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Out of any new political power. voter suppression measures that they passed, just to try and squeeze-out as many more years as they can in power, because they recognize that what happened in arizona, what happened in georgia will happen here in texas. >> well, let's underscore, it is shocking that even though the texas population that grew, 95% of them were people of color, and they don't want to recognize that type of control and that kind of power. brian, what's the state of that m i think that is what's most shocking is that after the supreme court gutted the voting rights act, and i'm aski...

Political data in drawing this map. it is to gain partisan advantage on the map. >> then there's the racism. take texas. you heard the phrase democracy dies in darkness, right? well, as political journalist aary berman points out that is exactly what happened in the overnight hours of last wednesday morning when around 3:30 a.m. republicans in the texas house voted to redraw the state house map in a way that dilutes the voting power of growing communities of color. white people make up 40% of the population but would control 59% of the newly drawn proposed districts. hispanics 39% of the popul...

Increases the number of districts that are majority white while decreasing the hispanic and black majority districts. despite the fact that people of color made up 95% of the population growth in texas over the past decade, 95% as ari points out only 40% of texasens identify as white but 59% of the districts gary bandered by the district are majority white and 39% of the texas population is hispanic, they're only the majority in 20% of the districts. 12% of texans are black but they're the majority in less than 5% of the new districts. then there is arkansas whose governor approved a map split...

Representatives, and school board elections and all these other places? that's where the decisions are being made, at the state houses. it's just exhausting to have to keep convincing people to fight to save these legislative failures. >> there's so much attention paid on congressional districts. it's unbelievable. most of the action is happening in the state legislatures, town council, school boards, issues that direct our lives directly. the same pattern as you noted, keeps creeping up over and over again. whether it's prison gerrymandering, you led off with a story about texas. the texas po...

The ceo of the clifton hospital says the positive infection rate in his hospital tests jumped from 4% a month ago to 35%. and he is struggling to find nurses to handle all of the patients. his team is exhausted. >> i think we are headed to a very bad situation and it is going pretty rapidly. >> has to be exhausting. >> once you get behind, go to the nurse's floor, look them in the eyes, you can see it is stressful, you can see it, you can feel it. >> reporter: the pandemic crisis is clouded by the fight over mask wearing and vaccine acceptance. 45% of the texas population is fully vaccinated a...