Note: Tarrant County is Fort Worth; Collin County is just north of Dallas.
Now lets hope they can translate these good results into gains in the legislature and state-wide races.
Huge, huge shout out to the Tarrant County Young Democrats. They didn’t just show up, they organized, knocked on doors, made calls, and fought for every single school board seat they were targeting. And guess what? They swept them all. That’s the kind of ground game that wins elections. That’s the kind of energy we need to keep building.
I’ve been yelling for years that’s what low-level Democrats need to do. Ship some of them to every state.
And they’ve been doing it since forever. They are just more energized now and MAGA is feeling the pain so are less energized. Get out the vote efforts is politics-101. Second semester is suppressing the other side’s voters.
It is looking like the mid-terms will not go well for republicans. I can hardly wait!
Given that Texas is sometimes considered electorally a bellwether state, yeah, I could be looking forward to the mid-terms as well.
Doing it and doing it in large numbers, concentrating the efforts properly, and finding the right elections are very different things. The right has been outdoing the left in local elections for decades because the left keeps putting most of its time and money into state and national races. Wrong. Start with school boards and councils and let the public see the difference that makes with issues they care most about.
I’m hoping for a 435 seats D/0 seats R outcome. Because it is a sin to cast a vote for a Republican to assume elected office. And everybody knows it.
I see. And how often do people commit sins?
Far too often, I’m afraid. I can only forbid the election of Republicans; I can’t physically prevent it.
Yet.
I’m not 100% convinced this isn’t a bit of a rosy article.
From what I can tell, a lot of people are really fed up with the MAGA types’ attempts to get on school boards and do shady stuff like ban textbooks, mandate certain things to be taught, etc… The MAGA school board types have consistently looked wild-eyed and unhinged and that doesn’t go over well when people are considering who’s going to run their kids’ school districts.
But that doesn’t translate into wanting progressive or even Democrat candidates in statewide or national elections.
Okay, and I’d like the Texas Rangers to go 162-0 every season.
I’m not quite sure what you’re getting at.
Really? I thought I was rather explicit about the fact that any other outcome would involve an unacceptable amount of sinning.