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Jay Furman: “We have been held down by the Democrat machine, by the LBJ…”

Featuring: Jay Furman, Republican | Former Candidate, U.S. House Texas, District 28

Jay Furman's Campaign for Texas Congressional District 28: Border Security and Political Reform

Published June 18, 2025 | Video Starts at 10:32

You can't drive past the cemetery and not believe that everybody is the biggest American supporter possible. And this is a people that's been held down. We have been held down by the Democrat machine, by the LBJ Democrat machine. And that thumb is still on top of us with the elected leaders that have come up through the system still today. Henry Qu is the head of that snake right now. (10:32–10:39)

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Asserts that the Democratic political machine has suppressed the region.

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“Texas [is] the eighth biggest economy in the world.”
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“Half of all the US services military had decided not to take it [the COVID vaccine].”
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“They can't account for 400,000 children.”
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“LBJ earlier. You know, the, the Duke of Duval, box 13, you know, the 80 or so vote that he won, fraudulently won that election and then was…”
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“20 million is my number [of undocumented immigrants in the U.S.].”
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“40 of the mayors in England are Muslim, including London.”
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“Nancy Pelosi, who shows up with no money and now is worth $120 million on a public servant salary.”
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“We minted 50% more billionaires during COVID than we had before that.”
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“The DOJ has a 98% conviction rate.”
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“I flew the border, I flew drug missions, interagency firewatch.”
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“It controlled and controls today the US nuclear arsenal.”
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“Every pilot like myself who is also a mission commander, controls that mission and is given line and responsibility by name in the Pentagon.”
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“It was not legal to do to anyone and to the military as well because it was not FDA approved.”
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“In August of 2021 they made it mandatory for US uniformed services [to get the COVID vaccine].”
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“I was able to retire a day before they were going to prosecute me for not having the shot.”
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“Our officials have no idea who, how many [911 bomber cells] came in.”
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“The Biden administration just kind of ran amok. They kicked down our back gate and just let everybody trample over it.”
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“Laredo sector and on south off front, terror included is some of the worst part of the border.”
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“Puerto Laredo... that's being exploited and really not protected enough by the federal government.”
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“Texas 28 is, is 76% Hispanic, which means to me that it's 76% God. Family first, right?”
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“A lot [of the media is] owned by the same seven families.”
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“I think we would have won but for the cheating in Webb County.”
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“We had hundreds of people swear affidavits... my name didn't show up on the ballot.”
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“We got a court order... to resume that, that count. And they ignored it for two weeks.”
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“They only tallied in pencil.”
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“We got Trump in now we've got to keep working it down towards our values.”
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“We were part of the biggest human smuggling operation to date, at least in the modern west.”
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“They used our immigration history against us and they just turned the volume up in ways that we've never seen before.”
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“They completely changed the policy.”
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“South Texas has been for 110 years, that's a reliable voting plantation.”
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“The governor's doing a really good job on trying to stymie them [efforts to implement Sharia law].”
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“A lot of [the media is] owned by China.”
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“We have 17 months until [the next election].”
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“The open primary system's a problem though. You can stack the vote so you can flood the zone and you can go vote for the other side and not…”
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“The Texas urban primary system, you know, is fraught with problems.”
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“We have let them come in and add regulations that make us all poor, weaker and less competitive.”
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“More people have come out of poverty in the last 70 years than anywhere else.”
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“More people are healthier than they have been because of those outcomes than any other time in history.”
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“Federal government, they should only be doing three things Constitutionally, no one knows this. They should only be doing defense, foreign…”
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“The border looks like the worst I've served on.”
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“Economy and security hand in hand. That's never not the case.”
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“We have to unleash the natural gas and the oil that's there.”
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“Myra Flores has announced and then Raul Espinosa announced.”
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“We did that through an interagency effort led by the Texas Rangers.”
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“The cartel has been empowered by all of our enemies, principally China.”
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“Mexico's fallen into the Mexico none of us recognize anymore.”
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“The President can walk right through anything trying to stop him because his principal job as Commander in Chief is to stop a foreign…”
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“They were quite frankly lied to by the Biden administration, by the US government representing us.”
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“We didn't hold our elected leaders accountable to the extent that we should.”
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“We have over and we have the line outside the country again, unfortunately, it's simply a security management problem.”
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“There are cells in every city, as you said, they're organized, they are ambitious.”
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“We give them handouts when they arrive.”
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“You're not screening anybody coming through.”
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“The UK is a starking example of what's happening of Islamization of the country.”
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“France is the same way. Yeah. Germany is overrun.”
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“They're doing it here now [implementing Sharia law in Texas].”
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“Small businesses, you know, were crushed. Well, let's look at how they and why they were crushed. It was, it was, it was federal and state…”
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“It was the biggest wealth transfer that ever happened in this country.”
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“We have to deregulate people that took advantage of [the Paycheck Protection Program].”
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“The Cuellars are currently indicted by the DOJ.”
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“Senator Bob Menendez is a good example. Similar charges and was convicted for it got 10 years.”
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“The election is March 26th.”
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“South Texas can be that decisive if the big beautiful bill passed by one vote.”
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“We have a competitive advantage over Mexico.”
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“Our current political machine of Webb County doesn't allow competition like it should.”
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“The current head of the political machine, the Quails, right now, you run this thing like a mafia boss.”
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“Hundreds of people to go on record and swear with by affidavit and penalty of perjury that I was not on their ballot in November.”
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“We need more help from the feds to secure our most important port in the country.”
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“We will never accept any more fraudulent elections.”
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“Duvall had its historic corruption and... the condition of the infrastructure in Duvall is a tragedy.”
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“They have a revenue base of massive oil wealth and hunting revenue.”
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“Corruption is going to get in the way of bringing in new business.”
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“Cuellar has a 95 voting record with the Biden administration.”
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“I work for all 777,000 of you.”
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