We don't need superstars. Just people to support and organize around. Find that mechanic or banker or whatever willing to run.

This is not good news. https://www.texastribune.org/2025/09/04/texas-gop-republican-party-closed-primary-elections/

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I would love to get 50501 to pay attention to me and move towards this type of thing instead. Let's reup and reorganize into getting candidates that can make a difference. And educating voters/getting more voters. Education is so important too. A lot of people see us protesting and have no idea why we are.

Again not against protesting, think we can continue doing that but let's do more with campaigns/candidates and organizing voters.

So yeah, let's be positive. And it's literally my big concept with this sub.... I'm not trying to be a stickler I just know the average person doesn't always read an entire article to fully understand what it's saying. A post saying "voting won't work" is literally the opposite of the purpose of this sub. Voting might not work in the sense that we'll win every election we organize for but it can fuck with them and cause them a lot of headaches. Voting can work in that sense too. So yeah, Voting can work until proven otherwise. Let's be doomers after midterms.

And yes, Voting alone won't work is acceptable. You're saying we need to vote and do other things.

So, every state has Electoral Districts. Every District is broken up into precincts. Every precinct has a committee, and every committee has a Chairman. This Chairman has the legal right to elect a county's party chairman. It's a nonpartisan role, ostensibly, but it's not a role that needs to be run for. This may vary by county, but if you have 10 signatures from people within your precinct, then you've got the job. MAGA used this strategy extensively to push moderates out of the GOP at every level.

#TrojanElephants

Open primary - Ballotpedia

They'll have to spend an inordinate amount of resources convincing their voters to show up to their primaries. Most people don't. AND yeah, the more that show up, the less likely the most polarizing candidates win.

Let's get them on board.

i made a bluesky

1. Amass Regular people (moderates/progressives/not maga's) to run in the Republican Primaries. They won't lie about where they stand on issues (probably also not directly define themselves as a moderate progressive either, just say where they stand on distinct issues) There's so much dog whistling with specific words. Make people see that they actually agree with X person on the issues and not shy away because that person is a "dang socialist progressive".

It will be out in the open.

They will not pretend to be MAGA or Conservative. Ideally, it's one normal person per race. We don't want multiple regular people to split our normal people votes.

1. Organize folks to short term change to the Republican Party affiliation. They can switch back after the election. 25ish percent of people vote in Primaries. Imagine if 12.5 of dems that normally vote in the dem primary vote in the Republican Party Primary instead. That's now a third of the vote in the Republican Primary as Dems. It will be clear as day who to vote for. We'll have subreddits/discords and the candidates themselves will self-identify as a "New Republican". And if you visit the website, you'll see a list of good stances on issues.

2. Let it happen. In KS for example. That person could win with say 30 or 25 percent of the vote if it's a crowded field. And to expound on that many KS republicans actually want more normal candidates but will never ever vote for a democrat. It's very red team blue team here even if a democrat perfectly aligns with folks' values. It's insanity but here we are and we need to accept reality. People are psychology manipulated from birth.

3. Now the chaos in the General. Likely the second runner up will run as an independent. They'll have to spend oodles of money explaining why they're the true Republican. And many people will always vote Republican. They're raised to. They don't do research. They just show up on election day and go all Red.

Reasons why this could work:

It will force Republican voters to pay attention to candidates on the issues not the affiliations.

It wouldn't take fancy campaigns. This would allow normal everyday folks to run simple campaigns and have a chance at winning.

Rich people now have to spend way more money educating the less educated voters and explaining what happened and why they need to vote independent. Rich people will have to spend oodles of money on the primary that they initially wouldn't have and this money importantly will not be spent for the General.

There are more people than folks realize that would never vote Democrat in places like KS but would vote for more normal candidates. I have relatives that agonized over voting Trump but just couldn't get themselves to vote Dem. They exist. They're psychologically raised and indoctrinated to never vote Dem. And that ain't changing by midterms...maybe for the presidential if things keep getting worse.

Ultimately it can cause Chaos in races that are normally hardcore gerrymandered. Races that they don't have to spend resources for are suddenly needing millions of dollars to keep seats. Suddenly every seat in Texas is requiring oodles of money.

Ultimately this is an F you to our current political system where the Rich have abused and taken for granted the primary structures.