Hi Corky

You said it.

Too bad the Republicans automatically get a dozen Senators every six years from Texas, the Dakotas, Florida, etc while non-status quo progressive candidates have to fight their own party to get a shot, like James Talarico in Texas or Zohran Mamdani in NYC.

Zohran met more opposition from his fellow Democrats to become NYC mayor, like from the abominable Andrew Cuomo.

Republican Curtis Sliwa was kinder towards Zohran. Curtis turned toward Zohran on the debate stage and expressed his outrage at the threats made against him. Those threats emanated from Cuomo's Islamophobic campaign. Cuomo looked down at his notes or sipped water during that exchange.

Thanks, Corky.

Puerto Rico and Wash DC statehood would give us an automatic four senators to counter the vile GOP.

The GOP will never let that happen. Too brown and too black for their taste.

You will notice that progressives call for abolishing ICE, like JFK said about CIA after the 1961 Bay of Pigs disaster: "CIA should be thrown into the four winds." [sic].

Camelot inherited that CIA operation from the previous Eisenhower administration and JFK wanted smooth relations with them, so he told his folks to proceed with their plan. That was his mistake.

Today, status quo politicians from both parties call for "fixing" or "reforming" ICE and DHS.

There was no "fixing" or "reforming" the Gestapo in Germany after the Second World War.