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1. 🧵"If you are taking seats from Black people...then you are a thief." Baton Rouge civil rights activist Gary Chambers said the quiet part out loud Friday as GOP lawmakers push to wipe out Louisiana’s majority-Black districts. See the heated exchange👇

2. After the Supreme Court's ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, Republicans are redrawing the state's congressional map to erase Black representation.

3. Republican Committee Chair Sen. Caleb Kleinpeter snapped back at Chambers: "I will not be called a thief."

4. Chambers: "If that triggered you, senator, then you should go to bed tonight. And when you go to bed tonight, talk to your God and ask your God to change your heart."

5. Chambers isn't alone. Civil rights groups are mobilizing. Public testimony has run overwhelmingly against the GOP redraw.