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Most of the State Senators who refused this gerrymander got primaried out of their seats. They saved Republicans from the most hilarious dummymander in history.
This is insane! Here is a map of yesterday’s Indiana House results if they were drawn under the attempted Republican gerrymander map from last Fall. Thank you to @Vulst3 for breaking down the data to make this map. The gerrymander could’ve netted us a 9-0 or 8-1 map potentially!
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Hasan Piker has flown all over the country collabing with 48 progressive candidates
21 won their primaries, 7 unseated incumbents and 8 won open seats
I proudly worked with him in producing many of these candidates' interviews, so I made a site to document it
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Decision Desk HQ projects Nithya Raman wins the CA Los Angeles Mayor Nonpartisan General Election
#DecisionMade: 7:49 PM EST
Follow live results here: votes.decisiondeskhq.com/rac…
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Thank you @Justinjpearson for running a historic race in #TN09 on the frontlines of our civil rights movement against the billionaires & white supremacists.
They rigged the maps for him to lose by 21 points. He came within 1%.
A 20-pt swing means the South has something to say.
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This is the key point from Mamdani.
Yeah, sure, obsess over swings and under and over performance all day long if that’s your thing.
But once Dems have won, narrowly or not, what do those Dems do with actual power? Not just to improve people’s lives but also to *stay* in power?
Zohran Mamdani: “It’s not enough for us as Democrats to win power. We have to use that power to deliver change that Americans can feel in their wallets. When you look at these campaigns, if we want to speak about James Talarico, he campaigned on a vision for universal childcare. If you want to talk about Keisha Lance Bottoms, she campaigned on a vision of cutting red tape to build housing. If you want to talk about Jocelyn Benson, she campaigned on a moratorium for data centers. What I’m excited to see now is a recognition that the work is only just starting and this has to be delivered for working people across the country”
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Zohran Mamdani: “It’s not enough for us as Democrats to win power. We have to use that power to deliver change that Americans can feel in their wallets. When you look at these campaigns, if we want to speak about James Talarico, he campaigned on a vision for universal childcare. If you want to talk about Keisha Lance Bottoms, she campaigned on a vision of cutting red tape to build housing. If you want to talk about Jocelyn Benson, she campaigned on a moratorium for data centers. What I’m excited to see now is a recognition that the work is only just starting and this has to be delivered for working people across the country”
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Republicans hoped to gain 14 seats across OH, NC, FL, TX, AL and TN by making them more Republican, most into Trump+10 or redder districts. Instead, they didn't gain in any of these states and LOST TEN seats across them as some gerrymanders were neutralized and others collapsed.
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Gina Hinojosa met with Beto O’Rourke before running. "Not one person can win Texas," he told her. "It has to be two." She and Talarico ran as a ticket, each appealing to different areas and demographics. Together, they changed what’s possible in Texas. theatlantic.com/politics/202…
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Ohio Democrats won 5 out of 6 statewide offices (everything except Auditor), both supreme court seats and broke the GOP supermajority in the state legislature
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James Talarico on the filibuster
“I believe that the majority has a right to govern in this country. And the filibuster, which is not in the Constitution, is a Jim Crow relic.”
“It is leading to gridlock in our nation’s capital.”
#TexasSenate
NBC News: Senator-elect James Talarico says he would vote to abolish the filibuster
"I believe that the majority has the right to govern in this country."
Link to article: nbcnews.com/video/shorts/tal…
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If you’re a new Democratic US Representative or Senator you have an immediate job:
Get your constituent services up and running. There are a ton of you in deep red territory and that’s the only way to survive 2028. You entrench yourself as deep into your community as possible
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Some poor Democratic kid just got hooked on politics and will be chasing this feeling until 2056
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Not yet callable, but Mississippians are well on their way to electing their first Black U.S.Senator since Reconstruction.
(And they clearly do not want to pick another protein).
Per the Mississippi Free Press, Democrat Scott Colom leads incumbent Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith by 1,138 votes, up from 65, with 96% counted. Votes remain in Democratic-leaning Hinds County and thousands of affidavit ballots.
>95% Reported
🔵 Scott Colom – 464,926 (49.0%)
🔴 Cindy Hyde-Smith – 463,788 (48.9%)
Results per AP
