SOLVED! #21 - GerryF**ked: How to Fix Congressional Representation and End Homelessness

SOLVED! #21 - GerryF**ked: How to Fix Congressional Representation and End Homelessness

Author: Best of the Left: Perspectives on Politics, Culture, and Economics September 5, 2025 Duration: 21:07

Air Date: 9–3-25

Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon, and Erin discuss:

  • Ch. 1 - The surprising origins of Gerrymandering

  • Ch. 2 - The options we have to improve congressional representation for everyone in the country

  • Ch. 3 - Democratic states response to Republican gerrymandering threats

  • Ch. 4 - The argument for DC statehood and the people to blame for why it hasn't happened yet

  • Ch. 5 - How to end homelessness and what you can do to help those being targeted in DC

  • SOLVED! BACKSTAGE: Beyond the Algorithm: The only correct opinion about the Cracker Barrel rebrand

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REFERENCES:

Elbridge Gerry and the Original Gerrymander - The Gilder Lehrman Institute

Drawing the Line ("Ratf**cked": The Innfluence of Redistricting) - The New Yorker (2016)

History of Single Member Districts for Congress: Seeking Fair Representation Before PR - FairVote

Gavin Newsom's Retaliatory Redistricting Plan Is Good, Actually - The New Republic

How Democrats Should Actually Respond to Republicans' Attempts to Rig Voting Maps - Slate

How Moderate Senate Democrats Enabled Trump's D.C. Takeover - The American Prospect

Trump's Homelessness Crackdown Has Been Tried Before. It Didn't Work. - Mother Jones

MEMBERS

The New Cracker Barrel Logo Sucks And So Does The Mess Around It - Kotaku

EXTRAS

Congress literally doesn't care what you think (aka: Corruption is Legal in America) (Represent.US, 2016)

Is illegal immigration really a democratic plot to sway congressional apportionment?

Americans worry democracy in danger amid gerrymandering fights, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds


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