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00:02:47.360 This is Gavin Newsom.

00:02:59.280 And this is Beto O'Rourke.

00:03:03.040 Hey.

00:03:03.740 How you doing, brother?

00:03:05.180 I'm doing okay.

00:03:06.040 I'm back in El Paso.

00:03:07.340 This is home, so...

00:03:08.860 You should not be in El Paso.

00:03:10.780 You should be preparing.

00:03:12.120 Get a toothbrush.

00:03:13.580 You're on your way to jail, my friend.

00:03:15.220 I just read Paxton's latest missive.

00:03:17.740 He says, lock him up.

00:03:18.880 Lock him up.

00:03:20.100 That's right.

00:03:20.680 If Twitter can be believed,

00:03:22.720 that's where I'm headed next.

00:03:24.640 But for the time being,

00:03:25.940 I get to hang with family,

00:03:27.020 which is pretty nice.

00:03:28.180 But, I mean, on a serious note,

00:03:29.620 I mean,

00:03:30.720 I mean, guys,

00:03:31.660 the Attorney General of the state of Texas

00:03:33.500 said in a tweet,

00:03:36.020 Beto O'Rourke needs to be locked up,

00:03:38.500 not just hunted down,

00:03:40.080 but now locked up.

00:03:41.140 I mean, you've got to hunt a serious note.

00:03:42.460 You've got to tell me

00:03:43.300 you haven't had a private attorney or someone.

00:03:45.480 You're literally gaming this out.

00:03:46.920 You've got to game it out, right?

00:03:48.600 Yeah.

00:03:48.860 I mean, here's the thing

00:03:50.100 that everyone should know.

00:03:52.600 One,

00:03:53.480 they're trying to stop us

00:03:54.760 from exercising

00:03:55.780 our First Amendment

00:03:57.340 constitutionally protected right

00:03:58.920 to say what we want to say

00:04:01.080 about the politics of this country,

00:04:02.660 about the attempted theft

00:04:03.980 of these five congressional seats,

00:04:06.300 our encouragement to governors

00:04:08.880 such as yourself

00:04:09.680 to use their full power

00:04:11.240 to maximize

00:04:12.120 democratic congressional control

00:04:14.400 of the districts

00:04:15.100 within their states.

00:04:16.480 I mean,

00:04:16.720 this is the fight

00:04:17.720 that is taking place right now,

00:04:19.340 and they're trying to

00:04:20.740 take us out of this fight

00:04:21.860 by seeking to intimidate us

00:04:23.700 in the courts.

00:04:24.620 And now,

00:04:25.580 as you just referred to,

00:04:27.560 Ken Paxson is on Twitter saying,

00:04:29.480 lock him up.

00:04:30.680 And what they're,

00:04:32.060 Gavin,

00:04:32.260 this is what I think is going on.

00:04:33.640 Over the last seven,

00:04:35.780 eight months,

00:04:36.300 we've watched the wealthiest,

00:04:38.080 the most powerful people

00:04:39.780 and institutions

00:04:40.620 in this country

00:04:41.640 bend the knee.

00:04:42.380 The Ivy League universities,

00:04:44.020 Harvard may settle

00:04:44.940 for 500 million this week.

00:04:48.080 The big law firms,

00:04:49.920 Paramount,

00:04:50.700 CBS,

00:04:52.780 Zuckerberg,

00:04:54.620 Bezos,

00:04:55.680 all of them

00:04:56.280 are bending the knee.

00:04:57.180 And then they come to Texas

00:04:58.160 in this effort

00:04:58.800 to steal these five seats,

00:05:00.020 assuming

00:05:00.300 that we're going

00:05:01.880 to do the same.

00:05:03.280 And when our knees

00:05:04.120 don't bend,

00:05:05.220 they don't like that so much.

00:05:06.680 And so,

00:05:07.300 they not only seek

00:05:08.520 to vacate the seats

00:05:09.580 of the 54

00:05:10.400 statehouse Dems

00:05:11.920 who have broken quorum

00:05:13.060 to stop this deal,

00:05:14.460 they're threatening them

00:05:15.240 with second-degree felonies,

00:05:17.580 they're sending the FBI

00:05:18.860 and state troopers

00:05:19.900 after them,

00:05:20.760 but now they're suing us

00:05:21.980 successively,

00:05:22.800 many times

00:05:23.420 over the last few days

00:05:24.620 in state court here,

00:05:26.160 and now threatening

00:05:26.740 to put me in jail.

00:05:28.120 So,

00:05:28.840 this is where we are

00:05:30.000 right now,

00:05:30.560 and this is why

00:05:31.580 at this moment

00:05:32.260 we need people

00:05:32.960 to stand and fight.

00:05:34.640 Every single time

00:05:35.820 someone bends

00:05:37.260 the knee to these guys,

00:05:38.700 they get more powerful,

00:05:40.120 there's more momentum

00:05:40.840 behind them,

00:05:41.680 and it's going to be

00:05:42.600 just tougher for us

00:05:43.540 to succeed.

00:05:44.180 And if we don't,

00:05:45.280 I think this is

00:05:46.060 for all the marbles.

00:05:46.900 This is the ball game

00:05:47.800 in the summer of 2025,

00:05:49.340 not just the election

00:05:50.260 of 2026,

00:05:51.260 but whether there's

00:05:52.300 going to be

00:05:52.640 the consolidation

00:05:53.280 of authoritarian control

00:05:54.780 in the hands

00:05:55.640 of this president.

00:05:56.240 So,

00:05:56.740 we cannot be found

00:05:57.780 wanting right now.

00:05:58.540 We've got to fight

00:05:59.060 with all we've got.

00:06:00.220 I love it,

00:06:00.640 and so much to unpack

00:06:02.700 in everything you just said,

00:06:04.160 but let me just go back

00:06:05.340 a little bit,

00:06:05.940 just create some

00:06:06.700 situational awareness

00:06:07.640 for folks.

00:06:09.080 Quite literally,

00:06:09.920 just a few hours ago,

00:06:10.840 we were referencing

00:06:11.380 that tweet

00:06:11.920 where the attorney general

00:06:13.400 of the state of Texas

00:06:14.140 talked about locking you up,

00:06:15.700 but you referenced

00:06:16.580 powered by the people

00:06:17.900 or powered by people,

00:06:19.220 which is your PAC.

00:06:20.220 There was a lawsuit

00:06:21.920 by that same attorney general.

00:06:23.600 There was a court order

00:06:25.580 by a Abbott,

00:06:27.700 Governor Abbott

00:06:28.620 appointed judge

00:06:30.220 that did a temporary injunction,

00:06:33.100 and he's what,

00:06:33.900 asserting now

00:06:34.820 that you have broken

00:06:36.580 the tenets of the TRO

00:06:38.380 as it relates to the PAC?

00:06:40.040 Maybe illuminate us more

00:06:41.120 of what at least

00:06:42.160 he's asserting,

00:06:43.820 and then give us the facts.

00:06:46.200 We had a big rally planned

00:06:47.780 on Saturday in Fort Worth

00:06:49.420 in Tarrant County

00:06:50.320 in North Texas,

00:06:50.980 just next to Dallas

00:06:52.760 in the north part

00:06:53.860 of our state.

00:06:54.980 And so he went

00:06:56.000 to state court

00:06:57.380 in Fort Worth

00:06:58.840 in front of this

00:07:00.000 Abbott appointed judge,

00:07:00.940 as you pointed out,

00:07:01.900 4.30 on Friday

00:07:03.400 with almost,

00:07:04.620 and I think actually

00:07:05.280 no notice to our side,

00:07:07.840 filing a temporary

00:07:09.660 restraining order request

00:07:10.900 to stop me

00:07:11.680 from being able

00:07:12.260 to hold the rally,

00:07:13.560 from being able

00:07:14.080 to raise resources

00:07:15.040 for those who are

00:07:15.980 in this fight,

00:07:17.280 and for even being able

00:07:18.700 to speak.

00:07:19.220 But the TRO

00:07:20.780 that they got

00:07:21.400 was so incredibly

00:07:22.800 narrow in scope.

00:07:24.320 There are some very

00:07:24.960 technical, specific things

00:07:26.580 that I can't say,

00:07:27.560 and I have not said them,

00:07:28.960 but I've continued

00:07:29.940 to rally,

00:07:31.160 to fight,

00:07:31.780 to raise,

00:07:32.860 and to speak my mind.

00:07:33.800 And we did all that

00:07:34.580 in Fort Worth

00:07:35.180 on Saturday

00:07:35.940 in front of thousands

00:07:37.120 of fired up people

00:07:38.720 who want to make sure

00:07:39.960 that this theft

00:07:40.920 of these five congressional seats

00:07:42.420 does not proceed

00:07:43.400 in the state of Texas,

00:07:44.500 and that we stop,

00:07:45.600 you know,

00:07:46.140 finding ourselves

00:07:46.880 on the back foot

00:07:47.700 or on the defense,

00:07:48.420 but we take the fight

00:07:49.620 to them.

00:07:50.160 We go on offense.

00:07:51.920 We don't await the punch

00:07:53.120 to be thrown 0.99

00:07:53.740 by these would-be fascists. 0.98

00:07:55.420 We throw ours first 0.76

00:07:56.280 and we throw it harder.

00:07:57.560 That was the spirit

00:07:58.400 in Fort Worth

00:07:59.060 on Saturday,

00:07:59.680 and they didn't like that.

00:08:00.620 And so,

00:08:01.400 at the crack of dawn today,

00:08:03.080 they file this request

00:08:06.100 for the judge

00:08:06.680 to find me

00:08:07.100 in criminal contempt,

00:08:08.260 to lock me up,

00:08:09.180 put me behind bars,

00:08:10.160 and literally physically

00:08:11.360 prevent me

00:08:11.980 from continuing

00:08:12.640 to travel the state,

00:08:14.140 to hold rallies,

00:08:14.920 to meet with people,

00:08:15.740 to raise resources,

00:08:16.600 and to fight.

00:08:17.740 They just don't want us

00:08:19.020 to fight.

00:08:19.520 All the more reason

00:08:20.400 for us to fight

00:08:21.200 and very telling

00:08:23.180 about how panicked

00:08:24.440 and scared they are

00:08:25.500 if they cannot complete

00:08:26.680 this steal in Texas,

00:08:28.480 if they can stop us

00:08:30.180 from winning control

00:08:32.740 of,

00:08:33.380 or if they cannot

00:08:34.160 stop us

00:08:34.980 from winning control

00:08:36.160 of the House

00:08:36.540 of Representatives,

00:08:37.560 there's going to be

00:08:38.200 a check on their lawlessness.

00:08:39.760 There's going to be

00:08:40.100 accountability

00:08:40.520 for all the crimes

00:08:42.120 and corruption

00:08:42.660 that we see organized

00:08:43.700 out of the White House

00:08:44.420 right now,

00:08:45.040 and there's a very real

00:08:46.140 prospect that we'll have

00:08:47.160 free and fair elections

00:08:48.520 in 2028.

00:08:49.900 If we fail in this,

00:08:51.220 and this is what

00:08:51.660 they're counting on,

00:08:52.880 then that consolidation

00:08:53.800 of authoritarian power

00:08:55.080 proceeds at an even

00:08:56.580 increased pace,

00:08:57.760 and we've just seen

00:08:58.300 a blitzkrieg

00:08:59.120 over the last eight months.

00:09:00.940 That is just

00:09:01.820 the prelude

00:09:02.720 or the prologue

00:09:03.760 to what is going to happen

00:09:04.760 to America

00:09:05.280 over the next three

00:09:06.100 and a half years

00:09:06.760 if we're unsuccessful.

00:09:07.880 More masked,

00:09:09.140 plainclothes,

00:09:09.900 federal agents

00:09:10.540 without warrants

00:09:11.200 or badges,

00:09:12.320 sweeping fellow Americans

00:09:13.980 up off the streets,

00:09:14.980 more of Trump's

00:09:16.080 political opponents

00:09:16.880 targeted as I'm being

00:09:17.860 targeted right now

00:09:18.640 for vengeance

00:09:19.660 or retribution

00:09:20.420 or even political violence.

00:09:22.340 And we know

00:09:23.120 that a complicit

00:09:24.020 Republican-controlled Congress

00:09:25.800 will roll out

00:09:26.540 the red carpet

00:09:27.200 for a third Trump term.

00:09:28.720 So those are the stakes.

00:09:30.560 The election of 2026

00:09:31.880 is being decided right now

00:09:33.620 in the summer of 25,

00:09:34.940 and all of us

00:09:35.680 have to fight

00:09:36.480 with all that we've got

00:09:37.640 to make sure

00:09:38.340 that we win it

00:09:38.880 and win it now.

00:09:40.760 I want to go back.

00:09:42.260 You use the words

00:09:43.380 free and fair.

00:09:45.140 And I do think

00:09:45.760 it's important to pause.

00:09:46.820 And everything you said,

00:09:48.320 I agree.

00:09:48.940 And again,

00:09:49.340 I want to talk

00:09:50.460 much more about that.

00:09:51.900 But the notion

00:09:52.780 that they are trying

00:09:55.000 to stop you

00:09:56.320 from expressing yourself,

00:09:58.520 having a rally,

00:10:00.180 asserting your

00:10:00.860 fundamental constitution.

00:10:02.100 I mean,

00:10:02.500 I don't even want to go

00:10:03.180 into the obvious point, 0.88

00:10:04.600 but what the hell

00:10:05.420 is their assertion?

00:10:06.700 What do they say?

00:10:07.400 How could a judge

00:10:08.480 possibly do a TRO,

00:10:10.380 a temporary restraining order,

00:10:11.980 temporary injunction,

00:10:12.820 alleging that you've done what?

00:10:14.900 What was the assertion

00:10:16.300 on the basis

00:10:17.220 of what law

00:10:18.160 and what constitutional principle?

00:10:20.220 What were they claiming?

00:10:22.200 They're claiming

00:10:23.040 that our organization

00:10:24.780 powered by people

00:10:25.660 and that I personally

00:10:26.660 am attempting

00:10:27.680 to bribe

00:10:28.540 the 54 state House Democrats

00:10:31.080 who broke quorum

00:10:32.120 and left the state.

00:10:34.260 And you're bribing them

00:10:35.340 by doing what?

00:10:36.520 What's the assertion?

00:10:37.620 You bribe them

00:10:38.340 by you're handing,

00:10:39.520 are you doing cash envelopes?

00:10:41.060 Are you putting money

00:10:42.340 into their kids' bank accounts,

00:10:44.000 their spouses? 0.85

00:10:45.340 What are you doing exactly?

00:10:46.320 What is the assertion?

00:10:47.580 Not only are we not doing

00:10:48.840 any of those things

00:10:49.420 that you just mentioned,

00:10:50.160 I mean,

00:10:50.400 we literally have not written

00:10:51.700 a single check

00:10:52.920 to any of these

00:10:54.320 state legislators.

00:10:55.420 We're raising resources

00:10:56.580 to make sure

00:10:57.800 that all of us

00:10:58.800 can stay in this fight,

00:11:00.220 that we can stop this theft.

00:11:01.620 But yes,

00:11:02.140 they're asserting bribery,

00:11:03.440 which,

00:11:04.100 as you're pointing out,

00:11:05.540 is incredibly rich.

00:11:07.300 Ken Paxton himself

00:11:08.460 was not just accused

00:11:10.320 of bribery.

00:11:11.180 He was impeached

00:11:12.140 by the Texas legislature,

00:11:13.960 which, as you know,

00:11:14.700 is a Republican majority

00:11:15.940 institution.

00:11:17.080 Members of his own party

00:11:18.360 found him

00:11:19.140 or impeached him

00:11:20.380 for the accusation

00:11:22.760 of bribery.

00:11:24.380 And then you've got

00:11:24.920 the folks around him.

00:11:25.920 You know,

00:11:26.060 Greg Abbott,

00:11:26.620 the governor of Texas,

00:11:27.460 took $6 million

00:11:28.440 from an out-of-state billionaire,

00:11:30.960 Jeff Yass,

00:11:31.720 to unseat Republican members

00:11:34.740 of the state legislature

00:11:35.780 who were opposing

00:11:36.560 his voucher scheme,

00:11:37.700 which in plain terms

00:11:38.980 just means draining resources

00:11:40.360 from local schools

00:11:41.400 and cutting checks

00:11:42.560 to private schools,

00:11:43.620 which is just going

00:11:44.240 to decimate

00:11:44.940 public education

00:11:46.260 in the state of Texas.

00:11:47.180 And then we've got,

00:11:47.840 you know,

00:11:48.420 the president,

00:11:49.140 the bribery-in-chief,

00:11:50.100 who just reduced

00:11:51.360 Jelaine Maxwell's sentence,

00:11:53.560 you know,

00:11:53.860 reminder that she is 0.98

00:11:54.840 a convicted sex trafficker 0.99

00:11:56.880 of children, 0.97

00:11:57.840 of kids.

00:11:59.400 She's now at Camp Fed

00:12:00.960 outside of Bryan, Texas,

00:12:02.540 because presumably

00:12:03.540 she's playing ball

00:12:04.740 to hide Trump's complicity

00:12:06.820 to the degree he was

00:12:08.000 with Jeffrey Epstein.

00:12:09.640 You know,

00:12:09.780 the bribe to Eric Adams,

00:12:11.120 the quid pro quo

00:12:11.820 will drop the charges

00:12:12.800 against you

00:12:13.440 for bribery,

00:12:14.420 by the way,

00:12:15.400 if you will allow

00:12:16.420 our ICE agents

00:12:17.400 to run wild

00:12:18.260 on the streets

00:12:19.300 of your city.

00:12:20.120 The $400 million

00:12:21.180 from the Qataris,

00:12:22.580 the Trump meme coin

00:12:24.020 where anyone foreign

00:12:25.320 or domestic

00:12:26.060 can give any amount

00:12:27.100 of money

00:12:27.540 to purchase influence

00:12:29.120 and access

00:12:29.700 to the president

00:12:30.460 and his administration.

00:12:31.620 So, you know,

00:12:32.380 Joseph Goebbels

00:12:33.180 infamously said,

00:12:34.760 you know,

00:12:34.940 accuse your opponent

00:12:35.920 of the thing

00:12:36.760 that you yourself

00:12:37.600 are guilty of

00:12:38.660 and they're reading

00:12:39.640 that playbook

00:12:40.340 and they're running

00:12:41.040 those plays right now.

00:12:42.380 So, we have to make sure

00:12:43.840 that we fight

00:12:44.760 and not just fight back

00:12:45.880 but take the fight to them.

00:12:47.520 And I've just got to say

00:12:48.360 on behalf of the folks

00:12:49.420 that I'm working with

00:12:50.300 and listening to

00:12:51.240 across the state of Texas, 0.97

00:12:52.700 we are so damned

00:12:54.060 proud of you

00:12:54.800 and grateful to you

00:12:56.140 for taking this fight

00:12:57.380 to them.

00:12:57.880 Not waiting,

00:12:58.900 not reacting,

00:12:59.980 not watching see,

00:13:01.380 but taking the fight

00:13:02.120 to them.

00:13:02.460 We need more of that

00:13:03.460 across the country

00:13:04.160 right now.

00:13:05.180 Look, I appreciate that.

00:13:07.180 And look,

00:13:07.900 I appreciate

00:13:08.440 how reasonable

00:13:13.120 you are

00:13:14.060 under these

00:13:14.820 extraordinary circumstances.

00:13:16.760 Nothing about this

00:13:18.080 is normal.

00:13:19.440 Nothing about this

00:13:20.340 can be normalized.

00:13:22.800 Nothing about,

00:13:23.620 when people say

00:13:24.340 it's not surprising,

00:13:25.780 when people use

00:13:26.460 that phrase,

00:13:27.440 I recoil

00:13:28.440 because it makes me think

00:13:30.280 that they're somehow

00:13:31.580 accepting of it.

00:13:32.460 Well, it's not surprising.

00:13:33.620 It's not surprising.

00:13:34.780 It sure as hell

00:13:35.460 is surprising.

00:13:36.220 It's outrageous.

00:13:37.720 I mean,

00:13:37.960 the idea that you have

00:13:39.060 an attorney general

00:13:39.900 who himself

00:13:41.200 was accused of bribery,

00:13:42.800 again,

00:13:43.300 impeached by Republicans,

00:13:44.560 not just Democrats,

00:13:46.240 saying,

00:13:46.760 quote unquote,

00:13:47.100 he's going to hunt people down,

00:13:48.380 the Democrats

00:13:48.980 that left the state,

00:13:49.940 and now is locking,

00:13:51.180 going to lock you up. 0.75

00:13:52.700 That's serious.

00:13:53.540 I mean,

00:13:53.740 it's just,

00:13:54.120 it is serious.

00:13:54.760 And so I appreciate,

00:13:56.440 I appreciate how calm you are,

00:13:58.400 but it should scare the hell

00:14:01.080 out of everyone listening.

00:14:02.960 So I want to go back

00:14:03.840 just briefly.

00:14:05.080 You,

00:14:05.920 in 2021,

00:14:07.520 did similar work

00:14:09.620 on behalf of Democrats

00:14:11.460 that last time

00:14:12.620 left the state,

00:14:13.500 meaning this quorum break

00:14:15.860 occurred in 2021

00:14:17.740 in Texas

00:14:18.620 under different circumstances

00:14:20.340 on a different issue.

00:14:21.660 And my recollection is

00:14:23.320 that you,

00:14:24.180 Beto,

00:14:24.520 were out front

00:14:25.420 doing similar advocacy

00:14:27.280 or at least raising awareness

00:14:29.080 around this,

00:14:30.320 exercising your voice

00:14:31.300 and doing rallies

00:14:33.020 and calling people's attention

00:14:34.920 to this.

00:14:35.840 But you didn't,

00:14:37.260 to my knowledge,

00:14:38.020 experience anything

00:14:38.920 like you're experiencing today,

00:14:40.300 or is that inaccurate?

00:14:42.520 No,

00:14:42.760 you're exactly right.

00:14:43.860 And just to give people

00:14:44.920 some context,

00:14:45.660 Powered by People

00:14:46.300 is the largest

00:14:48.100 voter registration organization

00:14:50.120 in the state.

00:14:51.060 Hundreds of thousands

00:14:51.960 of Texans

00:14:52.640 are on the rolls

00:14:54.000 because of our volunteers

00:14:55.520 who literally go out there

00:14:57.100 and meet them

00:14:57.760 wherever they are

00:14:58.700 in the 254 counties of Texas.

00:15:01.840 Unlike California,

00:15:02.860 in our state,

00:15:03.380 there's no online

00:15:04.300 voter registration

00:15:05.080 or automatic voter registration,

00:15:07.100 same-day voter registration.

00:15:08.280 So imagine the poor 18-year-old

00:15:10.140 who's got to figure out

00:15:11.220 how to print the form out,

00:15:12.680 fill it out correctly,

00:15:13.720 find an envelope

00:15:14.460 and a stamp, 0.99

00:15:15.880 mail that sucker in 0.98

00:15:16.920 to the county registrar's office, 0.98

00:15:18.800 and then follow up on it

00:15:20.060 to get their voter registration card.

00:15:21.700 They're obviously targeting

00:15:22.880 these young people

00:15:23.800 because they fear them.

00:15:25.100 They don't want them to vote.

00:15:26.140 They don't want their voice heard.

00:15:27.520 They don't want their ballot

00:15:28.380 cast or counted

00:15:29.540 because that threatens

00:15:31.040 their purchase on power.

00:15:32.620 And so here's Powered by People

00:15:34.240 getting out there,

00:15:35.220 registering these young people,

00:15:36.480 staying in touch

00:15:37.120 with these young people

00:15:38.060 to ensure that they actually

00:15:39.680 get a chance

00:15:40.760 to participate in our politics.

00:15:42.580 It's that kind of work.

00:15:43.840 It's the support

00:15:44.640 of these Texas House Dems

00:15:47.120 and the larger fight

00:15:48.540 for democracy.

00:15:49.600 Look, just the right to vote

00:15:51.180 and to have free

00:15:52.260 and fair elections

00:15:53.040 and to make sure

00:15:54.120 that you have one person,

00:15:55.300 one vote in the state of Texas,

00:15:57.100 which has been

00:15:58.300 under constant attack

00:15:59.780 since Shelby v. Holder

00:16:01.040 was decided in 2013.

00:16:03.060 Literally, Gavin,

00:16:03.780 within minutes

00:16:04.360 of that decision,

00:16:05.840 the state of Texas

00:16:07.000 imposed the toughest

00:16:08.380 voter ID law

00:16:09.520 in the country.

00:16:11.480 You know,

00:16:11.620 you can use your license

00:16:12.620 to carry a firearm

00:16:13.640 to prove who you are

00:16:14.900 at the polling place,

00:16:15.880 but you dare not use

00:16:17.240 your ID

00:16:17.700 at the University of Texas

00:16:18.640 at El Paso

00:16:19.420 to do the same.

00:16:21.080 So they're going

00:16:21.960 after these young people.

00:16:23.240 They're going after

00:16:23.760 communities of color.

00:16:24.760 They're going after

00:16:25.460 Texans who live

00:16:27.240 in lower-income neighborhoods.

00:16:28.700 They just fear their power.

00:16:31.160 And there's a reason

00:16:31.860 that millions of Texans

00:16:32.940 don't vote.

00:16:33.720 It's not that they're lazy.

00:16:34.920 It's not that they don't

00:16:35.520 love this democracy.

00:16:36.500 It's not that they don't

00:16:37.000 care about the issues.

00:16:38.320 It's that they've literally

00:16:39.160 been drawn out.

00:16:40.220 And so they see us,

00:16:42.060 and I think rightfully so,

00:16:43.840 as a threat to this system

00:16:45.500 that is inherently

00:16:46.820 anti-democratic.

00:16:48.020 And they're not only

00:16:48.540 trying to silence us

00:16:49.780 from speaking out

00:16:50.740 about this theft right now,

00:16:52.160 they're trying to stop us

00:16:53.360 from doing this important

00:16:54.560 voter registration,

00:16:55.780 pro-democracy work

00:16:56.800 here in the state of Texas.

00:16:58.660 And, Bader,

00:16:58.900 you started, what,

00:16:59.820 2019,

00:17:00.860 powered by people?

00:17:02.660 Absolutely.

00:17:03.500 Yeah.

00:17:03.780 And in the midst of the,

00:17:05.060 you know,

00:17:05.540 primarily organized

00:17:06.560 around voter registration,

00:17:07.720 but in the midst

00:17:08.340 of the pandemic,

00:17:09.040 you know,

00:17:09.880 older Texans

00:17:10.920 were leaving

00:17:11.720 their volunteer shifts

00:17:12.700 at the food banks

00:17:13.500 because they were

00:17:14.540 more susceptible

00:17:15.480 to the virus.

00:17:16.600 Understandable,

00:17:17.480 our volunteers

00:17:18.280 filled tens of thousands

00:17:19.980 of man hours

00:17:20.900 at food banks

00:17:21.500 all across the state

00:17:22.420 of Texas

00:17:22.820 when the geniuses

00:17:24.440 in charge

00:17:25.060 in the next year,

00:17:26.020 2021,

00:17:27.220 could not keep

00:17:28.040 the power flowing

00:17:29.040 in the energy capital

00:17:30.000 of the world,

00:17:30.900 and the heat stopped running,

00:17:32.320 and the lights went off,

00:17:33.280 and the water pipes froze.

00:17:35.080 Our volunteers

00:17:35.680 made more than

00:17:36.340 a million phone calls

00:17:37.680 to seniors

00:17:38.540 across the state

00:17:39.220 of Texas.

00:17:40.120 We could have cared less

00:17:41.060 if they were Republicans

00:17:41.920 or Democrats

00:17:42.500 or independents,

00:17:43.500 but we connected them

00:17:44.700 to warming centers,

00:17:45.660 to resources,

00:17:46.560 to food,

00:17:47.560 to drinking water.

00:17:48.980 We raised nearly

00:17:49.800 a million dollars

00:17:50.720 to distribute

00:17:51.440 for local infrastructure

00:17:53.120 and communities

00:17:53.740 where their water systems

00:17:55.860 had broken,

00:17:56.720 where they needed help

00:17:57.680 immediately,

00:17:58.340 and could not wait

00:17:59.120 on Ted Cruz

00:18:00.220 to come back

00:18:00.740 from Cancun

00:18:01.420 or Greg Abbott

00:18:02.300 to actually focus

00:18:04.120 on the needs

00:18:04.960 that we had

00:18:05.400 at the time.

00:18:06.060 So this group

00:18:07.180 does a lot of great work,

00:18:08.660 and Gavin,

00:18:09.180 they're all volunteers,

00:18:10.100 okay?

00:18:10.660 So these are everyday Texans

00:18:12.540 who go through the trouble

00:18:13.740 of getting certified

00:18:14.920 and trained

00:18:16.040 as volunteer deputy registrars,

00:18:17.640 deployed out

00:18:18.300 to the places

00:18:18.920 where people need

00:18:20.020 to get registered

00:18:20.580 to vote,

00:18:21.040 and then do all this

00:18:21.920 other great work

00:18:22.880 for the people of Texas.

00:18:24.240 That is what is

00:18:25.180 being attacked right now.

00:18:26.220 That's the threat

00:18:27.000 that Ken Paxton,

00:18:27.880 Greg Abbott,

00:18:28.720 and Donald Trump

00:18:29.440 see in us.

00:18:30.080 American history

00:18:34.200 is full

00:18:35.720 of wise people.

00:18:37.780 What women said 1.00

00:18:38.440 something like,

00:18:39.100 you know,

00:18:39.260 99.99% of war

00:18:40.960 is diarrhea

00:18:41.680 and 1%

00:18:42.600 is gory.

00:18:44.120 Those founding fathers

00:18:45.240 were gossipy

00:18:47.400 AF,

00:18:48.240 and they loved

00:18:48.840 to cut each other down.

00:18:50.220 I'm Bob Crawford,

00:18:51.440 host of American History

00:18:52.760 Hotline,

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00:18:54.320 you send us

00:18:55.020 your questions

00:18:55.620 about American history

00:18:56.760 and I find the answers,

00:18:58.580 including the nuggets

00:19:00.180 of wisdom

00:19:00.840 our history

00:19:01.660 has to offer.

00:19:02.980 Hamilton pauses

00:19:03.760 and then he says

00:19:04.740 the greatest man

00:19:05.900 that ever lived

00:19:06.480 was Julius Caesar

00:19:07.800 and Jefferson writes

00:19:09.440 in his diary

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00:19:11.040 that Hamilton

00:19:11.600 is for a dictator

00:19:13.500 based on corruption.

00:19:15.220 My favorite line

00:19:16.160 was what Neil Armstrong

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00:24:08.780 A few years later

00:24:09.920 after you started

00:24:10.480 the organization,

00:24:11.360 obviously with the quorum

00:24:12.580 break in 2021

00:24:13.580 around electoral issues,

00:24:15.940 there was no $500,

00:24:17.260 my understanding,

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00:24:19.500 at the time

00:24:20.760 for breaking quorum.

00:24:22.040 Now that's established.

00:24:23.940 So these guys are all,

00:24:25.040 I mean, all your,

00:24:25.760 you know,

00:24:25.940 these are your friends

00:24:26.420 a lot of them.

00:24:28.260 There's 54

00:24:29.200 that are out of the state.

00:24:30.880 They're subject

00:24:31.620 to these fines

00:24:32.420 that have accrued,

00:24:33.240 what, over the last,

00:24:34.340 how many days?

00:24:36.200 Yeah, I mean,

00:24:36.500 I think we're approaching

00:24:38.060 two weeks here.

00:24:39.080 It's $500 a day

00:24:40.280 per person.

00:24:41.380 And these guys make what?

00:24:42.640 $600?

00:24:44.460 This is a full-time job

00:24:46.580 that pays

00:24:47.260 an extraordinary amount

00:24:48.620 of money

00:24:49.000 the legislature

00:24:50.000 in Texas

00:24:50.700 or not?

00:24:52.140 Is it not

00:24:52.820 a full-time job

00:24:53.860 and it doesn't pay

00:24:54.940 an exorbitant amount

00:24:55.900 of money?

00:24:56.180 They make $7,200

00:24:58.300 a year

00:24:59.120 for being state

00:25:00.720 legislators

00:25:01.200 in a state

00:25:02.640 of 31 million

00:25:03.920 people,

00:25:05.520 you know,

00:25:05.920 just behind California

00:25:07.120 as one of the largest

00:25:07.840 economies

00:25:08.320 on the planet

00:25:09.560 today.

00:25:10.720 Extraordinary challenges,

00:25:11.920 right?

00:25:12.160 You know,

00:25:12.560 Texas leads the nation

00:25:13.940 in school shootings

00:25:14.760 more than three years

00:25:15.720 after Uvalde.

00:25:16.640 There's 19 kids,

00:25:17.760 there's two teachers

00:25:18.400 who were slaughtered

00:25:19.000 in that classroom.

00:25:20.040 Nothing has changed.

00:25:20.920 And these Democratic

00:25:22.020 state legislators

00:25:22.780 are doing their best

00:25:24.000 within a very

00:25:25.340 challenging situation

00:25:26.480 to change that,

00:25:27.360 the minimum wage,

00:25:28.640 expanding Medicaid,

00:25:30.080 ensuring women 1.00

00:25:31.020 can make their own

00:25:31.720 decisions about

00:25:32.380 their own body

00:25:33.120 and their own future

00:25:34.000 and their own

00:25:34.500 health care.

00:25:35.640 And for trying

00:25:37.500 to do that,

00:25:38.860 they are,

00:25:39.400 as you pointed out,

00:25:40.040 being hunted down

00:25:41.060 in the words

00:25:41.800 of the governor

00:25:42.320 and the attorney general,

00:25:44.200 John Cornyn,

00:25:44.940 crowing that he's met

00:25:45.880 with Kash Patel

00:25:46.700 and they're going

00:25:47.000 to send the long arm

00:25:47.880 of the FBI

00:25:49.060 after them as well.

00:25:51.020 So this is what

00:25:51.960 they're up against.

00:25:52.780 And I just want everyone

00:25:53.980 to just understand

00:25:55.380 those 54

00:25:56.840 are one of the very

00:25:58.460 last lines of defense,

00:26:00.360 not just between us

00:26:01.920 and the theft

00:26:02.400 of these five

00:26:03.040 congressional districts

00:26:03.940 in Texas,

00:26:05.020 but between us

00:26:06.480 and a different form

00:26:07.620 of government

00:26:08.120 altogether.

00:26:09.060 My theory of the case,

00:26:10.180 Gavin,

00:26:10.400 and I want to hear yours

00:26:11.200 in response,

00:26:12.060 is that if we fail

00:26:13.980 to stop this

00:26:14.640 and if we fail

00:26:15.420 to win power

00:26:16.260 in 2026,

00:26:17.860 this consolidation

00:26:19.160 of authoritarian power

00:26:20.700 in the hands

00:26:21.600 of the president

00:26:22.180 is going to become

00:26:23.520 almost unstoppable.

00:26:25.020 I'll never say never

00:26:25.980 and I'll never stop fighting.

00:26:27.220 I know you won't either

00:26:28.160 and there are tens,

00:26:29.840 I hope hundreds

00:26:30.360 of millions of Americans

00:26:31.280 who are with us on this,

00:26:33.020 but they have

00:26:33.820 the Supreme Court,

00:26:34.860 if they have the House

00:26:35.640 and the Senate again,

00:26:36.800 the White House,

00:26:38.000 you know,

00:26:38.160 the tech billionaires,

00:26:39.360 all of these institutions

00:26:40.720 that are bending

00:26:41.240 the knee right now,

00:26:42.400 this fight becomes

00:26:43.660 so much harder.

00:26:45.500 So that's why

00:26:46.900 I'm so keyed up right now.

00:26:48.440 That's why we're fighting

00:26:49.180 so hard against Paxton

00:26:50.660 and these threats

00:26:51.280 of arrest and imprisonment 0.99

00:26:52.500 and all this bullshit 0.99

00:26:53.300 that they're trying 1.00

00:26:54.300 to lay on us right now

00:26:55.420 because if we don't succeed,

00:26:57.200 if we're found wanting

00:26:58.080 right now,

00:26:59.160 it is nearly impossible

00:27:00.920 in the next turn

00:27:02.380 after 2026.

00:27:03.420 But I'd love to hear

00:27:04.600 how you see things

00:27:05.660 from your perspective

00:27:06.840 in California

00:27:07.740 and you've met

00:27:08.800 with these Texas legislators,

00:27:10.040 you're meeting with people

00:27:10.940 across the country,

00:27:11.840 we've been watching

00:27:12.880 what you're doing.

00:27:13.940 How do you see

00:27:14.720 the terms of this fight

00:27:15.740 right now?

00:27:16.540 Well, let me just

00:27:17.020 in very pointed

00:27:18.600 and sober terms

00:27:19.620 distill the essence

00:27:21.020 of why I couldn't

00:27:22.480 agree with you more.

00:27:23.640 I received from

00:27:24.740 one of Trump's team,

00:27:26.480 one of his biggest supporters,

00:27:28.160 a 2028 Trump hat.

00:27:30.120 They're not screwing around.

00:27:31.640 When you talk about

00:27:32.280 a red carpet

00:27:32.780 or third term,

00:27:33.440 you're not exaggerating.

00:27:35.040 Everybody listening,

00:27:36.160 pay attention to this.

00:27:37.620 They're not making

00:27:38.180 this thing up.

00:27:39.220 Once a mind is stretched,

00:27:40.820 it never goes back

00:27:41.600 to its original form.

00:27:43.300 Trump throws things out,

00:27:45.000 sees what the reaction is,

00:27:46.720 and that Overton window

00:27:47.700 opens further and further,

00:27:49.140 wider and wider.

00:27:50.560 This is serious stuff.

00:27:52.180 Every single thing

00:27:53.240 you've said,

00:27:54.540 we need to reinforce.

00:27:57.220 And I want to reflect more

00:27:58.560 on what you've said

00:27:59.600 and unpack it

00:28:00.380 for people listening.

00:28:02.180 But I do not,

00:28:03.240 this is code red.

00:28:04.580 You've described it

00:28:05.360 as a pre-Civil War crisis.

00:28:07.160 I don't think

00:28:07.700 it's a gross exaggeration.

00:28:08.620 I don't think

00:28:08.920 it's exaggeration at all.

00:28:11.400 I mean,

00:28:11.800 the fact that

00:28:12.780 they're talking about

00:28:13.360 hunting people down,

00:28:14.420 using that language,

00:28:15.820 the fact that

00:28:16.420 a U.S. senator

00:28:17.080 who's running for re-election

00:28:18.860 against the same Paxton

00:28:20.060 that was impeached

00:28:21.100 by his own Republican colleagues

00:28:22.820 and desperate for attention

00:28:24.820 to get in on this,

00:28:26.340 calls the FBI director

00:28:27.640 and he somehow concurs

00:28:29.600 that the FBI

00:28:30.220 should be unleashed

00:28:31.060 on people

00:28:32.000 that are advancing

00:28:33.020 their own constitutional rights

00:28:34.160 of free speech.

00:28:35.280 A quorum,

00:28:35.620 that's as old as,

00:28:36.620 you know,

00:28:37.440 mom and apple pie

00:28:38.560 in America's system.

00:28:39.940 The minority 0.99

00:28:40.640 exercising their rights 0.72

00:28:42.120 against the tyranny

00:28:42.940 of the majority.

00:28:44.300 So this is real,

00:28:45.540 this is in every way

00:28:46.880 a petri dish

00:28:47.600 for what's happening.

00:28:48.900 But look,

00:28:49.780 I think the challenges

00:28:50.900 for all of us

00:28:51.700 is with all 0.99

00:28:52.840 the damn distractions 1.00

00:28:53.860 24-7, 1.00

00:28:55.640 how the hell

00:28:56.240 do we,

00:28:56.820 how do we avoid

00:28:58.380 being distracted

00:28:59.780 by these distractions?

00:29:01.980 To me,

00:29:02.520 this is the whole 1.00

00:29:03.380 damn game. 0.99

00:29:05.680 This is about 1.00

00:29:06.380 rigging the system.

00:29:07.640 This is the architecture

00:29:08.660 that makes everything

00:29:09.420 else possible.

00:29:10.520 You opened up

00:29:11.300 about what it's

00:29:12.180 really all about

00:29:13.700 as it relates

00:29:14.120 to health care

00:29:14.760 and tax cuts

00:29:15.520 and power,

00:29:16.460 not just parties.

00:29:17.920 But how the hell

00:29:18.900 do we keep people

00:29:20.160 focused on the essential?

00:29:22.540 What's happening

00:29:23.140 in your state

00:29:23.780 and I'll get to

00:29:24.260 what's happening

00:29:24.720 in my state

00:29:25.220 in a moment,

00:29:26.020 but my state of mind,

00:29:27.440 your state of mind

00:29:28.320 that I think

00:29:29.740 recognizes this moment

00:29:31.260 that we're in

00:29:31.960 and how perilous it is.

00:29:33.560 Yeah,

00:29:33.700 I think we show up

00:29:34.600 for people

00:29:35.120 and we get out there

00:29:36.500 and we fight

00:29:37.580 in every,

00:29:38.700 in any way we can.

00:29:40.520 We don't know

00:29:41.060 what's going to work,

00:29:41.940 but we know

00:29:42.520 what won't work.

00:29:43.300 If we sit back,

00:29:44.360 if we watch this,

00:29:45.080 if we hope,

00:29:45.560 if we pray,

00:29:46.580 if we expect someone

00:29:47.600 to come in

00:29:48.300 and ride to our rescue,

00:29:50.200 we're cooked.

00:29:51.120 I mean,

00:29:51.340 this thing is absolutely over.

00:29:54.580 You're a dad,

00:29:55.260 I'm a dad,

00:29:56.140 my conscience is my kids.

00:29:58.500 My greatest fear

00:29:59.380 is having to answer to them.

00:30:00.460 They're like,

00:30:00.780 hey dad, 0.99

00:30:01.480 when all this shit 0.99

00:30:02.120 was going down, 1.00

00:30:03.180 what the fuck did you do? 0.99

00:30:04.240 What were you guys thinking? 1.00

00:30:05.260 This guy promised you

00:30:06.240 he was going to be

00:30:07.000 a dictator on day one.

00:30:08.700 He told you

00:30:09.200 this was going to be

00:30:09.640 the last election

00:30:10.520 you would ever have

00:30:11.400 to vote in.

00:30:12.500 And then when he was

00:30:13.120 in office,

00:30:13.600 he defied the federal courts,

00:30:15.220 he dismantled

00:30:16.000 congressionally chartered

00:30:17.020 programs,

00:30:17.960 he covered up 0.94

00:30:18.740 for child sex traffickers, 0.72

00:30:20.400 he colluded 0.84

00:30:20.840 with corrupt public officials,

00:30:22.080 he dispensed

00:30:23.000 with every constitutional

00:30:24.180 safeguard,

00:30:24.880 including due process.

00:30:26.140 What did you guys do?

00:30:27.080 And I had better say,

00:30:28.340 you know,

00:30:28.480 and you had better say,

00:30:29.520 and everyone watching

00:30:30.460 had better say.

00:30:31.600 Not only did we do our best,

00:30:34.180 but we overcame

00:30:35.320 this challenge,

00:30:36.260 just as America

00:30:36.980 has overcome

00:30:37.560 every serious threat

00:30:38.980 before.

00:30:39.680 It wasn't easy,

00:30:40.780 it wasn't tough.

00:30:41.680 Some folks got locked up

00:30:42.720 in the process,

00:30:43.860 some people got hurt,

00:30:45.440 and it was the most

00:30:47.120 trying time of our life.

00:30:48.980 But we came through

00:30:49.980 because we knew

00:30:51.420 that there would be

00:30:52.260 a reckoning

00:30:52.780 and an accounting

00:30:53.540 from the generations

00:30:54.420 that follow.

00:30:55.480 I mean,

00:30:55.900 I can only imagine

00:30:56.760 the history books

00:30:57.740 written a hundred years

00:30:58.620 from now

00:30:58.920 looking at the people

00:31:00.080 of 2025.

00:31:01.820 It's the way,

00:31:02.620 you know,

00:31:02.960 you and I,

00:31:03.500 when we were in school,

00:31:04.160 we're looking at the people

00:31:05.020 in Germany in 1933.

00:31:06.740 That guy's named Chancellor

00:31:08.380 in January of that year

00:31:09.440 in 53 days.

00:31:11.200 He has destroyed

00:31:11.960 German democracy.

00:31:13.620 The parliament

00:31:15.020 or the Congress,

00:31:16.260 their legislature

00:31:17.020 passed these enabling laws,

00:31:18.660 just like the Republicans

00:31:19.620 are doing in Congress today

00:31:20.800 that said,

00:31:21.340 anything you want,

00:31:22.640 you go out and do it.

00:31:23.880 And he goes from being this, 0.97

00:31:25.000 buffoonish, 1.00

00:31:26.580 clownish thug 1.00

00:31:27.480 who can barely hold power 1.00

00:31:28.820 to the undisputed master

00:31:30.540 and dictator

00:31:31.200 of the German people. 1.00

00:31:32.840 And I know this shit 0.99

00:31:33.560 doesn't repeat, 0.99

00:31:34.780 but it sure is how it rhymes.

00:31:36.260 And we've got to be listening

00:31:37.220 to that right now

00:31:38.220 and acting with the urgency

00:31:39.940 that the moment demands from us.

00:31:41.940 And again,

00:31:42.760 I got to tell you,

00:31:43.440 I see you doing that right now.

00:31:45.260 I wish there were more

00:31:46.520 who were doing that.

00:31:47.660 I love what J.B. Pritzker

00:31:48.980 is doing in Illinois.

00:31:51.300 You know,

00:31:51.500 Kathy Hochul

00:31:52.140 has made some noise

00:31:53.280 in New York

00:31:53.820 that they're going to use

00:31:54.480 that power

00:31:54.960 they have there

00:31:55.640 to redistrict.

00:31:56.840 But Beto,

00:31:57.360 they need to use it.

00:31:58.580 I mean,

00:31:58.800 right now,

00:31:59.280 we're just,

00:31:59.700 forget the talking.

00:32:00.620 It's not about press.

00:32:01.480 I love those.

00:32:02.500 It's time to move.

00:32:03.780 You got to move.

00:32:04.820 I mean,

00:32:05.020 enough.

00:32:06.380 It's not,

00:32:06.960 I mean,

00:32:07.160 we're all saying

00:32:08.180 the right thing.

00:32:08.860 Now we got to do

00:32:09.560 the right thing,

00:32:10.420 which means we got

00:32:11.020 to fight fire with fire.

00:32:12.300 And back to your earlier question,

00:32:13.920 that's exactly

00:32:14.440 what we're doing.

00:32:15.160 We're going to,

00:32:15.820 later this week,

00:32:16.800 we're going to announce

00:32:17.380 the campaign.

00:32:18.420 Next week,

00:32:18.900 the legislature is going

00:32:19.740 to move this forward

00:32:20.640 with two-thirds.

00:32:21.920 We're going to get it

00:32:22.400 in a special election

00:32:23.320 on November 4th.

00:32:24.760 And we're going to fight

00:32:25.700 fire with fire.

00:32:26.760 We're going to neutralize

00:32:27.780 whatever Abbott does

00:32:28.940 next week

00:32:29.460 or whenever they move forward

00:32:30.820 the next special session.

00:32:32.320 We'll talk about that

00:32:33.120 in a second.

00:32:34.400 The likelihood

00:32:35.000 that they ultimately

00:32:35.920 will be successful

00:32:37.040 in Texas

00:32:37.960 and California

00:32:39.640 will move forward.

00:32:41.480 But we'll also,

00:32:42.760 hopefully,

00:32:43.160 inspire some other states.

00:32:45.060 There are many other

00:32:45.860 democratically-led states

00:32:47.200 that can move forward

00:32:49.000 and we just cannot

00:32:50.400 sit back passively.

00:32:51.980 And again,

00:32:52.280 it's not just Texas.

00:32:54.080 And forgive me,

00:32:54.740 I don't mean again.

00:32:55.700 Let's introduce that.

00:32:57.340 You've got the Vice President

00:32:58.180 of the United States

00:32:58.820 that was just sent out

00:32:59.900 not to console the families

00:33:01.720 of the 130, 140 plus

00:33:04.300 and maybe many, many more

00:33:05.900 that lost their lives

00:33:06.940 in the flood.

00:33:09.000 J.D. Vance was sent out

00:33:10.140 instead to Indiana

00:33:12.100 to begin the process

00:33:14.140 of redistricting there.

00:33:15.180 You've seen what is happening

00:33:16.780 in Florida,

00:33:17.900 what's already on autopilot

00:33:19.200 in Ohio.

00:33:20.760 They're hardly done here.

00:33:22.160 They're going to move.

00:33:23.440 They're going to run

00:33:23.900 the table on us.

00:33:25.160 They're rigging this election

00:33:26.160 in plain sight.

00:33:27.960 So this is back

00:33:28.720 to just code red.

00:33:29.920 We've got to move

00:33:30.520 from the rhetoric.

00:33:31.640 We have got to take action.

00:33:33.700 We've got to have your back.

00:33:34.900 We've got to have our kids back.

00:33:36.480 And I appreciate you

00:33:37.580 reminding us

00:33:38.340 you're 100% right.

00:33:40.000 No greater shame

00:33:41.080 than those kids

00:33:42.300 looking at us and saying,

00:33:43.040 where the hell were you, Dad? 1.00

00:33:44.900 No, no, no bullshit. 1.00

00:33:45.980 Don't tell me you didn't know. 1.00

00:33:47.360 Where the hell were you? 0.85

00:33:49.180 And I think that

00:33:49.900 for everybody,

00:33:50.760 that's the mark

00:33:52.080 of, you know,

00:33:53.520 that's the conscience

00:33:54.500 that we have to have

00:33:55.440 and we have to have

00:33:55.880 the character

00:33:56.460 now to stand tall

00:33:58.300 and have the conviction.

00:33:59.760 So, man,

00:34:00.180 I appreciate

00:34:00.760 what I love

00:34:01.840 about what you're doing

00:34:02.760 is

00:34:03.860 you're fighting

00:34:05.280 and you're on 1.00

00:34:06.720 your damn toes, 1.00

00:34:08.440 not on your heel. 1.00

00:34:10.760 And Beto,

00:34:11.240 this has been my issue

00:34:12.140 with my party

00:34:12.860 for the last

00:34:13.900 many years.

00:34:15.660 They're shape-shifting

00:34:16.820 everything.

00:34:18.260 We're constantly

00:34:19.220 responding to CRT,

00:34:20.780 DEI,

00:34:21.680 ESG.

00:34:22.860 I mean,

00:34:23.140 anything with three 0.99

00:34:24.060 damn letters, 0.99

00:34:25.100 IRS, 1.00

00:34:25.720 FBI,

00:34:26.320 when they want

00:34:26.820 to weaponize it,

00:34:27.880 EPA.

00:34:29.940 You know,

00:34:30.320 I love it.

00:34:31.600 You're saying,

00:34:32.120 you know,

00:34:32.600 we're going to punch 0.89

00:34:33.440 first. 0.94

00:34:35.240 And so,

00:34:35.880 forgive me,

00:34:36.400 I'm meandering here,

00:34:37.840 but the spirit

00:34:39.200 that you're bringing

00:34:41.000 to this fight

00:34:42.480 is the spirit

00:34:43.900 we need to bring

00:34:45.160 to every 0.99

00:34:45.880 damn fight 0.99

00:34:47.320 because that 1.00

00:34:48.100 Atlantic article

00:34:48.980 in January

00:34:49.900 that someone sent me

00:34:50.940 about the 53 days,

00:34:52.660 it scared the hell

00:34:53.860 out of me,

00:34:54.260 but I was honestly

00:34:55.060 timid to send it around

00:34:56.340 because anytime

00:34:57.580 you associate

00:34:58.240 anything with

00:34:59.420 what happened

00:34:59.940 in Germany

00:35:00.560 in the 30s

00:35:01.500 and Hitler, 0.58

00:35:02.040 everyone then

00:35:02.700 panics.

00:35:03.980 But that is a

00:35:04.740 must-read article

00:35:05.540 for anyone

00:35:06.340 that needs a little

00:35:07.260 brush-up

00:35:07.920 in their history lesson.

00:35:09.220 Everything you just said

00:35:10.360 is real.

00:35:12.080 It happened from within

00:35:13.340 and it happened 1.00

00:35:14.240 in 53 damn days. 0.99

00:35:15.980 We're just six months 0.99

00:35:17.600 in, Beto.

00:35:19.020 This guy's just

00:35:20.180 getting started.

00:35:22.580 Yeah,

00:35:22.680 that's right.

00:35:23.240 And just for those

00:35:24.300 who haven't read the article

00:35:25.240 or don't know this history,

00:35:26.660 over the course

00:35:27.320 of those 53 days

00:35:28.380 in 1933,

00:35:29.660 it wasn't as though

00:35:30.900 the German public

00:35:31.900 and the German politicians

00:35:32.880 were powerless.

00:35:33.720 The strength of that article

00:35:35.200 is that there were

00:35:35.780 so many opportunities

00:35:37.160 to stop this guy

00:35:38.500 that people passed on.

00:35:40.300 They thought the moment

00:35:41.660 to fight was down the road

00:35:43.180 or that the fight

00:35:43.840 wasn't important

00:35:45.300 or that this was just

00:35:46.680 going to be

00:35:47.140 a passing phase.

00:35:48.980 You kind of talked earlier

00:35:49.960 about normalizing this

00:35:51.100 and once the mind stretches,

00:35:52.600 it's hard to snap back

00:35:53.760 to our previous expectations

00:35:56.020 of how power is used.

00:35:57.740 But you said something else

00:35:58.640 that I really want to pick up on

00:36:00.660 about our own party,

00:36:02.120 which I fear

00:36:03.440 for too long

00:36:04.440 has been overly concerned

00:36:06.040 with being right

00:36:07.560 instead of being in power.

00:36:09.100 And what we've watched

00:36:10.180 is the rise

00:36:10.860 of a competing party

00:36:12.700 that is only concerned

00:36:13.720 about power.

00:36:14.380 It could care less

00:36:15.040 about being right

00:36:15.840 or being legal

00:36:16.580 or moral or ethical.

00:36:18.320 It is power.

00:36:19.460 And you pointed out

00:36:20.400 in 2021,

00:36:21.440 I was doing the exact

00:36:22.340 same things then

00:36:23.620 during a quorum break

00:36:24.680 where Democrats

00:36:25.340 left the state of Texas

00:36:26.380 as I am doing now.

00:36:27.880 There was no threat

00:36:28.720 to arrest me.

00:36:29.960 There were no charges

00:36:30.800 filed in the parent

00:36:31.720 county court.

00:36:32.300 There was no effort

00:36:33.100 to vacate their seats

00:36:34.140 or to hunt them down.

00:36:35.560 The reason is

00:36:36.480 because it's not about

00:36:37.320 the principle.

00:36:38.360 It is about the power.

00:36:39.380 And this is a word

00:36:39.960 of encouragement

00:36:40.460 to everybody.

00:36:41.140 I know we've been,

00:36:42.620 you know,

00:36:42.820 there's been some darkness

00:36:44.680 in this conversation,

00:36:45.840 which is just

00:36:47.440 an accurate reflection

00:36:48.540 of the conditions.

00:36:49.860 But I want to encourage

00:36:50.800 folks with this.

00:36:52.400 They are,

00:36:53.220 you know,

00:36:53.480 Trump,

00:36:54.240 Paxton,

00:36:54.860 Abbott,

00:36:55.280 the Republicans,

00:36:56.220 in full panic mode

00:36:58.080 right now.

00:36:59.200 These are signs

00:37:00.200 of desperation.

00:37:01.400 The reason

00:37:02.680 they're doing

00:37:03.140 all this

00:37:03.580 is they fully

00:37:04.840 understand

00:37:05.620 should they

00:37:06.740 not be able

00:37:07.740 to succeed

00:37:08.660 in this deal,

00:37:09.680 should they not

00:37:10.180 be able to hold

00:37:10.780 on to power

00:37:11.500 in the House,

00:37:12.620 there will be

00:37:13.060 a reckoning for them.

00:37:14.000 There will be

00:37:14.420 accountability.

00:37:15.380 There will be

00:37:16.060 a check on

00:37:16.960 their lawlessness.

00:37:18.300 And there will be

00:37:19.040 free and fair elections

00:37:20.340 as close as we can

00:37:21.160 get to it in America

00:37:22.160 in the 21st century

00:37:23.940 in 2028.

00:37:25.840 And so,

00:37:26.700 you know,

00:37:27.140 what's been chilling

00:37:28.180 for me,

00:37:28.660 Gavin,

00:37:28.980 is the near

00:37:30.320 or full impunity

00:37:31.720 with which they've

00:37:32.320 been acting,

00:37:32.860 accepting these bribes

00:37:34.120 the president has,

00:37:35.480 making these corrupt

00:37:36.340 deals.

00:37:37.120 It's as though

00:37:37.860 he knows

00:37:38.800 or thinks he knows

00:37:40.000 that there will

00:37:40.800 never be a moment

00:37:42.080 where he's accountable

00:37:43.440 or has to answer

00:37:44.680 for his crimes

00:37:46.280 or his corruption.

00:37:47.600 He's absolutely

00:37:48.360 betting on that.

00:37:49.160 And so,

00:37:49.740 that explains him

00:37:50.860 saying,

00:37:51.480 look,

00:37:52.140 folks,

00:37:52.480 I need five seats

00:37:53.620 in Texas.

00:37:54.700 Go get them for me.

00:37:55.500 No pretense

00:37:56.220 that the current seats

00:37:57.140 are unconstitutional

00:37:57.960 or unrepresentative.

00:37:59.320 He's just being

00:37:59.900 really clear,

00:38:00.740 which is a gift

00:38:01.380 to all of us

00:38:02.200 that this is about power.

00:38:04.180 And to your point,

00:38:05.060 our side better get 0.98

00:38:06.100 fucking serious 0.98

00:38:06.940 about power, 0.98

00:38:08.240 about winning it

00:38:09.380 and using it.

00:38:10.640 Mandela Barnes,

00:38:11.460 whom I just did

00:38:12.120 a town hall with

00:38:12.980 in Milwaukee

00:38:13.640 last week,

00:38:14.480 said,

00:38:15.180 when we win power,

00:38:16.520 we have to drive

00:38:17.320 the car like we stole it.

00:38:18.900 We have to do

00:38:19.800 everything for everyone

00:38:21.420 that we've been promising

00:38:22.640 these massive changes

00:38:24.160 in American society,

00:38:25.760 whether it is

00:38:26.340 the minimum wage,

00:38:27.380 whether it's rewriting

00:38:28.340 our immigration laws,

00:38:29.980 whether it is

00:38:30.440 dealing with this democracy

00:38:31.900 so that you can't spend

00:38:33.100 $300 million

00:38:33.960 on your preferred

00:38:35.240 presidential candidate

00:38:36.640 or that corporations

00:38:37.660 aren't people

00:38:38.760 and money is not speech.

00:38:39.820 So much work to do,

00:38:40.900 but we got to be

00:38:41.520 about winning that power

00:38:42.780 and then when we have it,

00:38:44.160 absolutely wielding it

00:38:45.500 ruthlessly,

00:38:46.500 aggressively,

00:38:47.560 ambitiously

00:38:48.160 to serve and deliver

00:38:49.700 for the American people.

00:38:50.660 We do that.

00:38:51.760 That is the best ticket

00:38:53.040 to growing that power,

00:38:54.420 staying in power,

00:38:55.600 and getting this country

00:38:56.380 back on the right track.

00:39:00.700 American history

00:39:01.660 is full

00:39:03.200 of wise people.

00:39:05.240 What women said 1.00

00:39:05.920 something like,

00:39:06.540 you know,

00:39:06.720 99.99% of war

00:39:08.420 is diarrhea

00:39:09.140 and 1% is glory.

00:39:11.580 Those founding fathers

00:39:12.700 were gossipy AF

00:39:15.560 and they loved

00:39:16.300 to cut each other down.

00:39:17.680 I'm Bob Crawford,

00:39:18.900 host of American History

00:39:20.240 Hotline,

00:39:21.020 the show where

00:39:21.780 you send us

00:39:22.500 your questions

00:39:23.080 about American history

00:39:24.220 and I find the answers,

00:39:26.540 including the nuggets

00:39:27.660 of wisdom

00:39:28.320 our history

00:39:29.120 has to offer.

00:39:30.500 Hamilton pauses

00:39:31.220 and then he says,

00:39:32.560 the greatest man

00:39:33.360 that ever lived

00:39:33.940 was Julius Caesar.

00:39:35.680 And Jefferson writes

00:39:36.920 in his diary,

00:39:37.980 this proves that

00:39:38.700 Hamilton is for

00:39:39.860 a dictator

00:39:40.960 based on corruption.

00:39:42.260 My favorite line

00:39:43.640 was what

00:39:44.020 Neil Armstrong

00:39:44.620 said,

00:39:45.480 it would have been

00:39:46.240 harder to fake it

00:39:47.360 than to do it.

00:39:48.840 Listen to American History

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00:42:54.100 The summer of 1993

00:42:56.720 was one of the best

00:42:58.060 of my life.

00:42:58.660 I'm journalist

00:42:59.460 Jeff Perlman,

00:43:00.420 and this is Rick Jervis.

00:43:01.800 We were interns

00:43:02.560 at the Nashville,

00:43:03.480 Tennessee Inn,

00:43:04.300 but the most unforgettable part?

00:43:06.320 Our roommate,

00:43:07.160 Reggie Payne,

00:43:08.020 from Oakland,

00:43:09.100 sports editor

00:43:09.780 and aspiring rapper.

00:43:11.740 And his stage name?

00:43:13.380 Sexy Sweat.

00:43:14.780 In 2020,

00:43:15.600 I had a simple idea.

00:43:17.240 Let's find Reggie.

00:43:18.880 We searched everywhere,

00:43:20.040 but Reggie was gone.

00:43:21.480 In February 2020,

00:43:24.940 Reggie was having

00:43:25.580 a diabetic episode.

00:43:27.280 His mom called 911.

00:43:29.360 Police cuffed him face down.

00:43:31.280 He slipped into a coma

00:43:32.500 and died.

00:43:34.120 I'm like,

00:43:34.880 thanking you.

00:43:36.000 But then I see, 0.74

00:43:37.040 my son's not moving.

00:43:38.760 No headlines,

00:43:40.020 no outrage,

00:43:41.380 just silence.

00:43:43.200 So we started digging

00:43:44.080 and uncovered

00:43:45.080 city officials

00:43:45.880 bent on protecting

00:43:46.780 their own.

00:43:47.720 Listen to Finding Sexy Sweat

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00:43:57.840 Is this the Beto O'Rourke

00:43:59.660 of 2018,

00:44:00.760 running for Senate

00:44:01.560 with no consultants?

00:44:03.200 I mean,

00:44:03.400 do you feel

00:44:04.400 like the times

00:44:05.660 have changed you

00:44:07.300 in a dramatic way?

00:44:08.560 Or do you feel

00:44:08.960 you always had

00:44:09.500 a little bit of this

00:44:10.200 in your belly,

00:44:11.680 but now you're coming

00:44:12.880 full-throated

00:44:14.260 in terms of recognition,

00:44:16.440 the lines that are drawn?

00:44:17.520 I mean,

00:44:17.760 do you feel like

00:44:18.920 that you've become

00:44:20.400 a different person

00:44:21.700 with this next,

00:44:23.280 with the last six months

00:44:24.580 with Trump 2.0?

00:44:25.980 Or was January 6th,

00:44:27.280 years ago,

00:44:28.260 did you sort of mark

00:44:29.240 that moment

00:44:29.820 as a new moment?

00:44:31.680 I think this moment

00:44:32.540 is calling me

00:44:33.460 like it's calling you,

00:44:34.500 like it's calling

00:44:35.060 so many millions

00:44:36.300 of our fellow Americans

00:44:37.220 to do everything I can

00:44:38.520 with what I have

00:44:39.460 wherever I am.

00:44:40.740 And one of the things

00:44:41.560 I can do

00:44:42.140 that I'm pretty good at

00:44:43.120 is bringing people together.

00:44:44.600 I mentioned Milwaukee.

00:44:46.220 We were in Indianapolis,

00:44:47.980 Kansas City, Omaha.

00:44:49.020 1,500 people came out

00:44:50.300 in Oklahoma City

00:44:51.560 15 months 1.00

00:44:52.440 from a fucking election. 1.00

00:44:53.900 You know, 1.00

00:44:54.120 not because they want

00:44:55.060 to support a candidate,

00:44:56.040 not one,

00:44:56.780 or because they're Democrats.

00:44:57.780 We didn't check

00:44:58.440 their party affiliation

00:44:59.300 at the door

00:44:59.840 because like you and me,

00:45:01.660 they really care about

00:45:02.700 what's happening

00:45:03.140 to this country right now

00:45:04.140 and they want to fight back.

00:45:05.600 And so in Oklahoma City,

00:45:06.780 we connected them

00:45:07.720 with the Oklahoma City

00:45:09.060 County Democratic Party,

00:45:10.400 with organizations

00:45:11.600 that are registering

00:45:12.240 people to vote,

00:45:13.060 with candidates

00:45:13.740 who are vying to win

00:45:15.660 that congressional seat

00:45:16.700 held by a Republican

00:45:17.540 right now,

00:45:18.240 but very winnable

00:45:19.300 for a Democrat,

00:45:20.640 especially if we organize

00:45:21.960 now in 2025.

00:45:23.840 So, you know,

00:45:24.520 I do think there's

00:45:25.660 a freedom of,

00:45:26.920 you know,

00:45:27.280 not thinking about

00:45:28.120 the title or an office

00:45:29.460 or being a candidate

00:45:30.300 or a campaign

00:45:31.160 and just doing the work.

00:45:32.980 And the work

00:45:34.040 is the most important

00:45:35.920 thing right now.

00:45:36.380 If it leads to

00:45:37.360 something else,

00:45:38.040 if it becomes obvious

00:45:39.520 that I can have

00:45:40.800 more of an impact

00:45:41.520 as a candidate,

00:45:43.040 absolutely,

00:45:43.800 unafraid of doing that.

00:45:45.240 But for now,

00:45:46.700 focusing on voter registration,

00:45:48.460 being in this fight

00:45:49.340 in Texas,

00:45:49.880 bringing others

00:45:50.480 across the country

00:45:51.260 into this fight

00:45:52.120 because Texas

00:45:52.760 is the front line,

00:45:54.560 the absolute epicenter

00:45:55.680 of this fight

00:45:57.160 for America,

00:45:58.880 that's the highest

00:46:00.140 and best use

00:46:00.940 of what I can give

00:46:01.760 and I'm just going

00:46:02.200 to keep doing it.

00:46:03.500 I love it.

00:46:03.820 You're reminding me

00:46:04.520 just a quote

00:46:05.740 that I love

00:46:06.240 of Justice Brandeis

00:46:07.160 in a democracy.

00:46:08.720 In a democracy,

00:46:09.440 the most important office

00:46:11.080 is office of citizen.

00:46:13.300 In this notion

00:46:13.980 of active,

00:46:14.940 not inert citizenship,

00:46:16.320 the fact that people

00:46:17.280 show up in Oklahoma City,

00:46:18.600 you've been doing rallies,

00:46:19.860 I think,

00:46:20.080 eight plus different states.

00:46:21.700 You're out there

00:46:22.600 in red states.

00:46:23.800 You're primarily

00:46:24.440 in rural parts

00:46:25.280 of even your own state.

00:46:27.120 In fact,

00:46:27.820 people are coming out

00:46:28.960 in these record numbers

00:46:30.020 means they haven't

00:46:31.000 given into the cynicism.

00:46:32.100 They haven't given

00:46:32.520 into the fear.

00:46:33.440 They're not giving up

00:46:34.320 and they're not rolling over

00:46:35.440 and I think

00:46:36.280 that fills me

00:46:37.720 with a tremendous

00:46:38.320 amount of optimism.

00:46:39.360 I know it does you as well

00:46:41.260 and puts a lot of,

00:46:42.700 you know,

00:46:42.900 just it gives us

00:46:43.760 just some confidence

00:46:45.020 that we're all not alone

00:46:46.840 and we're all in this together.

00:46:48.420 That said,

00:46:49.120 this Friday,

00:46:50.000 Beto,

00:46:50.740 my understanding

00:46:51.420 is this Friday,

00:46:52.440 just in a couple days,

00:46:53.820 this first special session

00:46:55.500 will end.

00:46:57.340 There'll be a question

00:46:58.260 for the 54 Democrats.

00:47:00.280 Do they come back

00:47:01.380 into the state?

00:47:02.620 Do they subject themselves

00:47:04.160 to arrest,

00:47:04.940 which in and of itself

00:47:05.880 is chilling

00:47:06.940 if they are indeed arrested?

00:47:09.620 And the likelihood,

00:47:11.100 and this is a question,

00:47:12.320 not a statement,

00:47:13.580 the likelihood,

00:47:14.320 it seems to me,

00:47:15.400 I'm curious,

00:47:16.240 your expectation is,

00:47:17.400 is that the governor

00:47:18.180 will immediately

00:47:19.440 call another special session

00:47:22.080 and at peril

00:47:25.540 that they leave the state again,

00:47:28.100 it likely will pass,

00:47:30.580 meaning we will likely

00:47:32.380 in the next month or so

00:47:34.120 or even sooner

00:47:35.680 see these five seats,

00:47:37.740 this mid-decade redrawing

00:47:39.700 of the map.

00:47:40.420 Is that an accurate assessment?

00:47:42.540 What do I know?

00:47:43.200 What don't I know

00:47:43.880 in respect to this?

00:47:45.280 Yeah,

00:47:45.880 I mean,

00:47:46.080 I think you're on top of this.

00:47:48.660 Just as we were going

00:47:50.020 into this interview,

00:47:51.420 someone told me

00:47:52.600 that Abbott

00:47:53.280 is going to dissolve

00:47:54.360 this current special session

00:47:55.760 so we can begin

00:47:56.420 the next one

00:47:57.240 right away,

00:47:58.360 maybe as soon

00:47:59.020 as Friday

00:48:00.040 or Saturday

00:48:00.700 or Monday.

00:48:01.920 For those

00:48:02.640 who want to fight this,

00:48:04.200 I encourage you

00:48:04.800 to join us

00:48:05.400 at the Texas Capitol

00:48:06.440 in Austin

00:48:07.220 this coming Saturday.

00:48:09.520 Governor,

00:48:10.120 we'd love to have you

00:48:10.800 join us as well.

00:48:11.680 I mean,

00:48:11.860 anyone who wants

00:48:13.720 to be in this fight

00:48:14.620 because this fight,

00:48:16.300 as you have articulated

00:48:17.840 so perfectly,

00:48:19.440 is not about Texas.

00:48:20.880 It's not about Texans.

00:48:22.100 It's about all 330 million

00:48:23.960 of us,

00:48:24.600 regardless of where we live.

00:48:26.220 This is the fight

00:48:27.960 for the future

00:48:29.060 of our country

00:48:29.700 and it's being decided

00:48:30.620 right now

00:48:31.700 as it happens

00:48:32.660 in the state of Texas

00:48:34.060 but also in California,

00:48:36.040 in Illinois,

00:48:37.120 everywhere that people

00:48:38.460 of good conscience

00:48:39.200 are willing to stand

00:48:40.340 and be counted

00:48:41.080 at this moment of truth.

00:48:42.740 So,

00:48:43.200 join us at the Texas Capitol

00:48:44.560 this Saturday

00:48:46.380 on the steps.

00:48:48.060 You know,

00:48:48.200 the more who show up,

00:48:49.640 the clearer the picture

00:48:50.860 to Abbott and Paxson

00:48:52.280 and Trump

00:48:52.940 that we will not bend the knee,

00:48:54.620 that we're going to stand

00:48:55.400 and fight.

00:48:56.220 They will not be able

00:48:57.120 to run roughshod

00:48:58.260 over the people of Texas

00:48:59.560 and steal our democracy.

00:49:01.080 They steal it here,

00:49:02.180 it is gone for the country.

00:49:04.640 So,

00:49:04.840 all in,

00:49:05.740 all together,

00:49:06.360 as Franklin warned us,

00:49:07.760 we're either going to hang together

00:49:08.740 or hang alone.

00:49:09.960 And I want to make sure

00:49:10.860 that all of us

00:49:11.480 hang together right now.

00:49:12.880 Thank you

00:49:13.540 for hanging with

00:49:14.940 those Texas Democrats,

00:49:16.240 for having them

00:49:16.920 in California,

00:49:17.740 for amplifying

00:49:18.960 their voices,

00:49:19.720 for encouraging people

00:49:21.480 who see

00:49:22.040 Tim Cook

00:49:23.060 genuflect

00:49:23.760 before Donald Trump,

00:49:25.560 like one of the most

00:49:26.060 powerful executives 1.00

00:49:27.180 on the fucking planet 1.00

00:49:28.700 and give him 1.00

00:49:29.440 a gold-plated

00:49:30.480 iPhone.

00:49:32.320 Others in these positions

00:49:33.600 that are prominent

00:49:34.680 and powerful

00:49:35.420 and wealthy

00:49:36.280 and have privilege

00:49:37.560 who actually have

00:49:38.680 the resources 1.00

00:49:39.540 to fight this fucker 1.00

00:49:40.820 and instead 1.00

00:49:41.840 are giving in,

00:49:42.900 it can tempt you

00:49:43.900 to despair.

00:49:45.160 But when folks

00:49:45.740 see you out there

00:49:46.420 fighting,

00:49:47.140 these 54 Democrats

00:49:48.260 in Texas fighting,

00:49:49.580 others fighting,

00:49:50.380 the folks who show up

00:49:51.220 this Saturday

00:49:51.760 at the Texas Capitol,

00:49:53.060 that is encouraging.

00:49:54.500 It gives us hope.

00:49:55.300 It's like,

00:49:55.540 you know what? 1.00

00:49:56.240 We can do this shit. 1.00

00:49:57.220 We are the people 1.00

00:49:57.860 who overcame

00:49:58.980 the British Empire,

00:49:59.840 the most powerful force

00:50:00.860 on the planet.

00:50:01.680 We defeated

00:50:02.300 the armies

00:50:03.100 of the Confederacy,

00:50:04.680 the divisions

00:50:05.140 of the Third Reich, 0.98

00:50:06.400 the armed elected thugs 0.96

00:50:07.760 of Jim Crow South. 0.66

00:50:08.600 We've overcome

00:50:09.020 every single one

00:50:10.060 of those challenges

00:50:10.720 over the last 249 years.

00:50:12.780 Now it's our turn. 0.94

00:50:13.500 We are so fucking lucky 0.96

00:50:16.380 to be alive at this moment. 0.97

00:50:18.060 So few American generations 1.00

00:50:20.080 have this chance

00:50:21.160 to save our country

00:50:22.480 at its moment of truth.

00:50:23.380 You and I

00:50:23.880 are lucky enough

00:50:24.780 to be here right now

00:50:25.740 with everyone else

00:50:26.620 who is alive.

00:50:27.760 And so what we do

00:50:28.560 with this inheritance,

00:50:29.500 everyone who's fought

00:50:30.440 every one of those battles

00:50:31.380 before,

00:50:32.340 it has come through to us.

00:50:33.720 It's going to define us

00:50:35.040 in the eyes of history.

00:50:36.380 It's going to determine

00:50:37.340 what is possible

00:50:38.160 for this country.

00:50:39.640 And it is ours

00:50:40.700 to lose right now.

00:50:42.060 So everyone into this fight

00:50:44.160 with all that you've got

00:50:45.340 wherever you are,

00:50:46.620 if we hang together,

00:50:47.920 if we come together right now,

00:50:49.220 if we fight together,

00:50:50.280 we are going to win this together.

00:50:51.940 I mean,

00:50:52.540 I'm going to end right there,

00:50:54.060 brother.

00:50:54.480 I love your passion.

00:50:56.500 Most importantly,

00:50:57.280 I love your action.

00:50:58.360 And I want to remind everybody,

00:50:59.900 you have agency.

00:51:00.880 We're not bystanders

00:51:01.760 in this world.

00:51:02.380 And it is about sharing

00:51:03.620 your passion

00:51:04.220 with action.

00:51:06.000 And I think

00:51:06.760 that's the most important thing

00:51:08.440 we need to communicate

00:51:09.520 with folks.

00:51:10.620 It's not good enough

00:51:11.460 to identify a problem.

00:51:13.040 It's not good enough

00:51:13.960 to,

00:51:14.980 as you began,

00:51:16.160 I thought so eloquently,

00:51:17.540 sort of sit back

00:51:18.380 and hope the guy

00:51:19.120 or gal on the white horse

00:51:20.080 is going to come save the day.

00:51:22.280 It's the person sitting there

00:51:23.520 in the morning

00:51:24.040 in the mirror.

00:51:25.460 And that's the person

00:51:26.480 we need right now.

00:51:27.740 People need to show up.

00:51:29.040 People need to exercise

00:51:29.800 their voice.

00:51:31.060 People need to share that

00:51:32.140 in authentic ways.

00:51:34.040 Beto O'Rourke,

00:51:34.680 thanks for all you're doing.

00:51:36.300 Powered by people.

00:51:38.040 Keep up the great work,

00:51:39.960 my friend.

00:51:40.700 Thank you so much, man.

00:51:42.100 Adios.

00:51:42.920 Thank you, brother.

00:51:51.480 This is an iHeart Podcast.

This is Gavin Newsom - August 12, 2025

Beto O’Rourke Is Risking Arrest To Protect Texas’s Voters

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