Full Show 5/13/2026: Louisiana GOP lawmakers advanced a new congressional map that reduces the state's majority-Black districts from two to one

On today's show, Newell addresses the Louisiana Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee, voting 4-3 along party lines to advance a Republican-backed congressional map that eliminates one of the state's two majority-Black, Democratic-leaning districts. Then, Newell has on Michael Austin, Project 21 Ambassador at the National Center for Public Policy Research & Professor of Economics at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, to speculate what may come of the meeting between President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping, Michael Hecht, President & CEO of GNO Inc., to talk about NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman visiting Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans East alongside House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, and more, Jasmine Brown DeRousselle, Chief External Affairs Officer at GNO Inc., and Manish Bhatt, Vice President of State Tax Policy at The Tax Foundation, to discuss Constitutional Amendment 4, which would allow parishes to choose to eliminate or reduce Louisiana's inventory tax, and Stephanie Turner, Senior Vice President of Convention Sales & Strategies for New Orleans & Company, to discuss the convention calendar, major medical meetings, the Omni Convention Center Headquarters Hotel project, national recognition for New Orleans as a host city, and highlights from the 2025 Annual Report.