Memo for Progressives: Don’t Mess With Texas

By Scott Alford on July 12, 2013

Despite being one of the most influential thinkers in modern American politics, few people know the name “Saul Alinsky.” His book, Rules for Radicals, outlines a brilliant community organizing strategy—condensed, he instructs “Go home, organize, build power and at the next convention, you be the delegates.” President Obama did just that. While many conservatives mocked our community-organizer-in-chief, the president successfully executed Alinsky’s approach. Over two election cycles, Barack Obama won the White House by assembling a giant coalition of radical progressives, who will shape future elections. Now, they are coming for Texas, an electoral giant and potential swing-state.

The liberty movement must meet them head on. The activism organization “Battleground Texas”—an offshoot of President Obama’s massive campaign machine—is mobilizing to convert the state of Texas for progressivism. It’s time to fight back. It’s time to tell them to “Come and Take it.”



Progressive Transformation

While conservative Texans and the GOP establishment insist the Lone Star State will never turn “blue,” Colorado offers startling precedent. A decade ago, the GOP dominated every level of government in Colorado. “We controlled everything but the courts,” former Director of the Colorado Republican Party, Allen Phillip, explained, “Nobody seriously thought Colorado was anything but a right leaning state.” Yet, by the election cycles of 2006 and 2008, red tides had turned blue.

Colorado’s political transition was not determined by a nationwide drift from a big-government Bush administration toward “Hope and Change.” Rather, a group of four wealthy progressive heavyweights privatized the political infrastructure of the Democratic Party. They strategically reshaped Colorado’s political infrastructure to steer progressive to the top of a political landscape once dominated by the state’s GOP. While Republican split over issues like “the Taxpayer Bill of Rights,” the Democrats pounced. They imposed political discipline, coordinated grassroots efforts, and achieved objectives—winning state legislative races that were up for grabs.

Now, the Democratic Party plans to employ this “Colorado Model” across all fifty states, and they’ve set their sights on the great state of Texas.

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July 15, 2013 4:00 AM
Texas: How Pro-Lifers Won
The pro-choice activists with “aggressive tattoos” helped motivate Republicans.
By Betsy Woodruff



Wendy Davis won the battle, but Rick Perry won the war. Today, the governor signs the omnibus pro-life bill that, for at least a few weeks, drove thousands of protesters to the statehouse and put a national spotlight on Texas...

Graham tells me that the legislation draws from the fetal-pain bill that passed the U.S. House in June. “The pain bill is the next logical step after sonograms that draws attention to the humanity of the unborn child,” she says. “And so with each piece of legislation, you have a regulatory-enforcement piece, and then there’s a piece that has to recognize that the preborn child is a victim of abortion, as well as the woman.”...

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http://nationalreview.com/article/353406...-betsy-woodruff