# Nick Reed 05.13.26 - Redistricting, Kash Patel, and MORE.

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Podcast: [Nick Reed Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/nick-reed-podcast-7025838)
Published: 2026-05-13T12:00:00+00:00
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Hour 2 - Good Wednesday morning! Here's what Nick Reed covers this hour: Democrats in Virginia apparently filed their redistricting appeal to the wrong Supreme Court. Democrats' also misspelled the state as "Virgnia" rather than "Virginia" in their filing to the Supreme Court. In that same mistake-riddled document, they wrote "Sentator" instead of Senator. FBI Director Kash Patel on Tuesday questioned why Sen. Chris Van Hollen would have “margaritas with a felon” and run up a $7,000 bar tab in Washington, DC — before daring the Maryland Democrat to take an alcohol dependency test alongside him. A special education instructor placed on paid leave for allegedly abusing an autistic third-grader was elected president of the Seattle teachers’ union. California gubernatorial race. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

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