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Colin Allred: “What was happening in Texas, as you know, was that they were…”

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 14:39

And that's why it was so powerful. That's why there was such a big fight to restrict it for people like us. And What was happening in Texas, as you know, was that they were making it harder for folks to vote. And I thought that was wrong. And so I wanted to be a Voting rights lawyer and had a chance, as you mentioned, to go to doj. (14:39–14:44)

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Asserts that Texas was implementing measures to restrict voting access.

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“In Dallas, we had the South Dallas VA is the second busiest VA in the country.”
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“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.”
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“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
“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
“We can't just make it all about being against Trump.”
Colin Allred: Don't Ask for Our Votes and Disrespect Our Candidates | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 30:05-30:09
“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.”
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“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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