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because it is a concern, as you said, as its close to the affluent neighborhoods. its something they dont want to see, and people want to be necessarily herded into shelters either. >> let me just tell you it is a profound crisis here. this is just in the city. theres over 50,000 people living on the streets, who have pitched tents and a lot of different places. and we do absolutely have to get people off the street right away, but my concern is that our city kind of has two choices to...

was a blatant attempt to use force, to destroy american democracy and the rule of law. thats what made that day so uniquely terrifying, such an existential threat to the democratic order. the organizers, the rioters, wanted to topple the rightful government, and install a wrongful one, using mob violence to do so. the president backed them on, as some of the people closest and participated in the planning. in the variety of wannabe paramilitary groups, they view january six as a testin...

Dismissed a challenge by civil rights groups to its republican drawn state house maps, ruling that only the justice department has the power to enforce challenges to legislative maps under section two of the voting rights act. the ruling is cast by some as having wider implications if it should make it through an appeals, and then turn up, and then end up in the supreme court. it will maintain its conservative majority moving forward. that, of course, is just one decision. in the midst of this v...

The chair of Pennsylvania’s legislative redistricting commission has forcefully pushed back against Republican claims that he’s biased against them. Mark Nordenberg, chairman of the Legislative...

At the same time. they hit across the state. they say minority voters for surgically excised from communities in the dallas fort worth area and a majority of latino districts should have been created in harris county, the county seat of houston, the big e county in the state. and when they get to the state house maps, they find even more problems about latino seats in san antonio. i mean, this is really a state-wide issue in texas. and i think the other thing thats interesting and you touched on...

Imagine if they pick up illinois, ohio, iowa and wisconsin, imagine what that does to the map. the middle of the country becomes a blue stronghold. that will position democrats very well likely for 2020. >> but i just want to chime in real quick because we mentioned something but i want to make sure that the viewers understand. as a former state legislator, the most important year that you have is 2020 and 2021 because that is when you begin your redistricting process and you draw congressional ...