I think our survival and our movement building depends on being willing to cast wide nets, and use discernment about who we bring into our inner circles and who we bring into our extended networks, but we need to be doing more of both right now. And that often includes people that a lot of radicals consider "liberals" (that most cursed of words in certain circles).

We all started somewhere and most of us who made it here had someone or a bunch of someones lead us into being more left and radical.

I'm not going to actively tone police the people who are mad at "liberals"—I get it, based on both historical and modern trends—but I also don't think that rage does a lot for building our numbers.

Partly my view is colored by #Texas politics, where we're under so much threat from fascism that we actually can find common ground with people who might normally shun us. That's the one potential positive in all this shit.

My deeply held belief: Figuring out how to keep our organizing spaces safe while simultaneously growing our numbers is one of the most challenging, yet crucial tasks of this current moment.

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