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The Don Lemon Show

Redistricting & Democracy: What’s Happening to Voting Rights?!

The Don Lemon Show

18Hundred LLC.

News, Society & Culture

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Tonight, we break down the escalating redistricting battles happening across the country and the growing concerns about MAGA efforts to reducing Black political representation. In Virginia, the only redistricting map that was actually approved directly by voters has now been overturned by the state Supreme Court. So what does this mean for voting rights, representation, and the future of democracy heading into the midterms? More importantly, what can people actually do about it? Then we pivot to growing concerns around hantavirus after reports that two people in New Jersey may have been exposed. What is hantavirus, how serious is it, and how worried should the public actually be? Don is joined by political analyst and author Tiffany Cross to break it all down. This episode is sponsored by FFRF. Visit https://ffrf.us/don or text DON 511511 to join or learn more. Because freedom belongs to all of us. Text Fees May Apply This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. BetterHelp makes it easy to get matched online with a qualified therapist. Sign up and get 10% off at https://BetterHelp.com/donlemon This episode is brought to you by Aura Frames. Exclusive $25-off Carver Mat at https://on.auraframes.com/DONLEMON. Promo Code DONLEMON Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Right, home from work, walk the dog, kids are back.

0:04.4

Mom!

0:05.0

Up the stairs for something.

0:07.8

Ugh, back down, no idea what I went up for.

0:12.0

Mom, what's for dinner?

0:13.6

Chop, sizzle, done.

0:17.1

Hello, fresh, can't slow life down, but it makes bringing everyone together around the table a whole lot easier.

0:23.4

So its phones down, forks up.

0:25.5

Hello Fresh. Bring back dinner time.

0:47.6

Hello. Good evening, good evening.

0:48.8

You saw the thumbnail.

0:49.8

I know what you're thinking.

0:51.1

Like, racism never left.

0:51.8

We know that.

0:53.9

I think we should actually change it to Jim Crow because people

0:55.2

don't understand like it meaning it's back it's fashionable out in the open now before people

1:00.7

would at least try to hide it now they don't even try to hide it they just do it right in your

1:05.5

face they're playing in your face right now so that's what that thumbnail means don't get it

1:09.4

twisted we already know racism never left never left. Okay. It is me. Anyway, welcome to Lemon Live at 5. Thank you very much.

1:18.2

I decided to, tell me if it's too glary in the thing, to open the shades. Sometimes the shades

1:23.6

being open, it gets too, that thing gets a little glared, all right? So I decided because

1:30.4

it's a nice evening here, and I wanted to have the shades up. Bring a little light into the room.

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