The 13 Democrats who just voted to move to debate on trade deal.

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163. I've helped get the head of the congressional progressive caucus elected

as well as two senators who voted against Fast Track. I do GOTV activities every single election. In some years I have organized GOTV activities in multiple precincts.

Here's the thing I find annoying. The reason those centrist Dems are so important is because huge swaths of the country, like your state, elects Republicans. You can go on about imperfect Democrats all you want, but right now you are electing Republicans, including at least one Tea Bagger, to the Senate from your state. I don't sit and wag my finger at Democrats who are less progressive than those in my state because I know the rest of the country, NH for example, isn't like MN. Yet people who live in very conservative parts of the country, who manage to elected few to no Democrats, are particularly prone to lecturing everyone else about the Democratic representatives they do elect. My suggestion to you and every other red state Democrat is to clean up your own house. If you want to make the party more progressive, elect progressives, or at least Democrats. If Texas ever does elect a Democrat again, that person will be a lot more like Shaheem than Franken, but that will still be a considerable improvement over Ted Cruz.