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Defending Democracy with Marc Elias

The GOP Power Grab Is Running Into Unexpected Resistance

Defending Democracy with Marc Elias

Democracy Docket

News, Politics

4.9702 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

After the Callais decision, many Republican states rushed to push through gerrymandered maps. While some of these redistricting efforts resulted in wins for the GOP, two states resisted—and the fight is still on. In this video, Marc Elias breaks down the most recent developments in the gerrymandering war and what that means for representation across the South.


Transcript

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0:00.0

Ever since Donald Trump retook office, he and the Republican Party have been at war with free

0:05.7

and fair elections.

0:07.2

And nowhere has that been more true than in the area of congressional redistricting.

0:12.5

But boy, we just reached an absolute critical moment, an inflection point in that fight.

0:19.2

In fact, I would argue it's the most important point other than

0:22.5

the day that the Clay decision itself came down. That's the case out of Louisiana in which the

0:27.4

Supreme Court gutted the final provisions of the Voting Rights Act that led to this week's long

0:33.2

frenzy that we've been in the middle of. But it may have just come to a head. In a couple of cases,

0:37.8

one out of Alabama, one out of Florida, and perhaps the Republicans standing up to Donald

0:43.2

Trump in a third instance out of South Carolina. So I want to walk through these three,

0:47.9

talk about what they have in common, what's different about them, and why, like I said,

0:51.9

this may actually be the most critical point since the Supreme

0:56.8

Court's decision in Kali. Now, there are going to be a lot more twists and turns in the days and

1:01.8

weeks ahead. So you're going to have to pay attention. And the best way to do that, well,

1:05.9

it's to subscribe to Democracy Docket. It's the free news outlet I created to keep you informed

1:10.6

on everything you need to know about voting, elections, redistricting, democracy, and the courts. So go ahead and subscribe right now. The link to do so is on the screen in front of you. It's also in the description below. And if you want to type it in yourself, because you're just one of those people, go to DemocracyDocket.com slash YouTube and you can subscribe there as well.

1:29.5

All right, as I mentioned, you know, we saw this sort of confluence of events in these three states,

1:37.1

Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, all of which involved redistricting and all of which deal with

1:43.9

the question of how states are reacting in the post-Kalai period.

1:49.0

Now, Calais was the Supreme Court decision, a terrible decision. I've already described it as the worst Supreme Court decision of my lifetime.

1:57.0

And I've done several pieces on this in Democracy Docket. I've done prior videos, so you

2:03.9

ought to go ahead and look at those. We'll put some of the links to those in the description

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