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There’s nothing Gov. Kathy Hochul can do to change New York’s congressional district lines before next year’s midterm elections and help Democrats in a rapidly escalating national fight over gerrymandering.

But there she was on MSNBC Monday, her second appearance in four days, saying she would use bare-knuckle tactics to counter Republican plans to redraw the maps in Texas to benefit their party.

“If we refuse to fight for our democracy, then we're doomed to lose it,” Hochul told Rachel Maddow. “We

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