29-year-old Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has become the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. She was elected to represent New York’s 14th Congressional District by a landslide Tuesday, defeating Republican candidate Anthony Pappas with 78 percent of the vote. She spoke with us at her victory party:
I do believe that our president has abdicated his responsibility as a leader of all people in the United States. He has very clearly drawn lines into which Americans he champions and which Americans he doesn’t. And that is why I feel we have a very important duty to not only fight against the spread of anti-Semitism, racism, xenophobia, but that we need to affirmatively champion the causes of these communities and our neighbors, because this is a—this is a very dangerous time in our democracy, and this is a very dangerous administration that we cannot take for granted. And we need to make sure that we are shoring up support of these communities in very tangible ways.
I don’t agree with Ron Paul on everything, however i believe he is the best candidate running to be the president and everyone is entitled to have their own opinion on who they think is the best candidate, but one thing i can not stand is injustice and cheating. Its time for people to wake up and rise and say no to their oppressors.
“On November 3, 1948, the Chicago Tribune jumps the gun and mistakenly declares New York Governor Thomas Dewey the winner of his presidential race with incumbent Harry S. Truman in a front-page headline: “Dewey Defeats Truman.”
Many of America’s major newspapers had predicted a Dewey victory early on in the campaign. A New York Times article editorialized that “if Truman is nominated, he will be forced to wage the loneliest campaign in recent history.” Perhaps not surprisingly then, Truman chose not to use the press as a vehicle for getting his message across. Instead, in July 1948, he embarked on an ambitious 22,000-mile “whistle stop” railroad and automobile campaign tour.
At every destination, Truman asked crowds to help him keep his job as president. His eventual success in the election of 1948 has been largely attributed to this direct interaction with the public and his appeal to the common voters as the political “underdog.” At the end of one of his campaign speeches, voices in the crowd could be heard yelling “Give ’em Hell, Harry!” It didn’t take long for the phrase to catch on and become Truman’s unofficial campaign slogan.
In a now famous photograph snapped in the early morning hours after the election, a beaming and bemused Truman is shown holding aloft the Chicago Tribune issue that had wrongly predicted his political downfall. Truman defeated Dewey by 114 electoral votes.”
This week in History: October 31, 1926 - Harry Houdini dies November 1, 1800 - John Adams moves into White House November 2, 1947 - Howard Hughes’s “Spruce Goose” flies November 3, 1903 - Panama declares independence from Columbia November 4, 1922 - Entrance to King Tut’s tomb discovered November 5, 1940 - FDR re-elected for third term November 6, 1860 - Abraham Lincoln elected president
the fact that biden cant landslide an impeached president responsible for a massive lethal disease outbreak shows how fucking pathetic he really is
Biden has over 70 million votes, which is the most of any Presidential candidate in history. He’s leading Trump by 4 million votes.
He came very close to flipping Texas, Georgia, and North Carolina.
The take is that 1) the electoral college is fucked up and 2) white supremacy and hate are extremely strong motivators for this country’s right wing, not “Biden is pathetic,” you fucking dimwit
Also this was in the face of massive voter suppression
And there’s a certain percentage of the voting population who are just … kind of terrible people?
The ones who like Trump because he hurts people they think he should be hurting. The ones who want to overturn things like marriage equality. They were never going to vote for Biden - or any Democratic candidate.
I saw this thread earlier from Ursula Vernon that helps put a lot of this in perspective: (ID and transcription below)
[ID: a series of tweets by twitter handle @ursulav, username Kingfisher & Wombat, who has a cute little hand-drawn wombat as their user ID pic.
“Basically, though, it seems like people expected a landslide denunciation of authoritarianism. And I feel like that was never actually on the table? Of course it would have been nice! Sure! No question! But that’s never how it seems to work?”
“I’m not enough of a historian to have any go-to but Hitler, sorry, but I seem to remember that he was quite popular and then he lost the war and a few years later nobody in Germany had ever been a Nazi and that was all other people in some other town.”
“We all wanted the big repudiation without the war. I get it! But I think we did something more impressive, in its way. We saw it coming before we got that far.“
“More Americans than have ever voted in the history of America saw down the road and went “Oh HELL no!” Before we had to have the big collapse where suddenly nobody had ever supported the despot, ha ha, no, not us, that was some other town, nobody here.”
“So yeah, it would have been more emotionally satisfying if all the Trump supporters had a Come to Jesus moment and threw down their MAGA has. But you only get that if the despot runs unchecked long enough to destroy…well, everything.”
“If there’s a really unsafe road and you block it off, a lot of people aren’t going to be grateful. They’re going to yell that it’s safe and anyway, they’re a good driver. Somebody has to die on the road—maybe multiple people—before they’ll admit it’s dangerous. Some never will.”
“But the sooner you close the road, the more lives you save. And that’s worth it.”
End ID.]
I know things are still unsure, right now, but I think this is worth taking heart from.
It should have been an easy re-election to Parliament. A well-known and well-respected gay male who had easily won in the previous election was facing a very mild, dull candidate for his seat. On the day of the televised debate, he was confident- until it was just the two of them on stage with only their microphones… His opponent suddenly became loud, witty, brash, and now had an uncanny ability to humiliate with his polished and aggressive words… it was a setup! But no matter how hard he tried to recover, he kept getting pounded on every argument- soundly defeated on each issue… Then during the final statements, he heard his opponent strike at the issue he had long thought was not an issue- or even one of his strong points: his sexuality… His opponent started referring to him as “flaming” and a “queen” - which left the studio audience laughing so hard. It was uncontrollable laughter- only dying down as his opponent lobbed even more insults at him- now boldly using the words “faggot” and “pervert”- and ending with a high-pitched “homooooo-sesh-ual”! As the laughter continued, he looked down at his pants, and realized he was now fully erect, and might be seen- and maybe that was causing additional laughter! But rather than risk his erection becoming fully apparent in his pants, he just ran off the stage- to even more jeers from his former constituents… He ignored his staff and got in his car - racing home, and running in the house, and closing the door behind him… He couldn’t believe what had just happened- humiliated on television, called names, laughed at… His political career was over that night- and to top it all off, he looked at himself in the hallway mirror. And what did he see? He was standing there without pants- for some reason, he had taken them off in the car… And he was erect… And so, to appropriately finish the most humiliating night of his life, he thought of his opponent and how he had thoroughly been conquered. He then grabbed his penis and furiously masturbated like he had never before… He started to cry- and then ejaculated… It was over. It was all over now.
TheUnited States presidential election of 2000 was the 54th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 7, 2000. The contest was mainly between Republican candidate George W. Bush and Democratic candidate Al Gore.
The final outcome was one of the closest presidential elections in the nation’s history. The result of the election hinged on Florida, where the margin of victory triggered a mandatory recount. Ultimately, the United States Supreme Court’s 5–4 decision in Bush v. Gore, announced on December 12, 2000, ended the recounts, effectively awarding Florida’s votes to Bush and granting him the victory.
As some have pointed out in the reblogs, Colorado, Connecticut, Maine, Minnesota and Wyoming have election day (aka same-day) registration. Also the online vs mail registration deadlines may be different. Here are details by state
New from Liveright and the author of Rat F**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn’t Count,Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Back to Save Democracy, by David Daley.
These are damn difficult times for all of us but please don’t be a criminal, don’t give us ignorance. Educate yourself on everything that’s happening and advocate for human rights.
YOU ARE NOT SOLELY THE REGION WHERE YOU LIVE. YOU ARE ONE OF US. YOU ARE A CITIZEN OF THE WORLD.
Hopefully, you got registered to vote, because if you live in Texas, early voting starts tomorrow, since today is a federal holiday. And early voting will end on March 2nd (Texas Independence Day!). Primary Election Day is March 6th (The Fall of the Alamo).
If you want to know what districts you’re in, you can search by address here, and if you’re wondering who’s running in your area, you can search here by party primary and county.
Texas has an open primary system, so you can vote in either party’s primary. Depending on where you live and your preferences, you may want to choose carefully, because most of these elections will be decided in the primaries, not the general election.
This year, Texans will be voting for several statewide offices, including Governor, Lt. Governor, Ag Commissioner, Land Commissioner, and judges, as well as state senators and representatives. The Texas League of Women Voters has an online voter guide, but not all candidates respond to their questionnaire, so you may want to also check candidate websites, social media, etc. for information on their positions.
These elections are important, so remembers to get out there and vote.
Since 1860, there have been two dominant parties in the United States: the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. In the South, one party rule was the state of affairs for about 100 years. However, while there was one party domination, third parties, such as the Populist Party and the Progressive Party, would arise to challenge the status quo. The Socialist Party was one of those parties arising in Texas.
The first Texas socialist party was formed in 1898 in Fannin County, benefitting from the Greenbackers, Farmers’ Alliance, and Populist who had come before and whose members began to join this nascent party (Wilkison, p. 174). The first statewide socialist candidate appeared on the ballot in 1900. The initial candidates did not fare well; however, by 1904, the socialist candidate received 2,847 votes (1.02 percent). From 1904 to 1910, the socialist vote total increased by 309%.
The Socialist Party reached its zenith in 1912, increasing its vote total by 117 percent from 1910 and outperforming the Republican Party - receiving 25,270 votes statewide (8.4 percent). Despite a sleight decline in 1914, the party again outperformed the Republicans, and actually saw increases in its percentages in some counties (receiving over 30 percent in 7 counties in 1914 compared to 0 in 1912).
After 1914, the party began a precipitous decline. By 1916, the Socialist Party’s vote total dropped by 42 percent to 14,580 (4 percent) then dropped by 89 percent in 1918 to 1,660 (0.94 percent).
The Socialist Party had grown in response to rural Texans rejection of the changing economy, and their decline began when Democratic politicians, like Jim Ferguson, appealed to the rural poor with policies such as rent control. The Socialist anti-war position also made them vulnerable, and they were victims of government repression (Wilkison, pp. 201-205).
Sources and Related Reading:
Yeomen Sharecroppers and Socialists by Kyle G. Wilkison
The Texas Almanac’s Political History of Texas by Mike Kingston, Sam Attlesey & Mary G. Crawford
“Governor Andrew Cuomo gave a holiday present to voting rights advocates on Tuesday signing the state’s first automatic voter registration (AVR) bill into law. Now eligible voters will automatically be registered when they interact with multiple state and city agencies that already collect the information required by the State Board of Elections.
“New York now joins 18 other states plus the District of Columbia with a policy that makes AVR the default option, requiring people who are eligible to vote to opt out if they do not want to register, instead of opting in.”
“Myrna Melgar is a lot of things. Elected in November to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, she’s a first-time office holder; the first Latina elected to the board; an immigrant from El Salvador; a descendant of Jewish scholars; a mother; the child of an engineer and a communist militant; and a part of the local Jewish community.”
“Melgar said she is the first ever Latina to be elected to the Board of Supervisors without being appointed first, as well as the first woman elected to represent District 7.”
“Gonzalez told NBC News her win Tuesday for Western Judicial Circuit district attorney makes her the first Latina to be elected a district attorney in the state, the first woman to serve as a district attorney in the circuit and the first Puerto Rican woman in the country to be elected a district attorney.
“Gonzalez was able to compete for district attorney after the state’s Supreme Court ruled unanimously in her favor in her lawsuit against Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp. The Republican governor used a 2018 state law to delay the district attorney’s election until November 2022, prompting the court fight.”
“Adrian Tam, a 28-year-old gay Asian American son of immigrants, defeated a leader of the Hawaii chapter of the Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group, to become the only openly LGBTQ person in Hawaii’s Legislature.
“Tam, a first-time candidate, took 63 percent of the vote against Nicholas Ochs.”
“Cori Bush, a progressive community leader and veteran Black Lives Matter activist, won a House seat in Missouri, becoming the state’s first Black woman to represent the state in Congress, according to CNN projections.”
“Democrats captured control of the Senate on Wednesday with a pair of historic victories in Georgia’s runoff elections, assuring slim majorities in both chambers of Congress for President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. and delivering an emphatic, final rebuke to President Trump in his last days in office.
“The Rev. Raphael Warnock defeated Senator Kelly Loeffler, becoming the first Black Democrat elected to the Senate from the South. And Jon Ossoff, the 33-year-old head of a video production company who has never held public office, defeated David Perdue, who recently completed his first full term as senator.”
“TheRev. Raphael Warnock, the senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, will be the first Black senator from Georgia, CNN projected early Wednesday, a repudiation of Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler and her adherence to President Donald Trump….
Warnock is the first Georgia Democrat elected to the Senate in 20 years, and his election is the culmination of years of voter registration drives conducted by former state House Democratic leader Stacey Abrams and other activists. President-elect Joe Biden also won Georgia, the first time for a Democratic presidential candidate since the 1990s.
‘I am an iteration and an example of the American dream,’ the senator-elect told CNN’s John Berman Wednesday morning on ‘New Day.’ He added, ‘When I think about the arc of our history, what Georgia did last night is its own message in the midst of a moment in which so many people are trying to divide our country, at a time we can least afford to be divided.’"
J'appelle pas au débat, je m'en fous de votre opinion si elle diverge de la mienne, celleux qui veulent qu'on se réconforte dans les coms vous êtes les bienvenu.e.s, j'invite à rien d'autre
Pour les rares français qui me suivent sachez que si vous avez pas voté à gauche aujourd'hui, vous avez voté contre moi et mes communautés, femme lesbienne handi fauchée et artiste indé donc je vous invite à cordialement dégager mdr
Aussi sachez qu'on a perdu 8% en vote pour la divers gauche. On aurait tout pu concentrer sur Mélenchon et gagner
Si vous avez voté Roussel, Jadot ou Hidalgo, j'ai pas les mots
Si vous avez eu la flemme de voter, vous avez condamné des communautés, dont les miennes
Bref soirée de deuil national, les français.e.s qui ont le seum (le mot est faible vu qu'on a le choix entre deux facistes pour le second tour) vous pouvez venir pleurer dans les coms avec moi
Envie de brûler des trucs basiquement
Politiquement je me définis de gauche radicale avec des petites flavors d'anarchisme et de socialisme (pas le PS, hein, le concept de socialisme).
Ajd j'ai dû faire un choix pour mes adelphes, laisser quelques fiertés de cotés et choisir la France Insoumise pour le meilleur futur possible. Apparemment c'est pas venu à l'esprit de tout le monde
