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Virgin Monk Boy's avatar

Mmm yes, the Texas Democratic Party: always one consultant away from greatness and one slogan away from irrelevance. But this? This was the sermon they should have preached at every Buc-ee’s, PTA meeting, and rodeo funnel cake stand.

Zohran didn’t win hearts by whispering policy through a kale smoothie. He screamed it through a bullhorn of stress relief—in multiple languages—like a multilingual prophet with rent receipts.

Texas doesn’t need to “go left.” Texas needs to go real. As in: “The groceries cost more than my dignity” real.

So let the centrists clutch their pearls and the PACs polish their PowerPoints. The rest of us? We’re busy organizing, feeding kids, and knocking on doors like our utility bill depends on it—because it does.

Democrats already have the better platform. Time to stop pretending we need permission to use it.

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Mubashir Saleem's avatar

Oh Michelle i am smiling when i am reading this. As one of the many 50,000 volunteers who worked on the Zohran Campaign and an individual who comes from NYC DSA the chapter that birthed the rise of AOC and Mamdani. This is exactly what we need and why we get frustrated when we have been vilified by the establishment for decades. This is how democrats can win and they have to embrace it otherwise they will not win future elections. We are democratic socialists but the reason why we are is because at the end of the day we want to see our families, loved ones, and any other American to be able to afford, eat, start a family, and more important enjoy life and not struggle. There is a reason why we have the phrase "Solidarity, Comrade", In times like these, everyone needs each other to lean on to survive in this age of suffering, fascism, and cruelty that seeks to just inflict pain and destruction onto our families.

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