• frezik@midwest.social
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    Make it clear to the Democratic Party establishment that progressive candidates will be on the ballot in every congressional district in Nov 2026, and they will be a spoiler candidate if they have to be. Either way, we are done with their shit. There will never be a better time.

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      they will be a spoiler candidate if they have to be

      I’d rather phrase it as “and they better not run a neolib spoiler candidate”. It’s not the progressives with popular support who are spoilers, but the neoliberals who are only propped up by corpo lobbies.

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      The way to prevent a new party from being a spoiler, is having the neoliberal DNC not running a candidate.

      Since they clearly aren’t interested in winning or stopping Trump, nothing would change.

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        Look into star voting when you have a chance. The democrats can be whatever they want if the voters get the freedom to transfer their vote how they wish.

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          Oh I love star voting, I try to use it when I can in groups/communites. I used it when a decently large discord server had its only active admin just leave randomly, and there was a handful of people interested in running. STAR enabled a good result for the top two to become co-admin. Worked well until a schism happened and 90% of the active users left, myself included.

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      Write your senators about this folks, if you really care about Bernie and AOC, write your Senator and let them know you support Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Urge them to stand with them, or to at least listen to what these two folks have to say.

      It probably wont do anything, but if we keep writing them (I write weekly) dropping their names, maybe they will take the fuckin hint