James Talarico makes final pitch to Texas voters
James Talarico: The system has been rigged against working people. In 1971, a corporate lawyer named Lewis Powell laid out a blueprint for corporate interests to spend massive amounts of money in our politics — buying politicians in both parties and elevating corporate voices in media.
William Reece6Bravo. This is the way forward.
Beachbard3IF the US was ever "Christian" or pro-life, initiatives of The Great Society would have lasted more than 4 yrs v 40 yrs of "Trickle down" Biden re-started with trying to build "from bottom up & middle out" but couldn't turn around in two years what corporations & the wealthy spent decades securing
joelgrant.bsky.social2Awesome he brings up the Powell memo. Yes! That was a huge motivator for the oligarchs. Powell laid out a blueprint and the right wing has been building fascism ever since.
Stable Glennius1(Well actually) Would that it were so recent. Money and politics are twins. I don’t like it, citizens united has to go, but history shows they are inseparable. Sad! #talaricofortexas
lupitalopez.bsky.social4People need to be educated on this! 👇🏼
Kirk Murphy3This, folks. The Powell Memo was the blueprint - is the blueprint - for destroying the quality of life we working Americans enjoyed up until Reagan. And our civil society. Good news: we can all have that again. Vote.
Politicians who had S-tier political judgment this cycle: AOC, Roy Cooper, James Talarico, Jon Ossoff, Scott Colom A-Tier: Hakeem Jeffries, Abdul El-Sayed, Zohran Mamdani, Josh Shapiro, JB Pritzker, Kathy Hochul, Tish James B-Tier: Troy Jackson, Thom Tillis, Marjorie Taylor Greene 1/
Eric Michael Garcia31Also B-Tier: Mallory McMorrow, Annie Andrews, David Jolly, Angie Nixon C-tier: Elizabeth Warren, Kat Abughazaleh, Gavin Newsom (was B-tier but sputtered out), Andy Beshear D-tier: Jasmine Crockett, John Cornyn, Thomas Massie, Nancy Mace, Ken Paxton F-tier: Roger Marshall, Haley Stevens
Jesse Mac3Why such high marks for Jeffries?
Benny Six-Cats3You gotta bust-down Talarico at least a tier for caving in to anti-trans panic some.
Valkyrie Thunderbitch2Talarico publicly waffled on support for trans kids. That is not "S-tier political judgment".
1st Minnesota Volunteers Stan Account1i think you have to put gina hinojosa and sherrod brown in s as well for running the two best campaigns of the cycle, win or lose- in particular, they were some of the first to see what a big issue data centers would be and very effectively used the issue to define their opponents early
zitronenjette1.bsky.social1May the powers-that-be grant Americans enough wisdom to vote all of Trump’s enablers out. You don’t have to go to war to save your country and the planet; you just have to VOTE.
