Weekly Witness Ep. 458 Spaghetti Map: Elections, Redistricting, and Closed Primaries Converge

This week we are recording during early voting before election day next Tuesday, November 4, and we know that all of you are doing everything you can to make sure your friends, neighbors and communities of faith are taking this election season. For many of us, the policy implications of what's going on in the world right now are hitting close to home. The government shutdown and corresponding freeze of SNAP benefits, and so many other vital programs, is impacting our communities, and that requires our attention. There are important elections on the ballot right now. The constitutional amendments matter. Many of your communities have school board races, local government elections and bond elections. Those matter too—so we hope you have voted or are making a plan to vote. Here to talk to us about elections, both the current November 4 election and our election infrastructure, is Natalia Contreras, reporter with Votebeat Texas. Visit the Votebeat Texas website and sign up for the newsletter at Want to know more about the constitutional amendments on the ballot? Visit Texas Impact's Substack to read Rebecca McIlwain's four part series texasimpact.substack.com/p/dig-in-then-vote Get full access to Texas Impact at texasimpact.substack.com/

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Weekly Witness Ep. 458 Spaghetti Map: Elections, Redistricting, and Closed Primaries Converge is an episode from Texas Impact's Weekly Witness by Texas Impact.

This episode is 40:58 long.

This episode was published on Oct 31, 2025.

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