 So corrupt conservative Democrat Henry Cuellar is facing a tough primary challenge against progressive Jessica Cisneros now if you live in Texas early voting just kicked off on Monday So make sure that you support her she came this close to beating Henry Cuellar back in 2020 But this time with him being raided by the FBI and with her seeing a surge of momentum and support odds are She can actually pull this off and she's someone who actually cares about policies Whereas Henry Cuellar is a conservative Democrat who voted with Trump most of the time and he also doesn't even support Abortion rights, so I don't even know why he is in the Democratic Party Nonetheless, this is really the opportunity to oust him from power But what's interesting is that all of a sudden as of February there's been a suspicious amount of new supporters Who are very enthusiastic about this member of Congress who's been there since 2005? And what Ryan Grimm and Sarah Sarota of the intercepts found out is that it looks like he has deployed an army of bots So they explain just this month for instance a young woman named Eliah Isabella Opened a Twitter account and began sharing her appreciation for Cuellar a pride all my support And I hope he stays in the Congress She said Monday apparently so eager to pose that she didn't have time to consider her unusual grammar her dedication to Cuellar is so complete that her entire online activity consists of re-tweeting Cuellar and Replying positively to his posts. We'll look at this in a second Isabella quickly found a community of Cuellar supporters She follows 64 people and has six followers and nearly all of them share her breathless Enthusiasm takes Selina Stefani who has exclusively posted messages praising the representative since opening an account in January Thanks for always caring reads one Hopefully achieve great things for Texas says another like the bulk of Cuellar's newfound supporters Stefani's last name is Capitalized but the last is lowercase interesting a number of Cuellar's groupies inundated a tweet from Webb County Democratic Party Announcing that early primary voting had begun Monday El Futuro de Texas está en manos de Henry Replied Gabrielle Clark with two clapping emojis with Henry until the end wrote Jackie Murphy with a strong arm The support with Henry is honest He is a hard-working and prepared man said Lulu carry Henry is a great example My vote is for he at a John Macleod all happened to join Twitter last month and exclusively engage with content about Cuellar oris's narrows No, I just want to pause right there The dead giveaway is the fact that none of these accounts capitalized their last names and the grammar is all terrible It's almost like These aren't real human beings now. Let's look at some of these accounts They're they're so conspicuous so obvious that you think that he'd at least be somewhat embarrassed But I mean these politicians are shameless. So let's look at that first account Elia Isabella so as you can see didn't capitalize their last name just started their account in February as the article explains and Literally every single post is you guessed it about Henry Cuellar and the very first post is a retweet of Henry Cuellar So it's almost like this account was created specifically to boost Henry Cuellar or something I mean they must just really have realized that this February how Enthusiastic they are about this member of Congress who's been there since 2005 interesting We also have Selena Stephanie with roughly the same amount of followers and who's following about the same amount of people as Elia Isabella and conspicuously only replying to Henry Cuellar's posts with the very first reply being posted in February Saying all trust very natural here. And then we have Jackie Murphy also a newer account created in January saying They're not convinced by Jessica Cisneros and she doesn't have what it takes But they very clearly think that Henry Cuellar has what it takes considering that their replies to his tweets make up the totality of their Twitter Activity and I love how the first post is I think you could be of great help to Texas as if he's some new up-and-comer And hasn't been in Congress since 2000 fucking five. It's just hilarious to me I love this so it's very obvious that these are not real accounts and people have pointed this out prior to this article being written It's just this is this is nonsense. This is astroturf online Now there's one more account that I want to show you you're gonna want to stick around for this one because this one is certainly a Little out there and I have no idea where this account came from But I just want to kind of go back to what his account was like prior to all of these bots Increasing his engagement on Twitter. So Cuellar hasn't always been such a phenom on Twitter Take his November 5th tweet announcing passage of the bipartisan infrastructure bill which he had worked to break away from the larger Build Back Better Act. Absent was his swarm of supporters instead His followers took the opportunity to lambast him for undermining the broader package to call him a sell-out Or otherwise denigrate his legislative activity It's fortunate for Cuellar to have won over such committed backers so late in the game Especially after an FBI raid of his home and campaign office in January tied to an ongoing investigation into Azerbaijan Influenced peddling led to a drop in the polls many of the rest of the replies to his posts Coming from accounts that have been active much longer and have more diverse interests than just Cuellar our criticisms of his anti Abortion stance references to the federal investigation or calls of support for Cisneros But oddly enough none of the new accounts seem to actually follow their hero. So that is very very interesting Very interesting now, there's one more account that I want to kind of highlight here This wasn't addressed in the article But this was an account that I happened to stumble across as I was doing research for this video So this account here the user fuckbuckers six nine has a Henry quay are avatar with heart emojis and their bio reads I happen to be a newly enthusiastic fan of representative Henry quay are as of February now as you can see like the other posts All of their activity are replies to Henry quay are they say thank you for all you do boy Really hope you don't go to prison. So very enthusiastically supporting him and then the first Response here, which is the first post made on this account reads. Thank much. Who needs they Henry C8? Def me so this fuckbuckers six nine account is very interesting to me And I don't know why Henry quay are would deploy bots like this really Henry fuckbuckers six nine You're a member of Congress and you have these fake accounts Asking you to eat their Henry C or asking who needs they Henry C8 to be to be clear So I have no idea where this account came from and it you know He should really come out and denounce this and say he doesn't stand for this this Henry C like that's so inappropriate So he needs to denounce this. I mean bought accounts once you start deploying them It's it's kind of a you know you open the floodgates and any Accounts can purport support for someone like Henry quay are so he really shouldn't do things like this and other politicians Shouldn't do things like this as well because you might see a fuckbuckers six nine pop up and all of a sudden support you and Doesn't seem like that's somebody who you would want to have the support of as a politician So yeah, it's very clearly a bot account, but this is his bot account. I'm assuming I don't know where this account came from I have nothing to do with it, but this is clearly something that he created So I mean he should disavow all of these bot accounts and stop trying to do online astroturf because it's just embarrassing But that's all I have to say about this He was caught and it seems like he wanted to get caught because you know with this many bot accounts all Specifically dedicated to replying to you It's just a matter of time before you know Internet sleuths are gonna uncover that this is a huge astroturf campaign to create Enthusiasm where it doesn't exist and it's just it's pathetic and I hope it doesn't work for him I don't think this is gonna work for him because bots aren't going to translate into votes But I hope that in the end he loses and Jessica Cisneros prevails victorious But we'll ain't see if you live in Texas if you live in this district Support Jessica Cisneros vote for Jessica Cisneros because guess what she actually doesn't need bots because the enthusiasm for her campaign is Actually real something that a corporate corrupt Democrat like Henry Cuellar would never be able to get organically So yeah support Jessica Cisneros. I will be rooting for her