It's Thursday, May 14th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is Watter Day, the show that sees you, a person who also listens to a lot of true crime podcasts. You're very busy right now, and yet you've decided to take a break and catch up on the news. I salute you.

On today's show, Vice President J.D. Vance announces steps, to take more steps, to prove

steps are being taken, and the administration's anti-fraud initiative. And the effort by Senate

Democrats to halt the Iran war continues to go nowhere. But let's start with voting and race.

We've talked about how the Supreme Court's ruling in Louisiana v. Calais dismantled a critical

portion of the Voting Rights Act. Since then, a bunch of states, largely in the South, have moved

to redraw their voting maps, and they're eliminating majority black voting districts.

The Supreme Court seems to believe that states are creating districts based on politics, not race,

because it's fine if lawmakers protect their party's seats.

But to me and everyone else, including Republicans, it seems pretty clear that's not true when it comes to drawing districts.

Here's South Carolina Republican Representative Ralph Norman speaking on Newsmax.

Jim Clyburn, I like him personally, but he does not represent the rest of South Carolina, which is conservative.

His district is close to 47% African American and then 41% with 6% make-up of Hispanics.

Notice how he shifts pretty quickly from political ideology to race.

Norman's members are, it should be noted slightly incorrect, but talk about making my point for me.

There are not many people who have done more for the rights of black voters in the South than Stacey Abrams.

So I had to talk to her about the racist implications of Louisiana versus Calais and where we go from here.

Stacey, welcome back to what a day.

It is always a pleasure to see you, Jane, even if the world is burning around us.

Well, when you put it like that, yeah.

Speaking of, in the past year, we have seen multiple states redraw their congressional maps, diluting black and Latino voting power.

You have been fighting against voter suppression for decades.

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