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Welcome to the Hono Talks.
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I'm here in the studio with Domingo Garcia, Miss Attorney in Dallas, Texas.
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But today we're throwing political chingazos.
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We're 40 days away from Texas election day, and we need to prepare.
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There's a lot at stake, Domingo.
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Yeah, you know, and Texas uh politics is a contact sport, man.
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People talk about the Texas Longhorns or what happened with the Cowboys or the Texas.
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Uh la politica ta fuerte.
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Yeah.
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And the main thing is first of all, you gotta be ready.
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Okay, we call it if this is a football analogy and we're doing preseason training.
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You gotta register to vote.
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And you got till October 5th to register to vote.
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So Rasa, don't say I'm gonna wait till Taco Tuesday or until Latia comes and gets me.
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Go register to vote now.
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You got till October 5th, you can do it online.
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You can go to the driver's license, although there's a big scandal there because people that got registered to vote haven't been registered at the county and they're doing that.
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Um and then after you register to vote, uh then make sure that you are registered to vote.
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Yeah.
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Uh you know, I was declared dead about four months ago uh when my license, uh my border registration was suspended, um, and I had to get that reinstated.
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I don't know how many other people have gotten letters or that there are you know over a million Texans uh border registration has been suspended.
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1.2 million.
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Yeah, 1.2 million, and mainly people that moved, you know, usually people in apartments like that, and then they didn't uh change their address.
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So check uh at Texasgov.com, Texasgov.com if you're registered to vote and if your registration is current.
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Yeah, but I mean that's the first like punch that the Republican Party tried to throw, you know, like of many, uh it's like trying to suspend, you know, millions of Texans from being able to like vote.
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I mean it started all the way back in redistricting the when they were like trying to change who and how we vote because it they don't want you to vote.
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Like they they want you to be quiet, they want you to sit down at home, watch cartoons.
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You know, the these megamarranos never cease to amaze me.
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They try to they want the gerrymandering and rigging the districts.
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Then they want to voter suppress and uh suspend a million Texans from the chingazo number two that they try to throw.
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And then they're gonna do, you know, they're gonna arrest a couple of poor Latinos, Latinas usually and say there's voter fraud so that they can, you know, tap down.
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Intimidate again, Puras movidas.
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And I think it's important that we throw a political chingazo that is heard from the Rio Grande to the Panhandle from El Paso to Houston and down I-35 from Dallas Fort Worth to Austin San Antonio to Laredo, because that's the only way these pendejos get the message, okay?
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Yeah, go vote.
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Absolutely.
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We're so close.
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Look, you think you're sitting down at home and you're like, my vote doesn't count, but Beto Rourke almost won in 2018.
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200,000 votes.
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200,000 votes.
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You know what I mean?
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That's nothing.
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Like, literally, that's you and 10 friends.
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Like, if you know, you and 10 friends went and voted, this chingaso would have been really hard.
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And we could throw it now.
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James Salarico could win.
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You know, Gina could win.
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We could have the first Latina since what you said, 1883.
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So let me ask you about that.
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So that's a marquee race around the country.
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Uh, you know, everybody knows who's a James Telerico.
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He's been on Jimmy Kimball, uh, Stephen Colbert.
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Well, he wasn't on.
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They kicked him off because FCC.
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Cheating again.
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I mean, you you can't be on Jimmy Kimball.
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They got to put him on YouTube.
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Uh but you know, the race right now, all the polls show Tel Rico winning two, three, four points.
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But the difference is gonna be turnout.
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What do you how do you see the Tel Rico-Paxton race right now?
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Look, you know what?
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Paxton is like that one guy nobody likes at school.
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Like, you know, and and somebody chose that he should run.
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Uh, and I think Republicans are like, they're they're panicking, they're worried because like he's you know, everything you don't want.
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He's corrupt.
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He got, you know, the whole Texas like Senate and House to impeach him.
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Like, he's just not the guy for this race.
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You know what freaks me out?
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These um these Latinos for for Trump and Latino uh MAGA guys.
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No, uh, here's a guy who's broken all ten commandments.
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I mean, his wife is suing him for biblical grounds of adultery.
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His biblical friendship sued him for fraud.
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He got impeached.
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I mean, you know, it's the his own uh employees uh whistle blew on him that he was taking money from developer.
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He had his mistress with a fake Uber account with a fake name for him to go hook up with him.
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I mean that's I didn't know the Uber thing.
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You had a whole fake.
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That he would use so that people wouldn't know he was gonna hook up with his mistress, by the way, you know, and and so on, and then stealing, and he get the taxpayers have to pay six million dollar settlement for that.
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So, you know, you see a guy this morally corrupt, and I'm wondering, like, how does a Christian, you know, Latino with conservative values, I have uh on my social values, I have conservative social values.
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I believe in God, country, I'm a patriot, I believe in protecting uh our armed forces and our law enforcement.
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Not ICE, those are not real police.
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Uh, you know, our our police departments are sheriffs or constables.
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Uh but this is something like I'm gonna like, come on, if you consider yourself a real Christian, if you believe in values, this is a guy you would never want to date your daughter.
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No.
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You wouldn't bring him home.
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I mean, that's sucio.
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Yeah.
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Can you explain why these people out there are still saying they're gonna vote for Paxson?
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Yeah, man, look, here's here's here's what I've seen.
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Like a lot of Latinos, like you said, we have conservative values, right?
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We want to be fiscally responsible.
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They want to see a government that like upholds Christian values.
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And Ken Paxson and Donald Trump, like they came in guns ablazing, saying, hey, we're Christian, hey, we believe in America and we're patriots.
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But like they turned around, they did a bunch of fraud, you know, that like they allowed themselves to stock trade.
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They started wars like the war in Iran.
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Um, and and really, like, at the end of the day, I think all Latinos that really thought that Trump was going to be conservative, like ended up being wrong.
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Like, it just ended up not being true that Trump cared about smaller government.
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I mean, now we have ICE surveilling people, we have flock cameras.
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You know, Greg Abbott loves his flock cameras.
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I mean, he recently stepped back and said, you know, never mind, but that's because you realize that Latinos and the rest of the population, we just weren't happy with the flock cameras.
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You know, we're I I think It's an invasion of privacy, but Latinos are waking up to things like that.
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It's almost seven dollars for a gallon of diesel.
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It's ridiculous.
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I mean, it's an it's an emergency, I think, now.
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I think the governor's saying it's an emergency.
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Yeah.
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Can you imagine if you're a rancher or a farmer and you gotta put diesel in your tractor or your trailer, uh, your 18-wheeler driver, you know, and you gotta get your goods, you know, for Walmart or you know, what Target or looks like.
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And and and it's all because of this war that Trump started with Iran that raised the price of gas.
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The tariffs, I mean, he's tariffing Canada.
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I mean, our neighbor, I mean, Pendeja over Pendeja.
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But again, going back to the uh Latinos for for Paxton, yeah, to me, like, you know, I hate to be as blunt, but I think I had to be as blunt this time.
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You know, you got political Puto Paxton followers.
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This guy is what I call somebody que se vende.
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That's the definition.
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Okay.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And what I'm saying, I'm not talking about sexual orientation, I'm talking about somebody who sells who sells out and sells out their community.
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This is that definition.
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It's documented, it's in the house impeachment roles, it's in the lawsuits, uh, it's in the whistleblower uh complaints.
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And yet, I cannot believe the race is so close, you know, three or four points right now.
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And this I think is because a lot of people think it's still blue versus red instead of bottom versus top.
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It's that 1% oligarchs that are out there saying, like, you know, give me all these, you know, uh money, give me all a monopoly, uh, and yet they don't do anything for, you know, the price of groceries keeps going up.
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You know, uh the rent, too damn high.
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You know, your mortgage interest, too damn high.
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Uh and they don't care as long as they keep getting the money.
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I mean, Elon Musk is supposedly spending a hundred million dollars to help Pakistan.
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What do you think about that kind of money being put into a political uh election like this?
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I I mean look, in my opinion, that's like you straight up fraud.
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I know like, you know, it technically follows campaign laws, but like you've said many times, we don't live in a capitalist system.
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That's fair, right?
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Like, and right now our elections go to the highest bidder.
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And guess who the highest bidder is?
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It's somebody's, you know, wealthy kid or like generational money, but it's not people that actually care or that are smart.
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You know, like Elon Musk just has a lot of money, so he gets to put it wherever he wants.
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Uh, but I if we're talking truthfully, like Elon Musk's opinion doesn't represent the majority of Americans.
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Uh but yeah, he has all this money, right?
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I think it's fraud.
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I think our camera our campaign finance laws on their face are fair.
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But when you consider how our capitalism really works, all this money coming to elections is all it's all BS.
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United corrupted the system.
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By the way, the system is corrupt.
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It is rigged.
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And it's rigged against the working class people uh who really make America go.
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And you can't get a house.
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I mean, if you're in your twenties and you want to buy a house.
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I can't get a house.
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You know?
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I mean, how many can?
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I mean, yeah.
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And then and then, you know, when you look at uh trying to get up, uh it's it's it's really difficult.
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Uh in Hosa versus uh Abbott, nobody thought this was gonna be the election.
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Everybody thought Abbott had a 90 million dollars in the bank.
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He's the incumbent, been there, uh, you know, shingles its dinosaurs roamed, Texas, but he's still governor.
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Uh why do you think the race is so close?
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Why is Gina uh coming and moving up?
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I look, I uh people are realizing like how corrupt the system is.
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I I really give a lot of it thanks to like our ability to like share information online on social media, you know, and stuff.
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People are starting to realize that Greg Abbott, when he says he cares about Texans, he doesn't really mean it because behind your back, he's just taking these voucher scams, he's like doing no-bid contracts, and all of it is coming to light, right?
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We have a form of sharing the information.
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Tax giveaways to all these AI data centers to billionaires.
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And I think look, I and and even like Donald Trump coming in and saying that all Americans are gonna get$5,000 if like, you know, they're not.
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When the election it's all bullshit.
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But again, I think people are smarter than that.
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You know, they think we're stupid, but we're not.
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And I'm hoping that, you know, the fact that these races are closer means that people are waking up to those things, that people are realizing there's no big contracts, people are realizing that$5,000 is not cool.
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It's actually an attempt to buy our elections.
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And the more Elon Musk tweets, the more we realize he's not as smart as he says he is.
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And I'm hoping that that's what's happening, Domingo.
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I'm I'm hoping that younger people are just chronically online.
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They're seeing like the videos of the wars, they're seeing the videos of what's actually happening on the ground, and it's finally all coming to light.
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Hopefully these Republicans lose that power, right?
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To like light a bit.
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Gino on a host by talking about education and uh, you know, James Telarico, a former teacher in the West Side of San Antonio, uh, you know, running up against these corrupt politicians, career politicians, Abbott and Paxton have been there 20 years.
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I mean, you know, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over again and thinking that you're gonna get a different outcome.
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Look, guys, Republicans have controlled Texas for 30 years.
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Let somebody else drive the damn car.
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These guys are driving it into a ditch and it's sinking.
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And we need to pull that pickup out of their Texas and get somebody else like Telurico, uh Ginahosa, Vicky Goodwin running for lieutenant governor, Nathan Johnson running for attorney general.
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Give them a chance, okay?
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Uh these people have screwed it up, and they can't blame Biden.
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I mean, he hasn't been around.
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They can't blame the trans, 1% of the population is trans.
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They can't blame Muslims, less than 1% are Muslims or Hindus.
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I mean, you know, both ranches going after the Indians now, Indian Americans.
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Uh they keep uh uh uh keep blaming other people for the fact that you're screwing the middle class.
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Yeah.
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And it's them because they control it.
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And and these politicians, they've been bought and paid for.
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And it's time that we get somebody that's gonna stand up for the people.
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So that's why I think Arasa needs to throw a political chingaso.
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This election, vote early, two weeks before, and you can look up your polling place out and tell the people how they can find out where to go vote early.
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So to vote early, first you gotta make sure you're registered to vote.
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Uh the deadline is October 5th, right?
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Um, and then after you're sure you're registered to vote and you weren't canceled by a Texas Republican, you go online, you know, whatever county website you're at, city website, and check your polling locations.
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Usually you can go to a public library and vote.
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That's a very popular place for people to vote.
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Universities have polling stations, but look up your polling station and look up the dates for early voting and make your plans to show up to vote.
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Like all you gotta do, show up, get in line.
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If you're doing early voting, Domingo, like you're mentioning, you don't even have to get in line.
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Like you literally walk right in and out and like on your lunch break, like I said, yeah.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So all you gotta do is check online.
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Like go online, check your nearest polling location to make sure you're registered to vote by the time everyone comes in.
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It's so easy.
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Yeah, it's like this is my message to the the lazy ones, ah, my vote doesn't matter.
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Ah, they're gonna do whatever they want.
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Don't be a goddamn loser.
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That's loser talk.
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And when you talk like that, that means somebody else is making the decision.
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And it's gonna be them are making the decision.
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So don't be complaining that the rent's too high, the price of gas is too high, the groceries too high, my daughter's not getting the right education, you know, they're they don't have textbooks at school, the teacher's having to pay out of her pocket to get, you know, cut crayons.
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That's because you didn't vote.
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And if you don't have a vote, and your voice will not be heard.
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So get up and vote, especially you low propensity voters, which is just basically a lot of people, young people under 30, okay?
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You know better.
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But and you don't want to take 15 minutes, 30 minutes of your time to go vote.
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Come on, make a difference.
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This is an election where we can have a Latina governor of Texas, Gina Hosa.
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This is an election where we can have somebody who believes in the people, James Telarico, uh a teacher who believes love thy neighbor.
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It doesn't matter your gender, your religion, your immigration status.
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He says, let's treat everybody fair.
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Yeah.
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The other guys want to scare you of everybody.
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You know, you're not like us.
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You're scared of them, them.
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El Cukuy, La Llorona over there.
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Uh, you know, uh the biggest Yorona is Trump.
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Uh, but you know, again, that's what we gotta tell people is get out there and make a difference, go vote.
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If you've never voted, do it this time.
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The crooked insurance companies have only one goal to pay you nothing or as little as possible.
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Domingo Garcia, recovering millions for the hardworking people of Texas, including a$32 million verdict.
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Demand a legend, demand Domingo Tejado Tough.
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Absolutely.
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Look, you're young, you're Latino, you think you're conservative.
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Like, let me ask you, can you go to the store and and buy your marijuana?
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Nope, because of Dan Patrick.
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Can you go to the store?
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Yeah.
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And and like That was Paxson, by the way.
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That was Paxton, yeah, and and Dan Patrick and the Republican Greg Abbott let it happen.
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Smoking weed is okay.
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And by the way, I'm not a weed guy.
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But if but if you're gonna smoke weed or take a gummy and go to sleep, it's okay if you're in Nevada, New York, California.
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Texas is a felony.
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Yeah.
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You lose your life, your career.
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Absolutely.
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Look, if you're a conservative and you believe that somehow privatized health care has been better for you, like how are your health care prices?
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Like, are you able to go to the doctor if you get sick and not have to pay like a huge out of pocket cost?
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If your son or daughter gets sick, uh, you know, and uh, how are you gonna pay uh the medical bills if you don't have health insurance?
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And the ones that the health insurance is not there, you have a big deductible, and there's about a 60% chance they're gonna deny the claim anyway.
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Yeah.
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So, I mean, and there's nobody there because the Texas Board of Insurance is controlled by the Republicans and they put in insurance guys to patrol themselves.
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I mean, you know.
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You you're conservative, you're Christian, but like what would happen if, like, you know, one day the Republican Party decided that they don't like Christianity anymore, like, you know, like they do with the Muslim religion and other religions.
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Like, you won't be able to teach or learn with your children like what you want.
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Like, they're trying to restrict what we learn in our schools.
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Like, they want our children to know like a lie about our history.
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Well, they're whitewashing the history books.
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They're whitewashing history books.
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They're taking away every Latino Latina in your history book.
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Another reason to vote against these guys, uh and and denying the true history of Texas, the true settlers, the founders, uh, the ones who develop El Paso, Laredo, San Antonio, uh, Nacadoches, Amarillo, and so on.
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Uh and I think it's important that that's another reason that these people, they're you know, I've had differences.
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Uh George W.
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Bush is a friend of mine.
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I have political differences with him.
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We're friends.
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Uh, you know, I have a lot of Republican friends.
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And there were issues on policy.
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There were issues on uh, you know, the how to do uh the concern uh whether you raise interest rates or how do you trickle down economics.
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Yeah.
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These people are evil.
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This Republican brand of Mega is evil.
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They want to hurt people and they have pleasure in seeing a child, a Christian child, taken away from his Christian mother because they're illegal aliens, or they take pleasure in seeing somebody lose their house or their car because, quote, they should have pulled themselves off by their bootstraps.
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I mean, or kids being cut off of food stamps, you know, uh snap that's being cut for a lot of families now because Republicans are giving money to the billionaires and taking it away from hungry children.
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I mean, uh you gotta have a special kind of uh uh cold heart to take pleasure in that.
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Uh the w the the Matthew 25 Jesus I know is you feed the hungry, you heal the sick, you give shelter to the homeless, you give a welcome to the stranger.
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These people don't believe in that, and they call themselves Christians.
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I'll tell you this.
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Like, I've I've seen interviews with Trump who's like, hey, I'm gonna go to hell because of what I've done.
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Like he he kind of recognizes that he's not very Christian in his actions, and he's like, Well, I'm taking the fall for everybody.
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But you know, I think again, we need to listen to him when he's like, hey guys, I'm gonna go to hell because I don't think I've been acting very Christian.
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And then look, they don't, they're not deporting immigrants because they're dangerous.
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They're not deporting immigrants because they're taking our jobs because that's not true.
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There's uh the evidence actually shows the complete opposite.
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Immigrants are more likely to follow the law, and immigrants pay taxes.
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So, like, all this is literally just discrimination.
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Like, listen to like they're telling you what they're doing, you gotta listen to why.
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And when you listen to why Governor Abbott, he did away with Mexican-American studies at the universities.
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Yeah.
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Think about that.
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He did away with it.
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All DEI was a diversity, uh, equity and inclusion programs that help small contractors get jobs, get their foot in the door.
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He did away with that.
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They are turning the clock backwards.
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Yeah.
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And out of fear, too.
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If you don't fight back, if you don't throw a political chingaso with your vote, then you cannot complain when you see the discrimination, uh the inequity, uh, the the chaos that is happening to our our country and our state.
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And I as a tahano, I'm not gonna let that happen, man.
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I'm gonna fight until we make it right.
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The reason I suspect you have this attitude and and you can see right through the lives of the Republicans is because you don't have fear.
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And I think Republicans depend on that a lot.
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Like they depend on making you afraid of immigrants, they depend on making you afraid of what's happening in Iran.
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They depend on making you afraid of like what you're gonna do with your health care when really like they're the ones causing all the problems to begin with, you know, but they drive us with fear through propaganda online, you know what I mean?
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They they they show you videos of one immigrant committing a crime when like 99% of immigrants don't commit crimes, right?
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It's all, again, fear-based so far.
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I I'm convinced too.
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If you're so conservative and MAGA, it's because you got some deeply embedded fear about something in this country, but you're on the wrong way.
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Republicans win elections on fear.
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Democrats win elections on hope.
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We gotta give people hope.
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Yeah.
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And that's what uh hopefully I think this election, what uh James Totarico and Gina Nejosa and the rest of the ticket is doing is giving people hope.
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And I hope people believe um I believe that justice eventually prevails.
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Yeah and that this dark chapter in American history uh will be written about as when people just made a terrible mistake.
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They believed a con man uh who was uh didn't care about anybody but himself and his family.
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Um but uh America normally gets it right sooner or later.
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Well uh you know what?
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When you zoom out, we've been making progress throughout history, you know what I mean?
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We're and hopefully we continue making that progress.
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I know we've taken a few steps back, but it's two steps back, three steps forward, hopefully.
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Uh, you know, and and and really, like young conservative Latinos, think about why you're voting Republican.
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I think you'll realize it's not about small government because we got flock cameras.
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It's not about small government because you're probably libertarian, but now you can't smoke weed.
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It's not about small government when they're literally taking all the no-bid contracts and handing them out to their friends.
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So yeah, think about it twice.
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Make sure you make the right decisions, you know, this November 3rd and make sure you're registered to vote.
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Yeah, so remember that's a go vote.
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Take nine people that vote with you.
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Yeah, even your suegra, even the who the the primo who doesn't hadn't talked to you in a couple of months, take them all to go vote.
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That's gonna make a difference.
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If we all vote, if 70% of Latinos vote for Tel Rico and Ajosa and down the ballot, Texas changes.
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The history of America changes.
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You have it in your hands.
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Use it.
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You really do.
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Let me go on one one last thing I want to leave with.
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Like I learned, so I took a class on elections in college, and the one thing I walked away knowing is that like the only way to change elections is not changing people's minds because you could sit there and argue with your Trump supporting friends all day, and that may change one of their minds.
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But really, at the core, and the reason we say over and over again is voting.
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Like, we are literally a non-voting state.
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Like Gina and Talo Rico would win with flying colors if our voting percentages were higher.
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If people vote at the level they voted during the Obama era, Talo Rico and Gina and Josa will be in office.
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So just vote, guys.
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That's literally at the core and the foundation of what makes a difference in this country.
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Welcome to the Hono Talks.
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I'm here in the studio with Domingo Garcia, Miss Attorney in Dallas, Texas.
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But today we're throwing political chingazos.
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We're 40 days away from Texas election day, and we need to prepare.
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There's a lot at stake, Domingo.
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Yeah, you know, and Texas uh politics is a contact sport, man.
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People talk about the Texas Longhorns or what happened with the Cowboys or the Texas.
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Uh la politica ta fuerte.
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Yeah.
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And the main thing is first of all, you gotta be ready.
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Okay, we call it if this is a football analogy and we're doing preseason training.
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You gotta register to vote.
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And you got till October 5th to register to vote.
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So Rasa, don't say I'm gonna wait till Taco Tuesday or until Latia comes and gets me.
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Go register to vote now.
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You got till October 5th, you can do it online.
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You can go to the driver's license, although there's a big scandal there because people that got registered to vote haven't been registered at the county and they're doing that.
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Um and then after you register to vote, uh then make sure that you are registered to vote.
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Yeah.
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Uh you know, I was declared dead about four months ago uh when my license, uh my border registration was suspended, um, and I had to get that reinstated.
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I don't know how many other people have gotten letters or that there are you know over a million Texans uh border registration has been suspended.
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1.2 million.
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Yeah, 1.2 million, and mainly people that moved, you know, usually people in apartments like that, and then they didn't uh change their address.
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So check uh at Texasgov.com, Texasgov.com if you're registered to vote and if your registration is current.
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Yeah, but I mean that's the first like punch that the Republican Party tried to throw, you know, like of many, uh it's like trying to suspend, you know, millions of Texans from being able to like vote.
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I mean it started all the way back in redistricting the when they were like trying to change who and how we vote because it they don't want you to vote.
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Like they they want you to be quiet, they want you to sit down at home, watch cartoons.
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You know, the these megamarranos never cease to amaze me.
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They try to they want the gerrymandering and rigging the districts.
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Then they want to voter suppress and uh suspend a million Texans from the chingazo number two that they try to throw.
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And then they're gonna do, you know, they're gonna arrest a couple of poor Latinos, Latinas usually and say there's voter fraud so that they can, you know, tap down.
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Intimidate again, Puras movidas.
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And I think it's important that we throw a political chingazo that is heard from the Rio Grande to the Panhandle from El Paso to Houston and down I-35 from Dallas Fort Worth to Austin San Antonio to Laredo, because that's the only way these pendejos get the message, okay?
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Yeah, go vote.
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Absolutely.
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We're so close.
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Look, you think you're sitting down at home and you're like, my vote doesn't count, but Beto Rourke almost won in 2018.
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200,000 votes.
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200,000 votes.
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You know what I mean?
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That's nothing.
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Like, literally, that's you and 10 friends.
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Like, if you know, you and 10 friends went and voted, this chingaso would have been really hard.
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And we could throw it now.
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James Salarico could win.
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You know, Gina could win.
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We could have the first Latina since what you said, 1883.
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So let me ask you about that.
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So that's a marquee race around the country.
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Uh, you know, everybody knows who's a James Telerico.
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He's been on Jimmy Kimball, uh, Stephen Colbert.
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Well, he wasn't on.
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They kicked him off because FCC.
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Cheating again.
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I mean, you you can't be on Jimmy Kimball.
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They got to put him on YouTube.
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Uh but you know, the race right now, all the polls show Tel Rico winning two, three, four points.
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But the difference is gonna be turnout.
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What do you how do you see the Tel Rico-Paxton race right now?
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Look, you know what?
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Paxton is like that one guy nobody likes at school.
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Like, you know, and and somebody chose that he should run.
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Uh, and I think Republicans are like, they're they're panicking, they're worried because like he's you know, everything you don't want.
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He's corrupt.
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He got, you know, the whole Texas like Senate and House to impeach him.
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Like, he's just not the guy for this race.
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You know what freaks me out?
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These um these Latinos for for Trump and Latino uh MAGA guys.
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No, uh, here's a guy who's broken all ten commandments.
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I mean, his wife is suing him for biblical grounds of adultery.
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His biblical friendship sued him for fraud.
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He got impeached.
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I mean, you know, it's the his own uh employees uh whistle blew on him that he was taking money from developer.
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He had his mistress with a fake Uber account with a fake name for him to go hook up with him.
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I mean that's I didn't know the Uber thing.
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You had a whole fake.
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That he would use so that people wouldn't know he was gonna hook up with his mistress, by the way, you know, and and so on, and then stealing, and he get the taxpayers have to pay six million dollar settlement for that.
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So, you know, you see a guy this morally corrupt, and I'm wondering, like, how does a Christian, you know, Latino with conservative values, I have uh on my social values, I have conservative social values.
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I believe in God, country, I'm a patriot, I believe in protecting uh our armed forces and our law enforcement.
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Not ICE, those are not real police.
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Uh, you know, our our police departments are sheriffs or constables.
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Uh but this is something like I'm gonna like, come on, if you consider yourself a real Christian, if you believe in values, this is a guy you would never want to date your daughter.
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No.
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You wouldn't bring him home.
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I mean, that's sucio.
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Yeah.
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Can you explain why these people out there are still saying they're gonna vote for Paxson?
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Yeah, man, look, here's here's here's what I've seen.
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Like a lot of Latinos, like you said, we have conservative values, right?
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We want to be fiscally responsible.
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They want to see a government that like upholds Christian values.
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And Ken Paxson and Donald Trump, like they came in guns ablazing, saying, hey, we're Christian, hey, we believe in America and we're patriots.
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But like they turned around, they did a bunch of fraud, you know, that like they allowed themselves to stock trade.
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They started wars like the war in Iran.
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Um, and and really, like, at the end of the day, I think all Latinos that really thought that Trump was going to be conservative, like ended up being wrong.
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Like, it just ended up not being true that Trump cared about smaller government.
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I mean, now we have ICE surveilling people, we have flock cameras.
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You know, Greg Abbott loves his flock cameras.
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I mean, he recently stepped back and said, you know, never mind, but that's because you realize that Latinos and the rest of the population, we just weren't happy with the flock cameras.
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You know, we're I I think It's an invasion of privacy, but Latinos are waking up to things like that.
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It's almost seven dollars for a gallon of diesel.
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It's ridiculous.
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I mean, it's an it's an emergency, I think, now.
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I think the governor's saying it's an emergency.
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Yeah.
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Can you imagine if you're a rancher or a farmer and you gotta put diesel in your tractor or your trailer, uh, your 18-wheeler driver, you know, and you gotta get your goods, you know, for Walmart or you know, what Target or looks like.
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And and and it's all because of this war that Trump started with Iran that raised the price of gas.
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The tariffs, I mean, he's tariffing Canada.
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I mean, our neighbor, I mean, Pendeja over Pendeja.
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But again, going back to the uh Latinos for for Paxton, yeah, to me, like, you know, I hate to be as blunt, but I think I had to be as blunt this time.
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You know, you got political Puto Paxton followers.
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This guy is what I call somebody que se vende.
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That's the definition.
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Okay.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And what I'm saying, I'm not talking about sexual orientation, I'm talking about somebody who sells who sells out and sells out their community.
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This is that definition.
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It's documented, it's in the house impeachment roles, it's in the lawsuits, uh, it's in the whistleblower uh complaints.
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And yet, I cannot believe the race is so close, you know, three or four points right now.
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And this I think is because a lot of people think it's still blue versus red instead of bottom versus top.
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It's that 1% oligarchs that are out there saying, like, you know, give me all these, you know, uh money, give me all a monopoly, uh, and yet they don't do anything for, you know, the price of groceries keeps going up.
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You know, uh the rent, too damn high.
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You know, your mortgage interest, too damn high.
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Uh and they don't care as long as they keep getting the money.
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I mean, Elon Musk is supposedly spending a hundred million dollars to help Pakistan.
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What do you think about that kind of money being put into a political uh election like this?
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I I mean look, in my opinion, that's like you straight up fraud.
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I know like, you know, it technically follows campaign laws, but like you've said many times, we don't live in a capitalist system.
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That's fair, right?
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Like, and right now our elections go to the highest bidder.
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And guess who the highest bidder is?
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It's somebody's, you know, wealthy kid or like generational money, but it's not people that actually care or that are smart.
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You know, like Elon Musk just has a lot of money, so he gets to put it wherever he wants.
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Uh, but I if we're talking truthfully, like Elon Musk's opinion doesn't represent the majority of Americans.
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Uh but yeah, he has all this money, right?
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I think it's fraud.
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I think our camera our campaign finance laws on their face are fair.
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But when you consider how our capitalism really works, all this money coming to elections is all it's all BS.
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United corrupted the system.
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By the way, the system is corrupt.
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It is rigged.
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And it's rigged against the working class people uh who really make America go.
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And you can't get a house.
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I mean, if you're in your twenties and you want to buy a house.
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I can't get a house.
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You know?
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I mean, how many can?
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I mean, yeah.
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And then and then, you know, when you look at uh trying to get up, uh it's it's it's really difficult.
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Uh in Hosa versus uh Abbott, nobody thought this was gonna be the election.
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Everybody thought Abbott had a 90 million dollars in the bank.
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He's the incumbent, been there, uh, you know, shingles its dinosaurs roamed, Texas, but he's still governor.
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Uh why do you think the race is so close?
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Why is Gina uh coming and moving up?
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I look, I uh people are realizing like how corrupt the system is.
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I I really give a lot of it thanks to like our ability to like share information online on social media, you know, and stuff.
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People are starting to realize that Greg Abbott, when he says he cares about Texans, he doesn't really mean it because behind your back, he's just taking these voucher scams, he's like doing no-bid contracts, and all of it is coming to light, right?
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We have a form of sharing the information.
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Tax giveaways to all these AI data centers to billionaires.
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And I think look, I and and even like Donald Trump coming in and saying that all Americans are gonna get$5,000 if like, you know, they're not.
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When the election it's all bullshit.
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But again, I think people are smarter than that.
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You know, they think we're stupid, but we're not.
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And I'm hoping that, you know, the fact that these races are closer means that people are waking up to those things, that people are realizing there's no big contracts, people are realizing that$5,000 is not cool.
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It's actually an attempt to buy our elections.
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And the more Elon Musk tweets, the more we realize he's not as smart as he says he is.
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And I'm hoping that that's what's happening, Domingo.
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I'm I'm hoping that younger people are just chronically online.
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They're seeing like the videos of the wars, they're seeing the videos of what's actually happening on the ground, and it's finally all coming to light.
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Hopefully these Republicans lose that power, right?
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To like light a bit.
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Gino on a host by talking about education and uh, you know, James Telarico, a former teacher in the West Side of San Antonio, uh, you know, running up against these corrupt politicians, career politicians, Abbott and Paxton have been there 20 years.
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I mean, you know, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over again and thinking that you're gonna get a different outcome.
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Look, guys, Republicans have controlled Texas for 30 years.
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Let somebody else drive the damn car.
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These guys are driving it into a ditch and it's sinking.
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And we need to pull that pickup out of their Texas and get somebody else like Telurico, uh Ginahosa, Vicky Goodwin running for lieutenant governor, Nathan Johnson running for attorney general.
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Give them a chance, okay?
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Uh these people have screwed it up, and they can't blame Biden.
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I mean, he hasn't been around.
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They can't blame the trans, 1% of the population is trans.
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They can't blame Muslims, less than 1% are Muslims or Hindus.
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I mean, you know, both ranches going after the Indians now, Indian Americans.
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Uh they keep uh uh uh keep blaming other people for the fact that you're screwing the middle class.
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Yeah.
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And it's them because they control it.
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And and these politicians, they've been bought and paid for.
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And it's time that we get somebody that's gonna stand up for the people.
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So that's why I think Arasa needs to throw a political chingaso.
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This election, vote early, two weeks before, and you can look up your polling place out and tell the people how they can find out where to go vote early.
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So to vote early, first you gotta make sure you're registered to vote.
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Uh the deadline is October 5th, right?
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Um, and then after you're sure you're registered to vote and you weren't canceled by a Texas Republican, you go online, you know, whatever county website you're at, city website, and check your polling locations.
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Usually you can go to a public library and vote.
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That's a very popular place for people to vote.
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Universities have polling stations, but look up your polling station and look up the dates for early voting and make your plans to show up to vote.
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Like all you gotta do, show up, get in line.
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If you're doing early voting, Domingo, like you're mentioning, you don't even have to get in line.
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Like you literally walk right in and out and like on your lunch break, like I said, yeah.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So all you gotta do is check online.
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Like go online, check your nearest polling location to make sure you're registered to vote by the time everyone comes in.
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It's so easy.
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Yeah, it's like this is my message to the the lazy ones, ah, my vote doesn't matter.
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Ah, they're gonna do whatever they want.
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Don't be a goddamn loser.
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That's loser talk.
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And when you talk like that, that means somebody else is making the decision.
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And it's gonna be them are making the decision.
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So don't be complaining that the rent's too high, the price of gas is too high, the groceries too high, my daughter's not getting the right education, you know, they're they don't have textbooks at school, the teacher's having to pay out of her pocket to get, you know, cut crayons.
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That's because you didn't vote.
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And if you don't have a vote, and your voice will not be heard.
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So get up and vote, especially you low propensity voters, which is just basically a lot of people, young people under 30, okay?
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You know better.
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But and you don't want to take 15 minutes, 30 minutes of your time to go vote.
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Come on, make a difference.
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This is an election where we can have a Latina governor of Texas, Gina Hosa.
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This is an election where we can have somebody who believes in the people, James Telarico, uh a teacher who believes love thy neighbor.
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It doesn't matter your gender, your religion, your immigration status.
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He says, let's treat everybody fair.
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Yeah.
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The other guys want to scare you of everybody.
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You know, you're not like us.
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You're scared of them, them.
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El Cukuy, La Llorona over there.
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Uh, you know, uh the biggest Yorona is Trump.
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Uh, but you know, again, that's what we gotta tell people is get out there and make a difference, go vote.
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If you've never voted, do it this time.
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The crooked insurance companies have only one goal to pay you nothing or as little as possible.
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Domingo Garcia, recovering millions for the hardworking people of Texas, including a$32 million verdict.
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Demand a legend, demand Domingo Tejado Tough.
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Absolutely.
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Look, you're young, you're Latino, you think you're conservative.
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Like, let me ask you, can you go to the store and and buy your marijuana?
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Nope, because of Dan Patrick.
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Can you go to the store?
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Yeah.
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And and like That was Paxson, by the way.
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That was Paxton, yeah, and and Dan Patrick and the Republican Greg Abbott let it happen.
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Smoking weed is okay.
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And by the way, I'm not a weed guy.
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But if but if you're gonna smoke weed or take a gummy and go to sleep, it's okay if you're in Nevada, New York, California.
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Texas is a felony.
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Yeah.
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You lose your life, your career.
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Absolutely.
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Look, if you're a conservative and you believe that somehow privatized health care has been better for you, like how are your health care prices?
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Like, are you able to go to the doctor if you get sick and not have to pay like a huge out of pocket cost?
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If your son or daughter gets sick, uh, you know, and uh, how are you gonna pay uh the medical bills if you don't have health insurance?
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And the ones that the health insurance is not there, you have a big deductible, and there's about a 60% chance they're gonna deny the claim anyway.
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Yeah.
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So, I mean, and there's nobody there because the Texas Board of Insurance is controlled by the Republicans and they put in insurance guys to patrol themselves.
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I mean, you know.
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You you're conservative, you're Christian, but like what would happen if, like, you know, one day the Republican Party decided that they don't like Christianity anymore, like, you know, like they do with the Muslim religion and other religions.
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Like, you won't be able to teach or learn with your children like what you want.
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Like, they're trying to restrict what we learn in our schools.
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Like, they want our children to know like a lie about our history.
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Well, they're whitewashing the history books.
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They're whitewashing history books.
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They're taking away every Latino Latina in your history book.
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Another reason to vote against these guys, uh and and denying the true history of Texas, the true settlers, the founders, uh, the ones who develop El Paso, Laredo, San Antonio, uh, Nacadoches, Amarillo, and so on.
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Uh and I think it's important that that's another reason that these people, they're you know, I've had differences.
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Uh George W.
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Bush is a friend of mine.
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I have political differences with him.
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We're friends.
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Uh, you know, I have a lot of Republican friends.
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And there were issues on policy.
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There were issues on uh, you know, the how to do uh the concern uh whether you raise interest rates or how do you trickle down economics.
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Yeah.
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These people are evil.
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This Republican brand of Mega is evil.
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They want to hurt people and they have pleasure in seeing a child, a Christian child, taken away from his Christian mother because they're illegal aliens, or they take pleasure in seeing somebody lose their house or their car because, quote, they should have pulled themselves off by their bootstraps.
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I mean, or kids being cut off of food stamps, you know, uh snap that's being cut for a lot of families now because Republicans are giving money to the billionaires and taking it away from hungry children.
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I mean, uh you gotta have a special kind of uh uh cold heart to take pleasure in that.
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Uh the w the the Matthew 25 Jesus I know is you feed the hungry, you heal the sick, you give shelter to the homeless, you give a welcome to the stranger.
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These people don't believe in that, and they call themselves Christians.
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I'll tell you this.
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Like, I've I've seen interviews with Trump who's like, hey, I'm gonna go to hell because of what I've done.
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Like he he kind of recognizes that he's not very Christian in his actions, and he's like, Well, I'm taking the fall for everybody.
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But you know, I think again, we need to listen to him when he's like, hey guys, I'm gonna go to hell because I don't think I've been acting very Christian.
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And then look, they don't, they're not deporting immigrants because they're dangerous.
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They're not deporting immigrants because they're taking our jobs because that's not true.
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There's uh the evidence actually shows the complete opposite.
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Immigrants are more likely to follow the law, and immigrants pay taxes.
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So, like, all this is literally just discrimination.
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Like, listen to like they're telling you what they're doing, you gotta listen to why.
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And when you listen to why Governor Abbott, he did away with Mexican-American studies at the universities.
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Yeah.
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Think about that.
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He did away with it.
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All DEI was a diversity, uh, equity and inclusion programs that help small contractors get jobs, get their foot in the door.
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He did away with that.
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They are turning the clock backwards.
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Yeah.
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And out of fear, too.
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If you don't fight back, if you don't throw a political chingaso with your vote, then you cannot complain when you see the discrimination, uh the inequity, uh, the the chaos that is happening to our our country and our state.
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And I as a tahano, I'm not gonna let that happen, man.
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I'm gonna fight until we make it right.
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The reason I suspect you have this attitude and and you can see right through the lives of the Republicans is because you don't have fear.
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And I think Republicans depend on that a lot.
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Like they depend on making you afraid of immigrants, they depend on making you afraid of what's happening in Iran.
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They depend on making you afraid of like what you're gonna do with your health care when really like they're the ones causing all the problems to begin with, you know, but they drive us with fear through propaganda online, you know what I mean?
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They they they show you videos of one immigrant committing a crime when like 99% of immigrants don't commit crimes, right?
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It's all, again, fear-based so far.
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I I'm convinced too.
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If you're so conservative and MAGA, it's because you got some deeply embedded fear about something in this country, but you're on the wrong way.
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Republicans win elections on fear.
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Democrats win elections on hope.
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We gotta give people hope.
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Yeah.
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And that's what uh hopefully I think this election, what uh James Totarico and Gina Nejosa and the rest of the ticket is doing is giving people hope.
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And I hope people believe um I believe that justice eventually prevails.
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Yeah and that this dark chapter in American history uh will be written about as when people just made a terrible mistake.
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They believed a con man uh who was uh didn't care about anybody but himself and his family.
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Um but uh America normally gets it right sooner or later.
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Well uh you know what?
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When you zoom out, we've been making progress throughout history, you know what I mean?
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We're and hopefully we continue making that progress.
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I know we've taken a few steps back, but it's two steps back, three steps forward, hopefully.
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Uh, you know, and and and really, like young conservative Latinos, think about why you're voting Republican.
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I think you'll realize it's not about small government because we got flock cameras.
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It's not about small government because you're probably libertarian, but now you can't smoke weed.
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It's not about small government when they're literally taking all the no-bid contracts and handing them out to their friends.
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So yeah, think about it twice.
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Make sure you make the right decisions, you know, this November 3rd and make sure you're registered to vote.
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Yeah, so remember that's a go vote.
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Take nine people that vote with you.
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Yeah, even your suegra, even the who the the primo who doesn't hadn't talked to you in a couple of months, take them all to go vote.
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That's gonna make a difference.
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If we all vote, if 70% of Latinos vote for Tel Rico and Ajosa and down the ballot, Texas changes.
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The history of America changes.
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You have it in your hands.
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Use it.
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You really do.
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Let me go on one one last thing I want to leave with.
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Like I learned, so I took a class on elections in college, and the one thing I walked away knowing is that like the only way to change elections is not changing people's minds because you could sit there and argue with your Trump supporting friends all day, and that may change one of their minds.
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But really, at the core, and the reason we say over and over again is voting.
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Like, we are literally a non-voting state.
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Like Gina and Talo Rico would win with flying colors if our voting percentages were higher.
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If people vote at the level they voted during the Obama era, Talo Rico and Gina and Josa will be in office.
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So just vote, guys.
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That's literally at the core and the foundation of what makes a difference in this country.
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All right.
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