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house next year without winning a single extra vote. how you ask? because republicans right now are taking advantage of the once every decade post census redistricting process to redraw congressional maps in a way that gives them a partisan political advantage. it all goes back to signer of the declaration who in 1812 as governor of massachusetts signed a bill that created a misshapen district that stretched from boston to the new hampshire border before hooking around again to the coast and looked like a salamander and, hence, gerrymander. over the decades both parties have gerrymandered seats but on the republican side right now and in recent years it has been intense and brazen. just listen to this republican state legislator from north carolina. we want to make clear that to the extent are going to use 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, r
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