George
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George
@gchandler.bsky.social
Husband, father of 3 young adults, one with Down syndrome. Originally from Galveston area, now blue dot in Dallas. Mortgage guy.
The average premium for employer healthcare is just over $27,000, with employee paying about $7,000 and employer paying $20,000. With average $100,000 income, that's 32% total.

Corporations should be screaming for a national single payer plan.
November 21, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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A reminder: inflation burns but it is the level of prices relative to income that most consumers are struggling with. Too many don’t have the income to make ends meet. That is the result of compounding price increases without broad enough gains in wages …
November 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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We will never see eye to eye with republicans on healthcare.

It’s because most of us believe healthcare should be a human right, affordable to anyone.

They see it as a profit-rich enterprise for big pharma and insurance.

This is why any solution they put forward is invariably a non-starter.
November 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Trump/Duffy going to slowly squeeze air traffic, blaming the shutdown and Democrats. By the time that we get to T'giving, prob 25% of flights.
November 5, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Right now would be the best time for Democrats to unveil a universal healthcare plan. $2,000/month premiums, plus deductibles, co-insurance, denials and financial stress. Or 5% of income w/single payer. No insurance companies.

Show the public who cares about them.
October 31, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Trump's building the most exclusive supper club in the world while kicking Americans off food assistance. How does that not break through?
October 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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One day this monstrosity, Trump's ballroom and secretly-funded bunker underneath, will be razed to jubilant cheers and celebrations.
I hope I live long enough to see it. But it'll take a generation far stronger than mine, as we've failed to protect us from this treasonous demon.
October 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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October 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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I guess it's good that we've all gotten past "surely *this* will be too much for Republicans" that many of us believed in ~2016–2018. Trump can literally bulldoze the White House and Republicans are cool with it. He can hand himself a quarter billion from the Treasury and that's OK. Anything goes.
October 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
In 2028, I'm voting for the person who promises to tear it down brick by brick, camera by camera, bug by bug, and restore the East Wing.
October 22, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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If I were ever elected president, the first thing I’d do is take a sledgehammer to that ballroom.
October 21, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Greg Abbott is "running for an unprecedented fourth term on a record of schools in crisis, housing more expensive, groceries more expensive, electricity utility rates are up. This is a record of failure, and he owns it."
'Failures and Grift’: Gina Hinojosa Wants to Stop Greg Abbott from Making History
The five-term Austin state representative will wage an underdog campaign to deny the powerful Texas governor an unprecedented fourth term—and the chance to further entrench his “corruption.”
www.texasobserver.org
October 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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This is how you make the point!
October 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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People think politics is corrupt… all of it. And to fix it, we need to rebuild trust.

That’s why I’m running on:

- Banning stock trading by members of Congress
- Overturning Citizens United
- And not taking a dime of corporate PAC $$
October 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
In Texas’ 2026 GOP Senate primary: Cornyn brags he voted with Trump 99% of the time, Paxton was indicted, and Hunt’s a shameless loyalist. The race or Trump could implode.

A center-right Republican could easily sneak through when it all blows up.

I'm a Talarico fan.
October 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Why hasn't Ken Paxton of #Texas been indicted for mortgage fraud?
October 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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In Israel, families get monthly child allowances and a birth grant. Healthcare is universal, and college is subsidized.

And yet America is sending Israel $billions to help fund a genocide, while people here go bankrupt over healthcare costs and can’t afford kids or college.
October 6, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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AGs can stop Trump! Here is state attorney general power defending state sovereignty and citizen rights against federal abuse. And it’s not just Oregon’s rights being protected.
Judge temporarily blocks Trump administration from deploying troops in Portland, Oregon
A federal judge in Oregon has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from deploying the National Guard in Portland. U.S.
apnews.com
October 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Democrats should demand:
- Restoration of ACA subsidies
- Student loans at 0% interest
- Full unredacted (except victims) release of Epstein material
- Reversal of tariffs affecting farmers
- Guarantee US military won't be deployed in America
- Citizenship for DACA with no criminal records
September 30, 2025 at 9:29 PM
On Bluesky, with well over 30M users, let's look at the Texas Senate race. @colinallredtx.bsky.social made his first and last posts 2 months ago. He has 911 followers.

@jamestalarico.bsky.social posts on an almost daily cadence with 54K followers.

You tell me who is hustling for our TX vote.
September 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Decentralize, hire, register, and show your work.
The Texas Democratic Party Needs To Live Beyond Austin
Decentralize, hire, register, and show your work.
www.lonestarleft.com
September 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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I’m tired of being divided into teams.

Do you have an elderly grandparent who needs care? So do I.

Do you struggle to afford the high price of everything? So do I.

Do you know what it means to carry the weight of medical debt? So do I.

You’re on my team — and I’m on yours.
September 24, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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If they want real mortgage fraud, they should go arrest Ken Paxton.
September 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Leader/founder of ANTIFA.
September 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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The Texas story the national takes keep missing.
James Talarico Is The Real Deal
The Texas story the national takes keep missing.
www.lonestarleft.com
September 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM