Sophia Lynn Lakin

bring us to a better place.

And that's the unfortunate place that we are.

And it's the work that we have cut out for us as we, you know, take this time in this moment to think about how do we, you know, I think this is really a moment, a call to everybody of conscience to renew, to have a renewed civil rights movement and, you know, move the ball forward again.

This is not good for democracy.

This is not good for for voters who want to have a say in what happens at their community, not just, you know, at the national federal level.

Right.

But but I do think it's important to understand why this started in the first instance.

What happened?

precipitated this kind of race to the bottom when it comes to gerrymandering in this tit-for-tat kind of way.

And how did we get here in the first place, right?

This sort of very brazen, blatant attempt to grab power.

And that started with President Trump pushing states to open this Pandora's box with Texas.

And, you know, seeing California respond in kind and other states in kind, I think that is a very foreseeable consequence when that door was opened at the end of the day.

You know, we're going to continue to push back with every single tool that we have, including litigation.

Obviously, there have been attempts to rein this in and get our Congress to actually take action here.

You know, Congress has authority to act and, you know, we need them to do so.

And today, yesterday's ruling or two days ago now, Thursday's, Wednesday's ruling removes

Any remaining excuse for inaction, I would say.

So, you know, whether they will move, obviously, is a question, but they certainly have a role to play in this.

And, you know, we're going to be doing the same at the state level, pushing for state voting rights acts, pushing for immigration.