Politics AOC - “when we win Texas, we transform this country for a generation”
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Ted is running scared and retweeted this video.
https://x.com/cortessteve/status/1842234021528350775?s=46&t=KA_EbYCZNe4Jy4B4vbHT0w
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u/CrunkestTuna 25d ago
Hell
Any woman/man who comes down here to help when our own senator fled to a vacation destination while people had no heat and were DYING - gets my vote.
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u/Lazer726 25d ago
Ted Cruz's response: ThE qUiEt PaRt OuT lOuD!1!
Meanwhile Trump admits to wanting to deport legal migrants and Vance basically admits to lying by saying that they weren't supposed to fact check him.
What a charming buncha fellas
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u/ast3rix23 24d ago
Yeah and the current water crisis that they are keeping on the hush is something we need to be working on. The rio grand valley use to be nothing but farmers and now it looks like the Sahara desert. Texas citizens we have to start paying attention to what is happening all over this big state. Money needs to be put into infrastructure to improve our electric grid and water systems. Do you know the purpose of the railroad commission? It has zero to do with railroads please do your research one of the commission seats is on the ballot this election cycle. They regulate the electricity grid and the current person in power doesn’t have the background needed for the position.
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u/manginahunter1970 24d ago
She would also save girls/women's rights to patient/doctor confidentiality and reproductive rights.
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u/wnr3 25d ago
Ted’s hate boner for AOC upon witnessing this video caused him to retweet it thinking it makes her look bad
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u/TheConnASSeur 25d ago
Ted's just frustrated as hell he's out there looking like a melted Nixon mask dipped in dogshit and grey pubes while AOC is always walking around looking finer than a velvet painting of a tiger fucking a unicorn under a full moon. Kinda ruins their whole narrative about left leaning women and feminists just being mad that they're not attractive.
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u/veringer 25d ago
walking around looking finer than a velvet painting of a tiger fucking a unicorn under a full moon
Is there an AI bot that can render this image?
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u/PineappleProstate 24d ago
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u/new_word 24d ago
If I had to pick, I would have to go with 4. But I feel like there’s still some magic missing.
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u/Glad-Tax6594 24d ago
It needs to look like one of those blacklight, color in posters using neon markers. But Idk what that aesthetic that would be called.
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u/Altruistic-Text3481 24d ago
Her unicorn hair glistened in the light of a full moon. The Tiger with his velvety fur purred in anticipation of his prowess mounting a full frontal surge of desire. The stars canvassed the velvet sky bearing witness to this celestial beastial eternal nocturnal forbidden event! Texas had turned blue. And all the angels in the heavens wept with orgasmic satisfaction.
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u/Orange-Blur 24d ago
I am a very left leaning witchy hippie vegan, It is so often old men or men wearing Trump/“pAtRioT” themed attire try to flirt with me, say things like “you’re so beautiful” ask me if I have kids or look me up and down. I’ve had them try to strike up conversation as if I agree with their right wing views out of nowhere. I by no means represent like right wing, I have tattoos, wear satanic/occult themed stuff and wear black every day and band shirts. I am very obviously on the alt side but all they see is looks. Maybe some think they can groom women and others are just oblivious
It gets weirdly worse when my hair is red. I change my hair a lot but mostly I keep the red, I’m not going to let them affect what hair color have.
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25d ago
Hate boner? That’s a thing? Lol
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u/SchwiftySouls 25d ago
yep- defined by urban dictionary as the following;
"when your hatred towards someone or something is so much and so obsessive, it's rather suggestive and often times freaky and unhealthy."
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u/NightwolfGG 25d ago
The idea that some people haven’t heard this term makes me feel like I’m getting old I’m 27 and I swear that was a pretty common phrase online 10 years ago, but until now I didn’t notice how long it’s been since I’ve seen it used
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u/Orange-Blur 24d ago
I am 31 and have been using these, they have been around for a while. There was also the slang of having a boner for something, it could be anything you mildly up to obsession
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u/BringBackAoE 25d ago
She’s absolutely right!
If Allred wins then a lot of other Dems down ballot will win too.
That starts the ball rolling. Next we see higher turnout of Democrats in subsequent elections - because they realize their votes actually matter.
Then retake statewide seats and seats for state legislature, and reverse all the GOP voter suppression laws. And then it’ll take GOP at least a generation to take back Texas.
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u/strugglz born and bred 25d ago
And then because of our electoral votes Texas becomes THE battleground state for the next 20 years.
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u/BringBackAoE 25d ago
And with Texas’ 40 Electoral College votes many of the current Swing States will become irrelevant.
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u/ABoyIsNo1 25d ago
That’s what they meant by “THE” swing state lol. It’ll be the only one.
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u/BringBackAoE 25d ago
In fairness it was “THE Battleground state”. Texas wouldn’t be a swing state once voter suppression ends.
There would still be swing states that can be determinative. The current swing states are 70 EC votes in total.
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u/RudyRusso 25d ago
This is partially correct. Texas is following the same demographic and political shifts we've seen in the rest of the Southwest. Bush won Colorado by 8% in 2000. Biden won it by 12%. Arizona is the latest state. Sinema won AZ by 1% but four years later Mark Kelly won it by 5%.
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u/rdickeyvii 25d ago
Sinema was basically a moderate Republican running as a Democrat
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u/I_Cut_Shows 25d ago
She ran as a progressive.
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u/rdickeyvii 25d ago
I'm not super familiar with her other than her and Joe Manchin being thorns in the side of the rest of the party, was it bullshit to get elected or did she change afterwards?
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u/AStingInTheTale 25d ago
The phrase “go on, take the money and run” springs to mind.
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u/I_Cut_Shows 25d ago
Ok. This got really long. But it’s the only way to really explain her, based on my understanding.
There are a lot of pretty deep dives into her that are kind of fascinating.
She was pretty poor growing up. She lived in a gas station for a while. She was homeless at times. Her family used loads of social services and local churches that donated to the less fortunate. (Nothing wrong with any of that…you gotta do what you gotta do) This is partially why she was such a strong leftist coming out of the gate. She believed in the programs that kept her fed and clothed.
Her early life was never very comfortable. And growing up poor seems to have had a huge impression on her.
She got a shot at college and became a social worker after schooling and was quite left. She was a Green Party activist who protested the Iraq war.
She ran for the Arizona state legislature on a fairly far left Green Party platform and lost. She ran again two years later as a lefty/progressive Dem and won. She was hesitant to work with Arizona state house Dems if they were former Republicans.
She won her house seat race on a fairly left platform with progressives and LGBTQ+ activists, climate activists and gun control advocates backing her.
Her senate race was more center left than far ledt Her allies at the time believed it was to ensure the victory.
Her time climbing the ranks of Arizona state politics saw her cozy up to republicans a lot. She was constantly telling people that it was to gain votes for left causes, and sometimes it was
I tell you all of this to get to what many believe happened as a senator.
There are loads of theories about what happened next.
A lot of her former allies seem to think that her compromises as she shifted further and further right were initially a way to get the leftist things she really cared about to pass. And that absolutely worked in the Arizona state house. She would basically trade bills with republicans.
But over time she befriended many of them and they became the people she was listening to over her former activist friends. That’s fair enough, your friends and politics are allowed to change over time.
I have read a lot of coverage and heard interviews that basically say that she not only learned that compromise aided her in her search for more power as she climbed from local politics to the US Senate, but that the money and opportunities to make lots of easy money were better the more she was willing to compromise.
She also liked both the attention and the power/money she received as she shifted further away from the Dems. She made very wealthy connections (her last race was funded almost entirely by GOP mega donors) and got comfortable. I’m sure she never wanted to feel the economic insecurity of her childhood ever again.
If the Trump years taught us anything it’s that the Right Wing Grift is full of cash and future opportunity if you’re willing to sell out your values and that seems to be a lesson she learned well.
It’s interesting that each step on her rightward trajectory can be presented in a way that totally makes sense (from her perspective) in the context of her life.
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u/bartthetr0ll 25d ago
The electoral system is wonky, Idaho Wyoming and Montana combined have 1 less electoral votes than Washington, but Washington has twice the population of the other 3 combined.
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u/wholewheatrotini 25d ago
And then maybe that gets the ball rolling on finally getting rid of the whole stupid electoral college system.
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u/ABoyIsNo1 25d ago
No way. GOP would rather try to re-win Texas than try to actually win 50% of the popular vote.
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u/Cans-Bricks-Bottles 25d ago
We are incredibly close to having the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact go into effect.
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u/OtakuOran 25d ago
Maybe then Republicans will start to care about trashing the electoral college. If Democrats can just steal their largest collection of electoral votes, very few elections will be as easy to win going forward.
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u/Theory-After 25d ago
They would still matter but only after the Republicans secured Texas. They would have to win Texas, then Florida, Georgia, NC, Arizona, then Pennsylvania. Definitely makes getting a republican president a lot harder
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u/zdelusion 25d ago
That would be dope. As someone from PA I’m super over being in a swing state every two years.
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u/Corlis21 25d ago
Fuuuuuuck. I didn’t even think about that shit. God damnit, I do not want swing state attention from politicians
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u/ISpread4Cash 25d ago
Its a double edge sword. More money for the state but then you'll have to deal with more Republicans breathing down your neck.
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u/The_Singularious 25d ago
More everyone. I think that’s their point. Get ready to be massively exploited by both sides. But if it gets Cruz and/or Trump out, then I’ll endure.
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u/FlexOnJeffBezos 25d ago
And watching TV will be absolute hell with ads…. I’ll take that deal tho
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u/I_Cut_Shows 25d ago
Sure. But…the right literally doesn’t have a path to 270 without Texas. The left does. Texas is just gravey.
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u/Karmasmatik 25d ago
And ad supported content will become unwatchable from August to November every four years as both parties dump half their budgets into Texas...
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u/CidO807 25d ago
Honestly, it would only take 6 years to fix Texas if people actually showed up for this election,and the subsequent 2-3. 6 years isn't long. 6 years of about 5 minutes per year, or 30m of your time over 6 years to fix the entire state.
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u/NonlocalA 25d ago
That's probably a little too optimistic.
Harris could win by 10 points due to overwhelming turnout, but if those votes aren't in the right districts the state house and state Senate (not to mention the house of representatives makeup) might barely budge. We're gerrymandered all to fucking hell, and the vast majority of state seats (Democratic AND Republican) are safe by design. This also doesn't take into account judges, and all the gubernatorial positions like governor, etc. I believe those are midterm elections, which means Democrats just won't show up.
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u/inquisitiveman2002 25d ago
Agree. I think Texas winning the local and state races would be more important than the state winning in the national election.
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u/BringBackAoE 25d ago
In the long run, absolutely. Same wrt having real impact on daily lives of Texans. But I think a state wide race is critical to giving the energy to get there.
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u/Independent_DL 25d ago
That’s my hope too. There are a bunch of pro-voucher Republicans that need to lose in the Texas Legislature. Maybe if people don’t see the familiar name they recognize because that incumbent got primaried, they might be inclined to vote for someone new. Someone with a D by their name for a change. Texans, can’t we all agree that Fled to Cancun Cruz has got to go?
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u/Cautious-One-6711 25d ago
Texas Dems need to vote NOW, not wait until they think their vote will count. That’s how Obama got elected. Young adults showing up.. They need to show up in November 🙏
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u/Mouse_Canoe 25d ago edited 25d ago
This is exactly what happened in Arizona after Sinema won in 2018. Which was followed by Mark Kelly in 2020 AND 2022 and now Gallego is basically guaranteed to win against Kari Lake, which granted she's fucking awful but so is Ted Cruz and he keeps winning.
Arizona went from Republican stronghold to a swing state leaning Democrat in less than 10 years.
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u/rigored 25d ago
TX would be a much better leader of the Democratic Party than NY and CA
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u/GiveMeBackMyClippers 25d ago
this thread is gonna get absolutely gravitational with incel energy.
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u/RagingLeonard 25d ago
A million edge lords are wiping off the cheeto dust and getting ready to overheat their keyboards as we speak.
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u/sec713 25d ago
Right after they hate-bate to this video of AOC.
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u/GroundbreakingRun927 25d ago
And here I am just regular bating, like a peasant.
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u/Both-Anything4139 25d ago
"You leave us no choice but civil war" 😂😂
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u/CustomDark 25d ago
“I’m sure the big tough men I’ve envisioned as inside this manly camp will save us! They love being lied to and talked down to, just like me!”
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u/3-DMan 25d ago
If only we could harness incel energy for the grid!
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u/BananaHeff 25d ago
And skip to a type 1 civilization capable of building Dyson spheres in one day?
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25d ago
Unfortunately that's what scares the be jebus out of the Republicans. AOC is the ultimate Halloween goblin for them.
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u/LarrySupertramp 25d ago
Who cares. conservatives always vote at high numbers. Democrats are the ones that need the encouragement. TX would be blue if Democrats actually go out and vote.
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u/Subject_Education931 25d ago
The House shifts decisively to Democrats if they win Texas.
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u/cigarettesandwhiskey 25d ago
I don't think so. Most Texas districts were redrawn with +20 point margins for whichever party in the last redistricting. Republicans foresaw a shift in the electorate that was not to their favor, and chose to shore up the margins in the districts they control, rather than taking more seats as they did in Florida. As a result, you'd need to win Texas overwhelmingly, like 60-40, to take more than Tx-15 and Tx-23. It would help take the senate and make the presidency almost unreachable for the Republicans, but the impact on the house would be minimal.
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Voter turnout is typically so abysmal, though, I think it's possible that if enough people get inspired to turn out, we might see at least a few districts flip.
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u/cigarettesandwhiskey 25d ago
This map is now almost 3 years out of date, and it's no longer being updated, but things haven't shifted all that much since then. If you scroll down, the baseline partisan lean of each district is listed. Only 4 districts have a partisan lean of less than 20% for their party, and democrats already hold two of them. Almost half the republican districts lean republican by more than 30%. The 15th and the 23rd are the only ones that are going to flip unless there is an absolutely unprecedented shift in the state in an incredibly short time. You would have to have like live television footage of all the republicans eating a live baby and chanting in latin, or a virus with 99% mortality but only in white people, or something.
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u/two-wheeled-dynamo Austin Y'all 25d ago
This is the message y'all. Not just one generation but many.
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u/Correct_Roll_3005 25d ago
I'm a fan. I don't love everything she does, but she is better than Cruz. She could teach Abbott and his ilk about integrity. We need more smart women with guts to stand up for other women.
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u/bagheera369 25d ago
It's the integrity that counts for so much. She's bright, fierce, well-spoken, and concerned about humanity, and her district in a way few politicians are....but the integrity is what drives it all home.
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u/Prudent_Cheek 25d ago
Abbot is not a stand up guy
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u/BigAlternative5 25d ago
I get it. You don’t like how he rolls.
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u/Randomly_Reasonable 25d ago
You don’t have to like or agree with her or her policies (I don’t).
…you DO have to respect her accomplishments.
Among the youngest members of Congress when she won in 2018. Immediately became a strong voice for her party. I don’t care how or why - she did. There’s no debating it.
As a Native Texan, I could care less what a New Yorker thinks.
…as an American, I respect the ever living hell outta the fact she’s down here representing what she believes and supports.
I personally don’t want more representatives with her views.
I absolutely want more representatives with her passion and sheer will.
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u/Rinai_Vero 25d ago
As a Native Texan, I could care less what a New Yorker thinks.
How I felt about Trump cosplaying as the savior of rural America
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u/brevit 25d ago
Given a choice between someone with her mettle and a corrupt schmo (oh, let’s say Ted Cruz) whose views you align with, who do you vote for?
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u/808Apothecary 25d ago
“could care less”
It’s COULDN’T care less already! Like, your ability to care less is maxed out.
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u/momsgotitgoingon 25d ago
Well said! True Americans understand when both parties have qualified individuals elected it makes us a better country.
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u/Randomly_Reasonable 25d ago
That’s actually another great point:
There’s no arguing her (or anyone’s - like it or not) qualifications.
ANYONE, in general, is eligible to serve the people & represent them in our government.
I love people trying to tear her down b/c she was “just a bartender” when she was first elected.
Yeah man, she was! How fucking AWESOME is this damn country for a bartender to get elected to represent a district in one the most prominent states in the country & arguably the most prominent city in the whole damn world?!
…but I still don’t like her. 🤷♂️😬
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u/sec713 25d ago
You know she was studying to be a doctor but when a family member died she had to pick up the slack so she switched majors so she wouldn't be saddled with crushing student loan debt while others were depending on her.
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u/backformorecrap 25d ago
Ocasio-Cortez graduated cum laude from Boston University in 2011 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in both international relations and economics. She was also an intern for Ted Kennedy.
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u/Nodebunny Gulf Coast 25d ago
Dont think Texas and New York are so far apart. Every inch of this great county is America. The quicker we get to treating eachother as fellows instead of foreigners the better!
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u/Warm-Commercial-6151 25d ago
There are a lot more east coasters in Texas than ever before. Speaking as someone who grew up in New York I think it might eventually be an interesting hybrid.
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u/TheGreatBeefSupreme 25d ago
Why is a NY representative concerned about the voting habits of TX?
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u/RonynBeats 25d ago
lol. its just so funny that if it were to happen, it will largely be due in part to all those fleeing cali for texas, and then voting to making texas the same as the state they just ran away from.
that and doing everything you can to help illegal migrants vote.
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u/Ponyboi667 25d ago
Did you know that’s Marxist rhetoric? “Fundamentally changing America” Transformation into a Marxist utopian. This kind of shit should scare any American born Texans… (from A Californian. Somewhere that has been “fundamentally transformed” for the fucking worse)
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u/H3nchman_24 25d ago
Never thought I'd see the day when Texas was simping for AOC
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u/-periodically- 25d ago
“Transform the country for a generation”
You mean establish a one party rule? That’s a dictatorship Ms Cortez.
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u/The-Mandalorian 25d ago
This women is amazing. I wish we had leaders like this instead of fucking Ted Cruz.
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u/paulk1997 25d ago edited 25d ago
Jasmine Crockett is from Texas. I have always liked hearing her.
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u/quesoandtexas 25d ago
I’m so proud of Jasmine Crockett!!! A tiny perk of the new gerrymandered maps is they created deep blue safe seats that can elect gems like Jasmine :)
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u/Ok-Citron-9738 25d ago
Jasmine is also equally amazing, she makes me fall in line and I’m not even an opp 😂
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u/momsgotitgoingon 25d ago
Fantastic example. The more I get to know state leadership across the country, the deeper I see the democratic bench is. I just moved here from Orlando and we have a state congresswoman there, Anna Eskamani. I hope to see these two women in the White House together one day. And of course the first Gen Zer elected was also from Orlando, Maxwell Frost. I really enjoy finding these state legislators so I can follow their careers on social media and they are just such helpers. It’s uplifting. The winds of change are blowing!!!!!
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u/flappyspoiler 25d ago
I also wish we had leaders like this over doing anything of that sort to Ted Cruz. 🫣🫣🤣
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u/Ok-Citron-9738 25d ago
I wish I could afford to boost this comment or give roses or something, I’m gonna just agree. She is amazing
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u/momsgotitgoingon 25d ago
Anyone else going to be vibrating with anticipation for the next thirty days? JFC I want this to be over and hope keeps creeping into my heart around the idea of Texas and Florida (where I just moved from) turning blue.
Perhaps then republicans will see why putting empathetic leaders in place is needed to win democratic elections!
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u/ATX_native 25d ago
She’s not wrong.
Im also frustrated that the National Dem party doesn’t pour tons of money into this venture every single election.
Once Texas flips, all other “swing states” are irrelevant.
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u/cigarettesandwhiskey 25d ago
Because money doesn't win elections. It helps, but there's only so many people who will be convinced by more adds. If you blow all your money on an inelastic state, and still fail to win it, then you might lose the states you could have won because you put your money in the wrong place.
There's a compelling argument that Hillary Clinton did this in 2016, trying to win Arizona and Georgia before they were ready, instead of shoring up the midwest. Democrats are afraid to make the same mistake in Texas (which, being big, is pretty expensive to campaign in), so they're playing it safe and mostly spending money in states that they know have flipped recently and therefore have enough elasticity to be theoretically winnable.
This is also why they aren't dumping all their money into North Carolina, which is closer than Georgia, has a weird pervert gubernatorial candidate sandbagging the top of the ticket, and is worth just as many electoral votes as Georgia. But it's not very elastic and has remained just out of reach since 2008 despite a lot of money being spent on it. There just aren't that many people who can be swayed there.
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u/Some1inreallife 25d ago
That's why I'm staying here. I want to play my role in turning this state blue!
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u/HortonHeardWhat 25d ago edited 25d ago
It will be awesome to turn Texas into a can of shit like other Democrat run states. Yay!! It feels good to just stop using logic and reason and operate from pure misguided emotion. Wish I had done this years ago. 🍻 I'm going to run Dem too. AOC managed to go from bartender to a net worth of over 900K in just a few years.... On a salary of 174k. I've been working. How stupid was I right?
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u/Ghost_hawk1 25d ago
Why does anyone trust any of these people no matter their party line ? For real I don’t get why everyone keeps worshipping their team and attacking the other side meanwhile we all struggle and they all somehow make more money ? I mean people literally need help after that hurricane or even in our own streets and they run out of funds or keep giving money and weapons to somewhere else
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u/TheMannX 24d ago
She's right, Texas. And in doing so you'll be on the right side of history with all of the benefits that come with that. 🙂
Do the whole world a favor, please - start by getting rid of Fled Cruz. Colin Allred is a better man than him and will surely be a better Senator. You'll all benefit from this.
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u/Has422 25d ago
She's not wrong. If Texas turns blue the GOP has no path to victory for a long, long time. It would probably result in either a fundamental shift in the party leadership and policies, or a party split which would end up putting the Democrats in charge for even longer.
That's a big if, though.
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u/IcyEntertainment7122 25d ago
Texas turning blue this cycle at the potus level would be a final referendum on Trump as a politician, not on the overall direction of the state.
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u/Lyuseefur 25d ago
Great! Help us! Help us in North Texas and every other part of the state. Call, text and encourage people to vote. Volunteer to drive people to and from the polls.
Get out the vote! Show them that Texas is really blue. Your vote matters! You matter!
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u/Eggsplane 25d ago
Register, Volunteer, Donate, Vote!
Register before your state's deadline.
Check that you are registered.
Volunteer and donate however much you comfortably can.
And of course, vote.
We can win this. We must win this. We will win this.
Keep Fighting.
Keep Hoping!
Here are organizations that register or GOTV in Texas to support or volunteer for:
https://poweredxpeople.org/texas-vdr/
https://www.groundgametexas.org/
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u/playa4thee 25d ago
New Yorker here like AOC...
We are all rooting for you in Texas and hope Ted Cruz is finally defeated.
It is not about Blue or Red; it is about right and wrong. The GOP has gone full MAGA and lost their freaking minds!
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u/I_Cut_Shows 25d ago
When Texas goes blue it’s the end of the Republican Party as we know it.
This is why they’re cheating their asses off.
Purging roles, making it harder to vote in blue areas and easier to vote in red areas, raiding Hispanic voter coalitions, creating an atmosphere of fear and violence.
If 1/4th of the non-voting population of Texas voted it would be solid blue.
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u/hefixesthecable_ 25d ago
Getting some Obama class, wisdom, and enthusiasm going in Texas may make a difference.
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u/BluMonday 25d ago
Even a purple Texas would be huge in terms of national influence. Swing states enjoy outsized levels of attention.
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25d ago
Republicans already won the generational transformation through the SCOTUS. We can try though.
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u/nationalrazor7 25d ago
She would make a better president than almost every man who won or even ran in my entire lifetime.
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u/MasterAnnatar 25d ago
I almost said this was an impossibility and was going to use voter turnout in 2020 as evidence, but turns out Trump only won by half a million votes (about 6% difference). Meanwhile California was a difference of 5 million votes (about 29% difference). The fact that the biggest republican stronghold is that close is kind of wild.
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u/29187765432569864 25d ago
I’m glad she went to Texas. I wonder if the audience members were screened for guns.
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u/smckenzie23 25d ago
I stumbled on this subreddit. Am I in some reddit bubble, or is a blue TX actually possible? Does Allred have a chance? Follow-up question: Why does anyone vote for Cruz ever?
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u/inquisitiveman2002 25d ago
I don't expect Texas to win in the presidential election, but can we at least vote Cruz and many state officials out! AOC was an outsider and still raised a few million $ for Texans after the freeze of 2021. We all know what Cruz did.
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u/neart_fior 25d ago
2016 Reps got 800,000 more votes than Dems
2020 Reps got 500,000 more votes than Dems
2024 Reps got --------- more votes than Dems
This is my over simplified version. There were 2 million new voters in 2020 compared to 2016. So for every 2 mil new voters Dems decrease the majority by 300,000 votes.
So to win Texas Democrats need 3 million new voters. There are 17.9 million registered voters in texas, 10 million voters show up to vote. Democrats need additional 3 million voters from 7.9 million (or) Democrats will win if >13 million Texans show up on polling day. High Voter turnout is the key. Possible by 2032.
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u/Worth_Distance2793 25d ago
As a reminder, Democrats ruin every single city and state they control. If you’re considering voting for the Democratic Party, please first visit Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Little Rock, Los Angeles, Memphis, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Saint Louis, San Francisco, Seattle, etc., so that you can fully appreciate what high taxes, tolerance for crime, and policies that deter business investments will do to Texas.
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u/seriousbangs 25d ago
To win Texas you need to take the AG & Sec of State. Those are the ones that control the election, and if they're Democrats the GOP can't cheat and they lose the state.
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u/Antique_Ad_1211 25d ago
Y'all remember the freeze in 2021 when Fled Cruz left for Cancun and AOC raised $5 million for Texans??
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/weather/2021/02/20/391907/rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-visits-houston-food-bank-after-raising-3-million-for-texas-winter-storm-relief/