New Democrat lady governor too. Abbott spent 439million on his campaign, did 1 commercial and chilled thinking he was secure- then lost. Hahahahhaha

Absolutely beautiful 🥲 Blexas is real.

"But progressives can't win red states"

Democrats have been running centrists and losing in Texas for 30 long years. A progressive just won where centrists spent decades failing. And centrists are already trying to pretend that Talarico is one of theirs.

Democrats have also been running centrists and losing in Maine for 30 long years. A progressive just won there too.

Frankly, it's starting to look like it's centrists that can't win in red states because republicans prefer to vote for fascists over fash-lite, and only centrists are excited to vote for fash-lite.

I see a lot of news about the senator and very little about the governor who also switched to Democrat. Isn't the governor supposed to be much more important? It's great that they both changed, but it seems like Talarico is getting more attention than the governor, whose name I don't even know.

Context: I'm European and this is a genuine question, not a comment.

Really, really glad that Jasmine Crockett trying to smear him as a racist didn't work any more than Democrats and Republicans trying to smear AES as a radical jihadist didn't work.

I don't think Talarico or the new TX governor are going to do much, but it's possible they may slow down the data centers, and that alone is enough to make me happy even if they completely ignore affordability. (Which isn't an unlikely outcome.)