00:00Tennessee just made one of the most consequential redistricting moves in the United States this year.
00:05The state's Republican-controlled legislature has passed,
00:08a new congressional map that political analysts say
00:11will almost certainly erase the last Democratic seat in the state.
00:16The vote sparked protests inside the state capitol.
00:20Demonstrators were forcibly removed from the gallery.
00:23If the new lines hold, Tennessee's congressional delegation
00:26becomes nine Republicans and zero Democrats.
00:30A clean sweep in a state that still casts hundreds of thousands of Democratic votes every cycle.
00:36Voting rights groups are already preparing legal challenges.
00:39The map will likely be tested in federal court.
00:42The fight in Tennessee is being closely watched in Washington.
00:46With the U.S. House razor-thin,
00:48even a single-seat shift could decide control of Congress in 2026.
00:53And the question now,
00:55is gerrymandering reshaping American democracy
00:57in ways voters haven't fully realized?
01:00localized.
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