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During the past few weeks, we have told you how we are focusing our attention on what we believe are some of the most critical races to maintain and expand liberal majorities in the House and Senate. Recent trends make us hopeful but definitely not complacent. With this Spotlight on two races in North Carolina, we are beginning our race to the finish line and, with your help, we know we can prevail. We are already mounting an extensive get out the vote and voter education campaign. Your support will mean we can be even more aggressive. Click here to donate to ADA’s 2022 GOTV program!![]()
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The North Carolina Senate race became a true opportunity to influence the make-up of the U.S. Senate when the incumbent Richard Burr (R) announced he would not seek re-election. Narrow Trump victories and recent polling underscore the fact that this is a major opportunity to flip a Senate seat. Depending on which poll one reads, Democrat Cheri Beasley is either tied with her Republican challenger, Trump endorsed Representative Ted Budd, up one point or down two points. In other words, this is a dead heat, a challenge and an opportunity.![]()
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This particular Senate race is a masterful example of polar opposites who could have a profound effect on the course our nation will take. Ted Budd, who has a lifetime ADA voting record of 1.5 percent, immediately followed his primary victory by returning to Washington to vote against the Infant Formula Supplemental Appropriations Bill designed to combat the nationwide baby formula shortage. Click here for further information on the North Carolina Senate race. act.myngp.com/Forms/5959107831452925952![]()
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In the state’s 13th Congressional District, we have an opportunity to make sure that a majority in the House is also a functioning majority. And, here again, we have a choice between polar opposites. It is a race between Republican Bo Hines who has been endorsed by the former President and Democratic state senator Wiley Nickel. Click here for further information on the NC-13 race. act.myngp.com/Forms/5959107831452925952
For more than a year, we have been sending you Spotlights on critical House and Senate races as we, literally, battle for the soul of our nation. We have highlighted quality candidates striving to defeat naysayers, sexists, election deniers, conspiracy theorists, racists, and, sometimes, thugs. We have done so because we think it is essential that you -- our members, activists and volunteers -- have the information necessary for you to do your own election outreach.![]()
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We assure you, though, that information sharing is not all that Americans for Democratic Action is doing. We already have been mounting extensive voter education and get out the vote efforts. Now, we are ramping up our work. Specifically, ADA will be making 100s of thousands of voter contacts in the next several weeks leading up to the 2022 elections. This work will cover 40 or more elections in at least 5 key states including U.S. House and Senate races, statewide elections, and state legislative races. Our work will include in person door to door, phone, and text campaigns to key voters. And we will continue to do so until the polls close on November 8th.![]()
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Our Spotlights have been long on information and short on fund raising appeals. Now, we are making a specific request for you to contribute to our mid-term election work. We assure you that every penny you contribute will be spent in the weeks leading up to the election. And, if your contribution comes in after November 8th, we will invest it immediately in our work for 2024 because, quite simply, we know we cannot afford to miss a beat. So – please, please, please – reach into your pockets and contribute as much as you possibly can. Thank you!
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One-time Contribution to ADA HomeIssuesAboutVoting RecordsContact ADAOrganizingDonateGet Involved Facebook Twitter RSS Ⓒ 2017-2021 Americans for Democratic ActionCrafted with Care by Bob Lucore With the calendar ticking down on the 2022 Election season, ADA wants to keep you informed about key races and the work we are doing to impact those races.![]()
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We need your support now to reach out voter contacts goals for the 2022 election season. In the coming weeks we will spotlight races in which we are door knocking, phone calling, and texting key voters in key states. Please support our work by making a contribution today! act.myngp.com/Forms/7217581352814641152![]()
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Alaska Spotlight: On August 16, a funny thing happened on the road to GOP attempts to gain a majority in the House and expand the whacko caucus.Thanks to ranked voting and a semi-sane Alaskan electorate, Democrat Mary Peltola won the special election to fill the seat left empty by the death of Don Young (R). In doing so, she defeated a host of other contenders including, most notably, former Governor Sarah Palin and Nick Begich both Republicans and both of whom will contest her victory in November’s general election. Clearly, we believe that is vital that Peltola prevail again.![]()
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So much is known about former Governor and erstwhile Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin that we don’t feel the need to repeat it here. Let’s just say that we fervently hope that she will be defeated, remain on her porch watching Russia and never return to the national scene. ![]()
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Read more about the at-large congressional race in Alaska here: act.myngp.com/Forms/-5137198700434554880
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Union leaders often need guidance and advice. Yet too often, they don't ask for it. Evelyn gives it to them today... You will love this lady as I do! Wa... Tuesday marked the end of the 2022 primary season and underscored the fact that today’s Republican Party is in the thrall of the former President. The dangers are very real and cannot be overstated.![]()
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It is now official, election denier and conspiracy theorist Don Bolduc will face off against incumbent Senator Maggie Hassan in the general election. Thus, he becomes one more in the throng of Trump-supported candidates seeking Federal office with the express goal of enthroning the former President. Bolduc is a retired Army Brigadier General. In 2020, he sought and lost the Republican primary to take on Jeanne Shaheen and “socialist pansies,” a remark that was widely denounced as homophobic. He has claimed that Covid-19 vaccines contain micro-chips and denounced Governor Chris Sununu (R) as a "Chinese Communist sympathizer" and claimed that Sununu's business "supports terrorism." Needless to say, Sununu doesn’t hold Bolduc in very high esteem and says he is not a serious candidate. In other times we would agree but Trump’s election makes it sensible to take each and every one of these people seriously even if the ideas they espouse would normally immediately consign them to the ranks of the whackos. He has also called for the repeal of the 17th Amendment which allows voters to directly elect their Senators and, after Mar-a-Lago, questions the need for the FBI. He opposes marriage equality and has suggested that the national media be shut down during the Covid pandemic to reduce national anxiety. He opposed mask mandates because “they collect bacteria.” He advocates keeping parts (we don’t know which ones) of the Affordable Care Act but wants to keep government out of it – making us think he doesn’t get it at all. He says he will never support raising the minimum wage. He believes that forts named for Confederate soldiers are “a symbol of hope.” And, not surprisingly, he is anti-choice and pro-gun.![]()
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His principle general election opponent, former state senator and former Governor, freshman Senator Maggie Hassan was elected with a mere 0.1 percent vote margin in 2016. Despite that slimmest of majorities, she has carved out an admirable role for herself proving that – unlike West Virginia’s Joe Manchin – she really can work across the aisle to achieve goals we can all applaud. She won the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Legislative Action Award while compiling an ADA voting record of 91.7 percent. She is, thus, the polar opposite of Bolduc and should defeat him handily but absolutely nothing can be taken for granted and a Libertarian candidate also in the race could prove a problem.![]()
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Hassan serves on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, the Senate Finance Committee, the Joint Economic Committee, the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs and the Health, Education Labor and Pensions Committee. She has used these multiple roles to focus on the economy particularly on helping small businesses and ordinary working Americans hit hardest by the pandemic. Strengthening the nation’s cyber-defenses is a top priority for her as are health care and supporting our nation’s veterans who need help the most.![]()
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With a razor-thin Senate majority, this race must be a top priority. Fill out the form to get involved in ADA's efforts in the 2022 midterm elections! act.myngp.com/Forms/2211268516550541312
There is a storm brewing in Iowa, and it may just unseat long time U.S Senator Charles Grassley whose lifetime ADA voting record is a remarkable mere 12 percent. For the first time in more than a generation Grassley is polling under 50%. You would have to go all the way back to 1980 when Senator Grassley defeated the great progressive Senator John Culver to find a poll that had Grassley with less than 50% of support from likely Iowa voters. Since decisively winning the Democratic primary in June, former Navy Vice Admiral Michael Franken has been gaining momentum with the latest internal poll placing him within three points of this once thought to be undefeatable Republican institution.![]()
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Franken brings to the race unparalleled foreign policy expertise. He had the foresight, as one of the nation’s top military leaders, to oppose vocally the war in Iraq, even when surrounded by a chorus of Bush Administration officials hellbent on war. If – or perhaps we dare say when – elected, Admiral Franken would be the highest-ranking military officer to ever serve in the U.S. Senate. Furthermore, a Franken win would represent the return of a progressive Iowan statesman, something sorely missed since the retirement of ADA’s friend Senator Tom Harkin.![]()
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Franken has been all across Iowa campaigning boldly for Medicare for All, living wages, gun safety, debt free college and reproductive freedom and a whole host of liberal policy solutions. For the last number of cycles, the failed Democratic playbook in Iowa has been to campaign on vague moderate policies and talk just as simply and “down-home” as possible. Iowan’s were not inspired by this lack of boldness and could see right through the false folksiness. Thus far, Franken is proving that Iowans once again can be inspired and moved by honest, straightforward liberal policies. ![]()
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Grassley is doing himself no favors in either his rhetoric or his votes. He recently voted against both the Inflation Reduction Act and bipartisan gun control measures. Long before the nation was subjected to the governing by tweets of the former President, Grassley had become infamous for his wild, often nonsensical, Twitter rants and his outlandish public statements. Recently on Fox News, when asked about additional IRS agents that are being hired to go after the tax evasion of the 1%, Grassley had this to say, “Are they going to have a strike force that goes in with AK-15s (sic) already loaded ready to shoot some small businessperson in Iowa with these?”![]()
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We all know how dangerous this kind of rhetoric can be, whether it comes from Chuck Grassley or the former President. For example, just hours after this interview, a man opened fire on the FBI office in Cincinnati. Grassley is of course lying to the public about the purpose of these new agents as well as the numbers. To his credit, Franken was quick to point out that, despite Chuck Grassley’s love affair the NRA, he doesn’t actually know much about guns: the AK-15 is a Russian-made weapon not used by law enforcement in the United States. ![]()
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It is still an uphill battle in Iowa to unseat this Republican institution that has been in elected office since the Eisenhower Administration. However, it is a hill, not a mountain; the opportunity is genuine, and the opportunity is now. ADA is on the ground in Iowa, with an experienced organizer and a determined group of volunteers positioned to not only win this Senate race, but to also flip two additional Congressional Districts and maintain another. Make no mistake, the path to control of both chambers once again runs right through Iowa.![]()
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Take a look at this Labor Day guest column written by ADA Iowa's Organizer Chris Schwartz published in multiple Iowa news outlets. Way to go Chris!
There is a lot to celebrate on Labor Day
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As we celebrate workers Labor Day it’s important to acknowledge it’s been a rough couple of years for American workers. Working families were battered by a pandemic that caused massive As our nation celebrates Labor Day, we, too, recognize the spirit, strength and life-changing contributions of working men and women across this nation. The shared sacrifice of workers and their community allies have brought us fair wages, health care benefits, retirement, health and safety standards, a voice in the workplace and so much more. Today, ADA stands in solidarity with the labor movement and workers across this nation.![]()
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We will return with the Spotlight series next week to take us into the homestretch of the 2022 midterm election!
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