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Without being prompted, @CoryBooker breaks into Spanish for a few sentences.
Booker: “I support Medicare for all, I support the Green New Deal.”
Booker says both Texas and Iowa are already blue, and says all it needs is organizing.
Booker recounts Trump’s inauguration, says he remembers curling up in bed and “slipping into the seduction of despair.”
Castro says he can feel traction in places like Iowa. The polling says otherwise. 
Castro says Trump’s threat to close the border with Mexico is a ploy to win another narrow election victory.
Want more candidates? Here’s @amyklobuchar, wearing what she calls Planned Parenthood pink.
Klobuchar calls Trump “Mr umbrella man”, a reference it would appear to Trump not being able to get his umbrella into Air Force One.
Like Castro before her, @amyklobuchar also promises to get back into the Paris climate deal “on day one.”
Red meat for this crowd: Klobuchar, like Castro and Booker before her, says she wants to raise the minimum wage to $15 / hour.
Klobuchar says she wants to get DC statehood within her first 100 days as President.
O’Rourke is here, and thanks the DJ for giving him The Clash entrance music.
O’Rourke uses the floods in Houston from Hurricane Harvey as an example of how Texas knows about climate change.
O’Rourke says that as President he would make his cabinet secretaries hold town hall meetings every month.
“To answer your question: yes, let’s abolish the Electoral College”, says O’Rourke. “This is one of the bad compromises we did at day one.”
