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The Supreme Court did something nice for Black voters. I’m as shocked as you are. On Sept. 25, the Court told the Eighth Circuit to knock it off and stop trying to force Missouri to use a gerrymandered 2025 congressional map that Republicans drew at Trump’s urging. In this classic episode,
Imani Gandy breaks down how Missouri’s secretary of state gambled and ran the primary on the wrong map, and why the Supreme Court had to tell Republicans in Missouri three times that they can’t use the 2025 map—they have to use the 2022 map.

Also, she explains what the Purcell principle is so you can dazzle your friends in the group chat when talking about these messy midterms.

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Republicans are cratering in the polls, so Trump is doing what he knows best: Threats. Intimidation. Promises to jail election officials and purge supposed noncitizens from the voter rolls. His problem? Noncitizens voting isn’t a widespread problem. Democrats are sick of it, so they sued the Trump administration to make it stop. Imani Gandy explains how Trump keeps losing in court and how states keep telling him no.
[Correction: Department of Homeland Security found 185 potential non-citizen votes in Nevada, not 185,000.]


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Missouri Republicans want abortion rights out of the state constitution—so they wrote an amendment that restricts abortion and allows the legislature to put up more barriers to care, and are selling it to voters as a list of times abortion would be allowed. Cheeky. It took two courts and four drafts to get a ballot summary that says what Amendment 3 does: repeals the abortion rights voters approved in 2024. Imani Gandy explains the chaos Republicans sowed to hide the true purpose of Amendment 3 from voters, and the anti-trans ballot candy they tossed in as a treat.

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Missouri voters are being asked to vote on abortion rights in the midterms—again—because Republicans can’t take no for an answer. In 2024, voters enshrined the right to reproductive freedom, including abortion through fetal viability, in the state constitution. Now, a new Amendment 3 asks voters to repeal that protection.
Amendment 3 would also write Missouri’s existing parental-consent requirement into the state constitution. Imani Gandy explains what judicial bypass is, what the Supreme Court has said about it, and why it matters that parental consent would be protected by the constitution while judicial bypass would remain in an ordinary law that legislators could change or repeal.



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