Former Travis County Democratic Party Chair | 🏳️⚧️ | opinions are my own
Austin, TX
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#waymo blocking another emergency vehicle. These things need regulation before somebody dies.
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Jessica Cohen retweeted
Today, I filed my first 3 bills of the 90th Legislative Session:
✅ Expand Medicaid
✅ Implement Online Voter Registration
✅ Reverse 30 years of Republican voter suppression
Texans made their priorities clear. Now it’s our job to deliver.
Jessica Cohen retweeted
45 years. FORTY FIVE YEARS they have been regurgitating the same exhausting talking points.
Supply-side economics is a demonstrably failed experiment.
They did not, in fact, create more jobs and reinvest beyond market driven expectations. They have been hoarding and concentrating wealth for FORTY FIVE YEARS - all the while convincing just enough people that it is the immigrants’ fault, or the minority’s fault, or the LGBTQ person’s fault.
THEY LIED TO YOU SO THEY COULD STEAL FROM YOU AND YOU WOULD BLAME YOUR NEIGHBORS INSTEAD OF THEM.
It is way beyond time to restore the balance to demand-side economics. You can’t pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you can’t even afford boots!
INVEST in our people and communities with the literal basics of quality education, quality healthcare, and affordable housing.
Give people a solid chance to actually work hard and thrive in this country.
NOT socialism - BALANCE. Good heavens I am so over people carrying water for the individuals in the ivory towers laughing at how they’ve used their powers to divide us and destroyed the American dream in the process.
You are on the wrong side of history, Jason.
Well, you’re filing things that you know won’t actually pass the Senate because a lot of them will destroy small businesses in Texas because very few people already make under minimum wage at $15 an hour so a lot of this is for show so why not try to find some bills that will actually get government out-of-the-way so people can prosper instead of becoming dependent on government
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I’ll be filing it first thing tomorrow morning. It’s past time we get this done for the people of this state!
@BucyForTexas I heard you speak at UT’s LBJ School. Texas still hasn’t expanded Medicaid. The federal government covers 90% of expansion costs; Texas covers 10%. Please refile the expansion bill and lay out a path to passage. It’s Texans’ tax money, too.
Looks like the Russian Bots are back up and running and the play is going to be an election fraud conspiracy. Oh yay.
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I’m a big fan of single-issue bills. No more wrapping everything into one super complicated bill. Pass the agenda in pieces in a transparent way for everyone to understand. It’ll help us get more done with different coalitions on each issue.
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Now that things are starting to calm down, I’ve had time to check out the final numbers.
District swing: D +25.1, representing the 3rd largest single district swing this election.
Final cost per vote:
Me: $2.91
My opponent: $31.90
Organized people beat organized money every time. Hope is alive in Texas.
The only bad part about Tuesdays amazing wins in Texas? The realization that Donald Trump most likely didn't cheat on the 2024 elections. America just couldn't bring itself to vote for Kamala.
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Jessica Cohen retweeted
We need to teach these people what “flood the zone” really means. The new Democratic majority should spam good legislation to Trump’s desk every single day. Tariffs? Multiple bills to attack it from every angle. Same with war, same with healthcare, same with his corruption. Make him veto every day stuff that’ll lower our prices. Hit them from every direction and make them get tired. All gas, no brakes.
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Trump asked the people to vote as if he were on the ballot. THEY DID. Thank you Americans from coast to coast.
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Don’t tell me that Elon Musk’s wealth is tied up in assets when he just dropped $446 million on this election alone.
Tax the fking rich.
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Hitler didn't get a grave, because Germany didn't want Nazis to use it as a shrine to worship him.
When Trump finally croaks, he shouldn't get a grave either.
Tell me you're racist without telling me you're a racist
No one — NO ONE — has done more to divide the American people than this POS.
Almost every problem we have in American politics can be traced to this scumbag’s time in office.
I am glad his museum looks like a garbage can, because that is how Hussein Obama will be remembered.
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