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My name is Inam Garcia.
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I'm here with the best attorney in Texas, Lomigo Garcia.
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We're at the Texas State Convention interviewing amazing folks.
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We got next to us, Clayton Tucker running for Texas Agriculture Commissioner.
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How's it going?
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How's everybody doing today?
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Well, it's doing great.
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Everyone's asking me, where's the goats?
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Why didn't I bring my goats?
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And I'm like, I thought about it, but people would lose their minds.
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You got a lot of goats or was?
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Yeah, we raised goats and cattle and lampasses.
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For folks who don't know where it is, if you can find us in our Texas, you can find Lampasses equally far from everywhere else.
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But tell us about the goat.
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No, but we're not talking about the greatest of all time.
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We're talking about a real goat.
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A real goat.
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So our yard signs are actually our goat.
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His name's Lyndon, named after LBJ.
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And he was a bottle baby, and he we had to fight to keep him alive.
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Real uh coming up story.
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But he's doing good.
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He's uh really enjoying all the grasses on the field.
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And now we have another bottle baby, uh sweet pea, and she uh she's learning how to headbutt right now.
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So my my poor parents are having to take care of her.
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So did you go up on a ranch or a farm?
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Yes, sir.
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Lampasses, uh I'm third, fourth generation, how you want to count it.
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So mostly cattle, but we have goats and other stuff.
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All right.
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So for a lot of people that are I gotta call it the you know, uh that live in the cities, how difficult was it growing up on a ranch?
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I grew up on a ranch too.
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Up in Banhorn, Texas.
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And so I grew up, you know, riding horses and mules and donkeys and doing all that stuff and going to milking cows.
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Have you ever milked a cow?
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I have.
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And I'd never want to do it again.
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Only did it once.
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Yeah.
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I've also milked a goat and also do not want to do it again.
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I've never milked a goat, but that sounds like it's not not as hard.
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Not as hard.
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Really?
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I thought it'd be harder.
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I thought it'd be a good thing.
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Uh so long as you can clink their heads in and give them some food, they'll be a fun.
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Yeah.
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I mean, for me, I was just a field child.
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My parents, like, okay, just don't play with snakes and go out there.
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So I was just running everywhere, uh having a grand old time.
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I I love normal.
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Yeah.
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So what made you uh actually, I guess, throw your hat in the ring here and run for Texas Agriculture Commissioner?
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Well, funny story.
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So I was perfectly content just living my life on the farm.
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It's I'm doing a lot of rebuilding of it right now.
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I'm the secretary of the farmers union.
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They were asking me to run.
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I'm like, eh, nah, I want to do farm stuff.
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And some folks in the Democratic Party asked me to run.
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I'm like, eh, I still want to do fun stuff or farm stuff.
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But then I get a call from Jim Hightower, former ad commissioner, last Democratic ad commissioner in the 80s.
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He's like, hey, come have lunch with me.
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So I went over to his house, big room of people, full of a really long table full of folks, and I was like, oh God, what did I do?
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And they're like, oh no, no, no.
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We just want to talk about Ag Commissioner.
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So honest story is I just got voluntole.
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I wasn't going to say no to Jim.
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Oh, you uh Jim is, you know, uh, for those of you who don't know, uh Jim My Tower was the last Texas agriculture missioner, a Texas populist, a great guy.
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You know, I understand why you couldn't say no to Jim.
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Yeah.
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It's hard to say no to that man.
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Uh Jim was co-chair of the Bernie Sanders campaign with me.
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Yes.
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Uh back when Bernie was uh running for president.
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So uh tell me what you what do you want to do as uh ad commissioner?
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I mean, and tell us what you've seen out there.
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Uh because a lot of people don't go out to the small towns, you know, whether that's out in, like I said, went Banhorn or out in, you know, uh Eagle Pass, Texas, or a lot of Texas.
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Small towns.
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Texas is really, really big.
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That's where I put 60,000 miles on my truck so far.
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There I'm sorry, what kind of pickup you got?
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Well, thankfully I was smart and I got something fuel efficient for this campaign.
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It's a Ford Maverick.
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If I drove my ranch truck, I would be uh my bank account would be going down real real quick.
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It's the 1980s.
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All of our ranch vehicles are from the 80s.
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We can actually fix them.
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I got a Ford Raptor.
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Oh, nice.
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And that's and that's good for I have a ranch up by Taos in New Mexico.
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And you need that four-wheel drive, you know.
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Oh, absolutely.
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Especially when you're out in those dirt roads and it rains, it gets pretty sticky out there.
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That's true.
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So basically, there are two big pests coming to mess with Texas right now.
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You have the screw worm, of course.
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Folks have heard about that.
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Yeah.
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That's going to kill cattle, it's going to kill deer, wild hogs, even dogs and cats.
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Like we were seeing cases of dogs and cats.
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I thought one of the first dog case, yeah.
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Yep.
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I I heard, and you can correct me if I'm wrong, but that was because we scaled back on our efforts to stop screw worms like with the Trump administration, right?
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You can thank Elon Musk for that one.
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Dodge team.
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Yeah.
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Thank you.
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Basically, we Elon, what's wrong with you, man?
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Come on, there's a number of things.
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And now we've got all our cattle in danger because the screw worm, which is a fly, that lays lava in the eyes and nose of the animals and kills them.
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Yep.
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Navels, cuts, anything.
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And again, this is going to kill pets.
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This is going to kill livestock.
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It's going to make production more expensive.
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So that means more expensive groceries.
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So even if you don't farm or you don't ranch, your grocery bills are about to go up because of this.
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Plus, you know, the Iran war and inflation there.
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So we got that pest coming in.
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The other one is these AI data centers.
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They're just taking over lots of our land.
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Yeah.
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And the look, there are some that are trying to be responsible.
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And I thank them for trying to be responsible.
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The one out near Marfa, from what I've been told, is trying to be responsible.
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And I love that.
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A lot of these, they're just boondoggling folks.
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They're taking land.
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They are building water hogs in areas where they're already talking about a new dust bowl.
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I mean, God forbid, large parts of Texas about to run out of water.
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And these data centers are going to take water.
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They're going to cause power inflation.
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Power bills are going to start going up because of this.
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What are these data guys trying to like convince the folks at home?
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Like, what's the selling point?
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Why are they going only to rural areas?
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Yeah.
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They're not building them in Houston or Dallas.
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They're building them out in the rural areas where you got a lot of people that don't have the political power to fight them back.
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Well, that's because our state government took away local control from rural areas.
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They've stripped that away from us.
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So we have no ability to control them.
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That's not entirely true.
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There are some ways we can, ag development districts, which is something my campaign's pushing.
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And as ag commissioner, I would be helping that is just rural folks can organize to get those together.
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But yeah, land is cheap and just things are not quite as organized.
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You know, cities push back a lot more easily.
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And that's, as you mentioned, a lot of cities kicking them out.
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Counties, because this current administration and governor is taking away our local control.
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Otherwise, why they're doing it.
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Big brother for real.
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Yeah.
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So like, are these data centers or are they mass surveillance centers?
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Is my question.
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The other one is the Microsoft AI CEO says we're in the next 18 months, all white-collar jobs are going to be automated away.
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So in my mind, I feel like this is like, you know, the new NAFTA, the new free trade.
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When they were talking about NAFTA and free trade, they're like, it's going to bring all these jobs, wage growth, and what we get is depressed wages, both in United States, Canada, and Mexico.
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Like it's not just here that it hurt.
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It hurt us everywhere.
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And it sent all of our jobs overseas.
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Now we're just sending our jobs to the cloud.
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So I think that's the reason they're building them.
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That's unfortunate, uh, Clayton.
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And like I know you're running really strongly on like this idea of maintaining like family-owned ranches, of like putting the agricultural industry first.
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And AI, the AI industry seems to be doing the opposite, right?
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With the water.
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Do you do you think this is gonna like affect family farms?
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Like, how do you think like locally owned ranches and stuff are are doing and and what is their prospect in the future?
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So I talked to this fun farmer.
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So a guy he grew up in Dallas, he didn't grow up farming, but he always wanted to be a farmer.
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And he retired, he did really well with his life.
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So he bought a farm north of Dallas in Fandon County, and he was living the good life.
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He was really, really loving that farm life.
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But then a a center moved right across the fence from him.
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And those centers create a lot of noise, and it's not just noise you can hear, but it's the vibrations that you can feel, and that really harms cattle.
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So his cattle, you know, there was this beautiful meadow, and his cattle would sleep there every night, gorgeous.
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Now they're sleeping on the barbed wire fence as far as they can, and their calf, they started uh not being another calf, it was a stillbirth after stillbirth.
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So he sold his ranch, moved to a different place, lost a hundred thousand dollars in that deal.
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And we're also hearing this happening in other places.
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Glenn Rose, his mother I talked to, she said every single day she was having migraines until she moved away from a data center.
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Because the what the electric uh w waves or there's the data centers are sending out are causing the stillbursts or the most likely the noise, but it could be the electric magnetism as well.
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So because right now there's so there's base big tech has suppressed all research.
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They are not doing any studies, any water studies.
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All the studies are optional.
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So let like 20% of them have done.
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There's no oversight.
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What could you do with Sagazat culture conversation trying to control that?
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So we have the power for what's called ag impact studies.
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It's like an environmental study, and we're aggressively going to be going after that.
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We are going to bring these folks out into the daylight to show how much power they really use, how much water they really use, and what are the effects of the noise?
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What are the effects of the heat islands?
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Because I don't know if you all know this.
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These things generate so much heat, local temperatures within five miles can go up by four to sixteen degrees.
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That's crazy.
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I didn't know that.
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That's insane.
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That's literally yeah.
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It could get it make Texas summers even worse.
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So I I think that's a really a bipartisan issue.
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I think whether you're a rip Republican, a Democrat, conservative, or liberal, I mean, these data centers are going to impact your life.
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And if you're not fighting back and not getting informed and not voting for the right people, they're just gonna run over us.
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Well, it's funny you bring that up because the other day we had a town hall and the current sitting ad commissioner, he lost his primary, Sid Miller.
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So I'm no longer running against him, but he ended up coming to a town hall.
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That was railroad.
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This is uh Nate Sheets.
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He lives in Frisco, doesn't actually farm.
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He's a food importer.
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He undercuts American businesses by importing cheap food.
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So surprise, surprise.
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But anyway, um, yeah, Sid and I were just like at this town hall, and we're like, yeah, we agree with each other on this.
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These data centers are stupid.
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Why are we doing this?
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We need to stop this.
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So, as you said, this is the most cross-partisan issue there is.
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This is uniting Texans.
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When you talk to constituents, like, are you hearing the same like unision against AI data centers?
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Do you meet constituents that feel hopeful about AI data centers?
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And usually, why are people that are on the other side and and want these data centers like what's driving them?
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Like, why are they confused, maybe?
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For every one person for it, I meet probably 200 people against it.
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So it's really rare.
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Most people are against it.
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Yeah.
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Most of the time they're they have a hand in building it.
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Yeah.
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Okay, I see.
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They're making money off.
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Not all the time, but you know.
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That makes a lot of sense.
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Look, uh, how can uh you help that maintain that family farm, that family ranch?
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Uh, you know, uh I'm I'm a native Texan, my family's been here generations, and I got a ranch down in in uh Rock Springs and another one uh out in uh by Taos, New Mexico.
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So not in Texas, but still I I know how it works.
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But it seems like there's less and less family-owned ranches and farms, and you got these big conglomerates that are buying land and then just turning everything into a big corporate uh empire.
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They are.
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They really are.
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So big ag by which I mean the monopolies like Tyson, JBS, Cargill, National Beef, so on and so forth, they have been systematically eliminating family farms, not just in the United States, but in Mexico.
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Most family farms in Mexico got wiped out.
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Most of them in Texas have gotten wiped out.
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Yeah.
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It's completely destroyed.
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They're doing it in Brazil, they're doing Argentina.
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They're now starting to try to do it in Europe and every world.
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This is a worldwide attack on our agriculture.
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And unfortunately, Texas is taking the brunt hit.
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We lose about 70 farms a week.
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We've lost a quarter of a million or so since Reagan's trickle up economics.
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So many farms a week is crazy.
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Yeah.
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That's a lot.
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We can't, it's unsustainable.
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We can't do it.
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We can't keep this up.
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For over 40 years, Domingo Garcia has fought for Texas.
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Those big settlements and verdicts allow us to give back to the communities here in HTTP.
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Making a difference.
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Fighting the corporate bullies.
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That's why I became a lawyer.
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Domingo Garcia.
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As we're looking at uh going to HCB or wherever your grocery store is, the price of groceries keeps going up and up.
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And like you said, Tyson, for those who don't know, Tyson Foods has control of the chicken, and you got big companies, meatpacking companies control beef prices.
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Uh what can we do to start getting those food prices down?
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Because it really is taking a big chunk out of a family uh, you know, paycheck weekly.
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So we are going to be implementing what we call the high tower model.
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Because right now, all of our funding goes towards building these massive big facilities which are conveniently owned by the monopolies.
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The hightower model is microgrants where we can start rebuilding local processors, rebuild local food.
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Because here's the key to beating big ag.
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Big ag requires them importing cheap food and exporting our food.
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If we make food local, and this is true even for Mexico, it's true for Brazil and Argentina.
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This is true literally everywhere.
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If you can make food sourced locally, you will actually start breaking up big ag just the way they're they design their system.
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So we're going to make food local.
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We're going to, I want to pass a rule where any food served at Texas public schools has to be from Texas farmers, Texas ranchers, Texas producers.
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Let's see if we can make them where they're processed by co-ops.
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I think we can implement a lot that if we do that, we will start breaking them up.
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We can recreate our local supply chains and really prioritize local Texans and Texas farmers and farm families.
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They say AI is bringing back jobs or bring more jobs, but it sounds like it would be better if we look like sourced our food locally.
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That'd probably actually create sustainable jobs and food be healthier.
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I mean, I think a lot of Tehranos want to see that.
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They want to see Texas step up, show what Texas is capable of without big agriculture.
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Uh and I'm I'm really glad you're bringing that to the forefront thing because I really do think that the Hanos will really resonate with that idea of having the food source from Texas.
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Oh, yeah.
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Yeah.
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And even about the job thing, look, rural America has been in an economic death spiral since Ronald Reagan.
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Yeah.
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Like what's let's call it as it is.
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So I I know people are desperate for investment, and I I know it.
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I've seen the abandoned towns, the abandoned factories, the abandoned buildings.
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I a hundred percent get it.
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Small downtowns are dying everywhere.
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They are.
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But then I look at Abilene, and you know, Abilene's building Stargate, and they have like five to six thousand workers there, and I'm glad they have a job.
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Like I want people to have jobs and paid well.
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Yeah.
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But because of that, housing is so expensive.
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It is from what my friends from Abilene told me, it is cheaper to get a house in San Francisco than it is to get one in Abilene right now.
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That's crazy.
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And you're creating all this construction, all this or congestion, I mean, and it's forcing locals out.
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It's forcing people who have lived there for generations to move because they just their rent went from 600 to 3,000.
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Like they just it's just not possible.
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Yeah.
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So once those data centers are done, there's not going to be any locals left.
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Let me ask you, uh uh farmers markets.
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When I was growing up, we would go to the farmers market to get fresh produce from local uh farmers, uh, whether it was tomatoes or cucumbers or my favorite watermelons.
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Oh yeah.
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You know, the sub the suburb.
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Uh but like the one in Dallas no longer basically exists.
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They turned it into a food food court.
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And yet, what can we do to get these farmers' markets back uh as part of our Texas culture and heritage?
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And that's you know, farmers market is something that Jim Hightower helped create.
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So the monopolies have figured out how to rig that system.
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They'll create little shell companies and they'll act like, oh, we're local because it's a local shell company, when in fact it's a monopoly product.
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So we're gonna have to add some accountability there.
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One thing I would like to see, I believe we do our food labels backwards.
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You know, we label organic food and we label go Texan local food, right?
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Which we're treating it like it's something different.
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Like, oh, this healthy food's different, this local food's different.
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We should switch it.
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Where, you know, it's like the baseline should be Texan.
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The baseline should be healthy.
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So like it was have a label for processed food.
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Let's have a label for this food wasn't grown here.
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Now, obviously, we can't grow everything here.
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We we'll never be able to grow pineapples in mass in Texas.
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Uh we can't even grow sugar anymore because we're out of water.
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So yeah.
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A corporate we're in corpus cruise.
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We might be out of water because of the centers here, right?
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And they're building three data centers.
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These people have no idea.
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The governor sold out to people in corpus gristy.
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Yes, sir.
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And now they're gonna have to build salination plants to get water.
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Yep.
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I I like that you said that though, Clinton.
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I I think that's on purpose, actually.
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The fact that we label organic food and not processed food.
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Yeah, you know, it's literally the marketing agents right now at big ag are like punching the air at what you're saying, because that's their worst nightmare for people to like wake up and be aware that the majority of the things that they eat don't come from where they think they come from or aren't even like local, right?
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It's all just technical terms and semantics at the end of the day.
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Yeah.
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But the fact that we label them backwards, I think shows how lack, how much we lack in transparency.
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And I like that idea.
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I like that you're campaigning on that.
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Um, I really think it'll fix a lot of our accountability issues, maybe.
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Most people don't know who the Texas Agriculture Commissioner is right now.
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I mean, we know what said Miller in the past, it was kind of controversial.
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Uh, how are you gonna get uh people to vote down ballot?
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You know, a lot of people they'll see that Senate race and then maybe governor, and then they stop.
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How do we get them to go down and understand how important your your position is?
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Well, first things first is meet people where they're at.
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So we are traveling all over this state.
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I don't even know how many counties we've been to at this point anymore.
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I used to be able to track that number mentally, but you know, yeah, I lost track after 100.
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So we're doing that.
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We're building ground teams everywhere.
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We're building also partnerships with local candidates to really help them out, help out county parties, help out local orgs.
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This data center thing, we're catching a lot of fire right now with Democrats, Republicans, and independents.
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So we'll be doing a lot of postcarding about that and just really focus.
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I mean, we'll do some digital ads, but really try focus on the the old school politicking.
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Just meeting folks, talking to folks, and making sure, like, hey, can you go talk to your friends and family?
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Yeah.
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Can you go talk to your neighbors?
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Can you go talk to your coworkers?
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Because like there's what it's one thing if I talk to them, it's another thing if and like if they don't know me, it's another thing if you talk to your own folks.
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Yeah.
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You know?
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Yeah, absolutely.
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What's uh the most heartbreaking story you've heard from a rancher or farmer when since you've been on the road?
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Oh, I'm gonna cry.
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I don't want to hear this.
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Well, there was probably that still birth cattle one, but one I kind of mentioned alluded to earlier.
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There's this lady, uh, she lived in a city, moved out to moved out to Glenrose, and she had an eight-year-old kid.
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And a data center moved right next to her house, like a mile away or something, and she started getting migraines every single day, multiple medicines, never went away, just constant migraines, and her kid started getting constant ear infections, like was just deathly sick, and then they sold their property, they lost a lot of money.
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These data centers call it property values to tank.
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So they moved out, and no more migraines.
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Kid was perfectly healthy, things were going great, and now another one of these dank centers are moving in even closer.
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Went from a mile away to about 500 yards away.
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Yeah.
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So I always tell people don't get mad, get organized.
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Yep.
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Because those data centers, they rise up the price of electricity for all Texans.
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We don't get any of those profits, they all go to billionaires, and then they create medical and health conditions that are dangerous to the people that surround those uh data centers.
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Um and you know, how do we fight back against those billionaires who control those data centers and those big corporations that don't listen to the little, you know, the little Texans, you know, the men and women out there who are just going to job we're getting their work stuff.
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So only organized people can beat organized money.
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This is true now, it was true in our past, that every time we've ever achieved anything, ever expanded our rights, expanded our freedoms, or just gotten any sort of public service is because there was organized people who beat organized money.
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From the Gilded Age to the New Deal to the civil rights era.
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That's own literally the only way that this has ever, ever worked in our entire history.
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So so long as we do that, we can win.
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I will say time is on our side.
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AI is a massive bubble.
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It is starting to burst.
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Now, when it does burst, it's not going to be pleasant.
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Not going to hide that fact.
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But it's starting to burst now, so time is on our side.
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But we have to organize, we have to organize now.
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They can build a data center in 120 days.
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Let me ask you uh if somebody wants to get involved with your campaign, where do they call or where are they looking you up?
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So if you're on social media, you can find me there, Clayton Tucker TX.
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I talk a lot of smack about data centers.
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I run my mouth quite a bit.
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And every now and then you get like a baby goat or like a cow or a donkey picture.
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Uh then otherwise Clayton Tucker TX.
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And actually, I do have a very simple ask, and it's free.
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And that is we do something a little bit different on our campaign where if you go to our issues page, every issue is a petition where you can share your story about why you care about this issue.
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So we've had 20,000 Texans sign our stop data center petition, and some of them share their stories with us about why they're against it, how it's Hurt them.
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So that tells us what to talk about.
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It tells us what people think about.
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So we're rolling one out actually today about surveillance pricing.
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You know, this these big tech folks are figuring out like, oh, you'll pay$5 for this and you'll pay$5.05.
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So they'll like customize prices at the grocery store.
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So we're rolling that one out.
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It tells me what to talk about because this is a populist campaign.
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We're close to the people.
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Our communication is not one way, it's a two-way street.
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So ClaytontuckerTX.com, find our petitions, sign the ones you like, share those as well.
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It honest to God helps our movement.
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I'm gonna let you have the last word.
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Awesome.
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Clayton.
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No, I love it.
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I think people often don't think about positions like yours, like the Agriculture Commission, uh, the commissioner.
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We we need to have younger folks, we need to have everybody in Texas, especially Tejanos, you know, that want to be Tejano Tough, uh, to come out and and and help Clayton and Tucker tell their family members to vote, local elections, big elections, because people just think like, you know, presidential elections, but really like the food we eat, uh, you know, the the kind of things that are affecting our health, the building of AI data centers, it's at the hands of our commissioners and and people that are running the office that often we don't know about.
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So, you know, what I really want to press visit Clayton Tugger's like website, go to his Instagram, TikTok.
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I've seen your videos talking about AI data centers.
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He really does talk all that smack.
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I do, I do.
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And and and that's all you know, the Huddle Talks is all about it.
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It's empowering the Hunnels that care about our mental health, our physical health, you know, our financial wellness, and all that is tied to what you're running to do, Clinton.
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Uh so again, thank you so much.
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Any any last words?
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Anything you want to tell maybe the younger crowd?
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Uh updates on Landon.
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Say what?
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Oh.
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Well, I will say I'm the first candidate from either political party nominee at this point to be born in the 1990s.
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I ask folks for please don't hold that against me.
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But look, it is never look, it's never too late.
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These billionaires, these oligarchs, they want us to feel like we're defeated.
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Yeah.
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They want us to feel like, oh, there's no point.
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Because when we feel that, they win.
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It is that simple.
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When we feel that, they win.
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But again, time, like we are just continuing what our and the fight our ancestors were doing for more freedom, greater freedom, or just freedom in general.
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And we are a part of that.
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The torch is now in our hands.
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The torch will be in the next generation once we're done.
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Yes, sir.
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And we will leave the world a better place, but we have to get organized.
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Only when we organize can we win.
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Well, there you have it.
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Clayton Tucker, the only candidate born in the 90s.
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And a Texan, you know, a lot of these Republicans, the lieutenant governor was born in Connecticut.
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The other born in Maryland.
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None of them are actual Texans.
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Don't even tell me, I won't get so mad.
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We need the Hanos.
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The Hanos need to go vote for Tejanos for Texans and beat the Hanno Top with you know, Clayton Tucker here.
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Yes, sir.
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Thank you, Clayton Tucker, for being on the Hano Talks.
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My name is Hiram.
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We're you with the most badass attorney in all of Texas, Domingo, and we got the candidate for agriculture commissioner, Clayton Tucker here.
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Catch us on all your favorite platforms.
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Get on YouTube, Spotify, Instagram, TikTok.
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We're there for you, for your mental health, your physical health, and everything.
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We'll see you next time.
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Adios
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My name is Inam Garcia.
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I'm here with the best attorney in Texas, Lomigo Garcia.
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We're at the Texas State Convention interviewing amazing folks.
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We got next to us, Clayton Tucker running for Texas Agriculture Commissioner.
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How's it going?
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How's everybody doing today?
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Well, it's doing great.
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Everyone's asking me, where's the goats?
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Why didn't I bring my goats?
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And I'm like, I thought about it, but people would lose their minds.
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You got a lot of goats or was?
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Yeah, we raised goats and cattle and lampasses.
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For folks who don't know where it is, if you can find us in our Texas, you can find Lampasses equally far from everywhere else.
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But tell us about the goat.
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No, but we're not talking about the greatest of all time.
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We're talking about a real goat.
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A real goat.
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So our yard signs are actually our goat.
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His name's Lyndon, named after LBJ.
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And he was a bottle baby, and he we had to fight to keep him alive.
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Real uh coming up story.
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But he's doing good.
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He's uh really enjoying all the grasses on the field.
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And now we have another bottle baby, uh sweet pea, and she uh she's learning how to headbutt right now.
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So my my poor parents are having to take care of her.
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So did you go up on a ranch or a farm?
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Yes, sir.
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Lampasses, uh I'm third, fourth generation, how you want to count it.
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So mostly cattle, but we have goats and other stuff.
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All right.
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So for a lot of people that are I gotta call it the you know, uh that live in the cities, how difficult was it growing up on a ranch?
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I grew up on a ranch too.
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Up in Banhorn, Texas.
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And so I grew up, you know, riding horses and mules and donkeys and doing all that stuff and going to milking cows.
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Have you ever milked a cow?
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I have.
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And I'd never want to do it again.
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Only did it once.
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Yeah.
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I've also milked a goat and also do not want to do it again.
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I've never milked a goat, but that sounds like it's not not as hard.
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Not as hard.
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Really?
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I thought it'd be harder.
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I thought it'd be a good thing.
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Uh so long as you can clink their heads in and give them some food, they'll be a fun.
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Yeah.
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I mean, for me, I was just a field child.
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My parents, like, okay, just don't play with snakes and go out there.
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So I was just running everywhere, uh having a grand old time.
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I I love normal.
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Yeah.
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So what made you uh actually, I guess, throw your hat in the ring here and run for Texas Agriculture Commissioner?
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Well, funny story.
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So I was perfectly content just living my life on the farm.
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It's I'm doing a lot of rebuilding of it right now.
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I'm the secretary of the farmers union.
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They were asking me to run.
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I'm like, eh, nah, I want to do farm stuff.
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And some folks in the Democratic Party asked me to run.
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I'm like, eh, I still want to do fun stuff or farm stuff.
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But then I get a call from Jim Hightower, former ad commissioner, last Democratic ad commissioner in the 80s.
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He's like, hey, come have lunch with me.
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So I went over to his house, big room of people, full of a really long table full of folks, and I was like, oh God, what did I do?
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And they're like, oh no, no, no.
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We just want to talk about Ag Commissioner.
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So honest story is I just got voluntole.
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I wasn't going to say no to Jim.
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Oh, you uh Jim is, you know, uh, for those of you who don't know, uh Jim My Tower was the last Texas agriculture missioner, a Texas populist, a great guy.
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You know, I understand why you couldn't say no to Jim.
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Yeah.
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It's hard to say no to that man.
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Uh Jim was co-chair of the Bernie Sanders campaign with me.
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Yes.
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Uh back when Bernie was uh running for president.
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So uh tell me what you what do you want to do as uh ad commissioner?
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I mean, and tell us what you've seen out there.
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Uh because a lot of people don't go out to the small towns, you know, whether that's out in, like I said, went Banhorn or out in, you know, uh Eagle Pass, Texas, or a lot of Texas.
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Small towns.
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Texas is really, really big.
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That's where I put 60,000 miles on my truck so far.
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There I'm sorry, what kind of pickup you got?
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Well, thankfully I was smart and I got something fuel efficient for this campaign.
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It's a Ford Maverick.
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If I drove my ranch truck, I would be uh my bank account would be going down real real quick.
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It's the 1980s.
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All of our ranch vehicles are from the 80s.
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We can actually fix them.
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I got a Ford Raptor.
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Oh, nice.
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And that's and that's good for I have a ranch up by Taos in New Mexico.
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And you need that four-wheel drive, you know.
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Oh, absolutely.
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Especially when you're out in those dirt roads and it rains, it gets pretty sticky out there.
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That's true.
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So basically, there are two big pests coming to mess with Texas right now.
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You have the screw worm, of course.
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Folks have heard about that.
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Yeah.
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That's going to kill cattle, it's going to kill deer, wild hogs, even dogs and cats.
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Like we were seeing cases of dogs and cats.
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I thought one of the first dog case, yeah.
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Yep.
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I I heard, and you can correct me if I'm wrong, but that was because we scaled back on our efforts to stop screw worms like with the Trump administration, right?
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You can thank Elon Musk for that one.
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Dodge team.
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Yeah.
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Thank you.
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Basically, we Elon, what's wrong with you, man?
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Come on, there's a number of things.
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And now we've got all our cattle in danger because the screw worm, which is a fly, that lays lava in the eyes and nose of the animals and kills them.
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Yep.
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Navels, cuts, anything.
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And again, this is going to kill pets.
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This is going to kill livestock.
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It's going to make production more expensive.
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So that means more expensive groceries.
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So even if you don't farm or you don't ranch, your grocery bills are about to go up because of this.
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Plus, you know, the Iran war and inflation there.
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So we got that pest coming in.
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The other one is these AI data centers.
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They're just taking over lots of our land.
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Yeah.
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And the look, there are some that are trying to be responsible.
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And I thank them for trying to be responsible.
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The one out near Marfa, from what I've been told, is trying to be responsible.
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And I love that.
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A lot of these, they're just boondoggling folks.
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They're taking land.
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They are building water hogs in areas where they're already talking about a new dust bowl.
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I mean, God forbid, large parts of Texas about to run out of water.
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And these data centers are going to take water.
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They're going to cause power inflation.
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Power bills are going to start going up because of this.
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What are these data guys trying to like convince the folks at home?
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Like, what's the selling point?
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Why are they going only to rural areas?
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Yeah.
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They're not building them in Houston or Dallas.
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They're building them out in the rural areas where you got a lot of people that don't have the political power to fight them back.
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Well, that's because our state government took away local control from rural areas.
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They've stripped that away from us.
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So we have no ability to control them.
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That's not entirely true.
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There are some ways we can, ag development districts, which is something my campaign's pushing.
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And as ag commissioner, I would be helping that is just rural folks can organize to get those together.
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But yeah, land is cheap and just things are not quite as organized.
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You know, cities push back a lot more easily.
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And that's, as you mentioned, a lot of cities kicking them out.
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Counties, because this current administration and governor is taking away our local control.
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Otherwise, why they're doing it.
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Big brother for real.
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Yeah.
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So like, are these data centers or are they mass surveillance centers?
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Is my question.
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The other one is the Microsoft AI CEO says we're in the next 18 months, all white-collar jobs are going to be automated away.
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So in my mind, I feel like this is like, you know, the new NAFTA, the new free trade.
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When they were talking about NAFTA and free trade, they're like, it's going to bring all these jobs, wage growth, and what we get is depressed wages, both in United States, Canada, and Mexico.
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Like it's not just here that it hurt.
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It hurt us everywhere.
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And it sent all of our jobs overseas.
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Now we're just sending our jobs to the cloud.
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So I think that's the reason they're building them.
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That's unfortunate, uh, Clayton.
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And like I know you're running really strongly on like this idea of maintaining like family-owned ranches, of like putting the agricultural industry first.
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And AI, the AI industry seems to be doing the opposite, right?
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With the water.
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Do you do you think this is gonna like affect family farms?
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Like, how do you think like locally owned ranches and stuff are are doing and and what is their prospect in the future?
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So I talked to this fun farmer.
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So a guy he grew up in Dallas, he didn't grow up farming, but he always wanted to be a farmer.
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And he retired, he did really well with his life.
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So he bought a farm north of Dallas in Fandon County, and he was living the good life.
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He was really, really loving that farm life.
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But then a a center moved right across the fence from him.
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And those centers create a lot of noise, and it's not just noise you can hear, but it's the vibrations that you can feel, and that really harms cattle.
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So his cattle, you know, there was this beautiful meadow, and his cattle would sleep there every night, gorgeous.
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Now they're sleeping on the barbed wire fence as far as they can, and their calf, they started uh not being another calf, it was a stillbirth after stillbirth.
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So he sold his ranch, moved to a different place, lost a hundred thousand dollars in that deal.
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And we're also hearing this happening in other places.
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Glenn Rose, his mother I talked to, she said every single day she was having migraines until she moved away from a data center.
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Because the what the electric uh w waves or there's the data centers are sending out are causing the stillbursts or the most likely the noise, but it could be the electric magnetism as well.
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So because right now there's so there's base big tech has suppressed all research.
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They are not doing any studies, any water studies.
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All the studies are optional.
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So let like 20% of them have done.
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There's no oversight.
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What could you do with Sagazat culture conversation trying to control that?
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So we have the power for what's called ag impact studies.
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It's like an environmental study, and we're aggressively going to be going after that.
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We are going to bring these folks out into the daylight to show how much power they really use, how much water they really use, and what are the effects of the noise?
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What are the effects of the heat islands?
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Because I don't know if you all know this.
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These things generate so much heat, local temperatures within five miles can go up by four to sixteen degrees.
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That's crazy.
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I didn't know that.
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That's insane.
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That's literally yeah.
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It could get it make Texas summers even worse.
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So I I think that's a really a bipartisan issue.
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I think whether you're a rip Republican, a Democrat, conservative, or liberal, I mean, these data centers are going to impact your life.
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And if you're not fighting back and not getting informed and not voting for the right people, they're just gonna run over us.
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Well, it's funny you bring that up because the other day we had a town hall and the current sitting ad commissioner, he lost his primary, Sid Miller.
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So I'm no longer running against him, but he ended up coming to a town hall.
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That was railroad.
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This is uh Nate Sheets.
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He lives in Frisco, doesn't actually farm.
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He's a food importer.
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He undercuts American businesses by importing cheap food.
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So surprise, surprise.
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But anyway, um, yeah, Sid and I were just like at this town hall, and we're like, yeah, we agree with each other on this.
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These data centers are stupid.
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Why are we doing this?
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We need to stop this.
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So, as you said, this is the most cross-partisan issue there is.
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This is uniting Texans.
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When you talk to constituents, like, are you hearing the same like unision against AI data centers?
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Do you meet constituents that feel hopeful about AI data centers?
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And usually, why are people that are on the other side and and want these data centers like what's driving them?
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Like, why are they confused, maybe?
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For every one person for it, I meet probably 200 people against it.
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So it's really rare.
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Most people are against it.
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Yeah.
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Most of the time they're they have a hand in building it.
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Yeah.
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Okay, I see.
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They're making money off.
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Not all the time, but you know.
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That makes a lot of sense.
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Look, uh, how can uh you help that maintain that family farm, that family ranch?
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Uh, you know, uh I'm I'm a native Texan, my family's been here generations, and I got a ranch down in in uh Rock Springs and another one uh out in uh by Taos, New Mexico.
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So not in Texas, but still I I know how it works.
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But it seems like there's less and less family-owned ranches and farms, and you got these big conglomerates that are buying land and then just turning everything into a big corporate uh empire.
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They are.
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They really are.
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So big ag by which I mean the monopolies like Tyson, JBS, Cargill, National Beef, so on and so forth, they have been systematically eliminating family farms, not just in the United States, but in Mexico.
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Most family farms in Mexico got wiped out.
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Most of them in Texas have gotten wiped out.
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Yeah.
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It's completely destroyed.
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They're doing it in Brazil, they're doing Argentina.
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They're now starting to try to do it in Europe and every world.
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This is a worldwide attack on our agriculture.
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And unfortunately, Texas is taking the brunt hit.
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We lose about 70 farms a week.
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We've lost a quarter of a million or so since Reagan's trickle up economics.
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So many farms a week is crazy.
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Yeah.
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That's a lot.
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We can't, it's unsustainable.
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We can't do it.
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We can't keep this up.
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For over 40 years, Domingo Garcia has fought for Texas.
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Those big settlements and verdicts allow us to give back to the communities here in HTTP.
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Making a difference.
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Fighting the corporate bullies.
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That's why I became a lawyer.
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Domingo Garcia.
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As we're looking at uh going to HCB or wherever your grocery store is, the price of groceries keeps going up and up.
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And like you said, Tyson, for those who don't know, Tyson Foods has control of the chicken, and you got big companies, meatpacking companies control beef prices.
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Uh what can we do to start getting those food prices down?
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Because it really is taking a big chunk out of a family uh, you know, paycheck weekly.
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So we are going to be implementing what we call the high tower model.
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Because right now, all of our funding goes towards building these massive big facilities which are conveniently owned by the monopolies.
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The hightower model is microgrants where we can start rebuilding local processors, rebuild local food.
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Because here's the key to beating big ag.
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Big ag requires them importing cheap food and exporting our food.
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If we make food local, and this is true even for Mexico, it's true for Brazil and Argentina.
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This is true literally everywhere.
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If you can make food sourced locally, you will actually start breaking up big ag just the way they're they design their system.
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So we're going to make food local.
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We're going to, I want to pass a rule where any food served at Texas public schools has to be from Texas farmers, Texas ranchers, Texas producers.
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Let's see if we can make them where they're processed by co-ops.
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I think we can implement a lot that if we do that, we will start breaking them up.
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We can recreate our local supply chains and really prioritize local Texans and Texas farmers and farm families.
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They say AI is bringing back jobs or bring more jobs, but it sounds like it would be better if we look like sourced our food locally.
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That'd probably actually create sustainable jobs and food be healthier.
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I mean, I think a lot of Tehranos want to see that.
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They want to see Texas step up, show what Texas is capable of without big agriculture.
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Uh and I'm I'm really glad you're bringing that to the forefront thing because I really do think that the Hanos will really resonate with that idea of having the food source from Texas.
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Oh, yeah.
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Yeah.
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And even about the job thing, look, rural America has been in an economic death spiral since Ronald Reagan.
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Yeah.
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Like what's let's call it as it is.
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So I I know people are desperate for investment, and I I know it.
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I've seen the abandoned towns, the abandoned factories, the abandoned buildings.
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I a hundred percent get it.
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Small downtowns are dying everywhere.
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They are.
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But then I look at Abilene, and you know, Abilene's building Stargate, and they have like five to six thousand workers there, and I'm glad they have a job.
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Like I want people to have jobs and paid well.
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Yeah.
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But because of that, housing is so expensive.
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It is from what my friends from Abilene told me, it is cheaper to get a house in San Francisco than it is to get one in Abilene right now.
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That's crazy.
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And you're creating all this construction, all this or congestion, I mean, and it's forcing locals out.
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It's forcing people who have lived there for generations to move because they just their rent went from 600 to 3,000.
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Like they just it's just not possible.
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Yeah.
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So once those data centers are done, there's not going to be any locals left.
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Let me ask you, uh uh farmers markets.
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When I was growing up, we would go to the farmers market to get fresh produce from local uh farmers, uh, whether it was tomatoes or cucumbers or my favorite watermelons.
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Oh yeah.
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You know, the sub the suburb.
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Uh but like the one in Dallas no longer basically exists.
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They turned it into a food food court.
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And yet, what can we do to get these farmers' markets back uh as part of our Texas culture and heritage?
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And that's you know, farmers market is something that Jim Hightower helped create.
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So the monopolies have figured out how to rig that system.
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They'll create little shell companies and they'll act like, oh, we're local because it's a local shell company, when in fact it's a monopoly product.
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So we're gonna have to add some accountability there.
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One thing I would like to see, I believe we do our food labels backwards.
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You know, we label organic food and we label go Texan local food, right?
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Which we're treating it like it's something different.
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Like, oh, this healthy food's different, this local food's different.
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We should switch it.
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Where, you know, it's like the baseline should be Texan.
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The baseline should be healthy.
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So like it was have a label for processed food.
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Let's have a label for this food wasn't grown here.
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Now, obviously, we can't grow everything here.
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We we'll never be able to grow pineapples in mass in Texas.
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Uh we can't even grow sugar anymore because we're out of water.
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So yeah.
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A corporate we're in corpus cruise.
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We might be out of water because of the centers here, right?
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And they're building three data centers.
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These people have no idea.
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The governor sold out to people in corpus gristy.
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Yes, sir.
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And now they're gonna have to build salination plants to get water.
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Yep.
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I I like that you said that though, Clinton.
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I I think that's on purpose, actually.
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The fact that we label organic food and not processed food.
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Yeah, you know, it's literally the marketing agents right now at big ag are like punching the air at what you're saying, because that's their worst nightmare for people to like wake up and be aware that the majority of the things that they eat don't come from where they think they come from or aren't even like local, right?
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It's all just technical terms and semantics at the end of the day.
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Yeah.
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But the fact that we label them backwards, I think shows how lack, how much we lack in transparency.
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And I like that idea.
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I like that you're campaigning on that.
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Um, I really think it'll fix a lot of our accountability issues, maybe.
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Most people don't know who the Texas Agriculture Commissioner is right now.
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I mean, we know what said Miller in the past, it was kind of controversial.
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Uh, how are you gonna get uh people to vote down ballot?
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You know, a lot of people they'll see that Senate race and then maybe governor, and then they stop.
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How do we get them to go down and understand how important your your position is?
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Well, first things first is meet people where they're at.
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So we are traveling all over this state.
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I don't even know how many counties we've been to at this point anymore.
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I used to be able to track that number mentally, but you know, yeah, I lost track after 100.
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So we're doing that.
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We're building ground teams everywhere.
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We're building also partnerships with local candidates to really help them out, help out county parties, help out local orgs.
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This data center thing, we're catching a lot of fire right now with Democrats, Republicans, and independents.
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So we'll be doing a lot of postcarding about that and just really focus.
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I mean, we'll do some digital ads, but really try focus on the the old school politicking.
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Just meeting folks, talking to folks, and making sure, like, hey, can you go talk to your friends and family?
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Yeah.
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Can you go talk to your neighbors?
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Can you go talk to your coworkers?
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Because like there's what it's one thing if I talk to them, it's another thing if and like if they don't know me, it's another thing if you talk to your own folks.
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Yeah.
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You know?
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Yeah, absolutely.
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What's uh the most heartbreaking story you've heard from a rancher or farmer when since you've been on the road?
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Oh, I'm gonna cry.
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I don't want to hear this.
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Well, there was probably that still birth cattle one, but one I kind of mentioned alluded to earlier.
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There's this lady, uh, she lived in a city, moved out to moved out to Glenrose, and she had an eight-year-old kid.
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And a data center moved right next to her house, like a mile away or something, and she started getting migraines every single day, multiple medicines, never went away, just constant migraines, and her kid started getting constant ear infections, like was just deathly sick, and then they sold their property, they lost a lot of money.
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These data centers call it property values to tank.
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So they moved out, and no more migraines.
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Kid was perfectly healthy, things were going great, and now another one of these dank centers are moving in even closer.
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Went from a mile away to about 500 yards away.
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Yeah.
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So I always tell people don't get mad, get organized.
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Yep.
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Because those data centers, they rise up the price of electricity for all Texans.
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We don't get any of those profits, they all go to billionaires, and then they create medical and health conditions that are dangerous to the people that surround those uh data centers.
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Um and you know, how do we fight back against those billionaires who control those data centers and those big corporations that don't listen to the little, you know, the little Texans, you know, the men and women out there who are just going to job we're getting their work stuff.
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So only organized people can beat organized money.
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This is true now, it was true in our past, that every time we've ever achieved anything, ever expanded our rights, expanded our freedoms, or just gotten any sort of public service is because there was organized people who beat organized money.
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From the Gilded Age to the New Deal to the civil rights era.
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That's own literally the only way that this has ever, ever worked in our entire history.
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So so long as we do that, we can win.
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I will say time is on our side.
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AI is a massive bubble.
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It is starting to burst.
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Now, when it does burst, it's not going to be pleasant.
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Not going to hide that fact.
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But it's starting to burst now, so time is on our side.
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But we have to organize, we have to organize now.
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They can build a data center in 120 days.
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Let me ask you uh if somebody wants to get involved with your campaign, where do they call or where are they looking you up?
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So if you're on social media, you can find me there, Clayton Tucker TX.
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I talk a lot of smack about data centers.
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I run my mouth quite a bit.
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And every now and then you get like a baby goat or like a cow or a donkey picture.
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Uh then otherwise Clayton Tucker TX.
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And actually, I do have a very simple ask, and it's free.
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And that is we do something a little bit different on our campaign where if you go to our issues page, every issue is a petition where you can share your story about why you care about this issue.
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So we've had 20,000 Texans sign our stop data center petition, and some of them share their stories with us about why they're against it, how it's Hurt them.
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So that tells us what to talk about.
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It tells us what people think about.
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So we're rolling one out actually today about surveillance pricing.
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You know, this these big tech folks are figuring out like, oh, you'll pay$5 for this and you'll pay$5.05.
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So they'll like customize prices at the grocery store.
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So we're rolling that one out.
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It tells me what to talk about because this is a populist campaign.
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We're close to the people.
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Our communication is not one way, it's a two-way street.
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So ClaytontuckerTX.com, find our petitions, sign the ones you like, share those as well.
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It honest to God helps our movement.
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I'm gonna let you have the last word.
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Awesome.
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Clayton.
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No, I love it.
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I think people often don't think about positions like yours, like the Agriculture Commission, uh, the commissioner.
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We we need to have younger folks, we need to have everybody in Texas, especially Tejanos, you know, that want to be Tejano Tough, uh, to come out and and and help Clayton and Tucker tell their family members to vote, local elections, big elections, because people just think like, you know, presidential elections, but really like the food we eat, uh, you know, the the kind of things that are affecting our health, the building of AI data centers, it's at the hands of our commissioners and and people that are running the office that often we don't know about.
00:23:10.400 --> 00:23:17.759
So, you know, what I really want to press visit Clayton Tugger's like website, go to his Instagram, TikTok.
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I've seen your videos talking about AI data centers.
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He really does talk all that smack.
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I do, I do.
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And and and that's all you know, the Huddle Talks is all about it.
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It's empowering the Hunnels that care about our mental health, our physical health, you know, our financial wellness, and all that is tied to what you're running to do, Clinton.
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Uh so again, thank you so much.
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Any any last words?
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Anything you want to tell maybe the younger crowd?
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Uh updates on Landon.
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Say what?
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Oh.
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Well, I will say I'm the first candidate from either political party nominee at this point to be born in the 1990s.
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I ask folks for please don't hold that against me.
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But look, it is never look, it's never too late.
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These billionaires, these oligarchs, they want us to feel like we're defeated.
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Yeah.
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They want us to feel like, oh, there's no point.
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Because when we feel that, they win.
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It is that simple.
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When we feel that, they win.
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But again, time, like we are just continuing what our and the fight our ancestors were doing for more freedom, greater freedom, or just freedom in general.
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And we are a part of that.
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The torch is now in our hands.
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The torch will be in the next generation once we're done.
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Yes, sir.
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And we will leave the world a better place, but we have to get organized.
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Only when we organize can we win.
00:24:32.160 --> 00:24:32.880
Well, there you have it.
00:24:32.960 --> 00:24:35.599
Clayton Tucker, the only candidate born in the 90s.
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And a Texan, you know, a lot of these Republicans, the lieutenant governor was born in Connecticut.
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The other born in Maryland.
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None of them are actual Texans.
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Don't even tell me, I won't get so mad.
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We need the Hanos.
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The Hanos need to go vote for Tejanos for Texans and beat the Hanno Top with you know, Clayton Tucker here.
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Yes, sir.
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Thank you, Clayton Tucker, for being on the Hano Talks.
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My name is Hiram.
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We're you with the most badass attorney in all of Texas, Domingo, and we got the candidate for agriculture commissioner, Clayton Tucker here.
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Catch us on all your favorite platforms.
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Get on YouTube, Spotify, Instagram, TikTok.
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We're there for you, for your mental health, your physical health, and everything.
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We'll see you next time.
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Adios
