Every other Tuesday, the team behind Civics 101 joins NHPR’s All Things Considered host Julia Furukawa to talk about how our democratic institutions actually work.

Dozens of Texas House Democrats have fled the state to block a redistricting plan. Texas Republicans unveiled a draft congressional map last week that would create more Republican-leaning seats in the U.S. House.

As the redistricting dispute continues, Civics 101 host Nick Capodice joins Julia to talk about gerrymandering , how politicians redraw a map to choose their voters and if it’s even legal.

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Before we get into what's going on in Texas, can you give us a quick explainer on what gerrymandering is?

Every ten years in the U.S., we do a census. After that census, we do what is called redistric

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