Democrat James Talarico is projected to win a Senate seat in Texas, defeating Republican Ken Paxton and delivering his party their first big Lone Star state win in decades, according to a projection by Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ).
My congratulations to Texas, who seem like they’ll be well served by their new Senator. That’s long overdue.
Hopefully wheels goes next. Fuck the Texas conservatives, bunch of griffters the lot of them.
He’s gone.
Suddenly lots of posters accusing Talarico of being a Republican of yore so it’s not really a win. Yesterday he was a lib.
I know I’m very skeptical but many of those states only turned blue because guys like Talarico would pretty much run as a Republican 15 years ago. Texas didn’t suddenly turn progressive, it simply didn’t turn as fascist as the general MAGA movement. For example Talarico still run on hiring more Border Patrol agents and has a border security plan endorsed by republican Sheriff. On energy he still wants to “protect good-paying oil and gas jobs”. If you look at his program it’s mostly “I will push back against the worst parts capitalism while protecting most of our values”. Which is great but it doesn’t really reflect change of direction as much as different pace at which red state go full fascist.
As a Texan, I don’t fully agree. Talarico isn’t perfect, but I’ve not in my lifetime ever seen a pro choice, pro LGBTQ, pro workers rights Republican. Texas, fucking finally, just voted for all three. This IS a sign of progress, and hopefully some healing.
Nah. If he doesn’t fix everything in 2 years, they will throw the bums back in.
Texas is still Texas. There is no way they were going to New York or California. At least they’re moving forward?
This is basically Mark Carney, the current Prime Minister of Canada. He ran and won as a Liberal, but he would have been a Conservative two decades ago. He’s been working against the interests of every day Canadians, but the thing is that if the alternative is Pierre Poilievre and his Conservatives, I’d still vote for Carney 10/10 times, because at least Carney isn’t a homophobic, transphobic racist. He’ll defend your human rights while robbing you.
Carney looks great on the world stage because he’s juxtaposed against Trump. And yes, we’re definitely better off with Carney at the helm than with Poillievre who was trying so hard to emulate Trump, but the entire world had been taking a pretty hard shift to the right.
Yeah I hate Carney with all my guts because he’s pushing through shit that conservatives wish they could get away with, but he’s acting nice and reasonable while selling off our future.
The conservatives are basically sitting there dumbfounded because they have nothing to oppose. Only the loonies who foam about trans people or immigrants have anything to complain about, and those are not serious people.
i would argue it did turn fascist, a long time ago
its just that the fascism they voted for ended up hurting the wrong people, themselves, which is why they voted for the closet Republican over the overt Republican
A bit of hope. I think we all needed it.
[ takes hat off ]
Well, I’ll be…
All that money elon flushed down the toilet could have been used to feed people or house people.
As a progressive Christian, I’m SO THANKFUL to finally see a US politician who doesn’t wield his faith as a tool of division and hate but as an inspiration for change that helps people in need. I wish him all the success at flipping tables and fighting the power.
I never thought I’d see the day Texas flipped blue. I’m so happy.
I love to see it. I also loved seeing r/conservative melting down.
Turns out $7/gal diesel isn’t popular. Hmm who would have thought.
As non American it’s really great to see how many real politician american voters have been electing lately. Maybe there’s still a chance for the US!
The guy is basically a Republican, but i guess he’s not satanhitler so that’s a plus
He doesn’t talk or act or look like a Republican.
More border patrol thing is a liiiittle republican coded, is it not?
He is in no way a Republican.
We pretended you were on the ballot, sir!
It was… super effective!
Holy shit. It’s real.
Blexas is really happening!
Fucking 19 points… and 15 for the governor, that’s intense
Holy shitballs those margins are the size of Jupiter lol
I’m over here wondering how Mississippi is so close
And democrats didn’t even spend money there
wtf aren’t they usually an anchor state, always at least 90% red?
Republican Roger Wicker won his Senate race there in 2024 63% to 37%
Last republican senator was elected in the 1980s. So yeah this is a huge deal.
As an outsider watching from afar, I’m very happy for everyone who wanted this outcome, the majority have had a hard slog for the past 2 years in particular.
Hopefully this is the start of the turning point where the average American has had a fire reawaken within them, to push harder for a genuinely better Amercia, beyond casting their vote; a complete contrast to the puke pizza that everyone’s been witnessing since its first term.
They were saying Kansas’s was like 1930-1939 or some shit, yet they appear to have actually put one in according to the numbers out so far. Crazy to think 2 World Wars, Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan, Iraq (multiple times), (should mention all the South America shit but the list is getting to long) never considered a change but now something has sparked some kind of change for them
something
The ag and beef market?
Holyyyy shit!
Florida is more surprising to me.
Florida has gone to the right in the last 10 years but before that they always swung back and forth.
Like if you look at who Florida voted for, it was pretty much who won president except the Trump 2020 election.
Election Year Winning Candidate Party Margin of Victory
1960 John F. Kennedy D -0.2%
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson D +27.0%
1968 Richard Nixon R +5.0%
1972 Richard Nixon R +27.0%
1976 Jimmy Carter D +1.9%
1980 Ronald Reagan R +10.0%
1984 Ronald Reagan R +20.0%
1988 George H.W. Bush R +10.0%
1992 Bill Clinton D +2.0%
1996 Bill Clinton D +5.0%
2000 George W. Bush R +0.01%
2004 George W. Bush R +5.0%
2008 Barack Obama D +2.8%
2012 Barack Obama D +0.9%
2016 Donald Trump R +1.2%
2020 Donald Trump R +3.4%
2024 Donald Trump R +13.1%
I moved out of Florida after COVID. I can tell you with certainty it will be a very long time before Florida goes blue. The people flooding that state for no COVID restrictions combined with the multiple bullshit from Michael Flynn he helped push are going to keep it deep red for a while.
That’s some wild swing
Yeah if you look at 2000 in particular Bush “won” by .01%.
If you are familiar with that election that is when Al Gore won the popular vote in the U.S., a recall was called in Florida twice and conspiracies surround how Bush’s own brother was the Governir of Florida.
Basically first count said Bush won by 1784 votes ~.009%. That triggered and automatic recount by the machines. Which came back saying he actually only won by 327 votes, meaning the room for error was wider than the election. His brother helped stall a manual recount, they sent it to the Supreme Court and the U.S. supreme court decided it didn’t matter because hand counting them would take time and awarded all 25 elector votes to Bush, making him President of an election he had not one neither the population, nor possibly the electors… But we’ll never know.
Holy fuck that’s not even close
This is the best news I’ve woken up to all year.
Bye Abbott!
somewhere Conan is suddenly suspicious and looking for Rudd
I’m loving Abbot getting the boot too. Eat shit asshole
When is Cruz’s ass up for re-election? I’d love for Jasmine Crocket to take the other seat. Plus Cruz being felled by a black woman would be delicious.
Cruz is back up in 2030, so it all depends on what happens in 2028.
Just want to say one last time that Greg Abbot is a piss baby.
I always thought Abbott was an ineffective governor, and that the only reason he’s been in office this long is that the Texas governor’s election is always in off-years, when people who have trouble getting to the voting booths are even less likely to go.
First time hearing about that ladder-pulling discount-Davros scumbag and feeling joy for a change.
I’m out of town/timezone at the moment, so nice to wake up and see this. Not just a win, but a resounding win.
FUCK YEAH! Who knew Texas had a backbone. #GoBlue!
Whoa, an undisputable majority
Hey Lemmy: No more making fun of my state anymore. We’re blue now. We finally fucking did it. Lol.
It’s still in the US though, right?
If Texas secedes, I’ll stop ripping on them
WA here, I will spread the word that there is now a moratorium on calling yall the One Star State. Well done today, Texas!!
Thank you for your service. As someone who lived for a bit near Seattle, much love.
As a Georgian [two blue senators since 2020, in case you didn’t know], I think you’re going to be disappointed on that one.
Sincerely, congrats. Enjoy this feeling. Well done.
Stop talking funny and I’ll consider it.
Thems fightin’ words
Fuck that. Texan bluster still deserves mockery
This can’t be true?!?!
I was told many times in this very place that Trump had rigged everything and would declare martial law to stop the elections and seize power, this is crazy, I can’t believe it!
… could all of those Lemmy posters over the last year have been wrong? I am befuddled and confused.
The only real way the republicans can delay a new goverment now is to make the clerk of the house disappear, by firing him and refusing to hire a new one.
Really hope they kicked Dan Patrick out of office, too
It looks like Texas might ave blued itself: governor, both state houses, and the 4 state supreme court justices on the ballot.
They did!
Fucking love it!
Third best birthday ever!
What are the top two?
Birthday 0 tops my list. I don’t remember it, of course, and I understand it was likely quite traumatic, but the results echo through my life like nothing else. And I took my first breath, so that must have been crazy good. Cause I love breathing.
My second best birthday I looked around and had a bunch of people I loved, and that loved me, all having a good time.
My 6th best birthday, I knocked on a random door what had lots of loud talking behind it at the Sheraton in Denton, and shared my birthday cake with a room of strangers.
My dad beat the crap out of my mom’s boyfriend for breaking into the garage and smashing the car windows one year on my birthday.
… I, uh, don’t have a lot of other birthday stories.
Edit: This is supposed to be funny.
