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Primaries. if you just look at this map, chris, you can see the blatant gerrymandering of it. it's an effort to -- gerrymandering is sometimes called packing and cracking, where you either shove all the minorities in one district, where you rank them up so you can get the power. and they have all been shut into one district with two claws reaching way out to hit birmingham and montgomery, alabama, because their majority black cities. in doing, so they have clustered all of the black folks to reduce the voting power of black voters in alabama. it's interesting because justice roberts, chief jus...

Voting rights for americans and we must show up to d.c., offer a back-up to our legislatures fighting to create stronger federal protections for our voting rights because it's states like alabama or even texas, where run-away legislatures allowed to gerrymander the state in such a way to diminish the voting power by black and brown actors, we all lose. >> i mentioned in my intro and i know you saw in the washington post, 1,055 fatal police shootings in 2021, according to the news papers tracking, this despite the sustained protest by george floyd and other incidents the year before. your respo...

Citations. eric. eric: i'm glad she is okay. arthel: yes. eric: the move to let non-to push to let them stop it. >> voting in municipal elections. their new moves to stop them. a state referenda is being proposed to block noncitizens from casting ballots. it is from kevin burns who was also running for county executive of putnam county just north of new york city. >> one of the hallmark benefits of being an american citizen is the right to vote. do not diminish that voting power of american citizens by expanding it to noncitizens. if you want to vote in this country and especially in new york,...

We must show up to d.c., offer a back-up to our legislatures fighting to create stronger federal protections for our voting rights because it's states like alabama or even texas, where run-away legislatures allowed to gerrymander the state in such a way to diminish the voting power by black and brown actors, we all lose. >> i mentioned in my intro and i know you saw in the washington post, 1,055 fatal police shootings in 2021, according to the news papers tracking, this despite the sustained protests after the murder of george floyd and other incidents the year before. your response? >> you kn...

The court said they should go forward simply as a matter of convenience, which is absurd. the state of texas should be joining along with the democratic attorney generals across the country. there are powerful attorney generals. all of these should come together to put pressure on the supreme court to protect the voting rights for all americans. we must show up to d.c. we must offer backup to our legislators fighting to create stronger federal protections for our voting rights. because states like alabama or texas, runaway legislators are allowed to diminish the voting power by black and brown...