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Speaker 2: How are you.

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Speaker 3: It's good to see you, glad to see the ties on.

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Speaker 3: I didn't know who you guys were. Thank you, guys

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Speaker 3: just literally just got in Yes, thank you amazing, And

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Speaker 3: I'm grateful for everything you're doing. And I'm grateful of

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Speaker 3: this opportunity to have a chance to dialogue about it

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Speaker 3: and talk about you know, what exactly is going on

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Speaker 3: at this moment, where do you see things going? But

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Speaker 3: in order to paint the picture of this moment, I

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Speaker 3: want to just formally welcome you to Ronald Reagan's old mansion,

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Speaker 3: the place that Nancy Reagan infamously said was a fire

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Speaker 3: trap before they moved out. It's been since remodeled, so

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Speaker 3: you should feel more confident and comfortable here. But it's

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Speaker 3: nice to be here. And I say that mindful of

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Speaker 3: our history in the state of California, and mindful in

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Speaker 3: many ways how far we've gone, uh and how far

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Speaker 3: we have traveled away from some of the core principles

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Speaker 3: without getting nostalgia for that, I just want to acknowledge

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Speaker 3: the journey that you guys are on and express gratitude

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Speaker 3: that you're not just here in California, but you've been

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Speaker 3: all across your colleagues, all across this country. But first,

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Speaker 3: if I could, I just want to briefly contextualized, because

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Speaker 3: yesterday I experienced, in a modest way, a little bit

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Speaker 3: about all that you've experienced in Texas. Coming from July fourth,

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Speaker 3: a very close friend of my wife's family passed away,

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Speaker 3: Mark and his wife Sarah, and his son Johnny Mark Walker,

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Speaker 3: the Walker family passed in the floods in Texas. My

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Speaker 3: wife had the privilege of speaking a little bit at

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Speaker 3: the memorial yesterday, and it was beyond intense. Johnny's fourteen

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Speaker 3: years old, the age of my son. They live in

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Speaker 3: the neighborhood, and it really brought me back to what

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Speaker 3: this is all about, this special session, what the special

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Speaker 3: session should be about. Yes, I think what it was

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Speaker 3: one hundred and thirty seven people lost their life, thirty

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Speaker 3: five children kids, And that's what a special session as

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Speaker 3: a governor should be all about, exactly. And I haven't

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Speaker 3: heard a lot talked about those families torn as under,

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Speaker 3: those lives lost, people that are still healing. What in

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Speaker 3: a dry eye in the church for.

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Speaker 4: Rest are for redistricting, not for flood relief legislation for

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Speaker 4: redistricting legislation.

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Speaker 3: Says everything you need to know at this moment. So

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Speaker 3: if I may, I'd love as we go around, and

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Speaker 3: I want to make this as easy and casual as

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Speaker 3: it possibly can be. Just jump in if you could

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Speaker 3: introduce yourself so people that are listening know who you are.

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Speaker 3: But what you just said just strikes the core of

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Speaker 3: what this is all about. So you you have been

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Speaker 3: threatened to be hunted down by the Attorney General of Texas, Paxston.

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Speaker 3: You are being fined five hundred dollars a day in

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Speaker 3: a job where you don't make a lot of money

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Speaker 3: dollars a year, seven two hundred dollars a year a year,

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Speaker 3: and you mean five five hundred dollars a day. You've

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Speaker 3: got a guy named Cornyn who's running for reelection Senator.

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Speaker 3: I say that because it's pretty obvious that it needs

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Speaker 3: to be said. Running for reelection needed to get in

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Speaker 3: on this now, threatening to send the FBI to find

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Speaker 5: What's interesting that better is I kind of feel like

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Speaker 5: we're in the perfect storm because you've got corn and

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Speaker 5: running against Paxton, and they're trying to outdo the other

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Speaker 5: who's gonna apprehend us for right. Then you have the

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Speaker 5: governor who's also working on it, and I think maybe

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Speaker 5: a little embarrassed he and the speaker both because we

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Speaker 3: So your attorney general is running for the United States

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Speaker 3: Senate against incumbent Senator Cornyn, and they're trying to one

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Speaker 3: up each other exactly and attacking you rhetorically and substances.

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Speaker 4: And in the courts, breaking news, they just filed to

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Speaker 4: remove me and twelve other of my colleagues in the

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Speaker 3: And the voice we're listening to.

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Speaker 6: Is Gina Josse Gina.

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Speaker 3: So that you have been picked with twelve of your colleagues,

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Speaker 3: not all of your colleagues, but twelve. What's set about?

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Speaker 6: I have no idea.

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Speaker 4: We're all wondering the same thing, but yes, myself, and

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Speaker 4: it was just filed by our attorney general in the

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Speaker 4: Texas Supreme Court. It's called a quot what is it

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Speaker 4: quote warrnte proceeding to remove us from office.

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Speaker 3: So you've got a governor himself claiming some forty on

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Speaker 3: that basis as well for simply quote unquote breaking a quorum.

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Speaker 4: Which has been done for one hundred and fifty years

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Speaker 3: To be clear, because American is Dare I say, apple

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Speaker 3: pie breaking quorum to protect the minority against the whims

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Speaker 7: Yes, because if you don't have some rule in place

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Speaker 7: for the minority, then the majority just completely runs you over.

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Speaker 7: And this is an extraordinary step. It is not something

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Speaker 7: that we take lightly. It is an exceptional and extraordinary

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Speaker 7: act to write quorum. And so my name's Anne Johnson

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Speaker 7: and I'm from Houston. I'm proud to sit with these

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Speaker 7: other Democratic colleagues, and for some of us, this is

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Speaker 7: now the second time we have had to do this

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Speaker 7: in the last few years, and it really is an act.

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Speaker 7: It is the last tool that the founding fathers gave

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Speaker 7: to us in the minority to have available when you

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Speaker 7: know that the majority has gone off the rails. And

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Speaker 7: so we have been threatened with financial ruin, with arrest,

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Speaker 7: but we are undeterred. And I think it highlights how

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Speaker 7: important it is that if they will come at us

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Speaker 7: this hard and we actually are in positions of power,

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Speaker 7: look at how easily they run over those that are

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Speaker 7: most vulnerable and don't have a voice. And so I

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Speaker 7: think that's why we are really resolute or resolved that

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Speaker 7: this is the right thing to do.

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Speaker 3: And you said, this is not the first time. It

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Speaker 3: was twenty twenty one, and that was for different reasons.

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Speaker 3: Remind me what those reasons were. In twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 3: it was.

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Speaker 6: An anti voter bill.

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Speaker 4: Go ahead, Well, it was a bill that made it

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Speaker 4: much harder to vote. Two provisions in that bill that work.

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Speaker 4: The most egregious was one that banned Sunday morning voting,

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Speaker 4: which was a target on African American churches that have

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Speaker 4: a long standing tradition of going after service as a

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Speaker 4: faith community to vote together.

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Speaker 6: The others.

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Speaker 3: We know, well, that's right.

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Speaker 4: The other provision would have given elected judges the ability

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Speaker 4: to overturn election results, to overturn the will of the voters.

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Speaker 4: And when those provisions were added in the middle, literally

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Speaker 4: in the middle of the night, with no record of

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Speaker 4: how they got into the bill, we left right.

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Speaker 3: But you didn't have the level, or did you, of threats.

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Speaker 3: You didn't have the five hundred dollars fine that was

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Speaker 3: being a US. You didn't have senators calling for the

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Speaker 3: of track you down right, Well.

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Speaker 2: It seems to me and my name's right Lopus from

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Speaker 2: a few years afew sessions, and it seems a difference

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Speaker 2: between where we were a few years ago when we

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Speaker 2: broke horm and where we were today is that while

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Speaker 2: we have a lot of evil doers, and we've talked

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Speaker 2: about who those people are, where it's the governor, the

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Speaker 2: Attorney general, all the political gainsmanship that's being played, we

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Speaker 2: also recognize that they are dancing to another evil doer

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Speaker 2: and we did not have that kind of engagement before.

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Speaker 2: And that's a president of the United States is encouraging them,

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Speaker 2: giving them the path forward, giving them the tools like

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Speaker 2: the FBI and others. We didn't battle that last time.

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Speaker 2: We are battling it now. But it is layers of

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Speaker 2: evildoers that are out there, and I mean, at some

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Speaker 2: point we all need to understand, you know, who it

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Speaker 2: are behind them providing them that level of support. And

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Speaker 2: it happens, it grows every day.

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Speaker 3: It grows every day what I mean. So that's important

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Speaker 3: to remind everybody just you know, people that are not

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Speaker 3: watching cable news, which is one because that's that's the

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Speaker 3: vast majority of people. The President of the United States.

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Speaker 3: The origin story on this is the President called your governor,

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Speaker 3: Greg Abbott, and the President asked him.

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Speaker 1: To do what So I'm read of Boers read to Andrews.

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Speaker 1: Bowers from Dallas and thank you for having today. But

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Speaker 1: it's really about what's at stake, and I think that's

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Speaker 1: what Ray was leading us into. So many people out

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Speaker 1: there don't understand that this Texas special Session is not

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Speaker 1: an isolated incident, and it truly has implications that will

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Speaker 1: carry across the United States. You know, if this goes

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Speaker 1: through with Texas, it can happen in so many other states.

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Speaker 1: And you look at North Carolina, they already had something

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Speaker 1: like this happened. So we're so glad to be here

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Speaker 1: having this opportunity to chat with you today.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate it. And it happened because Donald Trump made

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Speaker 3: a call and said find me five seats. Yep.

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Speaker 2: He's made those kinds of calls before, as we well know.

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Speaker 2: Called into Georgia, I need eleven thy twelve thousand, whatever.

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Speaker 2: It was right good because he thinks he is above

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Speaker 2: the law. He thinks he's the one that can interpret

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Speaker 2: all action, and that everybody has a loyalty to him,

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Speaker 2: and they do, but it's a loyalty to the devil

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Speaker 3: And the difference in four difference in Georgia, of course

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Speaker 3: was right that he was told. Now he was told no.

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Speaker 3: But in your state, your governor said yes, Ben Denis.

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Speaker 8: And the only way you can get five additional seats

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Speaker 8: in Texas is if you aggressively discriminate against the Hispanic

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Speaker 8: and Black populations. You know, something's happening in Texas. That's

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Speaker 8: that's unique. For the first time, the Latino population is

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Speaker 8: actually going to exceed that of California on a percentage,

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Speaker 8: based on a percentage, so we have over forty percent

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Speaker 8: now Latinos in Texas. It is one of the most

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Speaker 8: diverse states in the nation. But under this proposal, we

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Speaker 8: have eleven million of white residents, eleven million Latino residents.

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Speaker 8: Twenty six out of the thirty eight seats will be

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Speaker 8: under white controlled districts. Well, Latinos are only being relegated

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Speaker 8: to eight. That means that the Latin the value of

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Speaker 8: a Latino resident in Texas is one third the value

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Speaker 3: So that I mean there's a and am I right

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Speaker 3: to have learned or read accurately that four out of

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Speaker 3: the five seats they're talking about taking a majority of

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Speaker 3: Hispanic districts, well three.

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Speaker 1: Three for sure, three out of the four were African

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Speaker 3: But minority districts districts, so voting rice acts issues here,

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Speaker 3: I mean just self evident.

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Speaker 2: They were previously held by heroes in Texas, heroes that

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Speaker 2: have gone out and fought that tight for generations, and

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Speaker 2: they're changing the demographics to be able to put someone

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Speaker 2: else in there. That's just like.

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Speaker 7: Marbara Jordan Congressional District eighteen. You know, she was the

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Speaker 7: first African American woman of color from the South elected

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Speaker 7: to the Congress. She was part of the impeachment tronals

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Speaker 7: against President legend. That district is a historic African American community,

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Speaker 7: of which now that seat sits open because Governor Abbott

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Speaker 7: after the death of Congressman Turner refused to allow a

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Speaker 7: special election in that seat. And so when you look

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Speaker 7: at the big, ugly bill that has passed by one vote,

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Speaker 7: you know how important the voices of that community are.

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Speaker 7: And so yes, it is shameful that being at sixty

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Speaker 7: years of the Civil Rights Act signed by President Johnson

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Speaker 3: And that's the point now, number of you have made.

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Speaker 3: Is that fundamentally, why you guys, not only are breaking quorum,

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Speaker 5: I didn't see how we couldn't not break quorum because

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Speaker 3: What's this trickle effect?

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Speaker 5: If everyone can do that, why did we have laws?

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Speaker 5: To me, it was so serious because of the future

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Speaker 3: And what district do you represent in Texas?

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Speaker 5: I'm in Houston, I represent how Sistrict one forty four.

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Speaker 3: And are your constituents are they behind you? Are people

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Speaker 5: Well, I'm probably the only one here who has a

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Speaker 7: Yeah, sixty five days. I mean a quor and break

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Speaker 7: We don't want this. This is not for Texas. This

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Speaker 7: And that is a sad comment on where we are

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Speaker 7: a couple extra days. It does mean a lot, because

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Speaker 6: Four years ago. We didn't we weren't.

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Speaker 7: We weren't experiencing the threats that we are now getting.

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Speaker 3: Like hunting people deaths. Right, that's very mean. What you

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Speaker 3: You struggled with this decision.

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Speaker 7: We all did, I mean all did. We all have

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Speaker 7: They didn't have the lines, They held the lines in secrecy,

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Speaker 3: My arms are on that again, where the hell are

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Speaker 7: And we've been there for two weeks. We've been there

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Speaker 3: That we were there. Just anyone listened. I don't care

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Speaker 8: You know. I don't see a single Republican defending the

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Speaker 8: The level of underrepresentation is something that will take Texas

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Speaker 3: And North Carolina, perfect example.

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Speaker 1: And that's a I'm sorry that that's a word. Thank

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Speaker 5: And just let me add and it's been vacant. Sylvester

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Speaker 3: You mentioned earlier just threats, and you know, we talked

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Speaker 1: Of course, maybe checkers.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well petty doesn't even describe some of this. But

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Speaker 8: Well, on the flight over here, I got a text

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Speaker 8: similar experiences. You know where there's this level of intimidation.

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Speaker 4: Well, it's a lawlessness that comes from the top, Right,

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Speaker 4: it's not surprising that vigilantes will engage in lawlessness when

442
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Speaker 4: our president turns on its head the idea of elections

443
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Speaker 4: by saying we're going to have we're going to predetermine

444
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Speaker 4: the election by manipulating these maps so as to segregate

445
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Speaker 4: racial minorities so that we get five more members of Congress.

446
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Speaker 4: We have our senator acting outside the bounds of the

447
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Speaker 4: law to ask the FBI to surveil political opponents in

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Speaker 4: the United States of America. Our governor backing that plan.

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Speaker 6: So I have a son at.

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Speaker 4: Home who is in middle school, and yes, it's hard

451
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Speaker 4: to leave my family behind. But we went to Philadelphia

452
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Speaker 4: this summer for a vacation, family vacation, and it hit

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Speaker 4: different this time around to be at Independence Hall to

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Speaker 4: remember this is who, this is why we exist. Representation

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Speaker 4: is why we exist. And so yes, the pool away

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Speaker 4: from family, being apart from them is hard, but I

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Speaker 4: do it because of my son.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that. And we're about to celebrate the

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Speaker 3: two hundred and fifteth anniversary of the principles of the

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Speaker 3: founding fathers of the best of your Greek democracy, the

461
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Speaker 3: Roman Republic, co equal branches of government, popular sovereignty, rule

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Speaker 3: of law. It's not exaggerated, all of it at risk.

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Speaker 3: And this is I mean, I really applaud you because

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Speaker 3: you've given us. I mean it's you know, it's like

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Speaker 3: we talk about in psychology where you know, so often

466
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Speaker 3: those old enough to remember record players, but we're you know,

467
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Speaker 3: there's sort of a predictabilit until you scratch the record.

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Speaker 3: There has to be a pattern interrupt and I think

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Speaker 3: for me, this quorum has done that, and it's forced

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Speaker 3: a national conversation, as uncomfortable as it is. But behind

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Speaker 3: that is your son. Behind that are your families. Behind

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Speaker 3: it's your reputation. I mean, you know you're putting put

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Speaker 3: it all out on the line, financial and otherwise, and

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Speaker 3: you know, politics is this is tough, and and to

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Speaker 3: your point, my question to you in a swing district

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Speaker 3: that could go either way, this then necessarily aid in

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Speaker 3: a bet and advancing your prospects necessarily. So just you know,

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Speaker 3: just once again, why are you what's the why, what's

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Speaker 3: the burning why?

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Speaker 5: I think it's a big picture democracy. Yeah, that's really

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Speaker 5: why we're doing it right to save the rest of

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Speaker 5: the country. I believe my colleague here said it best.

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Speaker 6: The other day.

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Speaker 5: She said, we get to keep our seats, but the

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Speaker 5: entire country will lose their voice. And I just that

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Speaker 5: really hit home with me when and said that. And

487
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Speaker 5: that's that's the truth.

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Speaker 3: Right, speaking of losing Just they walked in, I guess

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Speaker 3: Ken Paxson's just declared thirteen seats vacant seconds ago, the

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Speaker 3: United State of Ken Paxson dictator in chief. Just with

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Speaker 3: this kind of declaries, I mean, guess we're at the

492
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Speaker 3: point when nothing surprises you. Yeah, no, I love it.

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Speaker 3: I say that, and you're all just not you know, and.

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Speaker 7: It is frightening because you bring up Ken Paxton. I

495
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Speaker 7: was also on the impeachment team where he was put

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Speaker 7: before the Senate. The Senate had an opportunity to try

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Speaker 7: to do the right thing. It was their Republican colleagues

498
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Speaker 7: that were saying, hey, this guy was recently he's corrupt.

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Speaker 7: Yeah it was two years ago. But you know, it's

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Speaker 7: a challenge because we have two split courts, the Texas

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Speaker 7: Supreme Court, the Quarter Criminal Appeals. When the quart Crininal

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Speaker 7: Appeals all Republicans. When three of them took a stand

503
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Speaker 7: and gave a ruling opposed to Paxston on constitutional grounds,

504
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Speaker 7: he went after them politically and unfortunately he won. And

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Speaker 7: that's what we talk about right now. The guard rails

506
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Speaker 7: are missing. The guardrails within the Republican Party are missing

507
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Speaker 7: when you have them taking these steps, these extraordinary steps.

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Speaker 7: This didn't happen four years ago. This is at a

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Speaker 7: rapid fire that they think they can go to the courts,

510
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Speaker 7: they can manipulate the courts, that the courts will not

511
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Speaker 7: be there to be a backstop. It is part of

512
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Speaker 7: the reason that we are trying to get catch fire

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Speaker 7: with the people. With the people, they are the last

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Speaker 7: line of defense. The folks within the Republican Party will

515
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Speaker 7: not say no to this. It is up to the voters,

516
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Speaker 7: and that's why they are so desperately trying to cheat

517
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Speaker 7: and change the lines because it is up to the voters.

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Speaker 7: And that's why we are desperately trying to have everybody

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Speaker 7: stand up as California is doing and saying you cannot

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Speaker 7: let these dominoes start to fall because we will completely lose.

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Speaker 4: Our way because Republicans aren't free the elected Republicans. I

522
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Speaker 4: had a Republican Member of Congress from Texas say I

523
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Speaker 4: don't want this, None of my colleagues want this, but

524
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Speaker 4: none of us will say no to Trump, so it

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Speaker 4: will happen.

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Speaker 6: And time and time.

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Speaker 4: Again we hear this refrain from our Republican colleagues. They

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Speaker 4: don't agree with what's happening, but they won't stand up

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Speaker 4: against it. We had Donald Trump way in the day

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Speaker 4: of the vote this regular session on val we had

531
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Speaker 4: a big fight that lasted years on taking money out

532
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Speaker 4: of our neighborhood public schools and putting it into private

533
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Speaker 4: schools for kids who already attend. Texas is through and through.

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Speaker 5: It is.

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Speaker 6: Public schools are through and through part.

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Speaker 4: Of our identity as Texans, right and many Republicans were

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Speaker 4: against Melchers. But Donald Trump called on the day of

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Speaker 4: the vote and talked to all the Republicans and they

539
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Speaker 4: supported it even though their constituents were against it. They

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Speaker 4: will not say no.

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Speaker 5: And in return, they were all endorsed by Trump of course. Yeah,

542
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Speaker 5: they all have their little letters and they post them proudly.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. And you know the other I think if you

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Speaker 2: start to kind of think about the far reaching implications

545
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Speaker 2: of what these Shenanigans are going to create, you know,

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Speaker 2: the world is looking at us. They're looking at the

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Speaker 2: American democracy that we've been trying to nurture for the

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Speaker 2: last two hundred and fifty years and saying, gee, we

549
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Speaker 2: wish we could get to where you are. What they're

550
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Speaker 2: going to see is that it's under it's being eroded.

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Speaker 2: They're going to see that the value of the American

552
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Speaker 2: system is not what it used to be. And it

553
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Speaker 2: puts us in a completely different position, knowing that world

554
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Speaker 2: politics are very, you know, right now, very fragile, and

555
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Speaker 2: they need someone with the strength that we've had in

556
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Speaker 2: the past to be able to firmly say what we

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Speaker 2: need to do and how we're going to lean democracy forward.

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Speaker 2: That hand is gone, is going, it's fading, and now

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Speaker 2: what are we going to do. There are a lot

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Speaker 2: of countries that look to the United states, to the democracy,

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Speaker 2: to the way of life that we've established over two

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Speaker 2: hundred and fifty years, and saying what the world, what

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Speaker 2: are we going to do now? That's important and that

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Speaker 2: is what's going to go in the history books if

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Speaker 2: they allow those history books to be printed, of course,

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Speaker 2: but that's what's going to go down in those history books.

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Speaker 2: That's what people are going to remember. That's what my

568
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Speaker 2: fourteen grandchildren are going to remember when they say, Grandpa,

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Speaker 2: what did you do during that time? I can tell

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Speaker 2: them exactly what I did. But we've got to be

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Speaker 2: able to tell that story to generations coming up so

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Speaker 2: that we don't repeat the mistakes that we're creating right now.

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Speaker 2: So you're sitting there, there's a big, big stake in this.

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Speaker 3: I love everything you said. I love the spirit which

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Speaker 3: brought you to say it, and it's just for what

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Speaker 3: it's worth. You're in a library with a lot of

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Speaker 3: books that have been banned as they're rewriting history, censoring

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Speaker 3: historical facts. You're seeing that in real time. So what

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Speaker 3: you said was I hope people pause and reflected on

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Speaker 3: what you said. I wasn't just throwaway line. It's quite

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Speaker 3: literal and real. At this moment. So thanks the question

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Speaker 3: you know, held out thirty seven days twenty twenty one,

583
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Speaker 3: how come didn't necessarily go your way? Ultimately, there, Governor,

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Speaker 3: I'm intimately familiar with this. Forgive me as the ability

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Speaker 3: to call another special session and then another special session.

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Speaker 3: I heard your governor yesterday say he'll call another no no, no,

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Speaker 3: you know, until the end of time, or at least

588
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Speaker 3: the end of his time is his tenure as governor.

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Speaker 3: So where does that leave you? In the private conversations,

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Speaker 3: I don't need to get into tactics or any of that,

591
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Speaker 3: but you know how we're all asking how long are

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Speaker 3: you willing to hold out? When's the end date of

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Speaker 3: this special election? When when are you going to be

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Speaker 3: back senior grandkids, When are you going to see the family?

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Speaker 3: When are you going to you know, reconcile the books

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Speaker 3: and figure out how to pay these fines?

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Speaker 4: So that is the question we always get. Everyone wants

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Speaker 4: to know, how does this end? Its human nature? Our

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Speaker 4: lesson from the twenty one coreum break was we stood

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Speaker 4: up to fight to win for the day we could

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Speaker 4: win for the day, and the next take day. We

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Speaker 4: took it as it came because of our bold Act

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Speaker 4: of Defiance. Last time, we shamed Republicans into taking out

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Speaker 4: those two egregious provisions that I described at the beginning

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Speaker 4: of this program. They couldn't defend them, so they took

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Speaker 4: them out of the bill, ultimately the most egregious parts.

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Speaker 4: And so essentially we say free and fair elections in

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Speaker 4: Texas with our corn break. The bill passed, but it

609
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Speaker 4: wasn't the same bill. You just can't know what tomorrow brings.

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Speaker 4: We can only fight to win today.

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Speaker 3: Yes, like that, so day by day surely I have

612
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Speaker 3: to go back to the financial stress though. I mean,

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Speaker 3: you've not now have threats that anyone who aids in

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Speaker 3: a bets quote unquote you seeking some support related to

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Speaker 3: these fines will somehow be charged for bribery. They've quite

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Speaker 3: literally threatened that on multiple occasions. You're elected leaders in

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Speaker 3: your state, people that are I mean, I imagine I'll

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Speaker 3: be on that list shortly if we're not already being

619
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Speaker 3: surveilled by the I'm with this visit. I mean, how

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Speaker 3: do you talk to your kids about that, Say don't worry, honey,

621
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Speaker 3: we're good. Your husband or wife you know, home saying

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Speaker 3: you know you're already I mean, this is again, you're

623
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Speaker 3: you're not getting rich. We're working in this.

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Speaker 1: I definitely thank you for bringing that up. I want

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Speaker 1: to speak to that because I am one of the

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Speaker 1: only or maybe very few, that are full time legislators

627
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Speaker 1: in a part time legislature. I don't have another job.

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Speaker 1: So I don't think any of us are in it

629
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Speaker 1: for the money, though I want you to.

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Speaker 3: I don't think we are stimulated.

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Speaker 1: I don't think we are, and I honestly think you know,

632
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Speaker 1: my husband is given up on you know that she's

633
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Speaker 1: not about public service, and so it really is about

634
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Speaker 1: us serving the people and the constituents that we have,

635
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Speaker 1: listening to them, representing them in a way that they

636
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Speaker 1: know that we're their voice. You know, when they go

637
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 1: to that ballot box, we want them to know that

638
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:16,400
Speaker 1: their voice really does count and their vote counts, and

639
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:19,279
Speaker 1: that we're going to speak in their best interests and

640
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Speaker 1: on their behalf. And I think nobody can buy that.

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Speaker 1: You just really can't buy that. And I think in

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Speaker 1: a district that in twenty eighteen, with the help of

643
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Speaker 1: my community, I was able to flip, I think they

644
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Speaker 1: know that that's who the person they have sitting there,

645
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Speaker 1: and I can't be bought and I'm going to always stick.

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Speaker 6: Up for them.

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Speaker 7: So and it does show how desperate they are. I mean,

648
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Speaker 7: they have threatened our leadership positions, they threaten our job,

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Speaker 7: they're now trying to vacate. They're threatened direct deposit. I

650
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Speaker 7: mean they literally are throwing anything and everything at the wall,

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Speaker 7: these allegations of bribery. They're throwing all this stuff that

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Speaker 7: they can at the wall, and I think it shows

653
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Speaker 7: how desperate they are that they have to perform for

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Speaker 7: Donald Trump and they're going to look embarrassed if they

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Speaker 7: don't get it done this time. I will say it's

656
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Speaker 7: a little rich for these guys to make an allegation

657
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Speaker 7: of bribery given the fact that Dan Patrick took three

658
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Speaker 7: million dollars on the eve of the trial before he

659
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 7: presided in paston from one of Paxson's biggest donor. It's

660
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Speaker 7: a little rich for the governor when he took twelve

661
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Speaker 7: million dollars from an individual out of Pennsylvania who had

662
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Speaker 7: an interest in getting the voucher's passed. And so we

663
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Speaker 7: know that what they are is just throwing up desperate

664
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Speaker 7: allegations because they're doing anything and everything that they can

665
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Speaker 7: to try to force us back. But again, it just

666
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Speaker 7: strengthens our resolve because it shows us how desperate they

667
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Speaker 7: are to not serve the interest of the people, but

668
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Speaker 7: to serve the interest to Donald Trump, and that's not

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Speaker 7: who we serve.

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Speaker 6: And it has not slowed down contributions.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I can imagine maybe the opposite. I imagine it's

672
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Speaker 3: only accelerated though.

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Speaker 7: And it is we like anybody else. It's also ironic

674
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Speaker 7: that Governor Abbitt sent out an email talking about us

675
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Speaker 7: and how to donate link at the bottom.

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Speaker 3: Of course.

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Speaker 7: So we are elected officials who campaign and people can

678
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Speaker 7: send us contributions and that is what keeps us having

679
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Speaker 7: the ability to lift our voice and be able to

680
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Speaker 7: campaign and be able to put out an opposing position

681
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Speaker 7: to these guys that are out there.

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Speaker 8: And look the damage that's going to be done to

683
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Speaker 8: generations of Texas kids who are going to grow up

684
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Speaker 8: in a society where if you're Hispanic or Black, the

685
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Speaker 8: government's not going to feel they're accountable to you. The

686
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Speaker 8: way these lines are drawn, the government's only going to

687
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Speaker 8: be accountable to one particular group. I mean, what kind

688
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Speaker 8: of society they're going to grow up in. It is

689
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Speaker 8: going to take US generations if we go back to

690
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Speaker 8: the nineteen sixties and have our own version of the

691
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Speaker 8: civil rights struggle all over again here in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 8: So the damage that's going to be done to future

693
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Speaker 8: generations of Texans honestly pales in comparison to whatever it

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Speaker 8: is they're going to do to any of us. And

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Speaker 8: I think a lot of members feel that way, and

696
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Speaker 8: that's why I think they're just so determined in their result.

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Speaker 3: I love that and I appreciate. I mean, just the

698
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Speaker 3: reflection in California is about thirty nine percent of its

699
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Speaker 3: population is Hispanic, twenty seven percent of its population form

700
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Speaker 3: born a majority minority state. It's a point of deep pride. Now,

701
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Speaker 3: we don't tolerate, we celebrate that diversity at our best.

702
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Speaker 3: We celebrate that diversity. Texas is right there and now

703
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Speaker 3: looking to exceed. It's an extraordinary state, isn't it. And

704
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Speaker 3: so this notion of representation, of representing everybody having a

705
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Speaker 3: voice seen themselves as well, is so critical. So I

706
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Speaker 3: really appreciate you highlighting that. What do we need to

707
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Speaker 3: highlight though? What's the message? Look, you're here in California.

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Speaker 3: I'm grateful we're about to have a press conference with

709
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Speaker 3: former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, other congressional representatives. You're going to

710
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Speaker 3: be here with my pro tem and speaker of our legislature.

711
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Speaker 3: We're moving forward very aggressively to neutralize neoter to limit

712
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Speaker 3: the five seats. We'll do the same here in California.

713
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Speaker 3: So all of this is for not Donald Trump. All

714
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Speaker 3: this is for not at show. And we will fight

715
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Speaker 3: fire with fire, and we will punch above our weight.

716
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Speaker 3: California is the size of twenty one state popular relations combined.

717
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Speaker 3: We're not here for a press conference. We're here to

718
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Speaker 3: take action and we're to delivery results, and we're going

719
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Speaker 3: to do it in a transparent way, a temporary way,

720
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Speaker 3: because we believe in independent redistricting. We'll do it on

721
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Speaker 3: the basis of a vote of the people as well,

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Speaker 3: respecting and as you said, the people, and in democracy,

723
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Speaker 3: the most important office, brand I said, is the office

724
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Speaker 3: of citizens. So this notion of transparent maps and active,

725
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:29,880
Speaker 3: non inert citizen tree is foundational. But what more do

726
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Speaker 3: we need to do what other states need to do?

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Speaker 7: You know, it's I think folks when they talk about

728
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Speaker 7: redistricting and they say, oh, those guys are just redistricting.

729
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Speaker 7: I don't think they understand this is not normal. We

730
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Speaker 7: don't redistrict mid decade. And even if we think about

731
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Speaker 7: the last time we redistricted states like yours, where you

732
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Speaker 7: have an independent commission, you allowed the people to draw

733
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Speaker 7: the lines. Many of us have offered legislation in Texas

734
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Speaker 7: to have an independent commission to have the people draw

735
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Speaker 7: the lines. I think people forget Republicans in those states

736
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:02,480
Speaker 7: started the game decade already carving up districts to give

737
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Speaker 7: them a heavy advantage. And even with that cheat, when

738
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Speaker 7: other folks are letting their people do it. Here we

739
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:10,040
Speaker 7: are four years in. They know they're about to lose,

740
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Speaker 7: and so they want to redraw it again. We appreciate

741
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Speaker 7: greatly the courage that California is stepping showing the fact

742
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Speaker 7: that you have stepped up and immediately said, Texas, what's

743
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:21,080
Speaker 7: good for the goose is good for the gander. But

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Speaker 7: what we hope to do is lift a conversation. And

745
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Speaker 7: which wouldn't it be great? Wouldn't it be great if

746
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Speaker 7: the nation said, you know what, we should all let

747
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Speaker 7: the people draw the lines. We should all do an

748
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Speaker 7: independent commission and get politicians out of drawing our lines,

749
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Speaker 7: and so we are grateful that you are willing to,

750
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Speaker 7: as you say, fight fire with fire, because when one

751
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Speaker 7: group is playing by one set of rules and not

752
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Speaker 7: allowing the others to play by an equal set of rules,

753
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Speaker 7: it violates the fundamental fairness of who we are as

754
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Speaker 7: people and a nation.

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Speaker 3: Appreciate that. And one of the things that we intend

756
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Speaker 3: to do with the consent of the Legislature and ultimately

757
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Speaker 3: present to the voters in a special election the first

758
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Speaker 3: week in November in a very short period of time,

759
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Speaker 3: is also a commitment to support a national independent redistricting Commission.

760
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Speaker 3: So we want to reinforce that principle in that paradigm,

761
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Speaker 3: and that's why we're looking at this as an emergency

762
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:20,000
Speaker 3: response to this outrageous act in this mid decade redistrict team.

763
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Speaker 3: But again, it's not just rhetorical, and I think, look,

764
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Speaker 3: one of the big frustrations I have often with my party,

765
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Speaker 3: with our party, the Democratic Party, is fire and fury

766
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Speaker 3: is oftentimes signifying little or nothing. Sometimes we just sit

767
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:35,719
Speaker 3: there and we're on the side. We feel there's a

768
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Speaker 3: weakness sometimes because we sort of we push back, but

769
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Speaker 3: we're not delivering on the counter and That's why I

770
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:47,120
Speaker 3: think really critical that we're successful here in California. We

771
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Speaker 3: have to deliver an equal reaction that actually produces a

772
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Speaker 3: real result. What more can we do in our state,

773
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Speaker 3: but other states as well, actually delivered not just in

774
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Speaker 3: more support, not talk about sort of the better angels,

775
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Speaker 3: and not just you know, have your back rhetorically, but

776
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Speaker 3: to get back on the offensive, not just constantly being

777
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:15,480
Speaker 3: shape shifted by these folks on the receiving end twenty

778
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Speaker 3: four to seven. I joke all the time, it's not

779
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Speaker 3: a joke, but everything with three letters E, S, G,

780
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:24,319
Speaker 3: D I, S CRT I R S FBI, except when

781
00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 3: they need to weaponize them, you know, the EPA. We're

782
00:42:28,239 --> 00:42:32,319
Speaker 3: constantly on the receiving n on this redistricting. You know,

783
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:35,279
Speaker 3: at least we feel like we have a tool, and

784
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 3: that's the people themselves. We the people that can exercise

785
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:43,160
Speaker 3: their moral and formal authority to neutralize what's happening in

786
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:47,400
Speaker 3: Texas and to get back. But what else do you

787
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Speaker 3: want to see across this country in a more meaningful

788
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Speaker 3: and substantive.

789
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Speaker 4: I think Americans and Texans for sure want to see

790
00:42:56,040 --> 00:43:00,279
Speaker 4: how these things impact their daily lives. For for me

791
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Speaker 4: part of why, Yes, there is the big picture representation,

792
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:11,239
Speaker 4: democracy goals, but ultimately this is about higher prices at

793
00:43:11,239 --> 00:43:15,560
Speaker 4: the grocery stores and how these pay to play tariffs

794
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:19,600
Speaker 4: that Donald Trump is implementing are hurting every day Americans,

795
00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 4: every day Texans. It's about a hit to financial aid

796
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Speaker 4: and ability for often latinal communities in Texas to attend college,

797
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:31,319
Speaker 4: but all communities, right they rely on that kind of

798
00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:33,640
Speaker 4: aid and what Donald Trump is doing to that, hit

799
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Speaker 4: to healthcare, hit to neighborhood schools, the list goes on,

800
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Speaker 4: and those are real threats to Americans that will continue

801
00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:45,440
Speaker 4: to get worse if this goes unchecked. And so I

802
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:51,200
Speaker 4: think ideas for how ideas and examples of how this

803
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:55,000
Speaker 4: big picture conversation is impacting their everyday lives and will

804
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:58,640
Speaker 4: protect That's why we have representation to protect the people

805
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:02,719
Speaker 4: against harm in a use from the politicians to hold

806
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:06,440
Speaker 4: them accountable. That's what Donald Trump is taking away. And

807
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:11,160
Speaker 4: the more we can speak to people's to people's daily

808
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:14,279
Speaker 4: lives and the way what we do impacts them, I

809
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:15,360
Speaker 4: think the better.

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Speaker 3: Love that it's not just about drawing lines, it's sort

811
00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:21,279
Speaker 3: of holding the line, having a line of accountability, oversight,

812
00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 3: back to this notion coequal branches of government and this

813
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:29,080
Speaker 3: fundamental notion of what underneath all of it it's about,

814
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Speaker 3: which is about having the aspirations of mind and the

815
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:35,440
Speaker 3: American people having the master's of not just your district,

816
00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:38,239
Speaker 3: your state, but our nation and a dressing all of

817
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 3: these profound issues. And as you say on the tariffs

818
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 3: and everything else. I mean, that's at the end of

819
00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:46,200
Speaker 3: the day, it is about all of those issues. So

820
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Speaker 3: that's important. What else do we need to sort of

821
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Speaker 3: raise in terms of consciousness around Again the why this

822
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Speaker 3: is so.

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Speaker 2: Well I can tell what I tell all my folks

824
00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:57,799
Speaker 2: is that listen, as a look at officials, we do

825
00:44:57,920 --> 00:44:59,759
Speaker 2: this day in and day out. We're always having the

826
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Speaker 2: we have an in depth understanding, and sometimes we overcomplicate

827
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Speaker 2: the process. What we need to do is to get

828
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Speaker 2: those moms and dads that get up early in the morning,

829
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Speaker 2: dress their kids, take them to school, drop them off,

830
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Speaker 2: pick them up in the afternoon, take them to daycare,

831
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Speaker 2: go to the grocery store, pay for the eggs and

832
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Speaker 2: the milk, to have that conversation of how what this

833
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:22,799
Speaker 2: economy is doing to them. At the town square, have

834
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:26,799
Speaker 2: that discussion among themselves and understand what the impact is

835
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:29,279
Speaker 2: to America. Because as elected officials we say it all

836
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Speaker 2: the time, and sometimes they don't have time to listen

837
00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:34,759
Speaker 2: to what we're telling them. It's important they get it.

838
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:37,719
Speaker 2: They just don't have time. They're taking care of their lives.

839
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Speaker 2: They're trying to cook the dinner, they're trying to get

840
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:44,080
Speaker 2: their kids off to school. So what I tell everyone,

841
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:47,839
Speaker 2: get with your neighbors, whatever that town square is for you,

842
00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:51,440
Speaker 2: whether it's your homeowner association or some event that you

843
00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:55,120
Speaker 2: happen to go to, take the discussion there and raise

844
00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:58,080
Speaker 2: the issues how it's affecting you directly. I think if

845
00:45:58,080 --> 00:46:00,920
Speaker 2: we do that, I think the entire Cunto will understand

846
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:04,640
Speaker 2: and understand. We've got to do something different, and that's

847
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:06,160
Speaker 2: only I think the only way we're going to really

848
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Speaker 2: be successful. I love it.

849
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Speaker 7: We need folks who are sick and tired of being

850
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:17,400
Speaker 7: sick and tired to get up and vote in our selections.

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Speaker 1: That's what I was going to say. I mean, to

852
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:24,400
Speaker 1: Gina's point, the loss of access to healthcare, and especially

853
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:27,400
Speaker 1: when we look at taking food out of children's bows

854
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:31,319
Speaker 1: and the staff benefits that are gone. But we just

855
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:34,799
Speaker 1: want that message to resonate so much with people that

856
00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:38,759
Speaker 1: they don't forget come November. So to Anne's point, that

857
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:42,400
Speaker 1: really brings it home for me that they don't forget

858
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Speaker 1: when they go to that ballot.

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Speaker 5: People tend to have very short memories. And that's really

860
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:50,640
Speaker 5: sad because and I think this is why the governor

861
00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:54,759
Speaker 5: gets elected on the off years, right, because people were like,

862
00:46:54,960 --> 00:47:00,640
Speaker 5: there's an election. But I think educating the voters on

863
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 5: the big picture, whatever that big picture is to them,

864
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Speaker 5: it's probably the best thing to do.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, And I would say in this moment, I think

866
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Speaker 8: the more Americans who learn about the details of the map,

867
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Speaker 8: I think more Americans should be outraged at what's being proposed.

868
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Speaker 8: I don't care if you're a Republican or Democrat, if

869
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Speaker 8: you're white, black, Latino. What are the implications of a

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Speaker 8: government that feels like it is not going to be

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Speaker 8: accountable to a large segment of its population, It's going

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Speaker 8: to be held accountable to a small segment that it's

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Speaker 8: going to hand pick what kind you know. In order

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Speaker 8: for democracy to work, we need our government to be

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Speaker 8: accountable to all people, regardless of race, regardless of where

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Speaker 8: they live. And that's not what's happening here. So, whether

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Speaker 8: you're a Republican or Democrat, you want a government that's

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Speaker 8: going to be held accountable to everybody, not there just

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Speaker 8: handpicked constituents. And I would say too, Look clearly, what

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Speaker 8: happens in Texas affects California. And we have years, thirty

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Speaker 8: years of Republican rule where they have system stomatically designed

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Speaker 8: and drawn these lines to ensure that black and Hispanic

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Speaker 8: residents don't vote. The overwhelming number of Latinos in Blacks

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Speaker 8: in Texas are stuck in districts that are uncompetitive, and

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Speaker 8: they're there where there's a ninety eighty ninety ninety five

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Speaker 8: percent Latino population because that's the best way for Republicans

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Speaker 8: to throw away votes. And so how do we activate

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Speaker 8: these large segments of Texas that have been acted for

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Speaker 8: so long. I think it's going to take a national

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Speaker 8: effort from the Democratic Party, but I think people from

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Speaker 8: all states because there are just large segments of our

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Speaker 8: population who are just don't see any reason to vote.

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Speaker 8: But that's the way the government has created it.

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Speaker 6: Don't give up on Texas.

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Speaker 4: Also, Texas really without all this grift, the grift, like

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Speaker 4: we could deal a whole segment on just the grift,

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Speaker 4: but without all the grift in the manipulation. Texas is

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Speaker 4: a purple state. We have not we say Texas Democrats

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Speaker 4: for the ATM. For the rest of the nation. We

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Speaker 4: need investment in Texas. We explore our Republicans, Texas expert

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Speaker 4: all the worst ideas to the national level. You want

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Speaker 4: us to flip, It's over when we flip, right, So

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Speaker 4: that's what I would encourage. People think Texas is crazy, Yes,

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Speaker 4: crazy things come out of Texas, but we see in

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Speaker 4: our communities that Texans are open. Texans are open to

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Speaker 4: being persuaded. They care about what you're going to do

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Speaker 4: to help them in their own lives. And I would say,

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Speaker 4: please take a chance on Texas.

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Speaker 6: Invest in Texas.

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Speaker 3: Spectacular state and spectacular representatives from the state. And I

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Speaker 3: really appreciate Mara. And just for folks listening watching you

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Speaker 3: guys flew in, You're going to fly right out. And

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Speaker 3: that means the world to all of us that are

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Speaker 3: trying to raise awareness or raise the alarm bells of

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Speaker 3: this moment where we get so easily distracted by sugar

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Speaker 3: and Coca cola or whatever. The new distraction and Alcatraz

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Speaker 3: may be what's really happening in this country. It is

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Speaker 3: code red, It is code red, and this only highlights,

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Speaker 3: this punctuates what's at stake. The Trump presidency de facto

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Speaker 3: ends in less than eighteen months. If we get Speaker

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Speaker 3: Jeffries back into office. Donald Trump knows that they're on

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Speaker 3: the run. They know they will lose the mid terms

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Speaker 3: if they do not rig them. And that's what this

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Speaker 3: is all about. And the fact that you are willing

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Speaker 3: to sacrifice so much your personal as well as professional

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Speaker 3: reputation to be here and to be everywhere you've been.

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Speaker 3: Everybody listening should owe you. And do I think, oh

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Speaker 3: you a debt of gratitude regardless of party. This is

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Speaker 3: about fundamental, enduring principles that have served the world, not

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Speaker 3: just our country for two hundred and forty nine years.

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Speaker 3: So I'm deeply grateful and I'm proud as well to

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Speaker 3: have this opportunity to transparent way, to have this conversation,

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Speaker 3: this private conversation more publicly. We'll understand why you're out here,

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Speaker 3: and the opportunity now to share that more publicly with

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Speaker 3: this press conference with Speaker Amrita Nancy Pelosi and talk

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Speaker 3: more about mistakes. Thank you all very

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Speaker 5: Much, thank you, thank you, thank you for having us