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This year's election This year's election will determine who draws the lines for both congressional and state

legislative districts. So what races decide who will draw those lines and

how can you get involved? Let's get on topic. Welcome to On Topic, a weekly in-depth look at a topic that helps us understand the week's

news. My name's Renato Mariati. I'm a former federal

prosecutor, a practicing lawyer, and a legal analyst. And I'm joined by my friend

Patty Vasquez. The host my friend Patty Vasquez show who joins us regularly in this

podcast. Before I bring in Patty I want to thank our patrons who brought us this

episode with special thanks to I want to thank our patrons who brought us this episode.

With special thanks to Michelle Dew, Andrew Donnelly,

James From Meyer, Jay Gellhausen,

Jamie Gordon, Patrick, Steve Hungsburg,

Shano Wachinsky, and an anonymous patron.

You too can become a patron on our website on topic podcast.com. Just click the support

link at the top of the page. So Patty our last episode was a little unusual.

We were talking about how to get involved this election season.

It was really inspired by some of our patrons who are wanting to get more involved.

And it really had an impact. that was amazing to hear the stories or some of the people who listened to this episode who did get involved this election cycle already and this episode is kind of a follow-on from that because kind of a high-ranking official

in the Democratic Party reached out to me and was so intrigued by this that she wanted to reach out to our listeners about important

races that they could get involved in.

You know this is a really remarkable moment in our country's history on so many levels, right?

We obviously are in the middle of pandemic, we are witnessing the outcry for justice when

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