Too Big to Rig: Lisa Graves on the Midterms, Hegseth Impeachment & More

The midterms are over, and the wave was bigger than almost anyone expected. Lawyer and Grave Injustice newsletter author Lisa Graves joins me to explain how it happened. She walks through what the Senate and House maps looked like two years ago, how Trump's push for mid-decade redistricting (with help from the Roberts Court) was meant to lock in a Republican advantage, and why shaving margins off Republican seats may have left those seats vulnerable when voters turned out in force.

We talk about Texas electing a Democratic governor and attorney general and sending James Talarico to the Senate, what that means for the 2028 Electoral College map, and why Trump's claim that the election was "fixed" doesn't hold up. We also get to the news of the day: Stephen Miller moving up to chief of staff, Jim Jordan becoming House Republican leader, and Rep. Thomas Massie's articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Lisa lays out what's in them and whether Hegseth can survive.

Plus an update on my friend Tanya in Ukraine. Find Lisa at graveinjustice.news, and read her book, Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights

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