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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Don’t Mess With Texas’s Election Maps

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, News Commentary, Daily News

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

How Texas redrawing its election maps could set off a gerrymandering arms race across the country—a race the Republicans are likely to win. 

Guest:  Ari Berman is a voting rights correspondent at Mother Jones. 

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0:00.0

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1:14.4

Like app today. Like a lot of millennials who came of age during the George W. Bush presidency, there's one

1:19.9

thing I just know to be true about the lone star state.

1:23.6

Don't mess with Texas.

1:27.0

Just for the record, I am not messing with Texas,

1:29.3

but I'm starting to feel like maybe this is a one-sided relationship

1:33.3

because I'm getting the sense that Texas has no problems messing with everyone else.

1:38.3

Yeah, I feel like I kind of have PTSD from that phrase as well, because I've covered a lot of messes in Texas over the years.

1:50.1

And what's happening now is the latest iteration of that.

1:54.3

That's Ari Berman from Mother Jones.

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