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Virginia's Redistricting Referendum - What Just Happened & Why It Matters

April 22

1h 4m

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Episode Description

In 2020, Virginia voters passed a bipartisan redistricting commission to take politics out of mapmaking. Now, in April 2026, they voted on whether to blow it up and replace it with the most gerrymandered map in the country...guess which they chose. We are going to tell you exactly what just happened in Virginia with a detailed political analysis, breaking down the numbers and the implications for both state politics and us politics as a whole.

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00:00:00 – Postmortem on Virginia's organized political shift

00:01:19 – Analyzing the 2024 election results and demographics

00:06:38 – Why the new redistricting maps are insane