This is an I-Heart podcast. Hi everyone. It's Sophia. Welcome to Work in Progress.

Hey, Whipsmarties, today we have one of my very favorite women on the pod.

Not because she's an incredible congresswoman, not because she is an accomplished civil rights

attorney who defends our very ideals, not because she happens to be one of the most

whip smart people I've ever been in a room with, and not because she's also one of

the coolest people on the house floor. It's really for all of these things. Today we are joined by

none other than Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. She didn't come to Washington to play nice. She came to

defend a true and more gorgeous America. And right now, she is standing at the center of one

of the most consequential fights, not only in Texas, but across the nation. Over redistricting,

access to the ballot, voting rights, and whether communities of color will be silenced or heard.

As many of you know, this year, Texas Republicans drew a new congressional map that is designed

to add five GOP seats, which has forced Democrats to sue in court because they're drawing this

in ways that would reduce the voting power of some Americans to one-fifth a full vote. If that sounds

like an eerie ghost of history past that we should be

ashamed of, it is. And Jasmine Crockett is not going to take this one laying down. She's here to

talk about local politics, national politics, what's going on with the government shutdown,

what on earth is happening with the Epstein files, and why Speaker Johnson, frankly, keeps lying to us.

She is here to defend a democracy under siege, and she does it with style.

Let's dive in with Jasmine Crockett.

My dear, my lighthouse beacon, North Star human being that reminds me that we can speak truth to power, it feels like a weird thing to ask you how you are when 2025 is 2025ing so hard in more the project way than just the calendar year.

But how are you?

I mean, you know what?

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