Taylor Rehmet, a Democrat and local union leader, won a runoff for a state Senate seat that’s been held by Republicans since 1992. What’s more, he bested the Republican Leigh Wambsganss despite having one-tenth as much money. Much of Wambsganss’s funding came from Dunn and the Wilks brothers.

Here's the DNC chair talking about it two weeks ago:

https://youtu.be/J9Nk7RcZh7k?t=46

We're not "over performing" this is the natural result of undoing the damage of 30 years of neoliberalism and especially the "victory fund". Up until a year ago the goal of the party wasn't "as many seats as possible" it was just to have a neoliberal president and at most House or Senate, but never both.

It's like going from a pitcher who wants to win but not cover the spread, to one who just wants to win by as many runs as possible.

Dems aren't intentionally holding themselves back, so we're going to keep seeing massive gains.

Taylor Rehmet, a Democrat and local union leader, won a runoff for a state Senate seat that’s been held by Republicans since 1992. What’s more, he bested the Republican Leigh Wambsganss despite having one-tenth as much money. Much of Wambsganss’s funding came from Dunn and the Wilks brothers.

Republicans blamed low turnout for Rehmet’s victory, while pundits opined that the Trump administration’s unpopularity was to blame.

In America today, these are the same thing. The way you win is by encouraging certain people to vote and discouraging other people from voting. Trump has been taking care of discouraging Republicans and MAGA from voting all by himself.

I really think America needs mandatory voting to stop this behavior, but it's much easier to encourage or discourage people to vote than it is to actually carry out the will of the people.

Meanwhile in California, a MAGA governor seems inevitable. Never underestimate the ignorance of the average American.

Progressive dems have been cleaning up over the past year. Hopefully the DNC doesn't plug it's ears and ignore the obvious. There's certainly a good number of corporate democrats trying to make this out to be a nothing.

Go TX!

So as an outsiders, what I see most voters doing is what happened in 2020. Not everyone is terminally online and as plugged in to politics as we all are. So after 4 years of Trump enough was enough and more people went out to vote. You need hard times for this to happen.

But after 4 years of good, all those people thought things would carry on regardless not thinking, or that they don’t need to as it’s a home run no one would want to return to Trump. But you get enough people thinking they don’t need to vote, combined with apathy and voter intimidation and manipulation etc and you get trump back.

So now all the people are forced back out again.

Just waiting for them to come up with a version of this bill that keeps all these same restrictions but which adds an alternative of using digital identity verification processes administered by third parties. Then they can just approve Xitter and the like as verification partners, making the easy route available through platforms their side controls, all with no transparency or accountability.