A fresh face with ideas that transcend political party
Greg Casar Is Organizing to Win
If there is a winning future for the Democratic Party, it will emanate from young politicians like Greg Casar of Austin, Texas. His ideas cross party lines to connect with anyone who works for a living and is being challenged to live a viable life – as the price of everything escalates and wages are stagnant. Americans of every stripe are being crushed by the rising cost of housing, utilities, food, health insurance, home insurance – you name it. And the effect of the Chaos Tariffs have hardly been felt yet.
The new chair of the Progressive Caucus in the House of Representatives wants to do for Democrats what he did for construction workers in Texas. Organize around the economics of family survival.
From an article in Texas Monthly:
“TM: You’re not necessarily abandoning your progressive positions on LGBTQ issues, on abortion, on these culture-war issues that Republicans have used to great effect in Texas. But you want the conversation to start with—
GC: I want to start with those economic issues. We’re never going to be able to protect the rights of minority groups unless we win the majority of elections. I also think that economic populism is an answer to how we maintain our progressive ideals on other issues. Some people think that the way to deal with immigration issues is to go Republican lite on those issues or just hope nobody notices immigration anymore. That doesn’t work, right?
We need to go on offense on the economy so that then when somebody brings up immigration, we could say, “Look, I’m a defender of immigrant rights,” or, “Look, I’m a defender of LGBT rights. And even if you might disagree with me on trans issues, if we can agree that Congress’s first job should be driving down the cost of housing, if we can agree that Congress should make it so that childcare is never more than seven percent of your budget no matter who you are in this country, then maybe our disagreement on trans issues is less of a big deal, because honestly, that factors into the lives of most voters so little.”
From The American Prospect:
“What bothered Casar most was waning support for Democrats from working-class voters, something he had seen firsthand on the campaign trail for Harris. He saw it as an existential crisis for the party of the New Deal and Great Society, predicated on fighting for the common man and woman. “If we become a party of upper-income people, then I think we’re toast because we become a contradiction in and of ourselves as a party,” he said.
This year, Casar has focused squarely on reviving Democrats’ populist roots, while trusting that such positioning can play across the ideological divide. While the CPC has typically tended to its own membership in policy development and political strategy, Casar has pitched frontliners and swing-district members on his anti-oligarchy message.”
From The American Economic Liberties Project:
“Rep. Greg Casar (TX-35) kicked off the event by speaking to the broad recognition that our healthcare system, dominated by vertically-integrated giants, is severely broken, saying, “ There is a growing consensus [of lawmakers] who recognize that these middlemen pharmacy benefit managers, that these private equity mergers and that the monopolization of our healthcare system is hurting Texans, no matter who you vote for.”
“People from both sides of the aisle, people all over the country, and providers and patients alike are saying it is time to break up Big Medicine,” Rep. Casar concluded.”
The current partisan divide is so top of brain now that we forget that there were Bernie Sanders supporters who voted for Trump in 2016. Because they saw Hillary as part of the same system that Trump was challenging. A system where both parties had done not nearly enough to provide better jobs, lower prices – a sustainable life for average working people. Sanders and Trump were “change candidates”.
Hillary would have been a far better president than Trump, of course. But she represented the status quo that had provided bupkis for the workers who lost their jobs to outsourcing and automation.
The Democratic Party can shed its “coastal elite” image with the help of young leaders like Greg Casar. Let’s find them and applaud their WINNING messages!
Yes. And perhaps we need to rename the party. The Democratic Workers Party. DEMAND respect for LABOR. Not oligarchs, not guys with too much money and too many yachts. Workers in factories, stores, distribution centers and offices. Workers at home, in coffee shops and hotels. Workers providing us with food!
Workers everywhere.
Most of America is suffering while a few are wallowing in extreme luxury. It ain’t right.
It all sounds really “lefty” doesn’t it. Who cares!
What has the “right” done for us lately?
Raise wages? Nope.
Control inflation? Nope.
Make housing more affordable? Nope.
Provide a new and better health plan? Nope.
Flip the script.
Our retort?
“The Oligarchs of Russia have nothing on the ones in the US of A.”
The fight is on.
“End Socialism for the Rich”.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/greg-casar-texas-redistricting-economic-populism/
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-07-28-organizing-to-win-greg-casar/
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