Oftentimes people in our party like to complain that, you know, voters have moved away from us.

That's not the voters' fault. That is our fault as a party. If we are not speaking to their needs,

if we are not providing a vision that they can see themselves in and can buy into, then that's on us.

Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped, and battlehardt.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America.

There is the United States of America.

Good night and good luck.

Hey, folks, it's Rick Wilson.

Welcome back once again to the Lincoln Project podcast.

I am super excited to be joined today, but James Tolerico, who is a newly announced candidate for the United States Senate in the great state of Texas. He is a communicator and a legislator and a leader of a form that I think a lot of people didn't believe the Democrats still had in them.

He goes where places Democrats fear to tread, and that is talking to working folks,

talking to folks, people of fate, talking to folks across the political spectrum. The biggest divide in our country is not left versus right. It's top versus bottom.

Billionaires want us looking left and right at each other

so that we're not looking up at them.

The people at the top work so hard to keep us angry and divided

because our unity is a threat to their wealth and their power.

So their social media algorithms and their cable news networks tear us apart.

They divide us by party, by race, by gender, by religion,

so that we don't notice that they're defunding our schools,

gutting our health care and cutting taxes for themselves and their rich friends.

It is the oldest strategy in the world.

Divide and conquer.

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