This is so cursed2021 Republic of Texas Elections
The 2021 Republic of Texas elections were held on Tuesday, November 2, 2021. The Liberal Party's nominee and Mayor of Houston Elizabeth Warren defeated the Democratic nominee and Speaker of the House of Delegates Dan Branch in the presidential election. Incumbent Democratic president Kay Bailey Hutchison decided to forgo a run at a fourth term in office and instead decided to retire. In the congressional elections, Liberals gained control of both Houses of Congress. As a result, the Liberals successfully obtained a government trifecta, the first time since the elections in 2000 that the party gained unified control of Congress and the Cook House.
Warren became her party's nominee after defeating several challengers in the Liberal primaries including then House Minority Leader Ben Ray Lujan, Senator Joseph Deshotel, Senator Joaquin Castro, and former Attorney General Drew Edmonson, while Branch faced little opposition in the Democratic primaries other than former Attorney General Greg Abbott. In the general election, Warren would perform well in the Liberal heartlands along the Rio Grande, on the Eastern Border, and in the Red River Valley, but she would overperform previous Liberal candidates the most in urban areas. In cities such as Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, and her home-town of Oklahoma City, Warren would massively overperform previous Liberal candidates in areas that Liberals have not won in decades, which gave her a 156-143 edge in the District Vote to win the election. 2021 is also the first election since 2000 where the Liberals won the popular vote in the presidential election. Liberals made a net gain of 14 seats in the Senate for a total of 78 seats, taking control of the chamber for the first time since the 2000 elections.
Warren's campaign centered on several issues most notably rolling back the Democratic reforms to Texas's Medicare program, decreasing the voting age from 20 to 16, increasing the minimum wage to $13 an hour, cleaning up the Red River environmental crisis, expanding the citizen-led ballot initiative process, and implementing stronger anti-corruption laws for judges.
Very cool concept, but the population is massive! That's almost twice of Australia's current population, especially since Tasmania has also been excluded. I'd personally estimate a population of closer to 18 million instead, maybe even just 15 million. This would be either 22.5 times or 18.7 times the current population of indigenous Australians, which sounds more plausible to me given the low estimates of ~320k to 1 million indigenous Australians at the beginning of British colonization.
Yeah I'd tend to agree on that, based on the slow rate of rebound after the early epidemics (which would happen in all case), a recovery to pre-contact population level seem possible by 1900 (although warfare, colonial conquest, and vaccination rate would affect these, the latter's impact was shown to partially explain why parts of the dutch east indies demographically stagnated in the 19th century compared to others), after it depends on a lot more factors, but a general decupling of the population would be conservative by comparison of papua, or much of post-colonial africa.
What is the electoral system used to elect the Senate? Why third parties perform better in the Senate election? What is the ideology behind Reform Party?2021 Republic of Texas Elections
The 2021 Republic of Texas elections were held on Tuesday, November 2, 2021. The Liberal Party's nominee and Mayor of Houston Elizabeth Warren defeated the Democratic nominee and Speaker of the House of Delegates Dan Branch in the presidential election. Incumbent Democratic president Kay Bailey Hutchison decided to forgo a run at a fourth term in office and instead decided to retire. In the congressional elections, Liberals gained control of both Houses of Congress. As a result, the Liberals successfully obtained a government trifecta, the first time since the elections in 2000 that the party gained unified control of Congress and the Cook House.
Warren became her party's nominee after defeating several challengers in the Liberal primaries including then House Minority Leader Ben Ray Lujan, Senator Joseph Deshotel, Senator Joaquin Castro, and former Attorney General Drew Edmonson, while Branch faced little opposition in the Democratic primaries other than former Attorney General Greg Abbott. In the general election, Warren would perform well in the Liberal heartlands along the Rio Grande, on the Eastern Border, and in the Red River Valley, but she would overperform previous Liberal candidates the most in urban areas. In cities such as Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, and her home-town of Oklahoma City, Warren would massively overperform previous Liberal candidates in areas that Liberals have not won in decades, which gave her a 156-143 edge in the District Vote to win the election. 2021 is also the first election since 2000 where the Liberals won the popular vote in the presidential election. Liberals made a net gain of 14 seats in the Senate for a total of 78 seats, taking control of the chamber for the first time since the 2000 elections.
Warren's campaign centered on several issues most notably rolling back the Democratic reforms to Texas's Medicare program, decreasing the voting age from 20 to 16, increasing the minimum wage to $13 an hour, cleaning up the Red River environmental crisis, expanding the citizen-led ballot initiative process, and implementing stronger anti-corruption laws for judges.
Yikes 😬It’s Your Fight Too: Dick Gephardt’s America and Its Malcontents
senator bob avakian???????????It’s Your Fight Too: Dick Gephardt’s America and Its Malcontents
BRAD Avakian is a pretty standard union-backed Democrat and a former Oregon labor commissioner who ran for congress once or twice OTL, don’t worry I’m not totally off the deep end here
But then you have Bjago and Bob Dorman as President making it a cursed TL.
