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Speaker 2: Hey, how you doing, brother? I'm doing okay, I'm back

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Speaker 2: in El Paso. This is this is home. So you're not.

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Speaker 1: You should not be an El Paso. You should be

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Speaker 1: preparing get a toothbrush. You're on your way to jail.

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Speaker 1: My friend, I just read Paxton's latest missive says lock

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Speaker 1: them up, lock him up.

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Speaker 2: That's right. If Twitter can be believed, that's that's where

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Speaker 2: I'm headed next. But for the time being, I get

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Speaker 2: to hang with family, which is pretty nice.

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Speaker 1: But I mean, on a serious note, I mean, I

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Speaker 1: mean the guys. The Attorney General of the State of

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Speaker 1: Texas said in a tweet that O'Rourke needs to be

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Speaker 1: locked up, not just hunted down, but now locked up.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you got on a serious no, you got

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Speaker 1: tell me you'd I haven't had a private attorney or someone.

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Speaker 1: You're you're literally gaming this out. You got game it

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean here's the thing that everyone should know.

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Speaker 2: One they're trying to stop us from exercising our First Amendment,

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Speaker 2: constitutionally protected right to say what we want to say

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Speaker 2: about the politics of this country, about the attempted theft

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Speaker 2: of these five congressional seats. Our encouragement to governors such

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Speaker 2: as yourself to use their full power to maximize democratic

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Speaker 2: congressional control of the districts within their states. I mean,

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Speaker 2: this is the fight that is taking place right now,

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Speaker 2: and they're trying to take us out of this fight

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Speaker 2: by seeking to intimidate us in the courts. And now,

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Speaker 2: as you know, you just referred to Ken Paxson is

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Speaker 2: this is what I think is going on. Over the

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Speaker 2: last seven eight months, We've watched the wealthiest, the most

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Speaker 2: The Ivy League, universities, Harvard may settle for five hundred

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Speaker 2: million this week. The big law firms, Paramount, CBS, you know, Zuckerberg, Bezos,

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Speaker 2: you know, all of them are bending the need. And

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Speaker 2: then they come to Texas in this effort to steal

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Speaker 2: these five seats, assuming that that we're going to do

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Speaker 2: like that so much, and so they not only seek

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Speaker 2: Dems who have broken quorum, to stop this deal. They're

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Speaker 2: threatening them with second degree felonies. They're sending the FBI

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Speaker 2: and state troopers after him. But now they're suing us

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Speaker 2: successively many times over the last few days in state

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Speaker 2: So this is where we are right now, and this

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Speaker 2: is why, at this moment, we need people to stand

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Speaker 2: and fight that. You know, every single time someone bends

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Speaker 2: ballgame in the summer of twenty twenty five, not just

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Speaker 2: We've got to fight with all we've got.

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Speaker 1: I love it and so much done unpack in everything

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Speaker 1: the attorney General of the State of Texas talked about

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Speaker 1: locking you up. But you reference powered by the people,

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Speaker 1: are powered by people, which is your pack. There was

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Speaker 1: a lawsuit by that same Attorney general. There was a

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Speaker 1: court order by a Abbot governor, Abbot appointed judge that

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Speaker 1: at least he's asserting, and then give us the facts.

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Speaker 2: We had a big round planned on Saturday in fort

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Speaker 2: We throw ours first, and we throw it harder. That

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Speaker 2: If they cannot complete this steal in Texas, if they

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Speaker 2: That is just the prelude or the prologue to what

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Speaker 1: I want to go back. You use the words free

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Speaker 2: They're claiming that our organization powered by people. And then

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Speaker 2: I personally am attempting to bribe the fifty four state

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Speaker 1: And you're bribing them by doing what what's the assertion

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Speaker 1: you've bribed them by your handing? Are you doing cash envelopes?

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Speaker 2: Not only are we not doing any of those things

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Speaker 2: We're raising resources to make sure that all of us

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Speaker 2: But yes, they're asserting bribery, which, as you're pointing out,

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Speaker 2: You know, Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, took six

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Speaker 2: President the bribery in chief who just reduced Jelaane Maxwell's sentence.

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Speaker 2: his administration. So, you know, Joseph Gerbels infamously said, you know,

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Speaker 1: Look, I appreciate that, and look, I appreciate, I appreciate

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Speaker 1: how reasonable you are under these extraordinary circumstances. Nothing about

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Speaker 1: this is normal not nothing about this can be normalized,

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Speaker 1: nothing about When people say it's not surprising. When people

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Speaker 1: it's not surprising. It's sure as hell is surprising. It's outrageous.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the idea that you have an attorney general

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Speaker 1: back just briefly, you in twenty twenty one did similar

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Speaker 1: meaning this quorum break occurred in twenty twenty one in

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Speaker 2: No, you're exactly right, and just to give people some context,

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Speaker 2: Powered by People is the largest voter registration organization in

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Speaker 1: A few years later after you started the organization, obviously

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Speaker 1: there was no five hundred dollars. My understanding, there wasn't

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Speaker 1: Now that's established. So these guys are all, I mean

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Speaker 1: Make what six hundred This is a full time job

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Speaker 2: They make seven two hundred dollars a year for being

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Speaker 2: of that year. In fifty three days, he has destroyed

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Speaker 2: German democracy. The Parliament or the Congress, their legislature passes

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Speaker 2: enabling laws, just like the Republicans are doing in Congress today.

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Speaker 2: That said, anything you want, you go out and do it.

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Speaker 2: And he goes from being this buffoonish, clownish thug who

435
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Speaker 2: can barely hold power to the undisputed master and dictator

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Speaker 2: of the German people. And I know this shit doesn't repeat,

437
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Speaker 2: but it sures how rhymes. And we got to me

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Speaker 2: listening to that right now and acting with the urgency

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Speaker 2: that the moment demands from us. And again I got

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Speaker 2: to tell you, I see you doing that right now.

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Speaker 2: I wish there were more who were doing that. I

442
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Speaker 2: love what JB. Pritsker is doing in Illinois. You know

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Speaker 2: Kathy Hokel has made some noise in New York that

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Speaker 2: they're going to use that power they have there to redistrict.

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Speaker 1: But Beto, they need to use it. I mean, right now,

446
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Speaker 1: we're just forget the talking. It's not about press.

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Speaker 2: I love those.

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Speaker 1: It's time to move.

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Speaker 2: You got to move.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you get enough. It's not I mean, we're

451
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Speaker 1: all saying the right thing. Now. We got to do

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Speaker 1: the right thing, which means we got to fight fire

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Speaker 1: with fire. And back to your earlier question, that's exactly

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Speaker 1: what we're doing. We're gonna later this week, we're going

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Speaker 1: to announce the campaign. Next week, the legislature is going

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Speaker 1: to move this forward with two thirds. We're going to

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Speaker 1: get it in a special election on November fourth, and

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Speaker 1: we're gonna fight fire with fire. We're going to neutralize

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Speaker 1: whatever Abbot does next week or whenever they move forward

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Speaker 1: the next special session. We'll talk about that in a second.

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Speaker 1: The likelihood that they ultimately will be successful in Texas

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Speaker 1: and California won't move forward, but will also hopefully inspire

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Speaker 1: some other states. There are many other democratically led states

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Speaker 1: that can move forward, and we just cannot sit back

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Speaker 1: passively and again, it's not just Texas, and I don't

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Speaker 1: forgive me, I don't mean again. Let's introduce that you've

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Speaker 1: got the Vice President of the United States that was

468
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Speaker 1: just sent out not to console the families of the

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Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty hundred and forty plus and maybe

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Speaker 1: many many more that lost their lives in the flood.

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Speaker 2: JD.

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Speaker 1: Vance was sent out instead to Indiana to begin the

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Speaker 1: process of redistricting there. You've seen what is happening in Florida,

474
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Speaker 1: what's already on autopilot in Ohio. They're hardly done here.

475
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Speaker 1: They're going to move, they're going to run the table

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Speaker 1: on us. They're ringing this election and playing sight. So

477
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Speaker 1: this is back to just code read. We've got to

478
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Speaker 1: move from the rhetoric. We have got to take action,

479
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Speaker 1: and we've got to have your back. We've got to

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Speaker 1: have our kids back. And I appreciate you reminding us

481
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Speaker 1: your one hundred percent right. No greater shame than those kids.

482
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Speaker 1: Look at us, Say where the hell were you? Dad? Now, no,

483
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Speaker 1: no bullshit, don't tell me you didn't know where the

484
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Speaker 1: hell were you? And I think that for everybody that's

485
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Speaker 1: the court, that's the mark of you know, that's the

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Speaker 1: conscience that we have to have, and we have to

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Speaker 1: have the character now to stand tall and have the conviction.

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Speaker 1: So man, I appreciate. What I love about what you're

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Speaker 1: doing is you're fighting and you're on your damn toes,

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Speaker 1: not on your heel. And Beto, this has been my

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Speaker 1: issue with my party for the last many years. They're

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Speaker 1: shape shifting everything. We're constantly responding as CRT D E

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Speaker 1: I ESG, I mean anything with three damn letters I,

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Speaker 1: R S FBI. Then when they want to weaponize it,

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Speaker 1: E P A uh, you know it's I love it.

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Speaker 1: You're saying, you know we're going to punch first, and

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Speaker 1: so forgive me, I'm meandering here. But the spirit that

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Speaker 1: you're bringing to this fight is the spirit we need

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Speaker 1: to bring to every damn fight. Because that Atlantic article

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Speaker 1: in January that someone sent me about the fifty three Days,

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Speaker 1: it scared the hell out of me. But I was

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Speaker 1: honestly timid to send it around because anytime you associate

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Speaker 1: anything with what happened in Germany the thirties and Hitler,

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Speaker 1: everyone then panics. But that is a must read article

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Speaker 1: for anyone that needs a little brush up in the

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Speaker 1: history lesson. Everything you just said is real. It happened

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Speaker 1: from within, and it happened in fifty three damn days.

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Speaker 1: We're just six months in, beto. This guy's just getting started.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. And just for those who haven't read

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Speaker 2: the article or don't know this history, over the course

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Speaker 2: of those fifty three days in nineteen thirty three, it

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Speaker 2: wasn't as though the German public and the German politicians

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Speaker 2: were powerless. The strength of that article is that there

514
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:55,919
Speaker 2: were so many opportunities to stop this guy that people

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Speaker 2: passed on. They thought the moment to fight was down

516
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Speaker 2: the road, or that the fight wasn't important, or that

517
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Speaker 2: this was just going to be a passing phase. You

518
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Speaker 2: kind of talked earlier about normalizing this, and once the

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Speaker 2: mind stretches, it's hard to snap back to our previous

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Speaker 2: expectations of how power is used. But you said something

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Speaker 2: else that I really want to pick up on about

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Speaker 2: our own party, which I fear, for too long has

523
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Speaker 2: been overly concerned with being right instead of being in power.

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Speaker 2: And what we've watched is a rise of a competing

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Speaker 2: party that is only concerned about power. It could care

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Speaker 2: less about being right, or being legal or moral or ethical.

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Speaker 2: It is power, And you pointed out in twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: one I was doing the exact same things then during

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Speaker 2: a quorum break where Democrats left the state of Texas,

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Speaker 2: as I am doing now, there was no threat to

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Speaker 2: arrest me. There were no charges filed in the parent

532
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Speaker 2: county court, there was no effort to vacate their seats

533
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Speaker 2: or to hunt them down. The reason is because it's

534
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:55,680
Speaker 2: not about the principle. It is about the power. And

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Speaker 2: this is a word of encouragement to everybody. I know

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Speaker 2: we've been you know, there's been some some darkness in

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Speaker 2: this conversation, which is just an accurate reflection of the conditions.

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Speaker 2: But I want to encourage folks with this. They are

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Speaker 2: you know, Trump, Paxton, Abbott, the Republicans in full panic

540
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 2: mode right now. These are signs of desperation. The reason

541
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Speaker 2: they're doing all this is they fully understand should they

542
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Speaker 2: not be able to succeed in this steal, should they

543
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Speaker 2: not be able to hold on to power in the House,

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Speaker 2: there will be a reckoning for them. There will be accountability,

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Speaker 2: there will be a check on their lawlessness, and there

546
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Speaker 2: will be free and fair elections, or as close as

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Speaker 2: we can get to it in America in the twenty

548
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Speaker 2: first century, in twenty twenty eight. And so you know

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Speaker 2: what's been chilling for me, Gavin, is is the near

550
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Speaker 2: or full impunity with which they've been acting, accepting these bribes.

551
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Speaker 2: The president has, making these corrupt deals. It's as though

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Speaker 2: he knows or thinks he knows that there will never

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Speaker 2: be a moment where he's accountable or has to answer

554
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:05,280
Speaker 2: for his crimes or his corruption. He's absolutely betting on that.

555
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Speaker 2: And so that explains him saying, look, folks, I need

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Speaker 2: five seats in Texas, Go get them for me. No

557
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:15,760
Speaker 2: pretense that the current seats are unconstitutional or unrepresentative. He's

558
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 2: just being really clear, which is a gift to all

559
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:21,280
Speaker 2: of us, that this is about power. And to your point,

560
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:25,320
Speaker 2: our side better get fucking serious about power, about winning

561
00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:28,360
Speaker 2: it and using it. Mandela Barnes, whom I just did

562
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Speaker 2: a town hall with in Milwaukee last week, said, when

563
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Speaker 2: we win power, we have to drive the car like

564
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Speaker 2: we stole it. We have to do everything for everyone

565
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Speaker 2: that we've been promising these massive changes in American society,

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Speaker 2: whether it is the minimum wage, whether it's rewriting our

567
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Speaker 2: immigration laws, whether it is dealing with this democracy so

568
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 2: that you can't spend three hundred million dollars on your

569
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Speaker 2: perverred presidential candidate, or that corporations aren't people and money

570
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Speaker 2: is not speech. So much work to do, but we

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Speaker 2: got to be about winning that power and then when

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Speaker 2: we have absolutely wielding it ruthlessly, aggressively, ambitiously to serve

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Speaker 2: and deliver for the American people, we do that that

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Speaker 2: is the best ticket to growing that power, staying in power,

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Speaker 2: and getting this country back on the right track.

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Speaker 1: You know, is this the Beto Rourk of twenty eighteen

577
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Speaker 1: running for a Senate with no consultants? I mean, are

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Speaker 1: you do you feel like the times have changed you

579
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:30,680
Speaker 1: in a dramatic way? Or do you feel you always

580
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:33,360
Speaker 1: had a little bit of this in your belly, but

581
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Speaker 1: now you're coming full throated in terms of recognition the

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Speaker 1: lines that are drawn. I mean, is this Do you

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Speaker 1: feel like that you've become a different person with this

584
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Speaker 1: next with the last six months with drump two point zero?

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Speaker 1: What was January sixth years ago? Did you sort of

586
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Speaker 1: mark that moment as a new moment?

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Speaker 2: I think this moment is calling me like it's calling you,

588
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 2: like it's calling so many millions of our fellow Americans

589
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Speaker 2: to do everything I can with what I have wherever

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Speaker 2: I am. And one of the things I can do

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Speaker 2: that I'm pretty good at is bringing people together. I

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Speaker 2: mentioned Milwaukee, We were in Indianapolis, Kansas City, Omaha. Fifteen

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Speaker 2: hundred people came out in Oklahoma City fifteen months from

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Speaker 2: a fucking election, you know, not because they want to

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Speaker 2: support a candidate, not one, or because they're Democrats. We

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Speaker 2: didn't check their party affiliation at the door, because, like

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00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 2: you and me, they really care about what's happening to

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Speaker 2: this country right now and they want to fight back.

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Speaker 2: And so in Oklahoma City, we connected them with the

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Speaker 2: Oklahoma City County Democratic Party, with organizations that are registering

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Speaker 2: people to vote with candidates who are vying to win

602
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 2: that congressional seat held by a Republican right now, but

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Speaker 2: very winnable for a Democrat, especially if we organize now

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five. So, you know, I do think

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Speaker 2: there's a freedom of you know, not thinking about the

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Speaker 2: title or an office, or being a candidate or a

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00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,920
Speaker 2: campaign and just doing the work. And the work is

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Speaker 2: the most important thing right now. If it leads to

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Speaker 2: something else, else it becomes obvious that I can have

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Speaker 2: more of an impact as a candidate. Absolutely unafraid of

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Speaker 2: doing that, but for now focusing on voter registration, being

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Speaker 2: in this fight in Texas, bringing others across the country

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Speaker 2: into this fight, because Texas is the front line, the

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Speaker 2: absolute epicenter of this fight for America. That's the highest

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Speaker 2: and best use of what I can give, and I'm

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Speaker 2: just going to keep doing it. I love you.

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Speaker 1: Reminded me just a quote that I love of justice.

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Speaker 1: Brandeis in a democracy. In a democracy, the most important

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Speaker 1: office is office of citizen. In this notion of active,

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Speaker 1: not inerd citizenship. The fact that people show up in

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma City. You've been doing rallies I think eight plus

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Speaker 1: different states. You're out there in red states, You're primarily

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Speaker 1: in rural parts of even your own state. In fact

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Speaker 1: people are coming out in these record numbers means they

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Speaker 1: haven't given into the cynicism, they haven't given it in

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Speaker 1: the fear. They're not giving up and they're not rolling over.

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Speaker 1: And I think that fills me with a tremendous amount

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Speaker 1: of optimism. I know it does you as well, and

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Speaker 1: puts a lot of you know it gives us just

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Speaker 1: some confidence that we're all not alone and we're all

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Speaker 1: in this together. That said, this Friday better. My understanding

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00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,839
Speaker 1: is this Friday, just in a couple of days, this

633
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Speaker 1: first special session will end. There'll be a question for

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Speaker 1: the fifty four Democrats. Do they come back into the state.

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Speaker 1: Do they subject themselves to arrest, which in and of

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Speaker 1: itself is chilling if they are indeed arrested in the likelihood,

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Speaker 1: and this is a question, not a statement, the likelihood,

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Speaker 1: it seems to me, I'm curious. Your expectations is that

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00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:46,480
Speaker 1: the governor will immediately call another special session and at

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Speaker 1: peril that they leave the state again. It likely will pass,

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Speaker 1: meaning we will likely in the next month or so

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Speaker 1: or even sooner see these five seats this mid decade,

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Speaker 1: a redrawing of the map. Is that an accurate assessment?

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Speaker 1: What do I know? What don't I know? In respect us?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think you're you're on top of this.

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Speaker 2: Just as we were going into this interview, someone told

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Speaker 2: me that Abbott is going to dissolve this current special

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Speaker 2: session so we can begin the next one right away,

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Speaker 2: maybe as soon as Friday or Saturday or Monday. For

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Speaker 2: those who want to fight this. I encourage you to

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Speaker 2: join us at the Texas Capital in Austin this coming Saturday. Governor,

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Speaker 2: we'd love to have you join us as well, I mean,

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Speaker 2: anyone who wants to be in this fight, because this fight,

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00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:42,359
Speaker 2: as you have articulated so perfectly, is not about Texas.

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Speaker 2: It's not about Texans. It's about all three hundred and

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00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:47,880
Speaker 2: thirty million of us, regardless of where we live. This

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00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:51,160
Speaker 2: is the fight for the future of our country, and

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00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:54,680
Speaker 2: it's being decided right now as it happens in the

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Speaker 2: state of Texas, but also in California, in Illinois, everywhere

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Speaker 2: that people have good conscience are willing to stand and

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Speaker 2: be counted at this moment of truth. So join us

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Speaker 2: at the Texas Capitol. It's this Saturday on the steps.

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Speaker 2: You know, the more who show up, the clearer the

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Speaker 2: picture to Abbott and Packson and Trump that we will

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Speaker 2: not bend the need that we're going to stand and fight.

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Speaker 2: They will not be able to run roughshot over the

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Speaker 2: people of Texas and steal our democracy. They steal it

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Speaker 2: here it is gone for the country. So all in

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Speaker 2: all together, as Franklin warned us, we're either going to

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Speaker 2: hang together or hang alone. And I want to make

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Speaker 2: sure that all of us hang together right now. Thank

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Speaker 2: you for hanging with those Texas Democrats, for having them

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Speaker 2: in California, for amplifying their voices, for encouraging people who

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Speaker 2: see Tim Cook genuflect before Donald Trump like one of

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Speaker 2: the most powerful executives on the fucking planet and give

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Speaker 2: him a gold plated iPhone. Others in these positions that

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Speaker 2: are prominent and powerful and wealthy and have privilege, who

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Speaker 2: actually have the resources to fight this fucker and instead

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Speaker 2: are giving in. It can tempt you to despair. But

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Speaker 2: when folks see you out there fighting these fifty four

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Speaker 2: Democrats in Texas, fighting others, fighting the folks who show

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Speaker 2: up this Saturday at the Texas Capital, that is encouraging.

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Speaker 2: It gives us hope. It's like, you know what, we

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Speaker 2: can do this shit. We are the people who overcame

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Speaker 2: the British Empire, the most powerful force on the planet.

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Speaker 2: We defeated the armies of the Confederacy, the divisions of

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Speaker 2: the Third Reich, the armed elected thugs of Jim Crow South.

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Speaker 2: We've overcome every single one of those challenges over the

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Speaker 2: last two hundred and forty nine years. Now it's our turn.

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Speaker 2: We are so fucky to be a lot, so fucking

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Speaker 2: lucky to be alive at this moment. So few American

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Speaker 2: generations have this chance to save our country at its

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Speaker 2: moment of truth. You and I are lucky enough to

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Speaker 2: be here right now with everyone else who is alive.

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Speaker 2: And so what we do with this inheritance everyone who's

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Speaker 2: fought every one of those battles before it has come

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Speaker 2: through to us. It's going to define us in the

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Speaker 2: eyes of history. It's going to determine what is possible

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Speaker 2: for this country. And it is ours to lose right now.

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Speaker 2: So everyone into this fight with all that you've got,

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Speaker 2: wherever you are. If we hang together, if we come

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Speaker 2: together right now, if we fight together, we are going

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Speaker 2: to win this together.

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Speaker 1: I mean I'm going to end right there, brother that

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Speaker 1: I love your passion. Most importantly, I love your action,

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Speaker 1: and I run on mind everybody you have agency. We're

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Speaker 1: not by standards in this world, and it is about

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Speaker 1: sharing your passion with action, and I think that's the

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Speaker 1: most important thing we need to communicate with folks. It's

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Speaker 1: not good enough to identify a problem. It's not good

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Speaker 1: enough to as you began, I thought so eloquently, sort

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Speaker 1: of sit back and hope that the guy or galon

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Speaker 1: the white horse is going to come save the day.

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Speaker 1: It's the person sitting there in the morning in the mirror,

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Speaker 1: and that's the person we need right now. People need

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Speaker 1: to show up, People need to exercise their voice, people

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Speaker 1: need to share that in authentic ways. Bet O'Rourke, thanks

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Speaker 1: for all you're doing, powered by people. Keep up the

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Speaker 1: great work, my friend.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Man are yours?

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Speaker 1: Thank you, brother,