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notdarkyet

(2,226 posts) Sat Feb 11, 2017, 04:46 PM Feb 2017

We are Winning!

http://progressnownm.org/2017/02/07/in-first-post-trump-elections-progressives-sweep-school-elections-helped-by-record-voter-turnout

In NM voters and progressives kicked as on NM elections for school boards. Killed the pee party.

Progressive candidates fought off pro-Trump Tea Party candidates in school board elections around the state, Tuesday. It was the first election test of the newly energized progressive movement in the Trump era.

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The results are still coming in but the early results are already clear: this movement isn’t just about resistance in the streets – we’re voting, too!