Breaking just moments ago, southern states are moving at break-neck speed to redraw their congressional maps after the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act this week.

Tennessee's Republican Governor Bill Lee has just announced he's convening the state legislature for a special session on Tuesday, specifically to gerrymandered the state's map.

That follows an announcement one hour earlier from Alabama's Republican governor, K. Ivey,

who announced that state legislature, will hold its own special session on Monday to redraw its map.

I find it absolutely amazing and galling that the party that claims to be the heritage of Lincoln, that advocated for

civil rights and civil liberties that helped to get past the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights

Act now stand as the party that wants to tear that legacy up.

It is amazing to me that you have the Speaker of the House bragging about how, you know,

we're going to pick up some seats at the expense of black and brown voters in his state.

Mike,

Mike Johnson's district only has 20% black folks in it to begin with.

And so when you look at this evisceration of Section 5, now Section 2, the Voting Rights Act,

and we are led to believe, Congresswoman, that the reason the Supreme Court has given us is that if you draw a district that empowers black people to elect someone who advocates for them that looks like them, that that's discrimination now?

Is that where the country is? That if you draw a line that says this

group of people who are black, brown, gay, whatever, that in this community, they can't

be represented because that's discrimination.

So thousands, tens of thousands of people gather for May Day protests across the country today,

from Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, Raleigh, North Carolina, as well as Minnesota's twin cities.

It's the latest of a series of nationwide rallies against Trump's policies we've seen since he took office last year

that have brought millions of people

out into the streets.

And that movement continues to build.

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