If Progressives assert their empowering narrative, Election 2022 will be a blowout for the good ones.
No more fear. Two interviews by two women doing their part and a pundit that has not caved to the defeatist narrative should keep us all revitalized. Your thoughts?
In this Issue:
Democrats will win in a blowout in 2022. No history says otherwise. Jonathan Alter is right.
Lillie Schechter, Harris County Democratic Party Chair, on winning in Texas and beyond.
Justice Revival founder Allyson McKinney Timm redefines the current faith movement.
Democrats will win in a blowout in 2022. No history says otherwise. Jonathan Alter is right.
Too often, we succumb to narratives that are based on all the wrong parameters. Democrats are poised for a 2022 blowout win. Jonathan Alter is on point.
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I have been waiting for a bold pundit to go on national cable TV and say what Jonathan Alter said on Lawrence O’Donnell’s panel. We need more Progressives to get on TV and repeat ad nauseam. Too often, we create self-fulfilling prophecies because of unjustified fear, poor analysis, and false equivalences.
The narrative that most in the political punditry and journalism have been that Democrats will lose the House and maybe the Senate. Steve Kornacki did not make it any better with his charts, almost willing a Democratic loss based on raw history and little intellectual reasoning. Note to Steve: It is not about defying history but leaning into reality.
"The larger point, Lawrence, is that this assumption that the Democrats are necessarily going to lose seats in the 2022 midterms because of voter suppression, because of the normal physics of American politics where the party out of the White House almost always loses seats," Jonathan Alter pointed out. "That assumption might be false, and the reason for that is some of what Zerlina was talking about. That, you know, disgust with Trump is still alive in the land. And also, when you try to take away people's right to vote, the backlash against that the fact that they're for black voters, that their parents and grandparents in some cases died for the right to vote, you could see turnout in a midterm election that matches or approaches turnout in a presidential election year. And if that happens, if the midterms approach presidential-level turnout, it's a blowout for the Democrats."
Here is the deal. The Republican base is shrinking. Indeed, 74% of Republicans are still Trump sycophants. It is also true that a Republican likely cannot win a Republican primary by defying Trump. But let’s remember basic math. Republicans only make up 25% of the voting population. This means that Trump’s real support is only (.74 X 25%). In other words %18.5% of the population. While Republicans need Trump adoration to get through their primaries, Republicans need voter suppression, fraud, and a defective constitutional process to win.
So let’s do our job and prepare the path for a blowout. We must work for it. But remember that there is no historical context of a party led by a twice impeached lying unpatriotic incompetent insurrectionist instigator orchestrating a win.
Lillie Schechter, Harris County Democratic Party Chair, on winning in Texas and beyond.
Retiring Harris County Democratic Party Chair Lillie Schechter discusses the changes she made to the Democratic Party in Harris County, Texas. She was successful.
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Lillie Schechter is the retiring Harris County Democratic Party Chair. Texas’ Harris County is a bellwether county and the third-largest county in the country, Los Angeles and Cook County Illinois the only two more populous. Under her reign, Democrats have thrived in winning all major elections but getting out the vote because Republicans in the Texas State Legislature are attempting to carve out policies that undemocratically depress the votes of the Democratic base in the county.
So here are some of the things accomplished under her administration.
Swept the county winning every down-ballot race.
Flipped the 1st and 14th Courts of Appeals.
Elected Judge Lina Hidalgo, the youngest major county CEO in America.
Elected Commissioner Adrian Garcia.
Took control of the Harris County Commissioners Court!
Strengthened stronghold on Harris County by electing Democrats in every position on the ballot.
Played a part in taking back the White House.
Harris County Democrats won 2018 and 2020 because of the hard work and collaboration of the amazing staff, precinct chairs, clubs, volunteers, activists, donors, and elected officials that make up our great party infrastructure.
“Over the last 4 years, we’ve really revitalized the party, working to professionalize the organization, upgrading our brand with a new logo and website, moving the office to a storefront in the heart of Fifth Ward,” Schechter said. “Transforming the work environment and staff structure to a year-round operation with living wages and healthcare, and deliberately focusing on strengthening our relationships, engaging volunteers, and mobilizing voters in our core communities around the county.”
Here are just a few of our stats from the last 4 years:
Volunteers: 2,354 volunteers completing over 4,485 volunteer shifts
Digital Impressions: 6,416,880
Texts: 1,938,540
Phone Calls: 1,316,777
Mail: 1,153,248
Door Knocks: 208,574
Trainings: 100+
Over the past 4 years, HCDP raised almost $5 million to support the party staff and the Democratic elected officials and candidates. They’ve hosted events headlined by DNC Chair Jaime Harrison, former Chair Tom Perez, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Secretary Hillary Clinton, and so many more leaders of the Democratic Party.
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Justice Revival founder Allyson McKinney Timm redefines the current faith movement.
Allyson McKinney Timm has a refreshing look at the responsibilities of the faith community, the faith movement in today’s America that’s important.
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Allyson visited Politics Done Right to discuss her work with the organization she founded, Justice Revival. She made it clear that Christians have a responsibility to justice, equality, and much more. She was clear, as was her website with her mission and vision. The mission is to inspire, educate, and mobilize Christian communities to respond faithfully to the call to justice by standing in solidarity with the oppressed and defending the human rights of all. And the vision is is a just and equitable society in which every person can experience abundant life because the human dignity of all people is respected, the human rights of all are safeguarded, and all are treated as beloved members of the human family formed in the image of God.
Watch the entire interview. It is great to see that the Christian “Left” will not leave the definition of their religion for others to use it to harm.
Who is Allyson McKinney Timm
Allyson McKinney Timm is a human rights lawyer, scholar, and faith leader with two decades of experience defending the dignity and rights of those on the margins, in the United States and globally. Her work promoting justice and equality has spanned the nonprofit, private, and academic sectors. After founding Justice Revival in 2017, Allyson was named “one of ten faith leaders to watch” by the Center for American Progress. Her writing has appeared in Sojourners, California Lawyer, The Independent, USA Today, Yale Divinity School’s Reflections magazine, etc.
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