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How Rep. Linda Garcia is Defending Democracy
Locatora Radio [A Radiophonic Novela]
My Cultura, iHeartPodcasts and Locatora Studios
4.8 • 797 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In this special episode, Diosa and Mala speak with Representative Linda Garcia (D-107) about how she and her Texas Democratic colleagues broke quorum to defend democracy. Since fleeing the state, Representative Garcia and her colleagues have faced threats of arrest and physical harm. In this candid interview, Representative Garcia breaks down how she and her colleagues are protecting the constitution, the challenges of being a public servant, and what’s at stake if Trump and Governor Abbot redistrict and gerrymander the state of Texas.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | Adventure should never come with a pause button. |
| 0:07.1 | Remember Movie Pass? |
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| 0:11.1 | I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:13.9 | And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told. |
| 0:17.4 | Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of Movie Pass who got pushed out of the company he built. Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it. And then boom, it's everywhere. And that was that moment. Listen to there are no girls on the internet on the IHurt Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Loca Tora Radio. Ola la Loca Mores, I'm Diosa. |
| 0:39.5 | And I'm Mala. |
| 0:40.6 | Today we're bringing you a special episode. |
| 0:43.5 | We are in conversation with Representative Linda Garcia of District 107 in Texas. |
| 0:50.1 | She, along with her Democratic colleagues, fled Texas to break quorum. |
| 0:56.0 | She and her colleagues are fighting for all of us. |
| 1:00.0 | What they are fighting against is redistricting by the urging of President Trump and Governor Abbott. |
| 1:07.0 | And this affects all of us. |
| 1:09.0 | They are fighting for us and for democracy. Our own governor, |
| 1:13.5 | Gavin Newsom, held a press conference August 14th in response to the gerrymandering that |
| 1:20.9 | Governor Abbott and President Trump are doing in Texas. He is calling it the election rigging |
| 1:27.3 | response and he was in Los Angeles to discuss |
| 1:30.8 | why this is so urgent and how California is fighting back against Donald Trump and the gerrymandering |
| 1:38.2 | that could potentially happen in Texas. If the gerrymandering and redistricting that is unconstitutional |
| 1:45.3 | is approved, it sets the stage for the rest of the country, which is why we wanted to bring |
| 1:51.1 | this urgent episode to y'all today. And this also happening in the context of ICE breaking a TRO, |
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