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  • The Courthouse Door Closes

    The Courthouse Door Closes

    Block 3, Article 3 — Three Decisions, Thirteen Years, One Outcome © 2026 Steve Sagnotti. Who decides whether your district is fair? For fifty years after…

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  • The Architects of the Map

    The Architects of the Map

    Block 3, Article 2 —The Precision Instrument Deployed © 2026 Steve Sagnotti In early 2010, Republican strategist Karl Rove published a column in the Wall Street…

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  • The Precision Instrument

    The Precision Instrument

    Block 3, Article 1 — One Person, One Vote Made It Worse © 2026 Steve Sagnotti. How are the lines around your district drawn — and…

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  • What the Frozen Rooms Produced

    What the Frozen Rooms Produced

    Block 2, Article 4 © 2026 Steve Sagnotti. The previous three articles documented two frozen rooms — how they were built, how the locks were installed,…

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  • The Other Frozen Room

    The Other Frozen Room

    Block 2, Article 3 © 2026 Steve Sagnotti. The House freeze was a statute. Congress passed it in 1929 and could repeal it tomorrow with a…

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  • One Act, Two Moves

    One Act, Two Moves

    © 2026 Steve Sagnotti. The 1929 Act is remembered as the moment Congress froze the House at 435. That is true. It is also the smaller…

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