Rise and I'm Sammy Sage look alive my friends. I'm the Spear and I'm Sammy

Sage and this is American Fever Dream presented by Betches News where we explore

the absurdities and oddities of our uniquely American

experience. And today we have a very special guest. The future senator of

Texas if we're lucky is here to talk to us about his vision for a more equitable

Texas welcome to the show representative Colin Allred. Yeah, thanks for having me

I appreciate y'all. Thank you for coming. We are very excited about your campaign. You have been such an awesome candidate so far and we are very excited to get your message out there to the American fever dreamers.

First I was wondering what has it been like running for the seat currently held by Ted Trump

called my wife ugly and I licked his boots anyway Cruz?

Oh man well you know, I'm a fourth generation Texan, so it's personal for me. It really is. I think he's been

misrepresenting my state. And this is something that's been happening for

some time now but you know when folks are coming up to me and saying you know

what's happening in Texas and and I think they look at us differently when they hear these stories about what's happening,

particularly to Texas women,

because we've been experiencing what a near total ban on abortion looks like for some time now.

And we have these horrific stories that come out.

And then we have these extreme politicians who make us cast us in that light.

And that's not my Texas that's not who we are and so it's it's on the one hand I think

It's incredibly cathartic for folks to have now an opportunity to show that by getting

red of Ted Cruz but on the other hand you know I feel like I'm constantly when I

talk to folks who are Texans I haven't explained who we really are and that

we're gonna you stand up and show that on November 5th. I'm really grateful to hear you stand up and show that on November 5th.

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