Hi, I'm Denise, and this is your civic minute right now across the country.
A redistricting war is underway.
It started last summer when the White House pressured Texas to redraw its congressional
maps to lock in more Republican seats.
North Carolina and Missouri followed.
Democrats hit back.
California approved new maps.
Virginia started the same process.
Six states have redrawn their maps already.
More are coming.
For years, states have been slowly moving toward independent redistricting commissions
to take the politics out of map drawing.
This arms race blew that progress apart in a matter of months.
Here's the truth.
As long as who draws the lines determines who wins, this fight never ends.
There's a Bill in Congress, the Fair Representation Act that would replace single-member districts
with proportional representation, making Jerry Mandarin pointless.
That's not a ceasefire.
That's ending the war.
It's your civic minute.
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