Texas has the second-largest pool of nonvoting people of color (after already blue CA), and the numbers of potential voters of color far exceeds the margin of difference in statewide elections. https://t.co/ynM1NNQZ8t
While @staceyabrams credits me & my wife w/ investing in GA "before it was logical," the signs were there if you knew what to look for. The question now is who's next?
In my latest for @thenation, I point to 4 factors for turning a red state blue. THREAD
Texas has the second-largest pool of nonvoting people of color (after already blue CA), and the numbers of potential voters of color far exceeds the margin of difference in statewide elections. https://t.co/ynM1NNQZ8t
Leaders who combine personal humility with indomitable will and are "infected with an incurable need to produce results" for the cause. https://t.co/8RPWCdy4VU
@OrganizeTexas has done comparable work to @NewGAProject for some time, w/ a membership of over 250K people.
In 2020, they turned out over 300K infrequent voters of color who didn't vote in 2016. https://t.co/ynM1NNQZ8t
As GA runoffs showed, w/o Trump & his cult-like following, R turnout is less visceral, making a TX gubernatorial win in 2022 a possibility.
In 2012, @staceyabrams's PAC GeorgiaNext raised $54K. In 2020, her org @fairfightaction raised $90 MILLION.
There are talented & effective POC orgs across country and with proper funding, they can change the world as we just saw in Georgia. https://t.co/ynM1NNQZ8t
But w/ a budget of $5 million, orgs like @OrganizeTexas are woefully underfunded.
Donors should see to it that they add a "0" to that number. https://t.co/ynM1NNQZ8t
At least $200 million of that should be flowing into Texas. https://t.co/ynM1NNQZ8t
Texas is poised to build on that model and continue the revolutionary work of transforming America into the multiracial democracy that it aspires to be." https://t.co/ynM1NNQZ8t
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My first observations in the main thread are here, but this offshoot is needed because there's been so many wise & witty things I've
37.90/ Limbaugh was a cruel hate-machine who made a fortune off hurting people. To say "don't speak ill of the dead" is the attitude of abuse enablers.
— Joshua Cypess (@JoshuaCypess) February 18, 2021
If you can't condemn a ghoul who dedicated his life to destroying society, you're part of the problem! https://t.co/ijvG2zDACH
2/ First, re: those who in their wayward moral obtuseness feel we "can't speak ill of the dead." I've said that this is what abuse enablers say, but I hear that some religious traditions preach this. Oy.
So there's this: https://t.co/7Ky4RA3nkZ &
This is how Rush's death should be honored. Let's not speak ill of the dead, let's quote Rush speaking ill of the dead.
— Sane English (@SaneEnglish) February 17, 2021
3/ Drucker is another great wit, and this carries the proper mood
It's easy to make fun of Rush Limbaugh right now, but it's important to remember that he also brought a lot of people a lot of joy by dying
— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) February 17, 2021
4/ There's definitely a Jewish Tradition angle for how to treat evil people who die: the only respect is to justice, right & wrong, and above all compassion's existence necessitates condemning cruelty
It\u2019s ok\u2014essential, even\u2014to speak the truth about people who caused great harm.
— Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (@TheRaDR) February 17, 2021
Even after their death.
5/ We're coming up on #Purim, and that's all about how to remember evil. There may be a reason, then, that I share the attitude of many other people committed to righting
today i said Jewish culture requires dancing on the graves of those who have wronged us and i picked up like 300 followers LMAO
— Erin Biba (@erinbiba) February 18, 2021
people love Jewish vengeance \U0001f923\U0001f923
wait till they hear about Purim