Virginia’s Landmark Fair Maps Reform Is Under Threat Again | Brian Cannon

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🗓️ 21 March 2026

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Recent legislative actions by some Virginia Democrats threaten to undermine the reform Brian Cannon helped pass five years ago. It was rare moment where both parties aligned to protect democracy in passing a bipartisan constitutional amendment in Virginia that aimed to remove politicians’ control over drawing district maps, explains the head of NoGerrymanderingVA.org, when he joined Joe Thomas, The Daily Signal’s Virginia correspondent, today. “ I'm a democrat, and you and I probably don't vote the same way 90% of the time when we go into the voting booth, but I believe in your right to cast a meaningful vote in a free and fair election.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Now, are all the traitors present?
0:02.0	Let's get started, shall we?
0:04.0	From rags to riches.
0:06.0	I'm so sick of this.
0:07.0	Working like a dog and being treated worse.
0:09.0	Yorkshire to New York.
0:10.0	Or climbers, you and me.
0:12.0	A life dedicated to revenge.
0:14.0	Let's make this an occasion to remember.
0:16.0	A Woman of Substance on Channel 4, stream now.
0:20.0	And you know, I work with our friends at the Daily Signal as well, and joining us now for kind of a hybrid simulcast, if you will, is the head of no gerrymandering VA.org.
0:35.3	He is a dear friend and a confessed Democrat on the program. He is the great Brian Cannon
0:42.8	who did the unthinkable five years ago, which was actually amend Virginia's constitution
0:49.5	to try to protect voters and the districts that they lived in to keep the politicians,
0:56.9	Brian, as you once taught me, to keep the politicians from picking their voters and allowing
1:03.0	it to go back to being the other way around. How are you doing this morning?
1:06.8	I'm doing well, Joe. Glad to be talking with you. It's been an ongoing conversation for a number of years, and I love it. So thanks for having me on.
1:14.4	Certainly when the constitutional amendment here in Virginia was passed, the concern was kind of put aside because constitutional amendments are very hard to, or at least we thought they were very hard to
1:28.9	change. So therefore, did you move on to other business? Did you start selling real estate? What
1:36.8	happened to you after the constitutional amendment finally went into effect? Yeah. So in 2020,
1:43.0	it was probably the highlight of my professional career, maybe ever,
1:48.2	is passing that bipartisan redistricting reform where we had a special moment where the politics
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