Welcome to another episode of Lurie Breaks It Down, a podcast where we dig deeply to connect the dots on the issues that shape our world.

I'm Lurie Daniel Favors, author, activist, attorney, and the host of the Lurie Daniel Favors show on Sirius XM's Urban View, Channel 126. If you like what you're about to hear, go ahead and give us five stars and then tell everybody that you know. And if you don't like it, just, child, keep it to yourself and pray our strength. Okay, thank you so much. Also, don't forget to check out my YouTube page, Lurie Daniel Favor's Media, where you should subscribe, like, and share, because then you'll get notified when I post videos from my show, which I do just about every single day and when I go live with my YouTube audience. All right, good afternoon, everybody. Today is Thursday, October the 23rd. Lots to get to today because it's a day ending in why. And we are still people living in America, frankly, anywhere in the world. There's a ton of things happening. But we in America are really going through it because, boy, are we not used to struggle. Well, I shouldn't even quite say it that way. Most of us ain't used to struggle. Those of us who I be talking to for the most part, we very much used to struggle.

We just not used to see it.

Other people struggle with us in ways that still preserve their privilege, but we got a lot to unpack today. So I want to start, however, with something that happened on my show yesterday. yesterday we had representative jasmine crockett back on and she was really letting us know

what is happening when it comes to the government shutdown, which we're going to talk about

extensively this afternoon. But she also broke some news that in light of the fact that her district

is being redrawn, she is also now currently evaluating whether or not she should consider running for

Senate. There is a Senate race that is happening in the state of Texas, quite frankly, next year

during the midterm elections. Every single one of the 435 members of the House of Representatives

are going to be up for vote. And of the senators 33 of the 100 senators will

also be up for a vote so there's a lot of potential power shifting on the line and so when jasmine

crockett representative from the great state of texas came on the show and said the following

it raised a lot of eyebrows take a listen Now, you mentioned this district and you have noted

previously that your district has been redrawn. Do you plan to continue running to represent

in the district that you will now be located in? I have no idea where I'll run. These are my three

options. Currently, we're waiting on the court to come down with a final opinion as to

whether or not these lines will go into effect immediately or not. Our filing period is about to

open. So they only have a little bit more time because you got to know where you're running.

So we're expecting that we're going to get a court ruling here shortly on whether or not the lines go into effect for this election.

So the lines may say like they are, which means nothing changes about my district.

They may change to what was signed into law.

And that means that I would be moved into another district.

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