The Most Progressive Democratic Party in America Is in Texas [View all]
Don’t confuse us with the DC elite. We’re building a working-class movement from the ground up.
https://www.lonestarleft.com/p/the-most-progressive-democratic-party
Yesterday, I came across a guy’s TikTok page who is running for Congress in Texas. I scrolled through a few of his videos, and he made me so mad. I just scrolled away, but I thought about him again this morning and couldn’t remember his name or find his videos again. (🤦🏻♀️Don’t you hate it when that happens?)
The reason he pissed me off so much, is he’s 100% running on the Texas Democratic Party platform, but he’s running as an independent. I mean it’s like, he read the platform, said, “these are good ideas,” and then decided to run on those ideas while distancing himself from the party. We’re talking universal healthcare, pro-union, climate justice, the whole nine yards. This is the second independent candidate I’ve come across in this election cycle who is doing this.
The Texas Democratic Party is the most progressive state party in the United States. However, I’m not sure that the general public is aware of this. Moreover, I don’t think the general populace knows or understands the difference between a Texas Democrat and a California liberal.
The Texas Democratic Party’s platform supports universal healthcare, strong labor rights, climate justice, LGBTQ+ equality, racial equity, reproductive freedom, and deep investments in public education.
The right has spent decades painting every Democrat with the same out-of-touch, San Francisco-brunch-club brush, and honestly, the left hasn’t done a great job pushing back. So now we’ve got candidates parroting the Texas Democratic platform word for word... while pretending they’re too “independent” to be associated with the very party that wrote it.
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