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You're listening to the 1A podcast. I'm Jen White, and this is in case you missed it, where we bring you some of the week's most important conversations you might have missed. Various states in the U.S. are locked in a fight over redistricting. It's all centered on which party will keep the House next year. Republicans have a slim majority, 219 seats, to the Democrats 213. It started this summer

when President Trump asked Republicans in Texas to redraw the state's congressional maps early.

The goal, he said, was to improve Republicans shot at winning

five more seats in the House of Representatives during the 26 midterm elections. After a standoff with

Democrats in the state legislature, Republicans passed a map that did just that. Democrats in California,

led by Governor Gavin Newsom, responded with their own map. It's a redraw aimed at giving

Democrats five more seats in the House. Newsom signed that bill into law late August, saying it would

neutralize what happened in Texas. Unlike in Texas, California's map goes to the voters this November

for approval. It would last through the 2030 elections. But the redistricting fights

don't end there. Another GOP effort is nearing the finish line in Missouri. There, Republicans have

pushed a new map that will set them up to win seven GOP seats instead of six. Democrats currently

hold two House seats in Missouri, and once again, President Trump has intervened to push for the map

change. Missouri Senate Republicans passed the redistricting bill on Friday despite Democratic opposition

and have sent it to Republican Governor Mike Kehoe for his signature. The governor is also pushed

for the redistricting plan. So what does this mean for the state, the Democrats, and the midterms?

Jason Rosenbaum joins us from St. Louis, Missouri after the break.

He's a political correspondent for St. Louis Public Radio.

We discuss all the latest and more. Stay with us.

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