It might genuinely kill me if they do it. The sheer surge of endorphins would be comparable to a full plate of fentanyl.

The problem with America is we vote and then everyone goes back to whatever they were doing.

We need to stay mobilized and protest even the democrats until we are getting what we want.

Winning a congress that might listen is the first step, but politics never ends.

You either participate in politics or politics will participate you and you won’t like what it does to you.

America has a habit of generating hope … and then crushingly disappointing everyone

You're confusing neoliberals as an only other option to maga...

Anyone with a congressional Dem representative needs to contact their office and tell them they need to support a progressive for leadership.

We can't afford the bullshit "looking into" that happened under Biden. We need a Speaker and Senate leader willing to put progressive legislation up for votes.

Schumer/Jefferies won't do that

I have a feeling this will go the way of the filibuster, hope I'm wrong

The way this has been done by states already is passing amendments that require them to vote yes when it gets enough votes. This means it's only a few new states that need to pass a law for this to actually happen. Previous states can't back out.

We've also had a habit of razor thin election margins and Republicans in Texas.

"Yes well the wheels of the law turn slowly"

No one wants to acknowledge this, but if we all contacted our (non-Republican) representatives every day, this would happen. Public pressure works.

I'll bring you back down then. It won't end the EC, it's a voluntary compact between mostly already blue states agreeing to give their votes to the person that wins the popular vote.

The EC will still exist, and this could, for example, get a Republican elected just as easily. Trump won the popular vote in 2024.

I think it's probably a good idea overall but it has a lot of problems inherent to its process and enforcement.

To be fair, this is talking about the number of state governments that have flipped, not Federal.

Yep. Jeffries's hasn't even gotten the official promotion yet and he is already putting in the work to make sure the Democrats are the minority party again in 2028.

Democrats can release the Epstein files right now.

Would it be "legal"? Probably not.

Anyway, leak it now, stop hiding behind the law you weenies.

I agree with Jeffries that impeachment should not be a priority. Vance would pardon, there's no point to it. Just investigate until Democrat President takes helm in two years.

Trump will likely be dead by then, but his enablers can be brought to justice.

Fucking enby politics

We are actually already ridiculously close to a popular vote being the deciding factor for president:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact

A very helpful comment which encourages people to write their congress persons.

Get active. Call your reps. Tell them what you want, call them every time legislation comes up. If they wont vote the way you want you vote in the next primary for someone else. You keep demanding better representatives until, and i cant make this any more clear, until you die because they will never be good enough.

So 95% of the party? Yeah, none of the progressive shit is gonna happen. But don’t worry, the progressives “shift the conversation.” Maybe some day the oligarchs will allow their Dems to enact the will of the people.

Protests aren’t enough, we need to unionize, organize tenant unions, create revolutionary cadres and do socialism. It’s the only way to stop the oligarchs from maintaining their ownership of us.

They would rather play nice with republicans

Just like the Republicans do much of anything with their majority.

Most of our gov is ineffectual because it is about maintaining status quo for elites. Everyone else be damned.

I can hear it now "... But... But... The Republicans won't let us😭"

Narrator: They didn't.

Im not a betting man but ill bet they wont

They think this election represents support for the Dems, but most people (including reliable Dem voters) still have an unfavorable view of the party. This election was about rejecting Trump, and he won't be dragging down the Republicans in 2028.

We need to hit the primaries HARD.

Same thoughts exactly. I don't want to see another red tsunami

That was an anomaly.

Getting rid of the electoral college does not change anything about gerrymandering. The EC is for electing president. Gerrymandering is only possible for electing district representatives. But yeah, one step at a time.

Abdul El-Sayed fared two points worse than Jocelyn Benson. (52.5% vs 54.5%, roughly 100K fewer votes)

That’s the best example of A DSA vs. Dem race this cycle (yes I know he’s not part of the DSA, but he’s more progressive than Benson)

What did the SCOUTS ever do to you? Wait, don't answer that.

This isn't a federal law, these are State laws, and the Constitution very clearly gives electoral power to the States. So much that even this extremely partison ratfucking SCOTUS has avoided taking related cases.

The only issue with the Compact, as pointed out in the article, is that the US Constitution also says States cannot enter into an inter-state Compact without Congressional approval. So they're at odds with each other. However, that would only require a basic approval by the House and Senate, it doesn't involve the President at all. Still some big hurdles, but not nearly as many as two days ago.

Weird typo, lol