Redistricting in a Rush: What Virginia Voters Need To Know | Joe Thomas
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🗓️ 22 January 2026
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| 0:33.9 | Redistricting, you hear the most outrageous lies. |
| 0:42.0 | Apologies to the writers of the movie Repo Man, the Gogglebox do-goaters that are out there trying to tell you where and what is really going on in Virginia redistricting are trying to get |
| 0:51.1 | you to vote for it probably in middle April. They need to have this vote cast by the |
| 0:59.1 | middle of April so that there is time if they do succeed in convincing you to overturn an election |
| 1:05.6 | that went down 65% in favor of a nonpartisan redistricting commission that each 10 years would redraw |
| 1:14.2 | Virginia's districts based on population shifts, tear that up in favor of a reactionary bill |
| 1:22.6 | that would allow them, if another state changed their districts, Virginia could invoke this constitutional |
| 1:31.6 | amendment to recreate theirs. So that's what's going on here in Virginia. And just as a quick note, |
| 1:40.0 | this is what it looks like nationwide. When you look at the states that are discussing whether or not to redistrict, you're looking at |
| 1:48.3 | certainly Texas, the beginning of all of this, but a reminder about Texas. |
| 1:53.0 | This was court-ordered redistricting because it had been determined that Texas's districts |
| 1:59.5 | were drawn racially biased, and you're not allowed to do that. |
| 2:04.3 | Then California said, well, if they're going to redistrict, then we're going to redistrict. |
| 2:09.1 | And you can see on the map how few Republican places there are in California, and they're trying to make that even fewer. |
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