PROTECTING THE MIDTERMS IN TEXAS AND ELSEWHERE
The Marianne Williamson Podcast
Marianne Williamson
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🗓️ 1 August 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Earlier today I posted a video about the shameless Congressional redistricting plan going on in Texas. I said I’d be back with my interview with Beto O’Rourke, so here it is! He’s filled with great information and I’m glad to share it.
No one need feel helpless in the face of Trump’s onslaught, because there’s a lot we can do. But We the People need to do it. Beto’s organization POWERED BY PEOPLE is doing exactly what needs to be done to help protect the midterms in Texas and elsewhere.
It doesn’t matter what state you live in or who you are: if they’re transgressing against liberty anywhere, they’re transgressing against you.
This isn’t a moment to take our feet off the gas…not even for a moment. We’re moved from “threat” to our democracy to full on on-going attack on our democracy. Generations not even born yet will register whether or not we show up for this moment of truth.
Wake up. Rise up. And remember what my father used to say: “Don’t let the b******s get you down.”
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| 0:00.0 | Well, you've probably heard already what's happening down in Texas. President Trump has said to the Republican governor down there, Greg Abbott, that he wants five more congressional districts that he knows would be Republican to increase his chances of holding on to the House of Representatives in 2026. Many of us do not wish to see the Republicans hold on to the House in 2026, and we don't |
| 0:20.9 | like that kind of shenanigans, how the President so unabashedly even says something like that. |
| 0:25.9 | Well, as you can imagine, there is a pushback happening already. |
| 0:29.9 | All of us have a responsibility to ourselves, to care about this, and to do what needs to be |
| 0:35.1 | done to make sure that those elections in 2026 are totally above board, |
| 0:40.8 | totally cool, and totally according to constitutional principle. |
| 0:44.9 | So I asked the wonderful former congressional representative Beto O'Rourke from Texas. |
| 0:51.5 | He's one of the leaders of the pushback that's going on down there. I asked |
| 0:56.0 | if he'd come on so that I could interview him. So I'm so glad that he did. We had one technical |
| 1:00.7 | glitch, and that's it. You get to see his lovely face, but you won't see mine because we had a |
| 1:05.3 | glitch. So you'll hear my voice. I think it was a cool conversation. I'm very grateful to |
| 1:10.4 | Beto for coming on and just a little |
| 1:13.9 | one-sided there visually, but who cares? All my best. Here it is. Thanks. So Beto O'Rourke, welcome. |
| 1:21.2 | Thank you for, as usual, being right out front on things that matter. Tell people, we've already |
| 1:27.0 | been talking about what the president asked Greg Abbott to do down in Texas matter. Tell people, we've already been talking about what the president |
| 1:28.6 | asked Greg Abbott to do down in Texas, but tell people what exactly happened and why should |
| 1:33.1 | everybody care no matter what state they live in. So Trump's trying to take five additional |
| 1:39.3 | congressional seats in Texas. The reason that he's doing it is super important. He understands how deeply |
| 1:47.2 | unpopular his policies are. The cuts to Medicaid, the Gestapo tactics that are terrorizing |
| 1:53.1 | our fellow hardworking Americans, this massive transfer of wealth. It's nearly a trillion |
| 1:58.3 | dollars going from working Americans to the wealthiest |
| 2:01.7 | 1% in the country. Nobody likes that. And he knows that on this current trajectory, he's going to |
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