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The WallBuilders Show

Redistricting At A Crossroads

The WallBuilders Show

Tim Barton, David Barton & Rick Green

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4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

A single court signal just shifted the ground beneath the midterms. We break down how the Supreme Court’s move to let Texas’s new congressional map proceed—on a 6–3 trajectory—could mark a turn away from race-based redistricting and toward a simpler, race-neutral standard. With filing deadlines here and margins razor-thin, even a handful of seats could decide whether a reform agenda advances or stalls. We talk candidly about the legal maze built over decades of precedent, why lower courts kee...

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0:00.0

Welcome to the intersection of faith and culture. Thanks for joining us on this Friday.

0:10.3

We love Fridays for some good news. We've got a lot of good news to share with you today.

0:13.8

Rick Green here with David Barton and Tim Barton. And our good news Fridays are available along with all of our other programming at wallbuilders.

0:20.2

Show. Wallbuilders. Show for the radio and then all of our other wallbuilders. All materials, information, sign up for conferences, whether you're a pastor, legislator, or get involved in one of our Constitution classes, it's all there at wallbuilders.com. Wallbuilders.com. All right, guys, without any further ado, let's jump into some good news.

0:38.5

David, where are we starting today? Well, this is the time of the year when the Supreme

0:43.0

courts may start coming now with early decisions. And so we've had some that came out this

0:49.3

week that are really significant. One deals with Texas. And actually, I'm going to back up further to say it deals

0:56.3

with the potential election in the midterms, whether Republicans can keep a majority in the House

1:02.2

and the Senate and therefore help Trump move forward or whether that's going to come to a screeching

1:07.1

halt by losing the House. So because it is such a narrow margin in the house,

1:11.6

just a one or two vote margins, what has been for months, they wanted to give some more,

1:17.3

some more, if you will, strength to the Republican side. So Texas said, well, we can redistrict

1:22.3

our state. And they did and came up with five more districts that lean Republican now.

1:28.1

So that could be a pickup of five Republican siege, which would be a big help for Mike Johnson

1:32.6

in the House.

1:33.6

Well, California said, well, if you can do it, we can do it.

1:36.0

So California had their initiative back when we had the election a few weeks ago for New Jersey

1:42.4

and for Virginia.

1:43.3

That night, they had an election on a referendum in

1:45.6

California and said, well, we can get some new seats too, so they think they can get five

1:49.5

Democrat seats out of California by redistricting. And the Constitution doesn't have any requirement

1:54.3

or how often you redistrict every two years, four years, three years, seven and a half months,

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