Democrat James Talarico is projected to win a Senate seat in Texas, defeating Republican Ken Paxton and delivering his party their first big Lone Star state win in decades, according to a projection by Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ).
Congratulations to all Americans! I can finally type your countries name with a capital “A” again. Looking forward to your healing and cleansing. Canada is quite forgiving, give us at least a few years though. Surely a better day and future for the American people. Phew! Take this opportunity to tighten up those authoritarian loopholes. The only way you should fall is from total external invasion, not from within, like trump and his enablers were trying to do.
I’m glad at least one Canadian doesnt hate us. We always loved you
Not how that works: without supermajorities in the legislature to override a veto or convict an impeachment, the president can still block all legislation.
I am not is forgiving. Just because they voted some progressives which this politician in this post is not i won’t forget that it is still an evil empire that destabilize the whole world
Calm yourself, they aren’t any closer to healing. They haven’t changed anything. They haven’t even showed that this will have any effect. The regime ignores the courts and congress, so this doesn’t make any difference.
The US is still a regressing democracy and have an obvious and seriously dangerous fascist problem. They are not our allies.
Thanks Russia.
This is the victim mentality that makes me say this… muricans can’t take responsibility, so they are not even close to healing.
Not everyone criticizing a fascist regime is a russian bot.
I’m calm. I’m also very happy for the American people. They deserve a bit of peace and quiet after all the bullshit spews that constantly seem to go on forever, including yours. Be happy for them. Take the little wins and dance in the sun.
They are too close to invading me and my allies to give them peace and quiet. They are dangerous. Now is not the time for rest.
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My congratulations to Texas, who seem like they’ll be well served by their new Senator. That’s long overdue.
New senator and new governor. Wild day to see a blue Texas
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Hopefully wheels goes next. Fuck the Texas conservatives, bunch of griffters the lot of them.
He’s gone.
Suddenly lots of posters accusing Talarico of being a Republican of yore so it’s not really a win. Yesterday he was a lib.
I know I’m very skeptical but many of those states only turned blue because guys like Talarico would pretty much run as a Republican 15 years ago. Texas didn’t suddenly turn progressive, it simply didn’t turn as fascist as the general MAGA movement. For example Talarico still run on hiring more Border Patrol agents and has a border security plan endorsed by republican Sheriff. On energy he still wants to “protect good-paying oil and gas jobs”. If you look at his program it’s mostly “I will push back against the worst parts capitalism while protecting most of our values”. Which is great but it doesn’t really reflect change of direction as much as different pace at which red state go full fascist.
From outside (I live in the UK) and only knowing Texas through media. At some point you have to run on what supports your state/district/town. You can’t run a state with a lot of jobs tied in oil and gas by destroying all of those jobs, without causing massive harm.
Separately, Texas as a state had a lot of sunlight and land, and a lot of that energy production could be (should be?) transferred to solar.
While great for the planet, the job loses and associated lack of grassroots income would take a massive change in society.
I’m old enough to remember Ann Richards, and Lawton Childs here. Texas, and Florida too, are still close to 50/50, just gerrymandered to hell and back. It’s nice for Texas, I am happy for them, and Georgia too. Sorry that we couldn’t get enough people out, I kinda like Angie Nixon, it would have been great to have a progressive voice for FL. 4,207,947 votes for Moody (the traitor) 3,969,186 for an honest to God progressive.
This is mostly a sign that the overton window has shifted so far to the right that Democrats are palatable again.
He was a Republican 15 years ago. He hasn’t changed. The Democrats just came to meet him.
As a Texan, I don’t fully agree. Talarico isn’t perfect, but I’ve not in my lifetime ever seen a pro choice, pro LGBTQ, pro workers rights Republican. Texas, fucking finally, just voted for all three. This IS a sign of progress, and hopefully some healing.
Nah. If he doesn’t fix everything in 2 years, they will throw the bums back in.
Texas is still Texas. There is no way they were going to New York or California. At least they’re moving forward?
This is basically Mark Carney, the current Prime Minister of Canada. He ran and won as a Liberal, but he would have been a Conservative two decades ago. He’s been working against the interests of every day Canadians, but the thing is that if the alternative is Pierre Poilievre and his Conservatives, I’d still vote for Carney 10/10 times, because at least Carney isn’t a homophobic, transphobic racist. He’ll defend your human rights while robbing you.
Carney looks great on the world stage because he’s juxtaposed against Trump. And yes, we’re definitely better off with Carney at the helm than with Poillievre who was trying so hard to emulate Trump, but the entire world had been taking a pretty hard shift to the right.
Mark is ruling exactly like a conservative
Yeah I hate Carney with all my guts because he’s pushing through shit that conservatives wish they could get away with, but he’s acting nice and reasonable while selling off our future.
The conservatives are basically sitting there dumbfounded because they have nothing to oppose. Only the loonies who foam about trans people or immigrants have anything to complain about, and those are not serious people.
i would argue it did turn fascist, a long time ago
its just that the fascism they voted for ended up hurting the wrong people, themselves, which is why they voted for the closet Republican over the overt Republican
A bit of hope. I think we all needed it.
All that money elon flushed down the toilet could have been used to feed people or house people.
[ takes hat off ]
Well, I’ll be…
As a progressive Christian, I’m SO THANKFUL to finally see a US politician who doesn’t wield his faith as a tool of division and hate but as an inspiration for change that helps people in need. I wish him all the success at flipping tables and fighting the power.
I never thought I’d see the day Texas flipped blue. I’m so happy.
I love to see it. I also loved seeing r/conservative melting down.
Turns out $7/gal diesel isn’t popular. Hmm who would have thought.
As non American it’s really great to see how many real politician american voters have been electing lately. Maybe there’s still a chance for the US!
The guy is basically a Republican, but i guess he’s not satanhitler so that’s a plus
He is in no way a Republican.
He doesn’t talk or act or look like a Republican.
More border patrol thing is a liiiittle republican coded, is it not?
Abbot helped a lot too.
We pretended you were on the ballot, sir!
It was… super effective!
Holy shit. It’s real.
Blexas is really happening!
Fucking 19 points… and 15 for the governor, that’s intense
Holy fuck that’s not even close
This is the best news I’ve woken up to all year.
Holy shitballs those margins are the size of Jupiter lol
I’m over here wondering how Mississippi is so close
And democrats didn’t even spend money there
wtf aren’t they usually an anchor state, always at least 90% red?
Republican Roger Wicker won his Senate race there in 2024 63% to 37%
Last republican senator was elected in the 1980s. So yeah this is a huge deal.
As an outsider watching from afar, I’m very happy for everyone who wanted this outcome, the majority have had a hard slog for the past 2 years in particular.
Hopefully this is the start of the turning point where the average American has had a fire reawaken within them, to push harder for a genuinely better Amercia, beyond casting their vote; a complete contrast to the puke pizza that everyone’s been witnessing since its first term.
They were saying Kansas’s was like 1930-1939 or some shit, yet they appear to have actually put one in according to the numbers out so far. Crazy to think 2 World Wars, Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan, Iraq (multiple times), (should mention all the South America shit but the list is getting to long) never considered a change but now something has sparked some kind of change for them
something
The ag and beef market?
Holyyyy shit!
Florida is more surprising to me.
I’m sad Nixon lost, she’s got moxie
Florida has gone to the right in the last 10 years but before that they always swung back and forth.
Like if you look at who Florida voted for, it was pretty much who won president except the Trump 2020 election.
Election Year Winning Candidate Party Margin of Victory
1960 John F. Kennedy D -0.2%
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson D +27.0%
1968 Richard Nixon R +5.0%
1972 Richard Nixon R +27.0%
1976 Jimmy Carter D +1.9%
1980 Ronald Reagan R +10.0%
1984 Ronald Reagan R +20.0%
1988 George H.W. Bush R +10.0%
1992 Bill Clinton D +2.0%
1996 Bill Clinton D +5.0%
2000 George W. Bush R +0.01%
2004 George W. Bush R +5.0%
2008 Barack Obama D +2.8%
2012 Barack Obama D +0.9%
2016 Donald Trump R +1.2%
2020 Donald Trump R +3.4%
2024 Donald Trump R +13.1%
I moved out of Florida after COVID. I can tell you with certainty it will be a very long time before Florida goes blue. The people flooding that state for no COVID restrictions combined with the multiple bullshit from Michael Flynn he helped push are going to keep it deep red for a while.
That’s some wild swing
Yeah if you look at 2000 in particular Bush “won” by .01%.
If you are familiar with that election that is when Al Gore won the popular vote in the U.S., a recall was called in Florida twice and conspiracies surround how Bush’s own brother was the Governir of Florida.
Basically first count said Bush won by 1784 votes ~.009%. That triggered and automatic recount by the machines. Which came back saying he actually only won by 327 votes, meaning the room for error was wider than the election. His brother helped stall a manual recount, they sent it to the Supreme Court and the U.S. supreme court decided it didn’t matter because hand counting them would take time and awarded all 25 elector votes to Bush, making him President of an election he had not one neither the population, nor possibly the electors… But we’ll never know.
Bye Abbott!
somewhere Conan is suddenly suspicious and looking for Rudd
I’m loving Abbot getting the boot too. Eat shit asshole
When is Cruz’s ass up for re-election? I’d love for Jasmine Crocket to take the other seat. Plus Cruz being felled by a black woman would be delicious.
Cruz is back up in 2030, so it all depends on what happens in 2028.
Just want to say one last time that Greg Abbot is a piss baby.
First time hearing about that ladder-pulling discount-Davros scumbag and feeling joy for a change.
I always thought Abbott was an ineffective governor, and that the only reason he’s been in office this long is that the Texas governor’s election is always in off-years, when people who have trouble getting to the voting booths are even less likely to go.
I’m out of town/timezone at the moment, so nice to wake up and see this. Not just a win, but a resounding win.
FUCK YEAH! Who knew Texas had a backbone. #GoBlue!
Whoa, an undisputable majority
