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).
Dread it, run from it, Blexas arrives all the same.
Never thought I’d see the fucking day. Holy fucking shit.
It must be a very cold day in Hell.
It’s so cold, it froze over with blue ice.
Welp it’s been more than 4 hours (looks down) better see a doctor.
Good thing we elected three of them yesterday.
LOL - Is this a justice boner or a justice boner?
Be proud my man!
Kind of in disbelief right now. A far cry from how I felt back in November of 2024. If only I knew back then how severe the backlash against Trump would be in the midterms, I might not have been so despondent at that time. South fucking Carolina, and possibly FUCKING MISSISSIPPI have elected Democratic senators. Like…what???
Edit to add: Almost forgot, but Alaska might be going blue as well. Un fucking real.
Oklahoma is still as stupid as ever, unfortunately
I remember folks asking in 2024 “What do we do if Trump wins?!?” and my answer was “The same thing you should be doing if Kamala wins: the same thing you should be doing now.” Which is organizing locally and building outward.
If you have a union, participate in it. If you don’t, get to know your coworkers and normalize talking about what you’d like collectively. Organize your apartment building to get together on the holidays. Know who your city council member is, and your county supervisor. Participate in mutual aid and lobby for laws in your own backyard. Think about not just what you don’t want – Republicans in national office – but what you really, really want: a shorter work week. Guaranteed access to living essentials. And then find the people, both inside government and out who have ideas for how to do this and ask how you can help. And keep doing it through the ups and downs.
Because your despair at Trump’s victory can be just as ephemeral as your joy at Paxton’s defeat if this is just sports. But if we have a purpose and a plan, every step forward or backward is part of a journey in which we can see our progress towards something that matters more than just the latest poll.
Its because people who voted for fascism are upset that fascism is hurting them, personally, instead of hurting just poors, blacks, and immigrants.
Thats all.
This isnt some great revolution of liberal enlightenment amongst the American populace, or the end of right wing extremism, the death knell for white supremacism fueled fascism.
Its nothing more than grocery and gas prices turning trump believers into a temporary vote for the other side, and as soon as that pressures gone they’ll go back to supporting the lowest common denominator and continuing the rocket train to hell.
I couldn’t agree more
They’ll still vote republican at the next federal election
It’s a part of their identity
Im so afraid you are right…
Even florida had 0.1% difference at one point
This is step one in a very long road.
I hope all these newly elected democrats have the inclination to do the right thing, and the stamina to continue doing it long enough to actually have a positive impact.
This is step one in a very long road.
Probably more like a dance move in Thriller. Forward, backward; looks like forward but goes backward. High kick; looks like backward but goes forward.
It took things to get that bad before they flipped. I don’t expect them to stay there, but I have blind optimism.
Now let’s just hope there aren’t so many DINOs that we actually have a majority because i do NOT have blind optimism there.
So shocking that ‘Tala-FREAK-o wants TRANS EVERYTHING’ wasn’t a winning platform…
The Republicans have beat that horse to death and still refuse to stop.
If Texas flipped, any state can flip. Why it matters is that’s where 1/2 of the U.S. Billionaires fled too, so as too avoid the California Billionaire Tax. Perhaps these new Texas Democrat leaders should consider a Texas Billionaire Tax.
BTW – the other half of the Billionaire carpet baggers escaping California either went to Florida or left the country.
Those assets are still here. Even if they leave the country we can find a way to get our share.
Congratulations to all Americans! I can finally type your countries name with a capital “A” again. Looking forward to your healing and cleansing. Canada is quite forgiving, give us at least a few years though. Surely a better day and future for the American people. Phew! Take this opportunity to tighten up those authoritarian loopholes. The only way you should fall is from total external invasion, not from within, like trump and his enablers were trying to do.
“You can trust the Americans to do the right thing once all other options have been exhausted”
Respectfully to you personally as your heart is absolutely in the right place, Americans do not need or at this point want Canadian forgiveness. Canadians have their own problems with their far right neighbors that they will continue to underestimate until it’s too late. And when that happens, the majority of Americans — who respect and support Canada and its people, who were outraged over the governments treatment of Canada, and who turned that outrage into action through protests and yesterdays rejection of the current government, will remember how Canadians turned on them.
The global rise of far-right authoritarianism defies borders and those of us standing against it should have been standing shoulder to shoulder, but instead Canada would rather blame all Americans while burying its head in the sand and pretending like the same thing couldn’t happen there. As if America is somehow uniquely susceptible to a problem that has been plaguing the entire world. First they doubted Americans would deliver on the rejection of its government, and now that they have, they disqualify it.
We should and we have to put things to rights with Canada because it’s the right thing to do, and it’s what our northern neighbors deserve, but frankly the holier-than-thou pearl clutching that has dominated online Canadian-American discourse has sucked the well of Canadian sympathy dry for a lot of people.
I’m glad at least one Canadian doesnt hate us. We always loved you
at least one Canadian doesnt hate us.
We are still taking a “wait and see” approach with the USA.
You guys dumped trumpism once, then brought it back again in an even worse version.
The USA will have to regain our trust, and that takes a lot of work over a very long time.
This is step one on a very long road.
We’re not letting our guard down yet.
Man I’m American and taking the “wait and see” approach lmao.
Yep totally. I’m still absolutely baffled (but not really considering the average american) it took high gas and groceries and a war to make people think.
Not 40+ felony conviction and rape and almost certain proof of Epstein island visits. The Americans didn’t care about that one bit. Or killing brown people or kidnapping children. Until it affected them.
Agreed.
Not how that works: without supermajorities in the legislature to override a veto or convict an impeachment, the president can still block all legislation.
Time to find 12 Senators that are up for re-election in 2028 and remind them that backing Trump led directly to GOP Senators losing yesterday. They need to step up and start doing their job - working for American citizens.
While I would love that, the more moderate republicans who argued to impeach & convict Trump last time were ousted, so that leaves the Trumpiest core to work with. GOP shittiness & general hostility to the government working in any sense for the American people can’t be underestimated. Plus, convicting Trump results in Vance replacing him.
I think some highly guarded optimism is warranted. Blocking hideous legislation and Trump appointments isn’t too bad of a check if they’re unable to pull off anything better.
I am not is forgiving. Just because they voted some progressives which this politician in this post is not i won’t forget that it is still an evil empire that destabilize the whole world
As an American, you should definitely not forgive us or lower your guard. We voted Trump in twice. And even beyond that we’ve been a scourge on the world for a long time. A small blip here does nit change that. And the Dems that got elected have to show that they will actually try to change things. I doubt they will.
For many of us non-american it is not only about trump but all the evil things the USA did in the middle east, Asia and Africa before and during trump
Yup. Totally understand that. As mentioned in my post, the US has been a scourge for a long time.
It’s like being in a bipolar relationship. One day it’s sunny, the other it’s rainy, another USA is run by an oligarch pedophile cabal.
Calm yourself, they aren’t any closer to healing. They haven’t changed anything. They haven’t even showed that this will have any effect. The regime ignores the courts and congress, so this doesn’t make any difference.
The US is still a regressing democracy and have an obvious and seriously dangerous fascist problem. They are not our allies.
Thanks Russia.
Let’s thank Zelensky and Ukraine for taking out a bunch of internet troll infrastructure as well! They were part of winning this election.
This is the victim mentality that makes me say this… muricans can’t take responsibility, so they are not even close to healing.
Not everyone criticizing a fascist regime is a russian bot.
It’s most important to remember that us Americans very well might have been okay with the corruption and fascism if the admin just weren’t fucking stupid about it.
The fact that you guys reelected the most blatantly corrupt president you’ve ever had isn’t forgotten by the rest of the world.
It will take a lot of work over a very long time for the USA to remove the stink of Trumpism.
Electing a few better politicians is step one. Let’s see how effective they are able (or how willing) they will be to improve things.
And then let’s see what the American people do in the next 2-3 elections.
We were cautiously optimistic when the Americans elected Biden, and we all know what happened 4 years later.
Look, this is them making an effort. Let’s pat them on the back. They did well. There is still a lot of work to do, but today, let’s just celebrate progress.
LORD KNOWS how much shit we give them, always, and always will, but let’s be happy for our brothers and sisters that democracy prevailed one more election.
A threat to democracy anywhere is a threat to democracy everywhere. Likewise, a victory for democracy anywhere is a victory for democracy everywhere. Tonight, democracy won.
Wooo! USA! USA! USA!
Yeah, it is a small victory, and I’m glad. I am basically just quoting Mamdani from last night - now is not the time to rest.
And he is absolutely GOD damned right. Strike while the iron is hot, this is exactly the time to go bustin caps in asses. But tonight… We celebrate and be merry. We have all gone through a lot over the past decade. We earned this.
I’m calm. I’m also very happy for the American people. They deserve a bit of peace and quiet after all the bullshit spews that constantly seem to go on forever, including yours. Be happy for them. Take the little wins and dance in the sun.
Trump gave me high blood pressure and I have to take pills now. I’m not joking. This thing has been so stressful for me over the past two years that I developed cardiovascular issues, I got the results today. I know the nightmare is not over, but at least now I feel like maybe at some point we’ll wake up from it and have a few beers and laugh about the whole thing and go on living and try to fix ourselves and our planet together.
Tonight I dream.
They are too close to invading me and my allies to give them peace and quiet. They are dangerous. Now is not the time for rest.
I hear that.
And Netanyahu is on his way out! What a glorious day!
It probably won’t change much for Israeli politics, but it’ll be nice if he personally faced some consequences at the very least.
We pretended you were on the ballot, sir!
It was… super effective!
Some folks actually thought he was going to be lol
You joke but he literally said last night that the only reason they lost is because his name wasn’t on the ballot. You’d think his voters would get offended about how stupid he thinks they are.
Abbot helped a lot too.
The reign of terror piss baby has wrung on Texas ends now.
That victory speech was the best representation of true Christian values that I have ever seen.
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Let’sgoooooo Mr.Talarico!!!
Holy shit. It’s real.
Blexas is really happening!
Holy fuck that’s not even close
This is the best news I’ve woken up to all year.
I sat up all night in Europe following the election results. Couldn’t fucking believe it. The whole world just drew a slight sigh of relief.
Bye Abbott!
Not enough.
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.
Just want to say one last time that Greg Abbot is a piss baby.
I fully intend to call him piss baby until the day he dies
Cruz is back up in 2030, so it all depends on what happens in 2028.
First time hearing about that ladder-pulling discount-Davros scumbag and feeling joy for a change.
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.
Holy shitballs those margins are the size of Jupiter lol
I’m over here wondering how Mississippi is so close
wtf aren’t they usually an anchor state, always at least 90% red?
Last republican senator was elected in the 1980s. So yeah this is a huge deal.
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?
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.
Republican Roger Wicker won his Senate race there in 2024 63% to 37%
And democrats didn’t even spend money there
They did a bit. They prioritized it more than Florida, with Obama making ads for Colom.
I don’t think they did much for Angie Nixon in Florida though. I think they stopped at the endorsement.
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.
I’m sad Nixon lost, she’s got moxie
Her name probably didn’t do her any favors.
Fucking 19 points… and 15 for the governor, that’s intense
FUCK YEAH! Who knew Texas had a backbone. #GoBlue!
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.
Whoa, an undisputable majority
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.
Holy shit am i tired of cristofascists. We need more kind generous christians in politics ASAP.
Matthew 22:39 is a passage less christian politicians need to stop ignoring!
My congratulations to Texas, who seem like they’ll be well served by their new Senator. That’s long overdue.
New senator and new governor. Wild day to see a blue Texas
The last time I felt this way was when Obama won in 2008.
And new state house. Having half the legislature goes a long way for their new governor.
