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James Talarico: “I was running in a gerrymandered district that was built to…”

Featuring: James Talarico, Democratic | Texas House of Representatives, District 50

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1 Texas Democrat vs 20 Undecided Voters | Surrounded

Published | Video Starts at 1:01:33

So when you say that my vote matters, all of my stuff, plus the fact of that, I've been gerrymandered into hell, why? So based on my personal experience, when I was running for the legislature eight years ago, I was running in a gerrymandered district that was built to vote for Republicans, and I was running as a Democrat. The deck was stacked against me. The deck was stacked against a lot of people in my community. But we organized. We didn't just vote. Voting is the bare minimum in a democracy. (1:01:33–1:01:41)

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