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54 seats and counting.
And I learned how to grill…these burgers and dogs are fully cooked.
Lynux 🌐🔸 retweeted
Some poor Democratic kid just got hooked on politics and will be chasing this feeling until 2056
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When Democrats take power again, we need to take a two-pronged approach to cleaning up our institutions and communicating about it. This will rely on investigations, single-issue bills, and an aggressive social media presence from our strongest Democratic communicators.
First, Democrats need to launch investigations into the insider trading, pay-for-play, and pardon economy that Donald Trump has created. We need answers to some very serious questions. Did Trump ACTUALLY remove tariffs on Vietnam and then get a golf course announcement just weeks later?
But these investigations can't happen in isolation. They need to be paired with single-issue bill after single-issue bill that directly addresses whatever corruption is being uncovered.
For example, if Democrats uncover 28,000 insider trades coming from the oval office, we introduce a bill banning executive branch officials from trading individual stocks. Force Republicans to vote on it. If they vote against it, make them explain why.
Then, it's necessary to have our strongest communicators flooding the zone about the corruption, and what we're doing. Flipping Steve Bannon's strategy back on him.
Imagine if we had Jon Ossoff, AOC, James Talarico, Abdul El-Sayed, and our strongest Democratic communicators making face-to-camera videos every single day explaining exactly what's happening. "Here's the corruption we're investigating. Here's the evidence. Here's how we're going to stop it."
I think this is how you connect the dots in voters' minds between the way they vote and having a responsive government that's actually trying to address corruption and rewire the system.
Then we move to gerrymandering, affordability, paid family leave, and other reforms. Single-issue bill after single-issue bill, forcing Republicans to take public positions on these issues while Democrats communicate directly with the American people.
I know this might sound idealistic, but we already have the tools at our disposal. I see people like Talarico, AOC, and Ossoff pulling insane numbers on social media. There's no reason that same infrastructure can't be used to explain congressional investigations, proposed legislation, and exactly what Democrats are doing with the power voters gave them.
Lynux 🌐🔸 retweeted
Keep it up. You're going to keep losing with this mentality and copouts.
By the way, Texas was a democrat state when it was 90% white and it was a republican state until yesterday....
In 1970, the White population in Texas was 89%.
In 2000, it was 50%.
Now it’s less than 39%.
Demographics is destiny.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
In 1970 the White population included Hispanic people because surveys in Texas didn't ask about Hispanic ethnicity as a separate question from race. In 2000 the White population for just race was 71%. Today White is 74% and "White, not Hispanic" sorted for ethnic origin is 37%. census.gov/quickfacts/TX
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Winning Michigan by seven is just a lot less impressive than winning NC by 20 or Ohio or Kansas (!) by 5 or Iowa and South Carolina by 4 or Texas (!) by 12 and you should not trust people who can’t acknowledge the plain truth about this.
He does look good compared to Flanagan!
Texas GOP was a fucking behemoth. This really was like those bad dystopian novels where the teenagers take down a government with the power of friendship.
Gina Hinojosa tried to recruit someone to run against Greg Abbott in the Texas gubernatorial race. “I couldn’t find a taker, because Abbott had a hundred million dollars,” she said. “Then I just realized, ‘Look, I’ve been fighting this man for years. I can do this.’ ” newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…
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Personal note: Fuck you.
Tonight wasn’t the night our campaign had hoped for.
To everyone who stood alongside us, gave your time, and believed in what we set out to accomplish, thank you. I will never forget your dedication, your friendship, and, above all, your love for the great state of Texas.
As Thomas Jefferson once wrote, “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
My dreams for Texas and America remain undiminished, as does my faith in the indomitable spirit of the people of the Lone Star State.
I’m not going anywhere — because we have work to do.
Onward.
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everyone is doing a pronouns/land acknowledgement bit but actually the fucking awesome thing is that a large part of why this sweep happened is we had a lot of really strong candidates that didn't lean into the woke 1.0 nonsense
10,000 years of bill clinton neoliberal abundance
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A few quick thoughts.
1. The most important issues were Iran and corruption.
The corruption one is less discussed but it is ultimately more important. Corruption was guaranteed to torpedo both the populist coalition Trump built and the nationalist program he ran on.
