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Climate change is an existential threat

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we have been told by scientists that if
we don't take dramatic action within the

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next 10 years it will be too late
with our warming oceans with our

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polluted air it's there in so many ways
so even if we can't see it we have to

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pay attention to it 
my family's been here 150 years

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our pecan orchard was big

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enough for the whole family to live on
it was the first and for a good while it

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was the biggest

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all of our family could work here make a living

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we prided ourselves in growing the most amount of pecans

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it was just really bountiful

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the coal plant came in in '77
we started having things happened with

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our trees limbs dying then whole trees
were dying

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we couldn't solve it out

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I was always having headaches

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the MRIs
showed that I had the third largest

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tumor in the United States in my skull

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my family doctor he said that my tumor came

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from emissions from the power plant

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then the picture turned to the coal plant

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causing our problem

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I started investigating to Texas Health Department

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these emissions cause the trees to die
and put us out of business

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my purpose in

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life it just flew apart

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I miss everything that we've lost

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but I can't bring it back

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you just don't see a lot of people
running for any type of office do the

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type of work that Mike does where he can
change some of these rules and

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regulations that we have I'm depending
on Mike to do that for me

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the Fayette coal plant is literally
killing the future for dozens of

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counties here in Texas

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people like Harvey are suffering because

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of climate change even if we don't see
it it's happening around the world

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it's important to all of us to fight
because this is our only planet

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we don't get a second chance

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and I believe organizing is the way we make political

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change

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my campaign is about showing up
in every county in this congressional

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district to let folks know that we're
gonna fight for them

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I've been fighting for the people for 21 years as a public
school teacher as a union organizer a

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civil rights lawyer fighting for voting
rights

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if we say we need health care

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if we need housing we need clean air we
need clean water it's important for all

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of us to stand up and fight back because
our corrupt political system won't

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change unless we force it to

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we need to show folks that we're going to fight for

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them and make sure they can elect the
representatives they deserve