Hi, I'm Denise, and this is your civic minute.
The redistricting war is over, and nobody won.
Texas, North Carolina, and Missouri
re-drew their maps to favorite Republicans.
California and Virginia re-drew theirs to favorite Democrats.
The net partisan result, roughly, a wash.
But the country now has dozens more safe seats
than it had a year ago.
More districts where the outcome is guaranteed.
Fewer races where candidates have to compete
and less reason for your representative to listen to you.
There are two bills in Congress that could end this for good.
The redistricting reform act would ban mid-decade redistricting
and require independent commissions.
The Fair Representation Act would replace single-member districts
with proportional representation, making
gerrymandering structurally impossible.
One fixes the process, the other makes the process irrelevant.
That's your civic minute.
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