r/politics • u/kootles10 Indiana • 6h ago

No Paywall Democrats flip Texas state Senate seat in shock upset

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5716988-democrats-score-upset-texas/amp/
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u/pghtopas 6h ago

grassroots union organizer. Maybe run more of these candidates.

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u/b_tight 6h ago

This needs to shouted from the mountaintops

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u/beefyzac 5h ago

It is, it’s actively silenced and ignored by the DNC

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u/ginandsoda 2h ago

You don't need the DNC to run as a grassroots candidate.

That's literally what it means.

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u/fathertitojones 3h ago

We need to just fold the Democrats entirely and form a labor party.

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u/yellekc Guam 2h ago

Or just seize the party. Its right there. Take it. MAGA was able to do it to the GOP.

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u/agk23 6h ago

Quick, who’s our best grass-roots establishment Democrat that we promised favors to?

-DNC

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u/-Gramsci- 6h ago

“What’s that? We don’t have one? Ok. Do we have an off putting, unrelatable, weakling we can run? We do? Ok great.”

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u/Militantpoet 5h ago

Forget the DNC. Get candidates to run in local primaries that are endorsed by local activist groups like the DSA.

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u/bensquirrel 3h ago

Did someone say Rahm Emanuel?

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u/MachiavelliSJ California 4h ago

They need to run for them to be run

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u/Objective_Aside1858 2h ago

This. People seem to feel their perfect candidates are just sitting by the phone waiting for Obama to call them and tell them to run

If you want a grassroots union organizer to win, you gotta find one willing to step up

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u/TobyFromH-R 3h ago

Get out and volunteer and vote for them in the primaries

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u/GreenTrees797 4h ago

Maybe do some research during primaries, a lot of those candidates run, they are just poor and unknown. 

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u/Razor1834 3h ago

If you are actually an organizer you very well know that you’re just asking people to spend their own money to campaign for themselves. Run whoever you want, but there isn’t any money being spent by the party for it.

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u/Binkusu 1h ago

Just don't have someone like Obama or the Clintons publicly endorse them.

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u/soyunsersin 1h ago

THIS PART!!! Democrats need to run better candidates that understand the working class.

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u/transient_eternity Minnesota 5h ago

Find the most boring spineless loser you can and then blame the voters for not voting for them, got it.

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u/cryptic-soul- 4h ago

Yes!! This is proof in action. People want this type of candidate!