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One of the largest Socialist parties in the USA was in Texas. Cowboys cutting fences and fighting private property, abolitionists taking a stand against the confederacy, populists taking on the rich, there’s a lot about Texas the world doesn’t know.
Grab my book to learn more
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The devil visits New York nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1nxeLMoOn…
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Should socialists reclaim efficiency?
Why is sports gambling such a problem for working-class politics?
@MattLech and @DavidGriscom answer and also break down Netanyahu's appearance in New York City on today's episode of the Jacobin Show.
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Ken Paxton keeps dodging debates.
So I called his cell to invite him to a debate on Fox News.
He didn’t pick up.
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Obama has done one public event for Democratic candidates in 2026.
Nothing to help Troy Jackson in Maine, where he's very popular, or Jon Ossoff, Abdul El-Sayed, or Sherrod Brown.
Instead, he's tempering the expectations of Democratic voters if they re-take Congress anyway.
Former President Obama says Democrats made a mistake by making goals materialistic and instrumental: "What people are starved for at the moment is the ability to tell a moral and ethical story about how we live together in this moment."
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We're a bit behind on our fall fundraising goal at @MarfaRadio - if you believe in independent journalism for rural West Texas, I hope you'll make a contribution: marfapublicradio.org/donate
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Socialist electeds have made real progress for working people, but some still opposing nuclear energy remains a baffling blind spot. You can't build a reliable, 100% clean, public grid without firm baseload power.
Nuclear is an objective good, not even a necessary evil.
🚨 NEW YORK SOCIALISTS OPPOSE NEW NUCLEAR 🚨
In a depressing new state filing, all of the DSA Socialists in Office slate serving in the state legislature have joined other state Dems in opposing the governor's landmark Nuclear Reliability Backbone initiative. Specifically, they "oppose the use of any taxpayer or ratepayer subsidies to support the construction of new nuclear power plants in New York." Why? Because, they argue, nuclear is too expensive, too slow, and what-about-the-waste. The same old New Left shit.
When will Zohran's abundance left approach be applied to energy? When will DSA abandon its green NGO advisors on energy issues?
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Going live at 2PM CT. The devil visits New York
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Gregg Abbott signed this but Ken Paxton was my boss at the Texas AG's office and I can confirm that even among conservative lawyers he was universally regarded as uniquely sleazy, criminal, and corrupt. What an embarrassment it would be for Texas if he were elected our senator.
#TexasSenate
New York Times focus group of a dozen Trump 2024 voters from Texas weigh in on Ken Paxton:
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What "Condemn Hasan Piker" is really about
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Capitalism didn't invent markets.
It made people dependent on them to survive: jacobin.com/2026/09/markets-…
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I'm heading to the Pearsall ICE detention facility to check on Wilber Garces Perez, a man who was shot in the back by an ICE agent in Austin on Sunday.
He needs a doctor, not deportation. I'll report back on what I find.
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Under socialism, Vivek Chibber argues, markets could become a tool rather than a master.
Bourgeois economics treats capitalism as simply a market economy.
Vivek Chibber traces how markets and private ownership worked under feudalism and under capitalism, and argues that socialism could use markets without restoring class society. jacobin.com/2026/09/markets-…
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Earlier this year the TX GOP threatened to denaturalize Texas Dem Gene Wu over his Chinese heritage. We have officials attacking Indian students at UT games, racist panics about Muslims and Hispanics.
I think it’s totally ass backwards to play into this goofy nonsense
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Bourgeois economics treats capitalism as simply a market economy.
Vivek Chibber traces how markets and private ownership worked under feudalism and under capitalism, and argues that socialism could use markets without restoring class society. jacobin.com/2026/09/markets-…
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Your grocery bill shouldn’t depend on what time you walk through the door.
Dynamic pricing algorithms can allow grocery stores to change prices in real time, meaning families could pay more for the same everyday essentials simply because they shop at different times.
As a part of my “A Texas You Can Afford Agenda,” I’m fighting to make sure your weekly grocery trip stays on budget.
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If people want to know how the religious right took over Texas I wrote about it here
State Rep @BrentMoney #txlege #hd2 posted this on FB, saying he will speak on “reclaiming our state into the Christian values we hold dear.” He did not say what Republicans have been doing in the 24 years the party has had total control of Texas.
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