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Beto O'Rourke: “If we fail to win Power in 2026, this consolidation of…”

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Lock Him Up! Beto O'Rourke Is Risking Arrest To Protect Texas's Voters

Published August 13, 2025 | Video Starts at 17:44

My theory of the case, Gavin, and I want to hear yours in response, is that if we fail to stop this, and If we fail to win Power in 2026, this consolidation of authoritarian power in the hands of the President is going to become almost unstoppable. I'll never say never, and I'll never stop fighting. I know you won't either. And there are tens, I hope, hundreds of millions of Americans who are with us on this. (17:44–18:01)

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Asserts that failing to win power in 2026 could lead to an unstoppable consolidation of authoritarian power.

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“Hundreds of thousands of Texans are on the rolls because of our volunteers.”
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“The state of Texas imposed the toughest voter ID law in the country.”
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“You can use your license to carry a firearm at the polling place, but you dare use your ID at the University of Texas at El Paso to do the…”
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“They make $7,200 a year for being state legislators in a state of 31 million people.”
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“Texas leads the nation in school shootings more than three years after Uvalde.”
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“They're trying to stop us from exercising our First Amendment, constitutionally protected right to say what we want to say about the…”
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“They're trying to take us out of this fight by seeking to intimidate us in the courts.”
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“Ken Paxton is on Twitter saying, lock him up, Gavin.”
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“They not only seek to vacate the seats of the 54 state House Dems who have broken quorum to stop this deal, they're threatening them with…”
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“They're sending the FBI and state troopers after him.”
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“Now they're suing us successively many times over the last few days in state court here and now threatening to put me in jail.”
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“We had a big rally planned on Saturday in Fort Worth in Tarrant county in North Texas.”
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“He went to state court in Fort Worth in front of this Abbott appointed judge, as you pointed out, 4:30 on, on Friday with, with almost and I…”
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“The TRO that they got was so incredibly narrow in scope.”
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“At the crack of dawn today, they file this request for the judge to find me in criminal contempt, to lock me up, put me behind bars.”
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“They are claiming that our organization powered by people and that I personally am attempting to bribe the 54 state House Democrats who…”
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“We literally have not written a single check to any of these state legislators.”
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“Ken Paxton himself was not just accused of bribery. He was impeached by the Texas legislature.”
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“Powered by People is the largest voter registration organization in the state.”
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“In our state there's no online voter registration or automatic voter registration.”
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“The state of Texas imposed the toughest voter ID law in the country.”
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“This guy promised you he was going to be a dictator on day one.”
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“He defied the federal courts, he dismantled congressionally chartered programs, he covered up for child sex traffickers.”
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“He colluded with corrupt public officials.”
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“He dispensed with every constitutional safeguard, including due process.”
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“The parliament or the Congress, their legislature passed these enabling laws just like the Republicans are doing in Congress today.”
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“Kathy Hochul has made some noise in New York that they're going to use that power they have there to redistrict.”
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“Our own party, which I fear for too long has been overly concerned with being right instead of being in power.”
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“In 2021, I was doing the exact same things then during a quorum break where Democrats left the state of Texas, as I am doing now.”
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“Accepting these bribes the president has, making these corrupt deals.”
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