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Campaign Platform:

https://osbornforsenate.com/platform/

Article from Ryan Grim:

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/new-poll-has-an-independent-populist

The Guardian article on Dan Osborn & his time at Kellogg's:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/29/dan-osborn-nebraska-senate-elections

Sure is a lot of "both sides" nonsense going on in here. With a whole lot of "nothing will ever change, your voice (and vote) doesn't matter, woe, woe, despair!" Give me a break. If all you want to do is whine and moan while you sip your latte, go do it in the late stage capitalism sub. The rest of us can't afford to give up. This is about a NEW DEAL, which means ACTION, not just complaints.

You don't like the Democratic party? Cool. Make the change you want to see. That starts at the bottom, not the top. We can and should be activists, but you're not going to change the entrenched party system from the top down over night. Support PACs like Leaders We Deserve, volunteer your time (and money if you can spare it). Push for candidates that want ranked choice voting, voter lead district maps, and publicly funded campaigns so that we can establish third party coalitions to threaten the entrenched status quo. Just like we're doing with unions against corporate control (general strike May 1st, 2028).

Hell, YOU run for office. The entire reason we are in the situation that we are in nationally (and globally for that matter) is because people checked out and gave up and stopped participating in their own governance. Surprise, that allowed all the power-money hungry greedy SOBs to just consolidate their control all the more.

Democrats have flirted with the oligarchy because the common people quit on them. Yes, a big part of that was a massive attack on our education, civics, and propaganda meant to disenfranchise voters, even as laws were enacted to make it more difficult to vote, but if you're spreading this "both sides" BS then you're just a part of all that.

Democrats have held the presidency with a majority senate and house for all of 4 months since Carter. All of their own policies have not been great, but they haven't been given a chance to truly govern beyond Republican obstructionism in 50 years. So if you want to act like they've failed us when they've never actually been given a chance to succeed, then go ahead and lie down and put a paper bag over your head (no it won't help), but the rest of us are willing to give them a chance while WE put in the WORK to make our party better.

I acknowledge this might seem a naive question to those who are more politically literate than I am, but it is sincerely trying to get at what does the most good from a progressive perspective.

Ranked-choice voting is designed to make voters choose what they prefer, rather than settle, and in general appears to more give us results that more accurately reflect the desires of the voting population overall than just the part of the population that wins in first-past-the-post style elections.

However, suppose that one is in a blue-leaning purple region, could ranked-choice actually lead to worse results for people by slightly increase the power of the other party in that place? This in the context that we are faced with a republican party that has espoused bigotry, coercion, corruption, and violent rhetoric at the highest levels under Trump. Would progressives who live in such regions be better off opposing ranked-choice voting?

republican opponent freezes in debate

https://www.inquirer.com/politics/curtis-bashaw-andy-kim-senate-debate-freezes-up-20241007.html

Andy's website
https://www.andykim.com/

We need universal healthcare so that every American has access to the care they need at a cost they can afford. My mother is a nurse, and she taught me to be a fierce advocate for healthcare access. Nobody should die or face bankruptcy because they can’t afford to visit their doctor.

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Read the full report from the USGS:

https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/where-do-landslides-occur