You know how some people can like sort of sing like math to know but they are not good at carrying it to, and i cannot sing at all. People cry when i sing happy birthday. When i sing that national anthem, it sounds like a crime. Im just absolutely terrible. The only Saving Grace in my relationship is that susan is equally terrible. So we can sing together but nobody else can. Because im so terrible at that, its astonishing how bad i, am i never make fun of anyone else is singing. No matter wet. [noise] that was the rendition of god bless america. That greeted conference goers at the Cyber Symposium that has been underway all week in South Dakota, hosted by the ceo of a Pillow Company whose name is Mike Lindell, mr. Lindell has been in the news this week you will have seen because of a very conservative trumpappointed Judge Lawsuit to go forward against him and Rudy Giuliani and Trump Lawyer Sydney powell. That lawsuit was filed by Dominion Voting systems systems. The Voting Machine Company that has been vilified by former President Trump and his supporters with all sorts of wild conspiracies about how that company is somehow to blame for the conspiracy that led trump to appear to lose the election when secretly he won dominions must of lawsuit against giuliani, powell, and mr. Lindell for promoting those claims, this week, was allowed to go forward in federal court. His name has been in the news this week but he has been in the news a lot since the election since he has spend every waking hour promoting these trump conspiracies. And i will say, his take on it, on this matter, is a little different than the other Trump Surrogates who have been carrying this waterfall these months now. Mr. Lindells standard line is that everyone will agree with this Conspiracy Theory, that the nation will soon come together and unanimous consensus, that in fact, trump is still president and he looked won the last election. Lindell says the Supreme Court will not only rule on the issue, which isnt going to happen, but when they rule on the issue, it will be nine to nothing. It will be unanimous because the evidence that trump secretly won the election is so incontrovertible. He also says all the liberals in the media will come to the same realization. The liberals, he says, of Tv Cable News will lead the charge of to see Char Trump reinstated in the Oval Office when we all see the on incontrovertible proof that he has for this. He even says that President Biden and Vice President harris will go along as well. They will not just recognize, they will graciously accept the incontrovertible proof that the Pillow Guy will reveal. That this has all been a big misunderstanding. The election absolutely when the other way, he says the Vice President and the president will be very sorry and not be very nice about it and leave the Office And Welcome back the Lord Emperor Donald trump, who will unite the country. Because Mike Lindell has the Obvious Incontrovertible proof that trump won. Mr. Lindell is also, specifically, the personal source of the claim, that former President Trump reportedly, repeats to others and himself believes, lindell is the source of the claim that trump will be reinstated as president , this month. August 2021. That prediction, that trump will be reinstated, that among out of things led to this Homeland Security Briefing that was sent to Police Organizations around the country this past week, warning them of a renewed potential for political violence in our country, by trump supporters who are, in fact, expecting trump to be reinstated as president in august because the guy from the Pillow Company says its true. And trump believes that, so therefore, why should we all believe it . We beyond predicting that trump will be reinstated in august, the bullseye he has painted is actually getting smaller and more sharply defined. This, week mr. Lindell convened this Cyber Symposium in South Dakota where he said he will finally reveal the incontrovertible data that shows that trump won the election. The white Rightwing Watchdog Patriot takes which recorded this amazing version of Jobless America at the event, they also posted footage this week of mr. Lindell on far white Talk Radio promoting his symposium in South Dakota this week. Him saying that not only does he believe that trump will be reinstated this month, but it is actually tomorrow. Tomorrow morning, he says, is when the whole world, the whole country, the whole world, well have a unanimous revelation that Biden Isnt really President And Trump must be put back in the White House. He said, quote, The Morning Of august 13th, tomorrow morning, there will be the top of the world, going, hurry up lets get this election pulled down, its not just that trump is going back in office, its tomorrow morning. It will be the top of the world. Do you think . I mean, what happens if thats not true . Where do you go with a failed prediction that specific . That sort of thing doesnt end well. Its not like you can weasel out of something like, i said august 13th, oh i met August 18th 2022. What youre gonna say . Yesterday, the Farright Washington times newspaper reported that the Mike Lindell Cyber Symposium in South Dakota, mr. Lindells own handpicked Cyber Experts, some Security Guy he hired to verify his incontrovertible data, this guy in question is cited in some of the crazy Trump Election lawsuits, hes one of the people giuliani and company really relied on for their affidavits say that they had proof of the fraud, so this cyber Security Guy is on their side. He is Mike Lindells Handpicked Expert to review this data. His supposed proof of the election being stolen. While the conservative Washington Times newspaper is reporting that that Dude Handpicked by Mike Lindell to look at the data, he looked at the data and the word youre looking for here is sad trombone. See the headlines there the headline there from the Washington Times. Exclusive, Cyber Expert says his Team Cant prove Mike Lindell claims that china hacked election. Heres the lead in the Washington Times, sioux falls, South Dakota, the Cyber Expert on the Red Team hired by Mypillow Ceo Mike Lindell now says that the key Data Underpinning the theory that china had the 2020 election unveiled that the Cypress Symposium is illegitimate. Mr. Lindell said he had 37 terabytes of irrefutable evidence that hackers hacked into the Election System and switched the vote. The proof, he, said is visible it intercepted network data, or pack it captures, that were collected by hackers and could be an encrypted to reveal that a cyber attack occurred in that votes were switched. R but Cyber Expert Josh Merritt who is on the team hired by mr. Lindell to target the data for the symposium told the Washington Times that Packet Captures our unrecoverable in the data, provided by mr. Lindell, and that the Data Cannot prove a cyber incursion. So our team said, were not going to say that this is legitimate if we dont have confidence in the information, mr. Merritt told the Washington Times on wednesday, the second day of the symposium. If you are someone who was confidently predicting that some amazing but highly and purple thing is gonna happen in the future, think hard about when your promising it will happen. Some think about how much youre promising in terms of how specific your timeframe as. Because, enough people are on this strain, where trump has led them to believe that he is still the rightful president , that the election was stolen, and that evidence exists of that and it can be revealed and it will be revealed. If you show your work and put out your supposed evidence to be checked, those trump folks are being led off a cliff in terms of their hopes and dreams and expectations. And it is easy to look down on them for that, its easy to have sort of schadenfreude about that. But they are real people who are really invested in this and there will be consequences for them psychologically, maybe politically, sociologically, in terms of them falling off this proverbial cliff. What will they do . Them this is the big reveal, this is the thing they have been banking on against everybody on earth telling them something different. This is something they have been clinging to. And its now being revealed, and its nothing . What do they do in response . Soul searching is probably not the answer. Selfreflection, humility, those are not usually the first things that happen. But as Erin Blake notes at the Washington Post today, there was actually one hand a Bit Confirmation in this proclamation by Mike Lindells a Cyber Expert that he didnt actually have any data proving anything about the election. When he made these comments to the Washington Times that Mike Lindells data didnt confirm anything. Lindells experts also confirmed the source of the supposed data on which Lane Dell has built this entire Conspiracy Theory and the months of ravings, and websites, and exposes, and all the rest of it, including the reinstatement and august fantasy. Where did this day did come from that lindell has used for as his basis . While his Cyber Expert confirmed that the material that is the basis for these claims is provided by a man named Dennis Montgomery and i am guessing you do not recognize that name, but you might remember him from these headlines not long ago. The man who conned the pentagon. Also, how a Reno Casino Con man duped the cia and pulled one of the most dangerous hoaxes in american history. National Security Intelligence Recorder wrote a book in 2014 about this guy. Part of it was about this guy conning people, and counting the government, out of huge sums of cash, including by him claiming that he could decode the stories broadcast by Al Jazeera and inside those new stories he could access Magic Secret alqaeda messages, because he could find them in the pixels. He could not find them in the pixels. That was all made up. And it had been sucks specgx it for a long time, you see this november 9th, 2020, in the daily beast, it had been suspected for a long while that this legendary Con Artist had sold a new version of his con to the trump won secretly won the election people. And this is where they got their socalled data. This is where they got this stated that they have been confidently claiming to prove to everyone that trump won and that we will all see that data, and will be so clear, and were gonna all say, were so sorry, we disagreed about, this lets all get together and go to the new reinvigoration. So, maybe or we are not going to wake up all 300 Million of us together joining in a unanimous Consensus Revelation that the wrong guys in the Oval Office. Maybe thats not gonna happen. But for the consequences for the people who believe that that is actually gonna happen maybe significant, it may cause bizarre behavior, may cause people that need help. I think its an unpredictable moment in terms of people who have gone down that qanon, Trump Election fraud rabbit hole. These next few days are gonna be hard. And the rest of the mute month is gonna be hard, but the next few days are gonna be hard for them. And, watching it closely and you have to recognize that we. You know, it really is like a visit to earth to, pitiful and said, ridiculous. We it may drive consequences for people who have really been loving this fantasy. But it is also driving Real Life events here on earth 1. Today, the citizens of mesa county, colorado realize that theyre gonna have to win by new equipment for we elections. Everything needs to be replaced because there is an elected republican County Clerk in mesa county, colorado who apparently wanted to earn her way into a we has found that in mrs. County colorado were photographed and posted online on rightwing blogs and all sorts of conspiracy sides, supposedly to show that, you know, china had something, Packet Captures, bamboo, unclear . But as an arizona, where they had to decertify their machines and buy new ones, because arizona republicans forced Maricopa County to hand over their Election Equipment over to the roundest trying to find the Magic Proof that trump secretly won. Or that Trump County and pennsylvania where they had to do the same thing and had to buy new Election Equipment to. Now in Meza County colorado, they have the spoiled and thereby, decertify the actual Voting Equipment from that county and the counties taxpayers are not gonna have to pay to buy new stuff because of elected Republicans Eagerness to feed this nonsense machine. Also today, The Associated Press was forced to report that the trump Ex Judge, who wisconsin republicans have put in charge of their efforts to question and undermine those Election Results after biden won wisconsin. That Ex Judge has so far spent Wisconsin Taxpayer money to send him on a pilgrimage to arizona to go see what these Cyber Ninjas are doing there with the mess that they are making of that States Ballot and voting machines. Not only did taxpayers pay for him to go see the Cyber Ninjas, it was revealed today in the ap that he also let the taxpayers foot the bill to send him to South Dakota, this week, so he could attend the Mike Lindell Cyber Symposium. God bless america, because you know, so much to learn. Meanwhile, actual election workers, all over the country are having to live and work amid the Jet Stream of the sewage that the trump folks are still spewing out about election fraud. The Washington Post reporting now that Maricopa County supervisors who have resisted the Nonsense Audit out there, last week they were sent an orange Guantanamo Style Jumpsuit in their offices along with a Voice Mail where the color threatened to kill each member of the Board Of Supervisors and their families. The anti democracy, anti Election Nonsense at this point from trump world, from trump republican world, its so absurd that it is collapsing in on itself. Which may be dangerous in terms of the individual consequences for people living that fantasy. But it is collapsing. The arguments are collapsing. And in a good faith world, when the evidence underlying their socalled argument was revealed to be fake, the argument would then be lost. The farfetched claims that supported that argument are revealed now as false. The false idea of the fraud in the election, in a fact based world, they would also collapse. But that is not happening. Even while the Circus Filter on this stuff becomes a laughing stock. That core idea, that there was fraud in the election, is still something the republican party is planning to ride all the way back into power. All over the country and ultimately in washington. Last night and into this morning, a Texas State Senator stored for 15 straight hours, in the texas senate, to use try to stop republicans in that state from passing the latest Motion Version of their voting Rights Bill. She did not drink water, she did not drink water, go to the bathroom, she was not allowed to lean on anything. About halfway through the whole thing, she did put on a Back Brace, put a Back Brace on her waist to help her stay on her feet. She started shortly before 6 pm texas time, last night, and she wrapped up shortly before 9 am this morning. Her democratic colleagues gave her a Standing Ovation for slowing down the republican effort. But in The End, even 15 straight hours of standing on her feet, that wasnt enough, because literally minutes after she left the floor, the republican senators, on a party line vote, pass their bill to make it harder for texas people to vote in elections. On the other side, numbers on the house have been mounting their own Delay Tactics for weeks, dozens of Texas Democrats from the house left the state entirely to deny the house a quorum. So that they couldnt pass the anti Voting Bill through the house side, like the senate did last night. Some of those democrats have since returned home. The speaker, as we reported last night, signed out warrants for their arrest for not showing up to work, all this time. Yesterday, one of those House Democrats who is back in austin, he secured a Court Order shielding him from being arrested. Today, 44 of his house democratic colleagues requested similar orders from the court, to prevent their arrest as well. It seems like that effort was actually going to succeed, but look what happened tonight. A texas supreme Court Justice has undone that initial order. That order opens the Texas Democrats back up to being arrested, at any time, unless they return back to work so that the republicans can have their quorum, so they can pass through the house the bill making it harder for people to vote. The same one that passed in the senate this morning after a 15 Hour Effort by that one texas senator, to try and hold it up. What else can they do . These antismall D Democracy efforts that we have seen all over the country this year, they are not just about making it harder to vote, its also about manipulating the elections themselves. Gaining control over the count. Abc news did an analysis of all the antiVoting Bills that republican legislatures have passed. What they found was startling. I didnt expect the number to be this high. Using data from the nine partisan Voting Rights lab, they found nine states that have stripped the power of overseeing elections away from technocratic non partisan parts of state government. And instead handed the administration of the elections over to partisan actors. Essentially passing into law a partisan takeover of the administration of elections. Right . How the votes are tallied. Who decides what votes are counted and the actual counting. That shift in power has happened in nine states already this year, all passed by republican legislators, all signed by republican governors. Those are done, nine of them, on the books. And, you know, all the things that we are talking about, bottom line standards, protecting the right to vote, keeping partisan influence out of Election Administration, even doing away with partisan gerrymandering, where republican Run State legislatures tos electoral districts in a way that guarantees more republicans get elected. And democrats do their districts in such a way that ensures democrats get elected. That gerrymandering and the voting right stuff, all of those are components of the for the People Act. Which already passed the House Of Representatives. Right . Its Senate Bill one, a Landmark Voting Rights Bill proposed by democrats in congress this year. Of course, the for the People Act was dead on arrival in the senate. Republicans guaranteed it would never get any votes from them to pass. But the pressure to pass some kind of a federal legislation, to backstop voting, to codify protections around voting, that pressure remains and in some ways is increasing. Just today, outside the White House, Family Members of john lewis, the late congressman, held a rally to try and pressure President Biden to call the senate to end the filibuster. So democrats can pass the legislation even if they get zero republican votes. The Washington Post reports today that at The End of this month there will be 100 nationwide marches on Voting Rights. Excuse me, nationwide marshes ago organized by more than 100 organizations across the country. The group that convene the protest outside the White House today, told us there will be Civil Disobedience, including at the White House, before The End of this month. Senate democrats say that when they return from their recess after labor day, the first thing on their legislative to do list is working on new rights legislation, Voting Rights legislation, although we dont know what will be in it, since the for the People Act was stopped. But this fight is joined. This fight is absolutely joined in the states. And republicans dont care that the basis for them fighting harder than they have in the past generation to restrict Voting Rights, and to take over the administration of elections, is based on cuckoo for cocoa Puffs Conspiracy theories that are being left out of its own venues at this point. Republicans dont hair care, they are happy to run that into real law and policy, even if it takes terrorizing election officials. Even if it takes buying into these Conspiracy Theories that they otherwise wont defend, that are at the heart of the claim that voting somehow needs to be changed. The fight is on in this, from the republican side, full to tilt. 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Democrats were ten votes short of the votes needed to overcome a republican filibuster, so it failed. Now a group of senators, all democrats, amy klobuchar, Jeff Merkley and others, they say theyre working on another version that will be a slim down, narrower version of its former self. Joe manchin in particular says that he is absolutely convinced he will get republicans to vote for it, even though they have shown no interest. Whatever that legislation is, it is teed up to be job one for the United States Senate went back in session. But theyre not coming back until mid september, which feels like a long way away, given the rush right now in republican led states, especially texas, right now, as we speak to Rollback Voting rights and sees parties in control of Election Administration as fast as they can, everywhere they can. And this fight, or this hope for a fight, happens as today we got the first data from last years u. S. Census, which will set off the traditional scramble to redraw districts. But republicans have power, they will draw districts to benefit republicans. When democrats have power, to a lesser degree, they will redraw them to Democrat Benefits in elections. We know some of the top lines from our census data will become more diverse. The number of white people in the country, the percentage, has decreased to below 50 for the first time ever. But understanding how it will now be used to alter our political landscape for the next decade, that is worth considering, and that fight is live. Joining us now is eric holder, hes the former president of the national democratic redistricting committee. Mr. Tierney general its great to see you, great to see you tonight. I am struck by the fact that democrats big proposed reform on Voting Rights, which is about a lot of us have shorthanded at, the People Act, which you advocated for its passage, that not only would it undergird Voting Rights that we think in the traditional sense, making it not too hard for people to go vote, it wouldve made a national prohibition on using census data, drying districts in such a way that was designed to benefit one party or another. I would imagine that that would be sort of a dream for you, how the democrats figured out how to pass. It yes the for the People Act is a comrades of Prodemocracy Bill, it deals with dark money, it deals with voter protection, and it also deals with ending partisan gerrymandering. If you deal with those three problems, you make the nation you make our political system more responsive to the people of this country. We have a better democracy. We have a better nation. And thats why im supporting it. It is my conversations with Senator Schumer and other people in the senate, it is a top priority for them, Senator Schumer thinks that there is a process that he needs to go to in order to maximize the chances of passing the bill. So see what happens. At The End of the day, at The End of the day, its gonna come down to i think a Binary Choice between passing this Prodemocracy Bill and defending and arcing Senate Procedure that was used to stop frustrates of all rights of legislation. This is the truth that democratic thats a decision that democratic senators are gonna have to make. Do you think that ultimately gets past because of her reformer carve out of the filibuster . Or you think ultimately gets past because republican somehow see the light . It seems like those are the only two actions and the latter to me seems impossible. I dont think youre gonna get ten republican senators to vote for the bill and whatever form its presented to them. I do feel its a certain sense of cautious optimism in that we can have a carve out of the filibuster to allow the passage of this very important bill. The numbers that we saw today show that the countrys younger, is more diverse, its more urban, its more suburban, its less rural. And those numbers should be used in a way that should beat you as well as the united States House of representatives. And one way to do that is to ban racial partisan and gerrymandering. This bill will ban partisan and gerrymandering. Otherwise im afraid of what were gonna see in states of texas, georgia, florida, where the government has control over the i think theyre gonna try to gerrymander their little hearts out. So passing this bill is important and passing this relatively soon as equally important. Let me ask you a strategic question. If protections that were talking about in the for the people like dont pass, and so, legislatures like the ones you are talking about their, places like texas, florida, georgia, where republicans have theres legislature, republicans have the state house, they take this data and they gerrymander, they basically lockout democrats out of the possibility of holding congressional seats in those states. Maybe, that may be enough for republicans to take control of the house in the midterm elections if the aggressively gerrymander it that much. If there isnt a federal ban on doing that sort of, things shouldnt democrats just do the same, think they press their advantage in places where they have control over the legislature of Governor Ship in order to maximize the democratic seats . Thats a beauty of the position the democrats have. If we fight for fairness, if we make sure that we get the number of seats that we are entitled to, both in the State Legislature as well as in the House Of Representatives on the basis of fair criteria, democrats and progressives will do just fine. Republicans have to cheat in order to win. So, yeah theyll try to do whatever they can in texas, georgia, florida, North Carolina. They will win lawsuits we will win lawsuits if we have to do. That we won lawsuits already in North Carolina that reduce the margin there to 85 when it was before, it was a two seat greater difference constitutional amendment in florida that we will use in litigation as well. But there is no need for democrats to do anything other than to fight for that which is fair. If you fight for which that is fair, and if we are successful in the fight, democrats will, do as i said, just fine. We dont have to cheat, republicans have to cheat in order to win. And that is why they are in favor of partisan and racial gerrymandering. They know that if substantial numbers of people vote in this increasingly younger, increasingly more diverse, increasingly yet less rural america, that they dont stand a chance of winning. They get that. Now understand that. Let me ask you what you make as a former senior we was very close to president obama, who is also close to President Biden and Vice President harris, would you think of the direct Action Strategy that is being brought forward by advocates . Of course, with the current president is very much in support of the for the People Act and the advocated for the passage and made a public case for them. We know, we have heard all the speeches. We know their position, yet, you are seeing it increasingly relentless focus by moral leaders on this issue who are getting arrested. People are getting arrested at the Senate Office being building, at the Supreme Court, at the White House, we are expecting a summer of Direct Action on Voting Rights to accelerate to the point where theres gonna be considerable Civil Disobedience outside of the White House. People calling for sitting off a moral alarm off. But do you make of all of this as somebody who knows the people who are being targeted by these activists . Power Seeds Nothing without a demand. We too often underestimate the power we have as regular american citizens by marching, by protesting, by raising our voices. Thats a really important part of the thing that i am leading in the national democratic redistricting campaign. If we make our voices known, if we demand the kind of change, the fair change, that we are seeking, i think that will help in the process. Its nothing probably moved republicans, im not im being realistic about. That on the other, hand democrats enough to think to themselves, do i want to be seen as the person who james eastland, dennis, those people before, who stood against the passage of civil Rights Bills, do i want to have that as my legacy . And raising the consciousness of people by demonstrating, by getting arrested, by doing the things that ended segregation. If you ask people back in the 19 fifties, you think martin demonstrating is going to bring down a system of american apartheid. He would probably say, no thats not gonna happen. And we should not lose Faith Right. Now we should not lose Faith Right now. Citizens can make a, change the Distance Need to be in the streets, citizens need to be demonstrating, citizens need to be calling the representatives to cover the change that will make this country more representative, make our democracy more fair. Eric holder, former Attorney General of the united states now chairman of the national democratic redistricting committee. 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That is how long Texas Date Senator Carol Alvarado managed to stand up and thereby stop texas republicans passing an anti Voting Bill last night. She stood and filibustered for 15 hours. For context, you might remember in 2013, the Nationwide Sensation when then State Senator Wendy Davis made national headlines, filibustering an anti Abortion Bill in the state of texas. That filibuster lasted 13 hours. Last night, what Senator Carol Alvarado did lasted 15 hours. Filibuster in texas is not a like a filibuster in the u. S. Senate this stays where you can send it in by email. In texas you actually have to stand up, hold the, floor and talk the entire time. State Senator Carol Alvarado managed to do that for those 15 hours last night. The Human Body can only hold up for so long. Minutes after her 15 hours ended, texas republicans did go ahead and pass their anti Voting Bill anyway on party line vote. Ever since texas republicans introduced a bill, Texas Democrats have made it that their mission to slow it down by any means necessary even though they cannot stop them from passing, at the consulate down. Thats why Texas Democrats from the house fled the state earlier this year. As i mentioned early on the show thats why texas republicans are doing everything they can to arrest those House Democrats, so they can run this anti Voting Bill through. The only thing that it seems, could stop texas republicans from this draconian bill, to make it harder, much harder to vote, in the state where it is already hardest to vote in the country, would before congress to pass some sort of federal Voting Rights protections that wouldnt let texas or any other State Fall below them. Texas democrats like Senator Carol Alvarado are doing everything they can to buy as much time as possible for that potentially happen. But obviously, they are doing so at great, Invisible Personal sacrifice. Joining us now is Texas State Senator Carol Alvarado. Senator, i really appreciate you being here, because i know you have been through a lot over the past 24 hours. Thank you so much. Thanks for having me. Have you slept . Ive taken about an hour rest. A lot of messages and calls to return. And when you finish this you are running off of pure adrenaline, so it takes a while to come down. Well, it was a remarkable feat and i have to ask if you i mean, our office talked with you before you settled into this yes. And you know you are pragmatist about this. And you told our producer that this was something was intended to slow things down. You knew it wouldnt stop it. Does it feel worth it, especially now that your feeling the physical pain of what you did . Absolutely. I was demonstrating that i am literally standing for democracy for 15 hours. But whats important to know here is that Texas Democrats are not taking this lying down. There is a Lie Line that we live by, dont mess with texas. So i say, dont mess with Texas Democrats. Just because we dont have the numbers doesnt mean we have to roll over and let them do whatever they want. This filibuster was meant to put the brakes on this, and to shine a national spotlight. And it worked. Because we are getting calls from all over the country, while i was filibustering, we were getting stories from people. And how this bill would suppress them, mainly from the disabled community and the seniors. In terms of how this is going to go from here where the other dramatic thing that happened was this ruling by a Texas State Supreme Court judge, to clear the way for your colleagues to get arrested, they thought a Lower Court could block those Arrest Warrants for them. The Supreme Court seems to have cleared the way for them to be arrested. How has that inflected you are thinking about this and your colleagues thinking about this and what the stakes are personally . Sometimes its like The Wild West here when you see what these issues, they become so divisive, so partisan. And we know theyre theyre founded on, really, no merits. It all stems from the Big Lie told by the big liar himself. And they have allowed themselves to be manipulated by him and now it has spilled over not just to the texas legislature. But so many, and wet Texas Democrats tell other legislative bodies, you dont have to stand and take it if you dont have the numbers. And thats why we are doing everything that we can to slow it down, to give people the opportunity, to really take a close eye to see what republicans are doing to us. Let me ask you about something that we are seeing happening in texas, we are seeing it increasingly in states around the country, we are seeing it at the national level in washington d. C. And that is people turning to Direct Action. People taking to the streets. People, including members of congress, doing Civil Disobedience, and doing Montgomery Style marshes. Putting themselves at risk of arrest. Putting themselves, in a nonviolent way, out in The Public Eye in a way that puts their lives on their bodies on the line. S i want to know how that plays in texas, whether that does pluck at peoples heartstrings. Or whether that might harden some peoples hearts because they dont want to be associated with a radical cause. How do you think there Direct Action strategies play at home in texas . I think its demonstrated how serious we are about how serious we are, about stopping this, slowing it down. I think people realize that if we are making sacrifices, making a sacrifice of standing for 15 hours, putting your body through that, or members In The House sacrificing their livelihoods, being away from their family, we want people to know that this is serious. And that Texas Democrats have taken this debate to a whole new level. Texas State Senator Carol Alvarado, i am tractor beaming through the camera the limit of your choice, a big tub of tiger tiger mom, i am hoping you can take care of yourself, thank you for helping us understand this tonight and hope you get some rest. Thank you rachel. More ahead tonight, stay with us. Sta with us. But its actually a network. Connecting just about everyone to just about everyone else. It can open eyes with a cup of Coffee And Change minds on what makes a business, a business. And it is working to connect everyone, everywhere. So, meet visa. A Network Working for everyone. A Network Working for everyone. One of my favorite supplements is qunol turmeric. Turmeric helps with healthy joints and inflammation support. Unlike regular turmeric supplements qunols Superior Absorption helps me get the full benefits of turmeric. The brand i trust is qunol. Hey google, turn up the heat. 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