TEXAS HOLD DEMS

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🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Texas Republicans want to remake voting maps to their advantage. Democrats say they’re ready to play that game too. Who wins? You have to listen to find out. This episode was produced by Peter Balonon-Rosen, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast. Texas state lawmakers boarding a bus after leaving the state earlier today so a quorum could not be reached on a redistricting vote. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What was the first thing you said when you like woke up this morning? Here's the first thing Donald
0:04.5	Trump said. Truth social. I have instructed our Department of Commerce to immediately begin work on a new
0:11.7	and highly accurate census based on modern day facts and figures. And importantly, using the
0:18.2	results and information gained from the presidential election of 2024.
0:22.6	People who are in our country illegally will not be counted in the census.
0:28.1	Thank you for your attention to this matter.
0:30.0	Breaking with tradition, norm-busting, unprecedented, blah, blah, blah, blah,
0:33.7	but the point is the man is fixated on maps.
0:37.7	For further evidence, see Texas.
0:40.5	Trump wants Texas to shake up its districts to get him five extra Republican seats in the
0:45.5	2026 midterms.
0:47.1	Texas Democrats fled the state so lawmakers can't push new maps through the legislature.
0:52.8	And now the FBI might get involved.
0:55.1	Messing with Texas on today, Explain from Vox.
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