All right, I'm with Kate Barr, everybody. Welcome to Walkins, welcome.

Hi, thank you for having me.

Thank you for being here. It's such a pleasure to meet you. You come highly referred by our mutual friend Sarah, Rose.

She's just the best. Yeah. She really is the best. I love her so much.

My uncle listens to all my podcasts or most of them and he absolutely adored the one

with her. He was like, she's so brilliant.

Like, who doesn't think she's brilliant?

Whoever that knows, know them. Yeah.

Yeah, I know. You are doing really interest. She was telling me I had to talk to you because of all of the work you're doing. And it's really interesting to me just because it's something I really want to understand. And I think I could really tweak out on. I have the right kind of, you know, brain to if I had more more time, I feel like I'd really tweak out on stuff

like this. So can you explain to my audience just who you are and what you do very quickly?

I will do my very best. It doesn't even have to be quick. I don't know why. Thank goodness.

That's why I'm part. Great so that I can ramble for three hours. So I'm Kate Barr.

I ran for State Senate in North Carolina in 2024,

and I ran as Kate Bar can't win.

So basically I announced my loss the day that I filed to run for office,

and the whole campaign was a protest against gerrymandering.

Jerrymandering is basically when the people in power carve up our voting maps in order to preserve their power.

And North Carolina is either the most gerrymandered state in the country or one of the most gerrymandered states in the country,

depending on which metrics you're using. And basically what happens, just from a numbers perspective,

is you have a census every 10 years. We all know that document that comes in the mail and you fill it out. And

our Constitution requires a headcount of all of the citizens of the United States. And then

we are supposed to vote in roughly equally sized voting districts for both the U.S US House of Representatives and for our state

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