In 2010, we saw the Tea Party Movement under the guise of the Republican Party sweep into power in the House of Representatives. In 2014, Republicans claimed their largest majority in the House of Reps since 1929.
The House of Representatives has several exclusive powers to impeach officials, elect the President if there is no majority in the Electoral College and initiate revenue bills. Remember back in 2013 when Republicans shut down the government? That was because they had control of the House of Representatives, and wanted to defund the Affordable Care Act by striking key provisions in the budget bills passed by the Republicans. We cannot let another House of Representatives under Paul Ryan return to Washington DC in 2017.
The election victory won’t be complete if Hillary Clinton wins the White House. The election victory won’t be complete if Democrats win control of the US Senate. The election victory will be complete if Democrats win the White House, the US Senate and the US House of Representatives. To enact legislation that will have a lasting impact upon all Americans, Democrats must have majorities in both chambers of Congress and win the White House.
Here is a list of the marginal House of Representatives seats that can be won by these progressive Democrats:
Democrats only need thirty two seats to win the House of Representatives. Please vote for these candidates, its the only way we can prevent another two years of Republican obstructionism. If you don’t know your House District, you can locate it here.
Remember to vote on November 8! Hillary Clinton isn’t the only person on the ballot and we can’t stop Republican obstructionism without retaking the House!
Also VOTE FOR STATE LEGISLATIVE AND LOCAL OFFICES TOO jfc
Here in the state of Washington (basically as liberal as you get) our state Senate is GOP-controlled. That’s insane. If you look at statistics for how many votes are cast for each position, you can actually see people stop voting as they move down the ballot, and the end result is that candidates for president, governor, etc are huge Democratic wins but in local offices, awful people can just slip through the cracks and these are the people who have the most power to screw up your local community.
A huge feature of how the GOP evolved at the end of the 20th century is they started running radical right-wing candidates for local offices, and because no one was paying attention, they won. In droves. A lot of them are still in office today, and their proteges are filling in where they’re not. That’s part of how the Flint water crisis started. It’s why the Texas School Board has been able to circulate textbooks around the ENTIRE COUNTRY that encourage children to doubt evolution and think of slavery as some acceptable thing.
We can end that legacy. Vote.
VOTE.
MAKE SURE YOU ARE REGISTERED, AND VOTE
VOTE VOTE VOTE
Remember these elections are JUST AS important as the presidential elections…we don’t JUST need a Democrat in the white house, we need a democrat majority house of representatives as well <3
