It's Thursday, April 30th, 2026 from Peachfish Productions.

It's the gist.

I'm Mike Peska.

The Supreme Court handed down its decision in Calais, which was expected, though maybe not this early.

So majority minority districts are no longer permissible under the Voting Rights Act. In fact, they are seen as

discriminatory against whites. The timing of the decision surprised some observers. I saw some,

I don't want to say, panicking, but there was urgency among Democrats and surprise, a surprising

amount of surprise. There's an organization called When

We All Vote and they put out a YouTube short about the electoral impacts of this decision.

As states like Florida and Mississippi are redrawing their congressional maps right now,

the court's decision could actually erase up to 10 majority black seats across the country, all before the midterm elections that are

happening in November. The organization Indivisible, also a voting rights organization, says a ruling

that undermines Section 2 could, quote, lock in up to 19 additional safe Republican seats

in the U.S. House. 19? I doubt that. I am not sure about 10, but I'm trying to

figure out if that can happen. When we all vote, analysis is not wrong when they say that

Mississippi and Florida redrawing maps. Florida was going to do it anyway. Mississippi seems

very excited to do it now. And that means Benny Thompson, who's been a black Democrat in Congress

for 30 years. His district will get split in half or quarters. And the 40% of Mississippi's voters

who are black might have no representation in the House. Then again, 40% of Mississippi's voters

are black. That might mean that there is some basis for a Democratic vote.

Although when I look at the lay of the land in Mississippi, I don't know. Thompson is plus 11.

That's his district. So what they do is they draw it so that the guy who is going to be Democrat

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