Welcome to another episode of Lurie Breaks It Down, a podcast where we dig deeply to connect the dots on the issues that shape our world.

I'm Lurie Daniel Favors, author, activist, attorney, and the host of the Lurie Daniel Favors show on Sirius XM's Urban View, Channel 126. If you like what you're about to hear, go ahead and give us five stars and then tell everybody that you know. And if you don't like it, just, child, keep it to yourself and pray our strength. Okay, thank you so much. Also, don't forget to check out my YouTube page, Lurie Daniel Favor's Media, where you should subscribe, like, and share, because then you'll get notified when I post videos from my show, which I do just about every single day and when I go live with my YouTube audience. All right. So happy Monday and shout out to the Texas House Democrats. They are continuing

to stand strong by helping to keep quorum broken in the state of Texas. And this is a really

big deal. So for those of you who are new to this story, you should just know that there's this

thing called redistricting. And redistricting is a process of drawing maps that determine where you're

going to vote for every level of elections

that you get to participate in. Whether it's voting for your dog catcher or your PTA president

or your state assembly member or your congressional representative or your governor, each of those

elections fall within a different layer of democracy and have different maps associated with it.

As you may recall, Governor Greg

Abbott, who sits as the governor for the state of Texas, called to have a special session

that was going to allow for the Texas elected officials to basically come together and deal

with issues that they had not been able to address during their actual session. Keep in mind,

Texas state representatives, it's not a full-time job for them.

In some states, it is a full-time year-round job. In the state of Texas, they get paid like a couple hundred

dollars a month, and it's not considered a full-time job. So in addition to doing their legislative work,

they also have to work full-time jobs to make their ends meet. You may also recall that the Texas State Democrats, they fled the

state because during this special session that Greg Abbott called to deal with these issues

that they did not get to address during the actual session, the primary issues they were supposed

to be addressing was the flooding and the fact that over 130 people had lost their lives

as a result of flood and climate change and lack of

preparation within the grid, either the electrical grid or the water pump systems or the warning

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