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Summary: On The Gist, on the White House budget’s effort to replace half of food-stamp funding with crappy meal boxes. <br><br>How do you fix one of the most gerrymandered states in the country? It helps to have a tireless amateur mapmaker in your ranks. Mike talks to <a href="http://amandae.com/">Amanda Holt</a>, who spurred Pennsylvania to redraw its legislative districts in 2013 and is closely watching the state’s ongoing court battle over its congressional districts. <br><br>In the Spiel, the American intelligence community still has to convince the White House that Russia’s up to no good.