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In this episode of American History Hotline, host Bob Crawford discusses the idea of independent redistricting, and why it's time for California and other states to join the fight against Donald Trump's attempt to rig the system.
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Have you ever looked at a piece of abstract art or music or poetry and thought,
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That's exactly what two bored Australian soldiers set out to prove during World War II
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when they tricked the literary world with their intentionally bad poetry,
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We break down the truth, the lies, and the poetry in between on Hoax,
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a new podcast hosted by me, Lizzie Logan, and me, Dana Schwartz.
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Every episode, Hoax explores an audacious fraud or ruse from history.
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Listen to Hoax on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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I'm Bob Crawford, host of American History Hotline, a different type of podcast.
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Did George Washington really cut down a cherry tree?
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You can listen to American History Hotline on the iHeartRadio app,
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This is Gavin Newsom, and these are your questions.
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You and New York Governor Kathy Hochul have been considering redistricting in your blue states
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in order to pick up seats in the 2026 midterms because of what's been happening in Texas.
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Have you spoken to Governor Hochul, and is there a national plan for redistricting
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You have Donald Trump who wants to rig the system.
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He wants to change the game because he can't win the game by playing by the traditional rules,
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He made a phone call, just like he made a phone call in Georgia after he lost the election,
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after he tried to destroy our democracy, light it on fire, after January 6th,
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as he tried to steal the election, and he asked for 12,000 votes from the Secretary of State in Georgia.
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He is now asking governors like Greg Abbott, who are complicit, he knew Greg Abbott would say,
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yes, sir, and what more can I do for you, says, I need five seats.
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In fact, he said on national TV this week, he said he's entitled to five seats because he won
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the election by such a large margin in Texas that they're now his seats.
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This is an existential moment as it relates to the core principles of our founding fathers.
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They are trying to change the rules because they cannot win by the traditional rules and the traditional game.
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Donald Trump knows he will lose the election and de facto his presidency ends in 18 months.
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Sure, there'll be fire and fury and he'll be playing on true social, but we'll finally have a Speaker Jeffries.
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We will finally have a system that the founding fathers designed of checks and balances and oversight.
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And he knows that it's over in less than 18 months.
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So if we want to allow that to happen, I guess California, New York, Gabby Hochul and other state governors can roll over
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and act taller than now and say, well, we really believe in independent redistricting.
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We're against, quote unquote, gerrymandering these districts, which is another fancy way of saying,
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picking our voters as opposed to voters picking them by changing the maps of who can vote and where they can vote.
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And in California, we choose to do the opposite.
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We choose to support the principles of our founding fathers.
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So you can have a voice and choice going forward.
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It's a serious moment in all of the distractions.
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He's trying to rig the games, how elections are done, mid-census.
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We have an independent redistricting commission.
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I support a national model for independent redistricting.
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I'm not for gerrymandering in blue states any more than I am for red states.
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Blue state governors, they're going to support this as well.
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We just heard J.D. Vance is being sent by Donald Trump into Indiana to get them to rig
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Remember, we're the size of 21 state populations combined.
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So we can do the five seats and we could take other seats that are very competitive, that
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And through the gerrymandering process that is well-established in these red states, we
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can make those easier districts for a Democratic Party.
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This should not be the model for the country, but it's the new reality.
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And we have to, as Lincoln said, disenthrall ourselves with the way things have been done
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And so we're asking the legislature, we'll require two-thirds of our legislature to put
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We're hoping it gets on the ballot on the November 4th election.
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We're going to do it in a transparent way by putting the maps on the ballot so the voters
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And we'll do it for a temporary period of time for the 26th, 28th, and 30 ballots, congressional
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We'll keep our independent redistricting commission and we'll revert back to our original form
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And we'll do so only if triggered by the actions in Texas.
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We will preserve and protect our democracy and all that is at stake in this country.
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And we're going to punch this bully right back in the mouth and we're going to save our
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You may know me as an NCAA national champion and recent most outstanding player.
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Have you ever looked at a piece of abstract art or music or poetry and thought, that's
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Well, that's exactly what two bored Australian soldiers set out to prove during World War II
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when they pulled off what was either a bold literary hoax or a grand poetic experiment,
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publishing over a dozen intentionally bad but highly acclaimed works of expressionist poetry
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under the name Earn Malley in an incident that caused a media firestorm and even a criminal trial.
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The Earn Malley episode made fools of believers and critics alike and still fascinates poetry
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We break down the truth, the lies, and the poetry in between on Hoax, a new podcast hosted by me,
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Every episode, Hoax explores an audacious fraud or ruse from history, from forged artworks to the original
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Listen to Hoax on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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The Stuff You Should Know guys have made their own summer playlists of their must-listen podcasts on movies.
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It's me, Josh, and I'd like to welcome you to the Stuff You Should Know summer movie playlist.
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Well, women said something like, you know, 99.99% of war is diarrhea and 1% is glory.
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Those founding fathers were gossipy AF, and they loved to cut each other down.
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I'm Bob Crawford, host of American History Hotline, the show where you send us your questions about American history, and I find the answers.
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Including the nuggets of wisdom our history has to offer.
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Hamilton pauses, and then he says, the greatest man that ever lived was Julius Caesar.
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And Jefferson writes in his diary, this proves that Hamilton is for a dictator based on corruption.
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It would have been harder to fake it than to do it.
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Most everything was burned up pretty good from the fire that not a whole lot was salvageable.
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These are the coldest of cold cases, but everything is about to change.
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Every case that is a cold case that has DNA right now in a backlog will be identified in our lifetime.
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After last week's job report, President Trump said he thought the numbers were wrong.
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After that, Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor and Statistics.
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How concerned should we be that the president is firing people who report information he doesn't like?
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And shouldn't the business community be standing up against this?
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Well, the business community should certainly be standing up, but let's also put this in perspective.
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The impact of Donald Trump's tariffs, taxes on American consumers is starting to be felt.
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We're not creating the jobs like we created during the Biden administration.
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It's Trump's policies that have slowed the growth.
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And as a consequence, now a lot of folks are concerned that not only is unemployment rising,
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but we're seeing price pressures, once again inflation, starting to creep back up.
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And the word stagflation is coming back into the conversation.
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And as a consequence of that, Donald Trump now wants to kill the messenger.
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He wants to fire the person that puts this information together with a team of people
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And that should scare the hell out of everybody.
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And the one institution that the world has long looked to for trust is the Bureau of Labor
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It's foundational from a global perspective, but not just from an American perspective.
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And this is why it's so alarming that Donald Trump is going after what he refers to as the
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Politicians come and go, but there are people that maintain through competency and character,
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the distinction of being professionals that outlived administrations or outlive administrations.
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And what Donald Trump is doing is politicizing every single position.
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He's eliminated oversight by eliminating inspector generals.
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He's eliminated auditing functions so that there's no recourse for actions he takes.
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He's got immunity printed by the Supreme Court in terms of any actions he possibly could take.
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These are all, all signs of a deteriorating democracy.
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But this perhaps is the most alarming of all the actions so far by the Trump administration,
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because this is about, as Tom Freeman wrote today in the New York Times,
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He'll put in someone that by definition now people can't trust.
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This is another reason we all need to step up and share our voice.
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This is another reason we all need to stay focused and not get distracted by the latest true social or tweet
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or whatever today's headline is and continue to focus on the essential nature of the architecture
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That's why redistricting and all the conversations that are being had around Texas
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and what states like California can do to counter that are so important
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and making sure that architecture of truth and trust is maintained.
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And we call out Donald Trump's tyrannical, well, forgive me, authoritarian tendencies.
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If you want your questions answered, reach us at thisisgavinnewsome at iheartradio.com