There is no Talarico without Mamdani. There is no Blue Wave without Mamdani. He single handedly showed Americans what is means to be progressive and that government can actually deliver on those promises.
@PeteButtigieg on last week’s wins: from @RobSandIA going to every county to Scott Colom “working the line at a MAGA rally,” Democrats proved there is “no such thing as a permanently red state.”
“So many great leaders in our party demonstrated that God does not belong to an American political party.”
.@JamesTalarico: In Texas, we go big or we go home, and last week we won big. We ended the longest losing streak in American politics by double digits. We went up against the richest man in the world and we won.
We didn’t just win this seat, we won all the way down the ballot. We swept every statewide office in Texas, flipped the state house and the state Board of Education, and elected 4 new members of the Texas Supreme Court.
It was a win the size of Texas, and now we have a mandate the size of Texas.
.@JamesTalarico: As of yesterday, we’ve elected 55 senators in our country. We are within striking distance of a supermajority, and a supermajority requires a super agenda.
We must deliver immediate, bold relief during this affordability crisis. We must unrig this economic system that only benefits the top 1%, unrig this political system so no billionaire or trillionaire can buy our elections, and ban gerrymandering in every state in the union. We must pass universal healthcare, invest in our teachers and students, overhaul this broken immigration system with a pathway to citizenship, cut the red tape to build millions of new homes, pass an AI dividend, and end these forever wars.
Most importantly, we must heal the deep spiritual corruption at the root of all of these crises. We must bridge the divides between us, and we must repair the ties that bind us.
Quoting St. Francis, Iowa Gov.-elect @RobSandIA told Democrats in Denver today:
“There is nothing that felt better to me as a human being, as a Christian, than to hand the microphone to someone that the whole world is telling me is my enemy.”
Rob Sand: "There is nothing that felt better to me as a human being, as a Christian, than to hand the microphone to someone that the whole world is telling me is my enemy…A reporter asked me one time, 'Does this ever backfire?' The answer to that question is simple. You're missing the point. It can't. There is literally no question that I can be asked, no answer that I could give, no matter how bad, that would speak more loudly than me handing the microphone to someone at my event who says they're a Republican."
abdulrahman listen to me. this is very important. we have to lock in. you need to show up at the whitehouse in that tight black tshirt and call it trumpcare.
Wow. Iowa Governor-elect Rob Sand highlights the importance of Democrats taking questions and speaking like normal people by recounting a story with MAGA internet troll Gary Loeffler.
Despite a staffer advising against it, Sand handed this local Republican the microphone at a town hall… and it worked!
when buttercup died, peeta gave him the funeral i’d never been able to give prim. he buried him in our garden and planted buttercups beside the primroses so they could be together.
when i was still recovering from my burns and couldn't wear anything without experiencing a gut-wrenching pain so peeta went on a mission to find me something comfortable to wear. he eventually found an orange dress and i liked it so much i wore it on our wedding day.
Talarico: On election night, as I was delivering my victory speech, I noticed a woman up front. The lights were bright, so I couldn’t see her face, but I was struck by her attention, how closely she was listening, how much this moment meant to her.
As I finished speaking, I looked down again, and she had made her way to the front of the stage. I bent down to shake her hand, and I realized who she was.
She looked me in the eyes, and she said, “I’m so glad you have my father’s job.”
Lucy Baines Johnson was there to see another public school teacher take her dad’s Senate seat.
Talarico: The American people cannot wait two years for change, so we must work with President Trump. If President Trump wants the same plaques and portraits as LBJ, we can help make that a reality. We should make the final two years of his presidency the most productive of any American presidency