On Wednesday’s show: We discuss the latest developments in politics in our weekly roundup.

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Also this hour: When Texas became a state in 1845, it might have been given Congressional permission to divide itself into five states. We contemplate what such a move might have meant and would mean today for a metro area like Houston, which might’ve become a state unto itself.

And we visit a first-of-its-kind monument to Black pioneers in space called EarthRise.

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