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All About Prop 50 and Its New Congressional Maps
Season 2025
Episode 476
Voters will decide whether to use Democrat-drawn congressional maps through 2030, a bid to counter Texas redistricting. Five GOP seats could tilt Democratic and three would grow safer. The citizen commission would take over again after 2030.
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