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Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle Podcast, a place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking and a little bit of our take. I'm your host today, Senior Editor Will K. Back today we're going to be diving into the redistricting vote that just took place on Tuesday in Virginia, where voters seem to have approved a mid decade redistricting plan that is expected to significantly shift the state's congressional districts and in Democrats favor potentially turning a current 6 to 5 Democratic advantage into a 10 to 1 advantage. Now there are still some legal challenges pending that could upend the results. We're going to get into that a little bit more later, but for now it does look like Virginia Democrats will be successful in implementing this plan. So we're going to take stock of what this vote means, how it fits into the broader gerrymandering wars that we've seen break out over the past year or so and and how it could affect the 2026 midterms and beyond. We're really excited to have today's take be written by our associate editor, Russell Nystrom, making his My Take debut. Russell's a Virginia resident and someone who has been following this referendum really closely, so he's got an on the ground perspective to share with you all, and we're really looking forward to featuring his voice today. Before we get into it, unfortunately, we have two corrections from yesterday's edition to share. Both of them came in the on this Day in History Sect section, which is a newer section that we've rolled out. And these corrections are definitely a note for us to be extra attentive in our fact checking process in some of these new sections. But the first one was that we referred to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring as a novel when it is in fact a nonfiction science narrative. Second, we misidentified Pete McCloskey as a US senator from California when he was in fact a US representative. Both of these errors, again, very unfortunately were missed in our fact checking process. And as I said before, we're going to be paying some extra attention to these newer sections just while we get into the flow of adding them to our daily editions. And These are our 155th and 156th corrections in Tangle's 360 week history and our first corrections since April 15th. We track these corrections and place them at the top of each edition in an effort to maximize transparency with readers. One final note. On a much more positive note, we have a new episode of Suspension of the Rules Out. And in the new episode, Isaac, Ari and Camille discuss the Virginia redistricting vote that we're covering today and the gerrymandering war that surrounds it across the U.S. plus, they offer a 30,000 foot view of the political landscape, asking questions like, is Trump pivoting for the midterms? How are voters responding to the war in Iran and the current US Economy? Are any other Cabinet members on their way out? And finally, Will Camille finally have something to complain about? All of the above and more will be answered in today's episode, which you can check out on our podcast page and on video on YouTube. Check it out on our YouTube channel. All right, now I'm going to hand it over to John for today's topic and then we will get through what the right, left and Virginia writers are saying before Russell's Take John over to you.
