Tuesday’s Blue Tsunami is cause for elation. Next comes action. We voted out the corruption and lawlessness of the past two years. Now we must press our Democratic lawmakers to act boldly and swiftly: hold the lawbreakers accountable, strengthen our federal institutions against future authoritarian takeovers, and put government back in the service of We the People.
Here’s from the victory speech by the newly-elected Senator from Texas, James Talarico:
“We know how to get there. We must get big money out of our politics so no billionaire or trillionaire can buy our elections. We must unrig this economic system that only benefits the top 1%. We must pass universal health care so no one goes bankrupt just because they get sick. We must invest in our teachers and our students so every underdog has a fighting chance. We must end these corrupt forever wars that are driving up prices and killing our brave men and women in uniform. And, we must heal the deep spiritual corruption at the root of all of these crises. We must bridge the divides between us and repair the ties that bind us. We forged a new kind of politics here in the Lone Star State. An answer to this decade of division. We showed that when working people come together across every dividing line, we can do extraordinary things. We won this race because people who are desperate for change now are going to get change. That old politics is dying and a new politics is being born through each of us.”
