immigrants complain redistricting discriminates against them. we are not going to be split up to meet special interest group needs and wants. reporter: every 10 years estates redraw political maps based on the census. how those lines are drawn inevitably a verse one party over the other democrats took southside of chicago and connected it with central illinois farmland and tried to erase many republican seats as they could. reporter: republicans complained democrats are gerrymandering districts in illinois, oregon, maryland and new mexico. democrats are trying to gerrymander their way to protect the nancy pelosi majority formic example, oregon, democrats are using liberal voters in portland to loop conservative areas to lockdown for congressional seats. in a lot of states you see the party controlling the process really trying to shore up their majorities. reporter: that s true in texas where republicans are protecting
farmers even iraqi immigrants complain redistricting discriminates against them. we are not going to be split up to meet special interest groups needs and wants. every 10 years states redraw political maps based on the census. how those lines are drawn inevitably favors one party over the glory democrats took the south side of chicago and connected it w. central illinois farmland to erase as many republican seats as they possibly could. republicans claim democrats are gerrymandering districts in illinois, maryland, oregon and new mexico. trying to jerry man der their way into nancy pelosi and every state where they have the ability to control the process. example, oregon, democrats are using liberal voters in metro portland to dilute conservative rural areas to lock down four congressional seats. in a lot of states you are seeing the party that s controlling the process really just trying to shore up their majorities. that s true in texas where republicans are protecting 23
and where this is all headed. but the fact is that this development is bad. and things are moving in the wrong direction right now. the really worrisome trend is that what you might call minority aryan anti democratic institution. they are building on each other to further entrenched power and barricaded minority rules. in other words we to extend that power in the future and extend. what do i mean by that? let s take one example. gerrymandering. right now, nearly all 50 states are going through the process of redistricting. we join them upset along the states based on the information gathered in the 2020 census. this happens every 20 years. every states handles it differently. but the responsibility falls to the state legislator. and in many of those states, the legislature that is going to do the gerrymandering themselves, are the products of wildly gerrymandering districts. in north carolina, for example,
legislators at voting rights, gerrymandering districts. what that reminds us is the importance of state legislatures. the power that state legislators have and how they are connected and they re not standing alone. for a reminder to our viewers, texas had an increase of close to had an increase of enough people to get two new congressional districts. 95% of that growth was attributed to communities of color. thank you, jennifer, and jasmine. a pleasure to have you on. we have to change things. register and vote. lawmakers are kicking important cans down the road. more next. down the road more next. it s really as simple as taking the ol power nap. and wakey, wakey.
taxes, on people that they represent, and those are the aspects that s going to make it more complicated. everyone is talking about what s happening now. september is going to be a very busy, intense month, and washington, d.c., you have the debt ceiling, a bill to keep the government funded, this infrastructure bill and reconciliation bill all set to collide, and so that s what people should be watching, how much of that fight ends up frustrating house moderates more importantly house progressives who outnumber moderates by a lot. it should be a very busy fall. nancy pelosi will be speaker of the house after the next midterm elections, only if those moderates get reelected. that s where the battle is going to be, and who wins in those moderate districts, instead of all the, you know, the 400 gerrymandering districts, who in