein was like, I don't understand how this can be such an important part of your life. Like you graduated 22 years ago, but it's important. It's the best place. It's only important. Kenyans is a special place. I was thinking about that somebody made this joke the other day about, you know, how do you know someone's from Texas? And it's like, well, they'll tell you, right? That's like the long-stained joke. And I'm like, same is true for people from Kenyon. That's what we do. We do love to do it. Yeah, we met at reunion. We met a reunion some years ago, which is great. Okay, but we're not just here to talk about Kenyon. I mean, I would like to talk about that for 20 minutes, and I bet people would listen.

Oh, sure, we'd have a lot of people listening to that. Yeah. Because Kenya's such a big powerhouse school that everybody knows about. But we're also here to talk about the Republican effort to redistrict Texas, where you are a congresswoman, which would, in their minds, their hope is that it

will help them keep the House. So in 2024, Texas voters sent 25 Republicans and 13 Democrats

to Congress. The proposed congressional map in Texas could bring that number as high as 30

Republican seats, eight Democratic seats.

And so Democratic legislators, they have fled the state, including to Illinois, to deny Republicans

a quorum so they can't pass this.

So just from your perspective, like, tell us what's going on there in Texas.

Like what's, because this is a big story.

I mean, for August, Texas redistricting has kind of been the thing. So like, talk about what's going on there in Texas. Like, what's, because this is a big story. I mean, for August, Texas redistricting has kind of been the thing.

So, like, talk about what's happening.

Yeah, well, thanks, Sarah. And it is a big thing because it is the thing. And what we're starting to see is that it's starting in Texas, but it's not ending in Texas. And so there are a lot of stories around this, but we were hearing it pretty early on.

And so we've been in conversations stories around this, but we were hearing it pretty early on.

And so we've been in conversations in our congressional delegation and with leadership in the House and with our colleagues across the country about what's happening in Texas, because I

think this is really where it's starting, but not where it's ending.

And you're right about the numbers.

And there are a bunch of important things

to say about that, but essentially what we see is that they're trying to redraw these maps,

and you have 13 Democratic seats, all of which, all the Democrats are elected by coalitions of

minority voters. 12 out of the 13 seats are majority minority districts, and Texas is a

majority minority state. And yet they are redrawing the maps so that now almost 80% of the seats

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