“This state is going to change the country. … That’s why I’m here, for the long game. I don’t care how many cycles it takes, it’s going to happen: Texas turning blue is in-ev-it-ab-le,” said AOC.
The two progressive candidates would represent a new left edge of the state's congressional delegation if primary voters from Austin to San Antonio to Laredo back them.On Saturday morning, two days before the start of early primary voting, New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to the stage at a music venue in Central San Antonio to deliver a message familiar to Texas liberals. “This state is going to change the country. … That’s why I’m here, for the long game.
The hope of the Great Blueing of Texas is, of course, invoked as often as it is dashed. And there’s little evidence yet suggesting Democrats will make headway statewide, in the balance of the congressional delegation, or in the Legislature this year.
Like Ocasio-Cortez, both candidates are young, Hispanic, and committed to an array of left-wing proposals, including Medicare for All and a $15 minimum wage. They share the endorsements of national progressive groups, including the Justice Democrats and the Working Families Party along with state and local unions and the Texas Organizing Project. They’ll also have to overcome more established Democrats in their primary contests.
“In this moment when Texas has grown and we’re going to have new and more congressional representation, the question is what kind of representation,” Casar said Saturday. “We need progressive fighters in Texas.” New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez alongside congressional candidates Jessica Cisneros and Greg Casar.In 2014, Casar was elected as Austin’s youngest ever city council member at the age of 25, part of aas the city switched from an at-large council to district-based seats—a move meant to open the door for more candidates of color. Prior, Casar had been a labor organizer for a local nonprofit. In the coming years, he emerged as the council’s predominant mover of progressive policy.
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