Today is Friday, and the United States is divided into 3,244 counties, parishes, and boroughs.
Nobody is going to explain to me that I am wrong, because I am doing it the right way and documenting so you can become the leader you want to be. Oh… AOC just lost the movement that bears her name.
Dear AOC Fan,
In five counties that I follow very closely, there is a process that I must explain to voters when I ask them to consider me—or members of my team—for a chance at governing.
In my county, the process is called petitioning.
As you can hear AOC’s lawyer, Sarah, explain it, I disagree with her wholeheartedly. Petitioning reveals everything about the character of a candidate and, ultimately, the kind of elected official that person will become.
I wrote my opinion—using some strong language—about why I disagree with her, and why this should be the ONLY way to get on the ballot.
As Anatole France once said: “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”
Petitioning, as it stands in New York, is that same majestic equality—it allows rich and poor alike to make the ballot. The problem is that poor people cannot afford to hire an election lawyer, so they must learn the process themselves.
I built an open-source system called Rep My Block so that anyone who wants to participate can—but they must follow the process.
It is a cyclical event that comes only once in a while. It is short, painful, and physical.
The problem is that leaders like Bernie Sanders, Ralph Nader, or Cornel West have been absorbed by the system to the point that they do not teach people how it really works.
When I watch young people brag on TikTok, I do not get mad at them—I get mad at the person whose petition they are carrying. It is the responsibility of that leader to explain the process correctly.
This post is short because I am petitioning in my district and must gather 1,250 valid signatures by the deadline.
As of now, I am 22 signatures short of my daily target.
That is why I wrote: “Petitioning has started, and this is what separates the con artists from the real candidates.”
As AOC says herself, she is part of a movement—but she did not build that movement. I am the international leader of a Socialist movement, and I earned that leadership by knocking on doors in the 71st Assembly District.
The only time the votes were counted, I received three votes. Two of them were pity votes. So I know I am, in many ways, the lone leader of a Socialist movement inside the Democratic Party.
There are lots of grifters. If you are interested in seeing a more gentle and Socialist United States, the first step is here: https://aoc2028.us/localwork.
Yes! It will require working your way inside the Democratic Party—despite what Bernie, AOC, Zohran, and other naysayers may suggest.
For 2028, all the instructions for each state are written in the Delegate Selection Plan in the “Drafting Docs” column: https://www.repmyblock.org/aoc2028/draft/aoc.
In New York, the first step starts with petitioning, as I explained in my post about separating real leaders from con artists.
If you know anyone in New York City, have them email me at socialists@register.repmyblock.org and follow the prompt of the computer.
What you think, I do not care about. What you do, I care about deeply. There are no excuses for the state of the country. If we have Trump, it’s simply because you sat on your ass complaining.
Organize!
In solidarity,
Hasta la victoria, ¡siempre!
Theo