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Ezra Levin Profile picture
@ezralevin
Sep 22, 2020 • 8 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
Y'all, Texas is winnable. Here's the key: the turnout MACHINES are the down-ballot candidates. They're spunkier, less well known, & lower on cash. Every dollar of donation and hour of volunteer time to them goes to getting out the voters we need to win the state. Short thread...
.@candacefor24 has one the strongest Indivisible groups in the country rallying around her. TX-24 is a winnable R+9 district near Dallas full of voters we need to win statewide. Rated "tossup"! She's out with her first ad today - get behind her.
.@JulieOliverTX incredible, inspiring candidate who in 2018 came closer to unseating the reactionary Republican incumbent than anyone in his career. This is round two. TX-25 is a R+11 district stretching from Austin to Ft. Worth. Watch her ad:
.@SriPKulkarni SRI!!! Y'all, you have to check out this guy and just listen to him speak. Don't you want him in Congress?? TX-22 is a R+10 district outside of Houston. He came close in 2018 and the district this year is rated as a "tossup"!
.@SiegelForTexas Mike Siegel TX-10 is a R+10 district stretching from Austin to Houston. I kicked off a phonebank with Mike in 2018 when he came close to unseating an awful GOP incumbent, and the race is rated "lean R" this year. Winnable!
.@wendydavis is the most well known on this list - you remember her from her fight against anti-abortion laws in TX and statewide run. TX-21 is an R+10 district stretching from San Antonio to Austin. And it's rated "tossup" this year!
Are they all going to win? Probably not. But each one has a real shot. Each one has been endorsed by local Indivisible groups. And EVERY one of them is driving turnout that will help not just them, but also statewide turnout for the TX senate and the TX electoral college.
I'm a former TX congressional staffer and campaign worker - and for the first time since I've been paying attention, TX could flip blue. But we have to work hard and smart. The biggest bang for your extra buck or hour of volunteering is with these candidates. /end

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Nov 12, 2022
Here's what happened. Early this year, @IndivisibleTeam began arguing that our only shot at winning the midterms was to force public attention on GOP extremism. This wasn't a popular opinion, but we weren't alone. Some appreciation for the folks who fought for this strategy...
.@anatosaurus, @jenancona, & @WayToWinAF: message makers for the movement. They offered invaluable messaging guidance for us and movement leaders on how to land the blow against MAGA extremism and for protecting our freedoms.
Navin Nayak at @CAPAction: We were trying to figure out how to succinctly describe "GOP extremism" which was just a mouthful. Navin's smart research made a solid case for the phrase "MAGA Republicans." We immediately adopted this approach in all messaging.
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Dec 18, 2021
Some folks think Indivisible started in response to Trump - but that’s only half true. We really decide to start Indivisible in response to feckless Dem leadership at the outset of an authoritarian surge. Here's why that’s still needed...
thehill.com/homenews/senat…
After shelving BBB this week, Biden and Senate Dems said they were going to pursue voting rights “aggressively” for the rest of the year. And then just about 24 hours later, we learned they were going to go on vacation.
The only good news from this garbage week is that we're closer to filibuster/democracy reform than we've ever been. In the Senate, there was real progress - three holdouts endorsed filibuster reform: Warner, Hickenlooper, and Hassan. More have done so privately. We're close.
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Dec 3, 2021
Two must-read articles this #FilibusterFriday with the good/bad of where we stand on democracy reform.
1) The Good: @Grace_Segers on how congressional leadership is actively working to get to the finish line on filibuster reform and democracy. newrepublic.com/article/164582…
2) The Bad: @srl with an inside look at just how little Biden and Harris are doing to help. theguardian.com/us-news/2021/d…
The congressional piece should make you optimistic about our chances, and because of that, Biden/Harris' absence is baffling. Let me quote Biden here:

"We’re facing the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War. That’s not hyperbole, since the Civil War."
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Dec 1, 2021
Trump packed the court with anti-choice zealots explicitly for this purpose. Short thread on what Dems *could* do in response... nymag.com/intelligencer/…
Trump wasn't coy about it - he told the public (and GOP senators like Susan Collins) exactly what he was doing.
The court has been packed, politicized, and perverted. The solution to this problem is not just "win elections," or "replace retiring justices," or even "pass democracy reform." You have to reform the institution itself or the answer to Sotomayor's question is clearly "No."
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Sep 29, 2021
Everybody who is not Sinema/Manchin should be FURIOUS now. We can have fights on policy - that’s normal. That’s NOT what’s happening here. Sinema/Manchin AGREED to the reconciliation top-line. THAT AGREEMENT is what got the BIF 69 votes in the Senate. Short angry thread...
Without that agreement on reconciliation, the BIF would never have gotten through the senate. We know this because 11 Senate Democrats signed a letter saying passing BIF without the reconciliation bill would be QUOTE “in violation of that agreement.” thehill.com/policy/finance…
This is easy math. Take out those 11 senate votes and what do you get for BIF? 58 votes - not enough to clear the dumb filibuster hurdle of 60. BIF is DEAD without those 11 votes. And the way Sinema/Manchin GOT them was by promising a reconciliation bill along with BIF.
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Aug 11, 2021
In July, we set a deadline for democracy for the senate to pass the For the People Act before August recess. They just blew past it. Here's my read on what that means and what our options are. Three points to pull out: [short thread]
indivisibleteam.medium.com/we-blew-past-t…
1) Missing this deadline means that the anti-gerrymandering provision in the bill is more likely to fail an inevitable court challenge. So the GOP is more likely to succeed in rigging maps next year. That is an unavoidable consequence of missing the deadline. This simply sucks.
2) The bill at large and even the gerrymandering provision isn't dead. All Dems voted for it early this morning, and Schumer committed to taking it up as soon as recess is over. If the Senate Dems eliminate the filibuster and pass the bill, there is a ton of good it can still do.
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