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Colin Allred: “We can't just make it all about being against Trump.”

Featuring: Colin Allred, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Texas

Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates

Published February 10, 2026 | Video Starts at 30:05

And I think, you know, we have some real issues in the party that we have to start cleaning up as well. We can't just make it all about being against Trump. Right. And say that, you know, we're, we're just here to be opposition to Trump, that that's not good enough, and that's not what working people are looking for. (30:05–30:09)

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Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 04:42-44:43
“In Dallas, we had the South Dallas VA is the second busiest VA in the country.”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 18:24-18:28
“We have the second most veterans in the country in Texas.”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 18:27-18:31
“We have the most women veterans.”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 18:30-18:32
“We have the highest uninsured rate in the country.”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 38:21-38:24
“She rented the same house for 20 years in Dallas.”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 05:01-05:05
“It wasn't until I was in the NFL that I had the ability to help her buy that house by helping her with the down payment.”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 05:07-05:13
“My mom was a teacher for 27 years in Texas.”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 05:52-05:56
“I have a plate and two screws in my neck.”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 13:13-13:16
“I was off the operating table and in class less than a year later.”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 13:55-13:59
“The right to vote was preservative of all of the rights, that all of your rights are derived from your right to vote.”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 14:19-14:27
“What was happening in Texas, as you know, was that they were making it harder for folks to vote.”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 14:39-14:44
“The Trump administration... took two weeks to even come to HUD.”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 15:08-15:18
“We got this [hospital] donated at the value of $400 million.”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 20:01-20:05
“It would probably cost a couple billion dollars in 10 years for us to build a similar hospital.”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 20:05-20:10
“It opened just before COVID hit, and it's serving our veterans right now.”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 20:10-20:15
“It's created 5,000 jobs.”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 20:14-20:17
“The class of 2018, I kind of called us, like, we're like small d Democratic antibodies.”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 22:18-22:25
“We ran in these red districts, and we flipped those seats and then we had to hold on to them.”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 23:00-23:07
“This state Senate race that we had here in Fort Worth, where I think it was like a Trump+17 district or something.”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 24:29-24:36
“Texas is ground zero for much of this administration's just bullshit that they're doing.”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 25:02-25:08
“We have a state government that is completely lockstep with this administration.”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 25:23-25:28
“He had abandoned us, of course, during the freeze.”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 27:02-27:05
“I was there on January 6th, as you know.”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 27:07-27:09
“He was somebody who had been going around the country lying about the election, even though he knew better.”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 27:25-27:30
“We could also respond to the moment of what was happening in Texas in terms of losing reproductive rights.”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 27:45-27:52
“We ended up outrunning the presidential ticket by nearly six points, by the most votes of any Senate race in the country.”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 28:05-28:13
“I ran 10 points ahead [of the ticket] along the border.”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 28:19-28:21
“The problem was [Donald Trump] was always intending to lie to them, and he always meant to do what they were going to do, which is stick it…”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 29:21-29:29
“They expect us also to, I think, clean up our act, to clean up the corruption that's in our party as well.”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 30:17-30:24
“The overwhelming influence of big money, the stock trading. We see members of Congress doing [this].”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 30:25-42:30
“You can't tell them the economy is the best in the world. It might be in terms of the macroeconomics, but it isn't for them.”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 31:04-31:12
“It's important to raise a lot of money. And I get that you got to hit some certain things, but all the money in the world is not going to…”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 34:26-34:37
“The Republicans took [the 32nd district] out to East Texas. It's now a Republican district and it doesn't exist anymore in terms of being…”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 35:56-36:06
“Dallas County has over a 20% uninsured rate.”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 38:23-38:26
“Every district they targeted in the five districts that they wanted to create was a majority minority district.”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 39:22-39:28
“I've never taken, you know, PAC money or corporate PAC money in my time.”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 40:36-40:40
“I never traded stocks in six years in Congress, even though it was legal for me to do so.”
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“I did have access to insider information.”
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“Julie Johnson has decided to be one of the most active stock traders in the entire Congress.”
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“Knowing that it's legal right now and knowing that, that we need to make it illegal, I still think you shouldn't be doing that [stock…”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 45:33-45:39
“I do think he [Representative Talarico] said that [referred to Colin Allred as a mediocre black man].”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 48:02-48:04
“Texas is a heavily majority minority state.”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 49:00-49:05
“In the last election, I outrank the ticket in every part of our state, but we had a big drop off in turnout in Dallas and Houston.”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 55:00-55:08
“If we did not have that drop off in turnout [in Dallas and Houston], then I likely would have won.”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 55:09-55:14
“I've just seen a lack of understanding of how to talk to the black community in particular, that I think is a real problem.”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 57:58-58:08
“I want to tell all these columnists, all these elite party thinkers to sit your ass down when it comes to what would work in Texas.”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 1:00:31-1:00:40
“Not what people like in Texas is a totally separate things. Right. And also not an understanding of what our pathway to victory in Texas is…”
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