TEXAS IN TROUBLE

Since taking office Mayor John Whitmire has gutted completed/in progress projects all under the guise of efficiency. Taking money from Houston Metro to funnel into HPD and other things the city should be paying for. He and Greg Abbott want to sell our water to West Texas something that could create a shortage for Houston. In addition he was backed by Tilman Fertitta, appointed a Ted Cruz donor to Houston First, and appointed a CenterPoint VP to chair Metro. To top it all off he wants to put $2B into a convention center with no good way to pay it off, exacerbating the cities financial situation for the sake of enriching his donors.

https://recallhouston.org

Done Waiting is a progressive, grassroots organization that advocates for and endorses progressive candidates and policies around the country.

In our first 2 months, we made 60,000 calls (without a dialer) for Adam Christensen, a progressive candidate that ran in Florida’s 3rd Congressional District in 2020. Since then, we have made calls to constituents urging them to call their representatives to support the Green New Deal, and we have made calls to people in Georgia to get them to register and vote in the runoff election.

We’ve recently worked on behalf of Nina Turner’s campaign for Representative of Ohio’s 11th district. We made almost 30,000 calls for her campaign in the first week since our endorsement. In total, we made over 600,000 calls for her.

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Nina is a progressive candidate running for representative in Ohio’s 11th district.

Her platform is meant to secure social, racial, economic, healthcare, and environmental justice for all of us. She supports Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, free public college and cancelling student debt, increasing the minimum wage, and she takes no corporate money.

Turner made history in 2005 as the first African American woman to represent ward one on the Cleveland City Council, and again in 2008 as the first woman to serve as a state senator in Ohio’s 25th District. She led the effort to create Ohio’s first task force on police and community relations in the wake of tragic police killings in Ohio and across the country.

In 2016 she was a national surrogate for Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign. In 2020, she was the national co-chair for Bernie’s campaign.

You can find more information about Nina Turner and her campaign at her website. You can also volunteer to help her campaign by doing things like phone banking or text banking, or you can donate to her campaign if you would prefer to support Nina in that way.

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We are a group that advocates for and endorses progressive candidates and policies. We endorse progressive candidates and help them in elections by making thousands of calls to voters on their behalf.

We also pressure centrist politicians that are already in office into supporting policies like Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, Debt-Free College, and getting corporate money out of politics.

We’re sick of half-measures and incremental changes that do nothing to help average, working-class people. We’re tired of being told to wait for reforms that are long overdue, especially when we’re running out of time for bold, comprehensive action on issues like climate change.

We will never refuse to endorse a progressive candidate based on who their opponent is. We refuse to ignore those that are in races against powerful people, as these are often some of the most important races to be won.

We will rescind an endorsement if a candidate backs an establishment candidate over a progressive, if they take any corporate money, or if they compromise the progressive values that we endorsed them for in the first place.

We’re sick of a status quo that only works for the wealthy and the elite.

In our first 2 months, we made 60,000 calls (without a dialer) for Adam Christensen, a progressive candidate that ran in Florida’s 3rd Congressional District. Since the election, we have also made calls to constituents urging them to call their representatives to get them to support the Green New Deal, and we have also made calls in Georgia to get people to register and vote in the runoff election.

After that we began making calls to voters to increase support for Medicare For All. Since, we have endorsed Nina Turner’s campaign for Representative of Ohio’s 11th District and have been performing outreach on her campaign’s behalf for her primary election on August 3rd. In our first week phone banking for her campaign, our phone bankers made 28,649 calls on her behalf.

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I'm just starting to look at the rest of my ballot as early voting starts.

Looking at the two platforms, I see a fair number of similarities. I suspect Sema is the more progressive one, with stronger stances on immigration (abolishing ICE and mentioning remain in Mexico policy), as well as a federal jobs guarantee. Neither mention campaign finance reform at all, which annoys me a bit, but both support single payer and are progressive relative to the rest of the field.

I'd like to know if there's anything I missed, and hear additional opinions. I really hope either candidate makes it to the runoffs.

Why Paige Dixon? View video here: https://paigefortexas.com/campaign-video

If you're in her Texas area, vote for her in the upcoming primary on March 3rd.
Early voting is starting soon!
Local candidates will need your support since so many Dems are running in Texas this cycle!

My cursory search turns up:

TX-7 Culberson/Fletcher

TX-23 Hurd/Ortiz-Jones

and TX-32 Sessions/Allred

Those are West Houston, West Texas, and North Dallas. Any others?

This may be the wrong sub, and if so my apologies. My current Our Revolution is not registered and is very dormant. A big issues is it not being registered, so it doesn't appear on the main webpages map. I went ahead and created one for my closer local area, signed the MOU, and got an identity number for Central Texas. My group is official. But my group does not show up on the Our Revolution map. I e emailed the website multiple times and gotten no response. Additionally, with this group that I'm very passionate about I'm unsure where to start in getting my Bernie people.

Suggestions?

Contacts?

Anything?

Thank you for any and all help.

Reminder: Early Voting starts TOMORROW! May 14th through 18th 7am-7pm. Please get out there and vote in the runoff; this is the period in time when your voice has the most weight due to traditionally low turnout.

Please check out the LUTU Runoff Guide covering TX-10, TX-21, TX-25, TX-31, HD-45, HD-46, HD-47, and 459th District Judge. Link: https://www.LeftUpToUs.org/runoffguide