Fighting Texas’ Voter Suppression with Beto O’Rourke
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- Everything is bigger in Texas - including voter suppression. Former Congressman Beto O'Rourke discusses the fight for voting rights in the Lone Star State and how people can help.
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Two very honourable men !
I love the historical background Beto provides to help people better understand how we got to this place today! 1888- 2024!
He knows what he is talking about.
Agree! Know what project 2025 agenda is all about. VOTE BLUE to defeat the crazy lying maga. VOTE BLUE to save American democracy.
I agree. I live 80 miles from El Paso in New Mexico. I didn't know much about the rascist history until I heard this today.
🐾 Thank you Marc for having Beto on your show!
Beto! I donated to your voter registration drive this morning! Thank You for caring about Texans!
We are in a sad, sad situation 😢
Vote! Vote 💙 Blue!
I am here in California and i have REGULARLY sent support to the Colin Allred campaign. Let's RETURN Texas to it's TRUE color... BLUE!!!💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
Same. 💙
Thank you
No surprise that someone from the communist state of California would support one of the very rare communist from Texas.
Thank you that's so hopeful to try turning blue 💙🔵 Amen
It's possible yes
Huge respect for Beto O'Rourke, a true Texas fighter for democracy. Thank you Beto O'Rourke for your unwavering fight for democracy.
For democracy? What a laugh.
@@littledickydolittle3071your name says it all
@@lamomify I should think so!
@@littledickydolittle3071
"Should", but don't?
So glad to see you Beto. I was living in Texas when you ran against Ted Cruz. I voted for you, and I thought you had a good chance. Now, I am supporting Colin Allred, and praying a lot. I lived there during the Big Freeze when Cruz flew to Cancun while the rest of us were freezing to death. People froze to death under Greg Abbott’s watch. It was so shameful. Thank you for not giving up and for fighting the good fight. You are an inspiration to everyone.
Both out of town during Beryl while millions were without power. Biden couldn't GET help, no one to talk to???
@@jannichi6431 Yes, I had heard that and was so disgusted!
@@bonniemiller4041me to - unfortunately not shocked.
This Texan did to and is all in for Allred! 💙
@@ChristyMorris-rh7rq Yay!
Thank YOU, Marc, for everything that you are doing.
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I’m in Texas. I’m Gen X female professional with daughters. I’m so disgusted in the politics here. We are in scary times!!! Vote them out!! Vote Blue💙💙💙 our lives are literally dependent on it!!!
🙏🙏🙏🇺🇸for Texas fighting spirit with Beto!🙏🙏
It is the GREED and POWER game that keeps Texas in chains
Join those of us volunteering to make a difference! I register Texas voters both with the League of Women Voters and Powered By People! We need as much help as we can get!
You hear Beto when says lays it down? Volunteer !
I understand my sister is moving out of TX and back to NM because of this.
Texas is so lucky to have Beto O’Rourke still fighting for the rights of the people in the state.
Thank you Beto. Your character and belief in Texas sets you apart from others. Keep it up 💙🥰💙
Beto, run again for U.S. Senate. I donated to your campaign multiple times and don't even live in TX. Go Beto!
Me too! Senate or Governor or the state legislature (take over Ken Paxton's place.) It would be great if we turned Texas blue.
Unsure if he hasn't had enough and does great work now. Powered by People.
I donated money for his cause and YES, he would make an excellent Senator.
@conniemazas He came so close in 2018. It is the rural counties in Texas that made the difference.
Just donated to Colin Allred. Keeping it going
💙💙💙 I've had the pleasure of meeting BETO AND HAVE ADMIRED HIM MANY YEARS. 💙💙💙
Beto you are a man of honor, Texas is lucky to have you. Greg Abbott is a scoundrel and only governor because of his dirty tricks. Keep fighting the good fight!💙
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I'm not sure who's is worse, yours, or mine, who is DeSantis.
@@cathyshappell1148 I'm a Florida resident. DeSantis is scum.
Totally agree with you.
You forgot Cornyn and his personal campaign treasury that needs his attention like taking it into retirement tax-free and sparing his inattentive attitude in the Senate.
I was so sad that Beto didnt win. Texas needs people like him.
The likely reason he didn't win last time was because Republicans blocked the mailing of millions of ballot requests in blue-leaning areas.
Gregg Abbott was never going to let Beto win. Like when vote counting for Democrats were stopped at a certain time in FL and Texas when Trump/Russians truly stole our election for Trump.
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Agreed, I was so upset. Beto would make a great Governor.
Texas need people like Beto? No. California, perhaps. But not Texas.
The abbot crime ring needs to go! VOTE BLUE
We don't have electricity in Harris County one week still the governor the lutenante governor accusing our commissioner she did a fantastic job during covid with the former mayor turner and we have a new mayor Whitemier goid for nothing didn't do a damm thing so far.
@@zzeeyib3009omg It must be horrible in this heat.🙏🙏🙏💙💙💙💙💙
@@zzeeyib3009I’m so sorry. That must be horrible. Big hugs from New Zealand
Yes agree get rid of Abbott and his hit people
@@zzeeyib3009 terrible no electric for sure conditioning. Pretty cruel.
Thanks Beto O'Rourke for Your Continued Service and Fighting For Rights, Freedoms, Humanity, Liberties, Democracy, Texas, The Constitution and America 🗽 🇺🇲 🌠 💙 ⭐ ✨
Thank you Marc and Beto and for fighting for our Democracy in real time. VOTE BLUE VOTE BLUE 🇺🇸💙🌊🗽⚖💙🌊💙🌊
Thank you for protecting democracy. Vote blue 💙💙💙
Get the trifecta and make Texas blue 💙💙💙
Greg Abbott, Ted Cruz, and Ken Paxton are the three most hated, black marks on Texas.
And in the whole country!
They are CRIMINALS
And the texas Supreme Court and the US 5th circuit appellate court.
Don't forget Patrick and Senator Brian Hughes who shoves the voter suppression and Choice laws through state House. He and Paxton have been known to show up in D.C. this year. Paxton and his state Congressional 'wife'(Ft. worth) attended J6.
Don't forget Patrick too. State Senator Brian Hughes is the delegated Voter Suppression lawyer shoving Jim Crow and Secretary of State (Houston overturn new law) Legislation.
Texas a pioneer on rights like Choice Health laws and a supporter of Theological Project '25 and deregulation.
Thank you, Mr. Elias and Mr. O'Rourke for your work. Vote Biden-Harris, vote blue.
It's super hard for someone like him to win in Texas because the majority of Texans are TOTALLY against all that he stands for and fights for
Harris//Shapieere iron sharpers iron
Abbott Cruz & Paxton need to GO !! IMO, they're an absolute disgrace. Thanks Marc & Beto ..🇺🇸💙🇺🇸💙🇺🇸
Don't forget Patrick
@@March80exactly, he is the worst
The fascists' coming absence will be a BLESSING to democracy, to health, to ecology, and to everything REAL Americans will always treasure!
And Patrick.
I love Beto O'Rourke..Thanks for having him, Marc ..He's awesome!! 🇺🇸💙🇺🇸💙🇺🇸
Thank you Gentlemen
The gerrymandering in Texas is REAL! WE JUST NEED TO GET OUT AND VOTE A BIG BLUE EVERYWHERE IN AMERICA!!!
ROE ROE ROE YOUR VOTE IN ROEVEMBER 2024!!!
We will need you in Texas, always! Every time I get discouraged, I listen to you and feel better and stronger!
OMG, same. I lived in rural East Texas during his Senate run in 2018, and I volunteered for his campaign. There were times when our safety was threatened while knocking doors in my deep red county, but I just believed in him SO much. I've since moved to El Paso, and being in a more open, liberal community helps, but I still can get so hopeless sometimes. Hearing him speak can still relieve that sense for a while.
I am glad Beto is still in it. I can't understand how people like bobo and B6 can get elected and Beto can't.
Beto got very close, with 48% of the vote.
Gerrymandering and voter suppression have a real impact.
Ken Paxton said if they had counted all the mail in ballots in 2020, TX would have gone for Biden. So, yeah, TX has made it harder to vote and be counted, so we have to try harder.
💯 agree@@lauracohen4914
Beto ran for senator, president, and governor. Those take the entire state to vote for you.
Bobo chooses her bright red district and only needs those local people to vote for her.
If Beto chose a bright blue district in Texas he could easily win in the house of representatives. In fact, he did it before. He obviously didn’t want to be restrained to one district among hundreds.
But getting the entire red state to vote for you is much much harder.
Also, Beto wants reasonable gun regulation while Bobo wants everyone to carry an AR on their back and a handgun on their hip.
In Texas that’s an existential problem. You can’t be reasonable about guns and win the state.
Judging by your posts you don't understand much of anything.
Those lines is insane in a democratic country.
it's blatant corrupt, in your face, vote against this
Vote people, vote!
Oh Beto , you need to be seen and heard a lot more . 👏
He has a new ranch for a few reasons, I imagine.
Long lines are a form of VOTER SUPPRESSION!😤😤😤
Counting unsigned ballots is voter suppression!
The racial discrimination makes me sick! This is shameful for our country.
I was unaware that racial discrimination still existed!
Make no mistake, your freedoms and the future of Democracy is at stake in 2024. Vote and Donate Blue!
Up and down the ballot! Also, Call your Congress person,Pelosi and Schumer's office and tell them! They need to hear the voters voices over the damn media! 💙
We need to get Greg Abbott out of office!!!
@@robinsnest4221 go Beto run for Governor!
@@thelmadeguzman5252 that be great. I think he would be a great vp pick as well.
He's much worse than dĵt!! VOTE BLUE
Yes, get Abbott out and things will get better.
What a shameful history for Texas
Today, most every political evil probably has a Texas connection. Often an origination.
Texas today has origins and roots for most of the Republican agenda, formulas, and mandated Project '25.🥀❤️🔥
I live with gratitude in Oregon. My sister lives in Texas. The political rift couldn't be wider. It is hertbreaking bc I can't give her info she won't get otherwise, like the Project 2025 agenda.
@carolynsumners4915 for sure, they really keep gerrymandering and purging votes. It gets a lot of people down and lose hope of it becoming blue again. It can be done but it’s hard to get people to vote. Still trying!
My Texas high school was named in honor of Robert E. Lee-full blown White Supremacy complete with the Confederate flag. And my city did not even exist at the time of the Civil War.
Thank you both.🇺🇲🗽🦅🗳️💙👏🏽
Thank you for making that point about voting lines!
Cleta and Lara goal to not have ANY early voting or polls on College campuses. She admits🎤😮 it at fundraisers 🎩that suppress the vote. Voting should be a nonpartisan issue.
wake up and vote these m'fers out
what is wrong Texas? Get Up, Stand Up, and vote maga OUT.
Lets get an Anti- Gerrymandering referendum on the ballot for fairer maps!
Thanks to the Democracy Docket, Guest and Marc Elias for Defending Democracy, The Constitution and America 🗽 🇺🇲 🌠 💙 ⭐ ✨
# Build The Strongest Democracy Of All Time
Very important information for American voters!
Excellent clarification!😂❤
We will vote for Biden!!!!
You probably meant Harris !!!!
@@mysunnybird The commenter wrote this before Biden dropped out.
If I lived in Texas, I'd vote for you, Beto . I'm doing what I can in California.
Facts!!!
Thanks Mark
Democracy Docket has cute T-shirt 👕. Continuous lawsuits fighting Paxton and Hughes are expensive. Taxpayer don't pay for Marc. Donors do. 🤑
Absolutely 💙 Beto‼️💙✌️🇺🇸🎶❣️
Inspiring interview. Makes me want to double down on my volunteer efforts here in PA to get the blue vote out. We’re all in this together. Thank you.
Thank you to all you defenders!!! 💙💙💙💙💙
Another stellar democrat that should be in "upper management" in one form or another. Senator, Governor, Vice President, you name it and Beto will deliver positive results for the American people.
That was fantastic!
I really like both of the O'Rourke's; I think it's great the work he is doing.
Thank you both very much
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Thanks so much for all your hard work and dedication to these critical voting issues. Vote blue 💙💙☮️💙💙
Can't stress enough, this election isn't just about voting for the presidency. it's about electing every position on the ballot. From school boards to mayors to state and federal representation for democracy. Check beforehand where each person you vote for stands.💙
dogcatcher to President, vote blue!
Very well stated
I'm from Lubbock Texas and we used to be a Democrat majority. Texas is NOT a nutjob state. It us large and diverse and full of smart people. Help Beto please!
Its thanks to Tom Delay‘s highly illegal gerrymandering that Texas is where it’s at
Wow! Thanks for the historical and modern explination of Texas voting suppression.
There are few influential texans that will hear this and the race is continually uphill. It is winnable but by no means easy. The fight for democracy is worth it.
We in Texas used to be able to vote at the grocery store. Within 6 years , im searching online for a voting location. Really cuts out voters of color. Shameful!
Thank you for your wonderful interviews and education about voting rights
How did this guy lose? We need him to get elected to something and get him ready for national office.
He’s already ready, he came within a gnat’s hair of defeating Ted Cruz and winning a Senate seat!
He lost to gerrymandering and the laws the Republicons have enacted to stay in office...PERIOD!!!
If I remember correctly, voter turn out was less than 40%, TX gerrymander to hell and think a lot of folks freaked out when he said he’ll take your AR15 away from you.
Many Texans prefer to not vote or prefer white supremacy and ignorance
His family is #1 today.
BTW pass the word, tyrants and Monarchs don't allow their population to be armed or wealthy.
Great show, Beto is awesome.
Beto is tall, handsome, SMART, well-informed, well spoken and age appropriate. Where was the Democratic support for this guy when we needed it?
I ❤ Your Question, "Where were the Dems"
Thank you Marc for being willing to "look under the hood" with regard to Texas. Most of us Democrats try to pretend Texas doesn't exist.
Why would you pretend that Texas doesn't exist?
What a great speaker...vote blue Texas 😀👍💪😍
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In every election..be there!! ..local,state,federal...this may truly end our democracy if we do not vote to keep it
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Thank you Beto!!!! I’d vote for you for president!!!!!
Turn Texas blue already
We are continually trying! 💙
Texas was blue until1 1980, reagan The Dems are trying!
@@ChristyMorris-rh7rq❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you, Mark.
Always great to hear from Beto O'Rourke! Thank you for being an American hero for Democracy and your continued work for voting rights in Texas!
Come back, Beto!! Come back to public office~we need you!!
Thanks for all you do Beto! You would've won Texas if there was fair voting in TX. We must end these republican attacks on voting!!
To a foreigner this inequality caused by differences in state voting regulations is baffling.
Voting should be simple, safe and similar all over the country. No?
Senate Regrubs kept stopping. Same with immigration laws. Now the House chamber is Red Republican. Congrats on Labor victory. Torrey got theirs this round. No fascism in Europe. Period.
Guessing an Aussie? Whenever ...Congrats.😊
Yes!
That's the seamy side of the US--shameful corruption in voting because it's all local and state. Big frogs in small ponds.
Yes!
Beto is a great speaker, and he is from my part of the country the southwest!
Cruz bragged about tossing tens of thousands of mail in votes in Pennsylvania. He was also involved in Decertification of January 6.Hawley too. Told us on the Senate floor prior.
Yay!! Thank you, Beto!!!
I grew up in TexASS. I remember before the 1960’s Voting Rights, my Dad always paid his Poll Tax. Look it up kids.😓😓😓
Went to a xhurch around Easter and there were jellybeans in a jar to guess number for a door prize. I explained in front of the crowd what that meant to oppressed. Think the frosting melted off the cake...silence.
What we need is a federally-mandated voting rights act which specifies things like no-excuse mail-in voting, a dropbox per such-and-such population of an area, mandatory funding for any county/city/whatever with lines that exceed half an hour, etc. etc. This shit of voting suppression has to end. What kind of democracy tries to freeze people out because they're the "wrong kind" of people?
Didn't have the Senate when Pelosi passed. Couldn't Codify Roe either.
Supremes did their part boo too
It would also be good to make election day a national holiday that mandates a minimum of 4 hours off for people like first responders, shift workers, etal, who would typically work on a holiday.
@@susanzemke6569what a great idea!
Thank you Marc and Beto 🙋🏻 I’m Ridin with Biden all the way , and I’m disgusted by our Dem. Leaders stepping away from Biden , they are causing confusion with the voters which will cause possible votes to go to trump ! People just need to remember we are voting for democracy 💙 or dictatorship ❤️ it’s that simple !! Vote 💙 to save our democracy !! 💙💙💙💙💙💙
I don't think the votes will go to Trump. I feel it would be more a case of they don't vote.
💯vote 💙
BIDEN/HARRIS 2024
Thank you Mark, yes Texas is a competitive state!
I think Texas will be very central. Sadly there are Democrats in Texas, folks !! We meed to help however they can. People in Houston havent had power in 5 days !!! smh..Abbott belongs in prison !!
Thanks Marc 👍😎✊
I am from England voting is so easy ,I live here I didn’t realize just how many obstacles are put in place so people can’t vote in Texas it boggles my mind
Not just in Texas. Voter suppression is in multiple states.
it's pathetic and corrupt
You don't tolerate the degree of corruption in politics that the US does.
Great to see Beto again. I am a former El Pasoan and I have supported him throughout his career. ❤ 🇺🇸💙
Could Beto be a great candidate for President? Experienced, smart, knowledgeable, personable....
Definetly
Beto has been in service to Texans for years and years now. If Texans had any sense they would have elected him over and over to serve in the highest office possible! I hope he will keep helping us. We need it now more than ever. We were once a great, blue, state, and we can turn blue again.
That's right. Texas was blue until 1980, reagan. Beto did not lose by that much. Texas is sick of Abbott Paxton Patrick Cruz. Dems are trying!
Beto has been the most exciting and inspiring political figure in Texas in decades. Keeps on fighting! 💙
I'm Riden for Democracy and The Constitution with The BIDEN HARRIS ADMINISTRATION in The United States of America 🗽 🇺🇲 🌠 💙 ⭐ ✨
I'm from Austin Texas and Voted for Beto O'Rourke both times he ran for office and Sadly lost to the Evil and Worthless Abbott & Cruz. Both times I cried with anger. Just broke my heart. I even had a "Vote for Beto" sign up in my front yard till it finally fell apart with the weather this winter Feb 2024.
Why is voting so hard in the US? In Australia it’s mandated (you can not vote but will get a small fine) and there’s never a place you can’t walk into vote less than a walk away from where you live and also voting via mail in is encouraged if you can’t make it on the day. In person Voting also happens on a Saturday when people usually have the day off. Everyone’s vote is counted and heard. Why do you make it so hard?
Because most people would never vote for the gop.
In Peru they will come( military or police ) get you and take you to vote ,even foreigners .
One word. REGRUBLICANS 🥀🟥
Smart fair voting procedures in Australia. 🎉
I'm so proud of these two patriots! They are such inspiring Americans!! Let's go do this and help SAVE DEMOCRACY!
Thank you. Sigh. I have not done my part in my lifetime to protect democracy and took it for granted. I truly needed to hear this.
Dem Voters need to vote for Congress men and women that isn't like Sinema and Manchin, people who aren't bought by the rich.
Exactly
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You have to register one month before an election in Texas. And that registration can either be mailed in or you can go into the office.
A major repeat of the history this country from the 1930's and 40's
Maddow in Ultra podcast and her book documents your comment. Yes.
Great to hear the positive “pro democracy” actions being made, Beto, through your Org to establish ‘volunteer voting registration officers’ in the state. 🤞 you get many registered before November!
With love for democracy, from Australia 🇦🇺
County offers same class. About an hour. No back up help though to get newcomers to polling location. Texas now says you have to be a caregiver or relative to drive someone to vote. I can go on. Jail time for assisters of a lot of once legal activity.
Ruthless and often unconstitutional, as Marc Elias Democracy Docket KNOWS. In the mean time, takes years IF corrected to go through courts.
Because those that don't wait refuse to see the "others" as worthy of the same rights as they have. Until the far Christian right comes for them.
Great show 😊💙💙💙💙👍🏽💙💙👍🏽👍🏽
GoJoe!!! 4MoreYears!!!💙💙💙💙💙🦩
Marc and Beto, I’m an election worker who watches and reads all Democracy Watch and Docket. Thanks for all you do.
Beto is a good man!!!