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You may have noticed that we sent far fewer e-mails this year than we did any other year. That was because there were very few good candidates— especially after primary season...

The official, FEC-madated version of the rules are long and boring but if you're a masochist with no life you can read them here.

Again, this is where you can enter for the r...

Let’s pick up in Miami-Dade where we left off a couple months ago, when we saw an obvious legislative “flip opportunity” for the hard-pressed Democrats to pick up. Remembe...

There are 7,386 state legislative seats in the U.S., from just 49 in Nebraska, the only state with a unicameral legislature, to a massive 424 in New Hampshire, where each House ...

You've probably heard of the Redneck Riviera, right? Some people in the Pensacola area prefer the “Emerald Coast,” but, still, most wear “Redneck Riviera” as a badg...

No one is kidding themselves about Ohio’s sprawling 12th district in the central and eastern part of the state. It stretches from the Columbus suburbs into the rural Appalachi...

Eric Wilson is a Bernie-grade progressive Democrat running for Wisconsin's Third Congressional district, a swing district that has 6 universities and progressive ...

A Working Class Candidate And A Renter In The State Senate

There are 7,383 state legislators in the country— 1,972 state senators and 5,411 state reps. Until today, Bl...

Today Ben Braver, a progressive state Senate candidate in the Tampa suburbs is turning 22. In the 18 years Blue America has been operating, I don’t think we ever asked anyone ...

There’s a page called Flip Congress, take a look.

These are 8 candidates that have something in common: each is running against a rotgut conservative incumbent who deserves...

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There are 12 different versions of this ad and Spencer, the Blue America digital director— who made them— is testing them on Facebook and ...

Arizona’s first congressional district, entirely within Maricopa County, is one of the swing districts the Democrats are counting on to flip the House. Biden beat Trump there ...

Manchin was the last holdout of a once formidable state Democratic Party machine that, for seven decades, had kept West Virginia solidly blue. In 1996, Bill Clinton won the stat...

Last Chance to enter Contest To Benefit Cori Bush & Jamaal Bowman

Today’s the last day of our contest. We’re giving away 3 autographed copies of Nancy Ohanian’...

Arch-conservative and corrupt Democrat Joe Manchin once said that "If people want more progressive policies, they should elect more progressives to Congress." we made a meme out...

The Democratic Party is focussed on reelecting Biden as the top priority. Well over a billion dollars will be spent on that. 

We hope Biden divests himself from Netanyahu ...

Howie Klein of Down With Tyranny, Digby of Hullabaloo, John Amato of Crooks and Liars, (and me) Jacquie-- who was fired up  to join this passionate, creative team and b...

Current incumbent Troy Balderson dropped out of college and went to work for his father’s car business, drove it into bankruptcy and became a career politician, jumping from o...

The big news in California last night was that Adam Schiff and Republican former baseball player Steve Garvey will face off in November; Katie Porter and Barbara Lee lagged fa...

Can you consider making a contribution to all or any of our California candidates to help with their final primary push?

Our old friend, Derek Marshall, is up against GOP hack...

In the last two weeks, I’ve interviewed over a dozen candidates. Some of them were great and some were far from that. Cheyenne Hunt was one of the great ones— not just becau...

Yesterday Kimberly Leonard and Elena Schneider reported that “A national Democratic operative, granted anonymity to speak freely about the 2024 race without ang...

Yesterday, Angélica told me that in the ‘90s, the Valley was full of good-paying, long-term union jobs, perfect for Mexican immigrants like her parents to build a foundation ...

Blue America has endorsed dozens of candidates since we started in 2006. Some— like Elizabeth Warren, AOC, Bernie, Ted Lieu, Jamie Raskin, Jeff Merkley— have turned out spec...

If you were one of the several hundred Blue America contributors who made a donation to Shenna Bellow’s campaign when she ran for Susan Collin’s Senate seat in 2014 or for t...

Ohio’s sprawling 12th district was thrown together by the gerrymanderers in the state legislature from bits and pieces of various leftover areas— from the suburbs of Columbu...

I’ve been speaking with dedicated West Virginia progressive, Zach Shrewsbury— politically a Bernie kind of guy, not a Joe Manchin kind of guy. In fact, Zach has just launche...

California is very lucky to have three candidates who would all make excellent senators— Barbara Lee, Katie Porter and Adam Schiff. 

Most of the time the best we get is a ...

This past week Howie used his usual “Thursdays with Howie” segment on the Nicole Sandler Show to help Maebe A Girl boost her “Super Progressive” message.

I’m with H...

Join Bernie and a fantastic line up of special guests as he rallies in Rhode Island to Get Out The Vote for a real (Blue America) progressive, Aaron Regunberg!

Broadcast will ...

Konstantine tweeted this a few hours ago-- for something I originally put out MONTHS ago.

Did Matos Think She Would Get Away With Handing In Forged Signatures? Well... She Did

Rhode Island’s special election to fill the seat of David Cicilline will be decid...

NY-21, the North Country, wasn’t drastically affected by the 2020 redistricting. The district got slightly redder— from an R+14 partisan lean to an R+17 lean. The PVI i...

When progressive champion David Cicilline resigned from Congress a few weeks ago, it triggered a special election in eastern Rhode Island to fill his seat. The district is safel...

I live in a very progressive congressional district in Los Angeles, CA-30. It includes, Hollywood, Burbank, Los Feliz, Silverlake, West Hollywood, East Hollywood, Atwater, Hanco...

Jason Call was one of the top Blue America candidates last cycle. This time he's running as a Green. He told us why in a guest post. It's compelling. Have a look.

Today’s the final day of our Nimrod contest. It ends tonight at midnight.

On Monday I’ll go to the post office and see if there are any more entries at the P.O. Box and th...

We’ll get into the contest in a second; we just want to make sure that you know that the Virginia legislative elections are this year, 2023, not next year like most election...

When she vetoed the bill, Kelly suggested it was discriminatory and said it would hurt the state’s ability to attract businesses.

The new law is part of a larger push by Repu...

If you can, please send whatever size donation you can swing and help us rebuild America with real, fighting progressives here.

We’re reaching out on behalf of progressive Houstonians who need a congress member who will represent them, not pay for play corporate interests. Pervez Agwan is a progressive...

"The choice for mayor is incredibly clear. With Brandon Johnson, you gain deep credentials and expertise, lived working families experience, robust competence from decades of pu...

In the few months they've held control, Democrats in these three states have taken action on abortion. The Michigan Legislature repealed a 1931 abortion ban triggered ...

Today Blue America has endorsed Pervez for the TX-07 congressional seat and we humbly ask you to consider chipping in to his entirely grassroots campaign here.

Where Howie lives in Los Angeles, they’re going to have an open seat next year. Adam Schiff has served that district since ousting Republican James Rogan in 2000. Now he’s r...

The jungle primary to replace Katie Porter in California’s blue-leaning 47th congressional— Irvine and Costa Mesa plus a storied stretch of coast from Seal Beach to...

Missouri Senator Josh Hawley was complicit in the sacking of the Capitol on January 6, 2021. He should have been removed then. Next year he’ll have to face Missouri voters and...

The report's references to Hawley begin one day before the riot at the Capitol. 

On January 5, then-President Donald Trump's executive assistant emailed Hawley, as well as S...

Yesterday on Twitter, Herschel Walker agreed with some far right sociopath that people born after 1990 (so anyone 32 and under), saying that-- presumably unlike himself-- “mos...

Recently, I shared a the story at DownWithTyranny about how I first met Madonna backstage at Madison Square Garden. She was donating the night’s concert proceeds— a million ...

By and large the candidates Blue America has endorsed for Congress this cycle have told us that they’re campaigning on a combination of issues— from basic economic issues ...

I was very worried that Wall Street shill and New Dem ex-chairman Joe Crowley would follow Pelosi as top House Democratic Leader. Crowley was a really bad member of Congress and...

Florida’s 27th congressional district (Miami) has a slight Democratic lean— D+1. An uninspiring garden variety Democrat lost the seat— 51.4% to 48.6%— to a flashy Repu...

There are 435 congressional districts. Most of them are safe seats for one party or the other. In fact I’m only seeing 70 districts where there’s any electora...

Hakeem Jeffries pretends to be a progressive. He’s even a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, which was once a signal of belonging to the progressive tribe. H...

Blue America just dropped 4 new Facebook and Instagram ads on Long Island this weekend— for the open 3rd congressional district, where progressive champion Melanie D’Arrigo ...

This week we’re asking you to help us raise funds for Alan Grayson, who gave up his old House seat in Orlando and, since it is now open, is seeking the nomination there again...

Starting today, Blue America is running a series of 4 independent Facebook and Instagram ads across Missouri on behalf of Lucas’ campaign. (He doesn’t know.) 

Her...

Running for the open Long Island congressional seat (NY-03), progressive Melanie D'Arrigo told me this morning that she has "seen a massive shift in the psyche of voters after...

The US’s most powerful pro-Israel lobby group has been accused of putting support for Israel before American democracy after it declared its backing for the election...

Meet JR Gaillot, a longtime political operative who is running for Florida Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Affairs. Born in New York, he speaks 5 languages, wrote one...

Clinton passed free trade agreements without providing millions of blue-collar workers who consequently lost their jobs a means of getting new ones that paid at least as well.

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Immediately after the Roe v Wade decision was announced on Friday, Data for Progress released the poll above and Mike Pence-- who has been treated as something of a media darlin...

AIPAC has been one of the most venal forces in the 2022 election cycle this year, working with a handful of other shady players to launder Republican money into Democratic prima...

I want you to look at this little box below from ProgressivePunch. It shows the two members of Congress who have the most progressive voting records.

They are just fractionally...

Once the pandemic started, thousands of Angelenos moved to the outer suburbs and exurbs in San Bernardino County, already one of the fastest growing counties in the country. 

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The House was back in session last week. There were 3 bills that were debated and voted on in particular that I want to mention this morning:

All three passed the House and w...

Blue America has a page called California-- Not Blue Enough, which includes 13 congressional candidates; 3 incumbents and 10 challengers. State Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia is ...

-by Mike Elk

With Election Day on May 17th, the AIPAC-affiliated United Democracy Project super PAC and the Irwin campaign are spending over 2 million dollars to attack ...

I’m-- a pro-choice pastor, educator, and former state senator running to protect a wide-open, swing seat in NC-01. And I’m facing the most anti-choice Democrat in North...

May Day has more than one meaning. The origin is an ancient festival marking the first day of summer in some cultures and a spring holiday in others. But in 1889 May Day was c...

The Democratic primary elections in Oregon are in 3 weeks-- May 17.

There are several races that will help determine whether Congress turns in a more corporate direction or in...

Oregon's 4th congressional district centers on Eugene. Until the current redistricting it was a swing district (R+1) and now it's safely blue (D+9), running along the coast from...

California's 51st congressional district-- now CA-52-- is the very southwest corner of the continental U.S., in the San Diego area and along the Mexican border all the way to Ar...

Last month, when I asked him about the morass the Democrats find themselves in rural areas like his, he told me that

"Our party needs to decide to invest in rural and small to...

America's foremost political cartoonist, Nancy Ohanian, and Howie worked on a new project-- the MAGAzine. It's gorgeous and collectible but... it's not for sale. How do you get ...

Our old friend, former congressional candidate Mark Gamba, introduced me to Matt West, the progressive candidate running in the new 6th district, which includes Mark's home. The...

"The Final Frontier" by Nancy Ohanian

If you can, please consider donating to the best #MOSen candidate out there, Lucas Kunce.

You know how we love all of our candidates equally, right?

But it doesn't mean that we don't go crazy for the newest endorsees when we're vetting them and are reminded about w...

Do you support Progressive candidates? Blue America wants to reward those who do: with a chance to win an autographed book, Disturbing the Peace-- 415 Records And The Rise of Ne...

[F]ederal judges last month struck down Alabama’s congressional lines and ordered Republican lawmakers to craft a new map that includes two heavily Black districts instead of ...

The narrator doesn't mention anything about Ivey being a corporate lawyer; just that "He made things better for us. He’s a doer." Then Ivey's voice: "You pay too much for gas,...

Last month Meredith Lee, writing for Politico, tip-toed around the fact that Blue Dog reactionary David Scott is not just on the right-fringe of the Democratic Party, but ...

It's our duty to find excellent candidates like Kylie Taitano but it's especially wonderful when we get a really good candidate running against a really bad one-- and that's how...

Colorado's first congressional district-- basically Denver-- is the most progressive in the state-- D+24. The voters there were smart enough to make Trump's share of the 2020 vo...

CA-42 is a new, open blue district in the southeast corner of L.A. County and residents have a big decision to make between a well-funded DINO, Long Beach mayor Robert Garcia an...

Matt Brown is running for governor of the smallest state in the Union, but he's running on the biggest package of progressive ideas and strategy of any gubernatorial candidate i...

"I am so proud to have Blue America join our broad coalition. As an organizer and mother, I am running to take on the lobbyists and corporate donors who block the policies we de...

Devin Nunes' Central Valley district went from R+6 to D+7 and Nunes ran for his life, landing a make-believe job with Trump's make-believe media company. Good riddance. The DCCC...

When Texas'legislature gerrymandered the state this year, they packed Austin Democrats into 2 super-blue districts, TX-35 and TX-37. Luckily for the residents of eastern Travis ...

I try to get to know the candidates Blue America considers endorsing as well as I can. It's not always easy. Some are quite resistant but the easiest candidates to get to know a...

Obama won Iowa twice-- but after Bernie embarrassed Hillary in the caucuses there, Democratic consultants have been writing the state off… at least in terms of the direction t...

Jamie McLeod-Skinner is the candidate running for a congressional seat that includes part of the old district reactionary Blue Dog Kurt Schrader represents. Schrader may or ma...

Republicans see Youngkin’s victory as the first of many wins to come, even facing the challenge of having to dislodge a barrage of incumbent Democratic governors across the ma...

Lieberman discussed his role in ACA negotiations and his work with No Labels, which has sought to constrain the Build Back Better bill. The current makeup and hyperpartisan poli...

Yesterday we took a quick look at the parameters of redistricting in Montana, which is going from one at-large seat to two seats, one, the rural east, deep red and one, most of ...

No one knows better than Russ Feingold, who is staying neutral in the Democratic Senate primary, how hard it will be to beat Trumpist Senator Ron Johnson.

He did, however, n...

Let me start with something uninformed and typically stupid and misleading from three Politico senior reporters about the IL-06 congressional race, pitting progressive Marie New...

Texas Blue Dog Henry Cuellar was a part of the nine conservative Democrats who worked with No Labels to oppose the $3.5 trillion Build Back Better Act despite the fact that th...

Republicans in the Texas legislature rammed through a racist and ultra-partisan redistricting map that packs as many Democrats as they could into a new Austin district with th...

Sergio Alcubilla is running for Congress to represent Hawaii’s 1st Congressional District, currently held by reactionary Blue Dog Ed Case, a weird situation in one of the blue...

I grew up 2 blocks from the Brooklyn part of what is now NY-11, the Staten Island/Brooklyn district that keeps swinging back and forth between conservative Republicans and conse...

There are two good things about Conor Lamb running for the Senate-- he's leaving the House and he's not going to win the Senate seat. Lamb was elected to Congress in 2018. Since...

"We are so far past the point of incremental solutions when it comes to climate change," he told me yesterday. "The IPCC report could not have put our crisis in starker terms-- ...

This is the third cycle in a row we've endorsed Marie Newman-- and she's gotten better and better each time. She didn't quite manage to beat Blue Dog incumbent Dan Lipinski the ...

Mike Ortega is an exceptional candidate-- both an engineer and a philosopher. In a STEM school he went to to study science, he also studied Che Guevara and Pedro Albizu Campos, ...

Erica Smith for U.S. Senate Pledge: For Every Dollar Donated, We’ll Knock On A Door in a County That Trump Won in 2020

I’m writing to my Blue America, Down With Tyranny and...

Other than KY-03 (Louisville), KY-06-- which includes Fayette (Lexington) and Franklin (Frankfort) counties-- is the only congressional district in Kentucky where a Democrat has...

"This is a wide open U.S. Senate seat in one of the most competitive states in the country. But between you and me, I don’t think Democrats will flip Ohio if we nominate anoth...

This race is bigger than Hakeem Jeffries. This campaign and my race are about the representation that my community deserves, as well as what our whole country needs. As a lawmak...

The special election for California's 18th Assembly district is a race much like the Nina Turner contest-- a super-blue area contested by a progressive fighter and a status quo ...

This cycle, expect NY-24 to be one of the most avidly contested congressional races in the country. Won by Obama twice, by Clinton in 2016 and last year by Biden-- 53.4% to 44.4...

Don't let your eyes glaze over when someone starts talking about reforming-- or abolishing-- the filibuster. Not doing so, means nothing we want to see passed through Congress w...

Bruno Amato is running for Congress in California's 23rd District against Trump's spineless House minority leader Kevin McCarthy. Bruno, the son of two Italian immigrants, told ...

Ain't gonna let nobody turn me 'round, turn me 'round, turn me 'round, 

Ain't gonna let nobody turn me 'round,

I'm gonna keep on a walkin', 

keep on a-talkin',

Marching up...

Team Blue PAC sounds good, right? Don't be fooled; it isn't. Three exceptionally bad status quo Democrats in the House started it to protect conservative incumbents being prima...

Every year-- since the 1930s-- the Society of Professional Journalists celebrates excellence in its profession by handing out Sigma Delta Chi awards recognizing the year's outst...

Ramachandran, endorsed today by Blue America-- you can contribute to her campaign by clicking on the state legislative thermometer on the right-- was also endorsed by the San J...

Last week Chris Larson, the most progressive state Senator in Wisconsin, the most gerrymandered state in the nation, announced his campaign against the worst sitting U.S. Sena...

And when have you ever heard me use the word "great" to describe a candidate we're endorsing? Nina really is. You want to see a more functional progressive movement inside Congr...

Congressional Candidate, WA-02

California's 21st congressional district is entirely in the San Joaquin Valley and one of the most productive agricultural districts in America. About 75% of the residents are L...

A few days ago, the NRCC announced ten new targets they're working on flipping. Most of the seats are held by a pack of conservative New Dems and Blue Dogs from the Republican w...

This country is a dream come true. I want to give everything I can for America and Silicon Valley, who I love dearly. I will fight for your interests, not for special interests....

The Dallas progressive activist is taking on a Democratic incumbent long overdue for retirement, too comfy corporate shill, Eddie Bernice Johnson. I implore you-- I beg you-- to...

$15 an hour should be the floor, not the ceiling. 

I am prepared to fight for true equity for the 18th district so future generations are provided with the same opportunitie...

About a month ago, our old friend from Iowa, J.D. Scholten, introduced me to a Missouri candidate for U.S. Senate. Lucas Kunce. He may well be the candidate who runs agains...

When we started Blue America back in 2005, there weren't many groups raising netroots campaign funds. Now there are dozens and dozens and, alas… some are scammers. You will ne...

McKayla Wilkes was a great candidate in 2020 and she's better now.

Basically, her courageous race against Steny Hoyer was an opportunity to introduce herself to the res...

esterday, state Sen. Erica Smith launched her campaign for the open North Carolina U.S. Senate seat. She told me that while she was on stage., she "felt an energy I have no...

https://youtu.be/7lWx71fPKls

PA-03 is entirely within the city of Philadelphia, stretching for Chestnut Hill, West Oak Lane in the north, through Center City and Schuylkil...

One of the hardest things in electoral politics is to make an effective case to oust an incumbent in a primary. We've just endorsed two congressional candidates who are working ...

Florida's 24th congressional district-- northern Miami-Dade and southern Broward counties (Liberty City, Little Haiti, Miami Gardens, Opa-Locka, North Miami, Pembroke Park)...

As his economic justice plank on his campaign website states, "We must end corporate welfare and invest in structural reform to uplift and empower the working class, rebuild o...

Trump won North Carolina's 15 electoral votes in November bit without a majority. He beat Biden 2,758,775 (49.93%) to 2,684,292 (48.59%). At the same time, though, Democrat...

Ally Dalsimer is a candidate for Congress in Virginia’s 11th District-- the DC suburbs in Fairfax and Prince William counties. This is a deep blue district with a PVI of D+15....

This week everyone learned about the despicable new Congressional Representative from Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene when her horrific social media feeds gained national attent...

https://youtu.be/okPma0tKg_0

This morning San Fernando Valley's progressive congressional candidate, Shervin Aazami, released a new announcement video (above), following u...

Louisiana's second congressional district is extremely gerrymandered, packing as many African-Americans in southern Louisiana as possible-- most of New Orleans, the north side o...

On January 6, Trump held a MAGA rally in Washington D.C. to try and illegally force Congress to block congressional certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential el...

The streets of every city and town in America erupted on Saturday morning when the networks (finally) announced that America had fired Donald Trump. I think Senator Bernie Sande...

With a tiny handful of exceptions-- basically Kara Eastman, Joyce Elliott and Dana Balter (who is running in a D+3 district)-- Cheri Bustos and her DCCC have once again decided ...

Our Blue America contest ended last night-- at midnight (PT). There were 426 individuals who took part. People are still contributing to the candidates on the page, although tho...

Millions of Americans have already voted.

By this past Friday evening 2,647,845 Texans had voted, 2,413,292 Floridians, 2,947,941 Californians, 1,397,929 Michiganders, 1,293,12...

Blue America is working with our allies in Congress' Sustainable Energy And Environment Coalition Caucus [SEEC PAC], including old friends we've helped get elected and reelected...

Many Texas voters-- particularly in the suburbs and exurbs around Dallas-Ft Worth, Houston, Austin and San Antonio-- are sick of Trump and giving up on his enablers. And wheth...

Florida, the ultimate swing state, has played a decisive role in too many presidential elections. Every single vote counts in any statewide election there. In 2018, Republican R...

This year, Mondaire Jones started to climb a hill most people thought was impossible. He began a primary campaign against one of Pelosi's most powerful allies in Congress, Nita ...

Wisconsin is a thinking state and in 2016 both national parties nominated the worst possible contenders for people accustomed to using their brains. By the end of the ...

Blue America's IE Committee has begun purchasing ads for our candidates. The first batch went up as a YouTube pre-roll for Kara Eastman (NE-02), Liam O'Mara (CA-42), Mike Siegel...

In 2012, Matt Cartwright waged a strong primary campaign against reactionary Blue Dog Tim Holden (one of the "Democrats" who joined with the GOP to vote against ObamaCare). Hoye...

Southwest Michigan has been under the glassy-eyed influence of a well-oiled Republican machine due to Fred Upton’s nearly three-and-a-half-decade career as Michigan’s 6th di...

Georgia's 5th congressional district-- most of Atlanta-- hasn't been in play since 1986, the legendary John Lewis' first term. In fact, Republicans have never run a serious camp...

Merav Ben-David isn't a typical Wyoming name. She was born in Israel, grew up on a farm, served in the Israeli Air Force, and earned a PhD in Wildlife Management in Alaska. Toda...

Republicans aren't competitive in Washington's 10th district-- basically most of Thurston County (Olympia) and part of Pierce County (Tacoma area). With incumbent Denny Heck ret...

On Tuesday we had some significant victories in the Florida primaries, especially for Florida legislature candidate Angie Nixon and for FL-03 congressional candidate Adam Christ...

Kathy Lewis is a candidate for one of the most crucial of the Florida state Senate seats-- District 20, which covers parts of Hillsborough, Pasco and Polk counties in the greate...

In an OpEd for the Wall Street Journal on Saturday, Rahm Emanuel celebrated the idea of "Biden Republicans," basically conservative GOP voters who have had enough of Trump and a...

Long before Trump's election, the 42nd congressional district of California (now entirely within Riverside County) was captured by a candidate who served the corrupt corporate a...

If you were able to take in Attorney General Bill Barr's House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing last week you no doubt noticed that some of the Democratic questioners were ...

From the moment Donald Trump became president there has been speculation as to whether he is solely a creature of impulse or if there is a method to his madness. Does he spont...

Often, in politics victories are far and in between. Here at Blue America, we don't pick candidates because we assess them as having the best chance to win. We pick them becaus...

Tennessee is spiking really badly right now. An anti-mask governor and legislature have given the state 59,546 COVID cases-- including 1,955 new cases on Friday, 1,460 new cases...

For Blue America, primary season is rapidly coming to a close-- there are just a few left. We helped with some spectacular wins this cycle-- Kara Eastman in Omaha, Marie Newman ...

The Establishment has tried to define the grassroots efforts in New York this week to replace corporate Democrats beholden to Wall Street and their corporate donors with reforme...

Through a Politico prism, the grassroots effort to elect Jamaal Bowman to Congress is a twisted power grab by "the left." Holly Otterbein wrote that "Desperate for victory after...

Mike Siegel is a civil rights lawyer and former public school teacher, who nearly beat right-wing Republican Michael McCaul in 2018 in a gerrymandered district the DCCC never to...

New York’s 17th congressional district-- northern and western Westchester County plus, across the Hudson, Rockland County-- represents one of the best chance in the country to...

People seem surprised when they find out that Nashville is a Democratic city and that Tennessee's 5th congressional district is safely blue. Obama won the district both times he...

Technically, you can't call Marie Newman "Congresswoman Newman" until January when the Speaker swears her in. But in IL-03-- a district where Trump didn't get to 40% of the vote...

It's relatively easy to point out that you don't agree with the person in power and declare your candidacy and hope more voters turn out on election day who agree with you than ...

New Jersey's 8th congressional district-- most of Hudson County, parts of Essex and Union counties and includes Hoboken, Elizabeth, Weehauken, West New York, half of Newark and ...

Last night 3 important congressional races ended. Nancy Pelosi, Cheri Bustos and their DCCC need to think closely about what happened. One contest was a primary in Omaha and two...

West Virginia was Bernie territory in the 2016 primary. Most people know that he beat Hillary in every single county, but fewer people know he also garnered more votes than Trum...

Marianne Williamson talks a lot about changing our country's priorities and going from an economic bottom line to a humanitarian bottom line. During her presidential campaign sh...

Some candidates-- whether incumbents or challengers-- are faring better than others during this pandemic. Candidates who have grown proficient on social media have vibrant campa...

As you know, the DCCC has a rule about primaries. It was promulgated by Cheri Bustos and Nancy Pelosi: any political operative who works against an incumbent Democrat is cut off...

18 term Democratic Jim Visclosky is retiring from his northwest Indiana congressional seat-- a deep blue (D+8) seat where whomever wins the primary is the next member of Congres...

Last year Julie Oliver was in the midst of a primary battle with another worthy challenger eager to take on crooked conservative incumbent Roger Williams in the gerrymandered 25...

During times of crisis we need our leaders to show up and fight for us. Not for corporations. Not for the powerful. For us, the people. Right now we are in the midst of a crisis...

Progressive challengers-- especially in races against well-heeled incumbents who can write themselves big checks or appeal to corporate SuperPACs-- have two new handicaps: grass...

On Tuesday, the primary in Illinois' third congressional showed the failure of Cheri Bustos' toxic plan to defeat progressive challenges to Blue Dog incumbents who are out of sy...

Just as he's done in Colorado, North Carolina, Arizona, New Mexico, etc, Brooklyn's Chuck Schumer has decided to choose who Maine's U.S. Senate nominee for the Susan Collins sea...

If Bernie wins in November, a hostile McConnell-led Senate will be pretty deadly for all his plans. And with the Democrats very likely to lose their accidental Alabama seat, the...

Blue America first endorsed Rachel Ventura for Congress back in August. And now we're coming up quickly to her primary (March 17) in Illinois' 11th district, mostly suburbs sout...

You may remember our old Oklahoma friend, Tom Guild, from the yeoman's work he did in the past to flip the Oklahoma City congressional district blue. He tilled that field assidu...

In the last 2 days San Diego City Council president Georgette Gómez has been endorsed by some of the most trusted names int progressive politics-- AOC, Ro Khanna, Jamie Raskin,...

Missouri's first congressional district-- the entire city of St. Louis and the mostly black northern suburbs-- Ferguson, Florissant, Black Jack, Spanish Lake-- is the 385th poor...

Indiana’s 1st congressional district is a rare deep-blue territory in Mike Pence’s home state. Incumbent Democratic Congressman Pete Visclosky-- retiring after 18 terms-- wo...

West Virginia was the ultimate blue state starting with FDR's first election in 1932. Two years earlier, the Democratic Party won the state House and held it, uninterrupted from...

March 3 isn't just Super Tuesday for the presidential candidates, it is also the big day for many congressional candidates all over the country.

One of the best candidates Blu...

The most recent candidate endorsed by Blue America, Nabilah Islam, sometimes stands out from the crowd because of her name, which for old people, doesn't sound like a name from ...

Not every member of Congress can be AOC or even earn an A for their voting records. In fact, ProgressivePunch only has 46 "A" ratings right now. 7 of them are for New York Democ...

Washington's 5th congressional district takes up the entire eastern end of the state, from the Canadian border to the Oregon border and right along the Idaho border. The biggest...

There's a red hot 2020 race for Montana's one at-large congressional district to replace pugilistic multimillionaire Greg Gianforte. State Rep. Tom Winter is the progressive in ...

Our two favorite things about Seattle: grunge rock pioneers Nirvana and congressional progressive champion Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal. So, when former Nirvana manager Danny G...

Howie: A couple of weeks ago, we met Liam O'Mara, through my own lens. Now lets revisit him through his own. "I am running as a progressive populist in a red district in Califor...

We're endorsing Lauren Ashcroft in #NY-12 not just because she's on the right side of every important issue and because she's a courageous and competent candidate but because we think she will make a great and productive representative for working families in Congress.

I don't want to go into-- for the 30th time-- the whole long story about how I helped my congressman first get elected in 2000 and then was mortified when he joined the Blue Dog...

"The fight happening now for the Democratic presidential nomination," wrote Norman Solomon, "largely amounts to class warfare. And the forces that have triumphed in the past are...

We got an unfortunate call the other day.

New Mexico Secretary of State, Maggie Toulouse Oliver wanted to give us a little advance warning that she was going to end her campai...

This map of Chicago from The Economist on the right shocked me as the magazine makes the point that if you take a ride along Chicago's red line-- a rail service runnin...

Derek Kilmer is the head of the Wall Street-owned and operated New Dems, part of the Republican wing of the Democratic Party. But Kilmer's district-- WA-06, the northwest corner...

Montana state Rep. Tom Winter entered politics in the aftermath of the 2016 election. He told me that his motivation was

"equal parts frustration with where we were and optimi...

There are 5 freshmen members of Congress whose voting records are tied for #1. The graphic above shows the 6 members of Congress with the highest lifetime crucial vote scores, a...

The road to dislodging McConnell next year runs through Maine. And that means nominating a candidate who will give a massive number of voters a reason to come out and vote. Betsy Sweet is that woman.

Jennifer Christie for IN-05 "It’s time we simplify the process to allow for single-payer healthcare that guarantees health care for every American without exception. We have already proven that the Medicare system works. Guaranteeing health care as a human right is simply the right thing to do."

There are virtually no races in Virginia more important this cycle than the one to reelect Lee Carter in the House of Delegates and the one to replace Trumpist Richard Stuart with Qasim Rashid in the state Senate.

The DNC attorneys insisted to the judge that the charter requirements that elections be "impartial" and "evenhanded" were discretionary and not a requirement, in effect "We don't have to run an evenhanded primary, even if we say we're going to… To this day the DNC believes that if it wanted to 'go into back rooms' and 'pick the candidate,' this would 'have been their right,' and no one outside the organization would have any right to enforce the DNC charter or interfere in any other way."

There are already too many members of Congress from the Republican wing of the Democratic Party. If you want to see action on Climate Change, the Green New Deal, banning the sale of assault weapons, a fairer tax system that requires the richest Americans to pair their fair share, we all need to step up and do what we can to replace slugs like Foster with can-do progressives like Rachel Ventura.

On September 21 at Huston-Tillotson University, a historically-black college in Austin, progressive congressional candidate Mike Siegel convenes a conference on the Green New De...

Costa has not stayed in office all these years because he has addressed the needs of his constituents. He has stayed in office because our voters have had to choose between the party of Trump and a man who spent last Congress voting with Trump 47% of the time. This March, however, voters will finally have a choice, and this Valley will finally have a chance.

Brianna Wu is running an uphill primary campaign in a solid blue district that voted for Bernie in 2016. (PVI is D+10)

Brianna's opponent is entrenched New Dem Stephen Lynch, o...

It wasn't hard for Blue America to decide to endorse Mark Gamba for Congress. He's running for an Oregon seat held by one of the most venal Blue Dogs in the House, Kurt Sch...

THIS November, if If the Virginia Democrats win just a net of 3 seats in each chamber, they'll be drawing the district maps without any help from the GOP.

Cheri Bustos, the anti-democracy Blue Dog running the DCCC, is determined to make sure no more progressives get into Congress. Currently she is working against the election effo...

FDR knew who the enemy was— and so does Eva Putzova. The DCCC's Cheri Bustos doesn’t and neither does #AZ01's Tom O’Halleran.

No Democrats should be taking any Koch money for any reason. No one should be allowed to call him- or herself a Democrat if they do take Koch money.

"Beating Trump is not enough. We need to win up and down the ticket everywhere. To do that, we need to show what it means to be a Democrat."

The actual Democrat primarying O'Halleran this cycle is Flagstaff former city councilwoman and progressive activist, Eva Putzover. Eva is literally as good as O'Halleran is bad.

Even if Bernie, Elizabeth Warren or Kamala Harris wins next year, without a strong and more progressive Congress, the issues they're campaigning on won't go anywhere. It appears...

The experiment of the 1980s didn't work. It's time politicians of the past stop spinning fiction. Our future reality, together, can make a much better story.

Two years ago Berniecrat and Democratic Socialist Lee Carter accomplished the impossible in Manassas (Virginia's HD-50). He ran and won-- with more hostility than support from t...

Heads up: #GA07 has been a red district for a long time. Now, it's turning purple, and has become a top tier target for both parties. Blue America has found just the candidate to win this election hot house: Marqus Cole.

Today-- as you have probably been reminded dozens of times already-- is the end of the FEC's fiscal quarter. It's a big deal for candidates, as they are pressured to post winnin...

The DCCC raised $11.6 million last month, more than they ever raised in any February. Tragically, online donors gave nearly $3 million, at an average contribution of $18.

Most...

Equal Rights for "the Gays" used to be a contentious issue for Democrats. The DCCC and leadership know-it-alls used to quietly counsel Democrats representing-- or running in-- s...

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The tweet above, (complete with a picture of the truck, THANKS RORY!) was sent by Rory Appleton, a political reporter for the Fresno Bee, the most-read newspaper in both Nunes' ...

Blue America members voted last week to send $5,000 checks to Kara Eastman (NE), James Thompson (KS) and Kendra Fershee (WV), none of whom are front-runners and each of whom is ...

We are "making it rain" on 3 Blue America candidates -- of your choice! #Contest! Help decide who gets the BIG MONEY just in time to help their #GOTV efforts.

In the last few days Randy Bryce debated Paul Ryan's cutout candidate to replace himself, corporate lawyer and job outsourcer Bryan Steil. Randy kicked his ass so badly that Ste...

Blue America slate of progressive female fighters aren’t just willing to go to battle on behalf of the vulnerable and the powerless, they are chomping at the bit to stare down these phony macho bullies once and for all. We need to have their backs.

Usually not worth the effort to try to flip an R+11 seat, but #CA50 has a criminal incumbent that's just been indicted and recent polling has this race even. We CAN do this!

Conventional Beltway "wisdom" is that you need "GOP-lite" Democrats to win in traditionally "Red" states. The West Virginia model is proving the Villagers Wrong-- the People of WV's first district are 'woke' and want Kendra Fershèe, unabashed Progressive for Congress. Now she needs our help.

The Democratic Party decided not to field a candidate in Nebraska’s Senate race this cycle. Maybe they thought the state was just so damn red that they couldn’t even beat as...