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Welcome to The Truth with Lisa Booth, where we try to get to the heart of the issues that matter to you.

Today, we're diving into the high stakes battle over redistricting in Texas with Attorney General Ken Paxson, who's also running for Senate against Sean Cornyn.

As Democrats flee the state to break quorum and block GOP-led maps,

there's been accusations of gerrymandering and voter suppression that have been flying.

There's data showing some stark disparities in states and Democrat states like California

where Republicans hold 40% of the vote, but only 17% of the congressional districts.

Also states like Massachusetts, where 35% of the vote Republicans have gotten, but yet they hold

zero seats. Zilch, nada. So needless to say, the fight over a fair reprisation, well,

it's red hot. You've probably seen in the news. The media has been covering it.

So we'll unpack it today with Attorney General Ken Paxton.

So stay tuned to unpack all of this on the legal, the political, and the ethical firestorm.

Well, Attorney General, Ken Paxton, it's great to have you on the show.

You're a busy man right now.

Texas is getting a lot of attention right now.

So I know that you've been busy.

You know, so it is rare to do a, you know, mid-decade redistricting, which is what Texas is doing right now.

But like on the gerrymandering front, like if this were California or Massachusetts or New York, would anyone be talking about it?

No, Massachusetts doesn't have a single Republican congressman, not one.

They gerrymandated it so good that there's a Republican can't win up there. I think if you go to

Illinois, so these are the states where the Democrats left to. Illinois has three Republicans

out of 17, 14 Democrats. And New York is similar. So these states are, all these Democratic states are

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