“I don’t think that you’ll see the wave that you saw in past years where maybe 30 seats have changed hands,” said Loren Duggan. Congress – Federal News Network
Read More...Photographs by KC McGinnis Somewhere along the county road between Independence and Manchester, I lost Rob Sand. This had been a distinct possibility when I agreed to join the 44-year-old Democratic candidate for governor on a segment of a weeklong bike ride across Iowa. Unlike Sand, I am not a biker—merely a leisurely walker and, like any good Millennial woman, an occasional Pilates-doer. Which is why, on a long, low-grade hill dotted with Queen Anne’s lace, my quads began to burn, my pace slowed, and the subject of my story…
Read More...Group placed 180,000 calls, delivered more than 450,000 member communications, and invested $ 90,000 in ads and mail supporting El-Sayed MICHIGAN—MoveOn Political Action mobilized a major statewide organizing and communications operation to help Dr. Abdul El-Sayed overcome more than $ 63 million in outside spending and win the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Michigan. MoveOn’s campaign generated more than 600,000 voter and member contacts through calls, texts, emails, mail, digital advertising, and volunteer organizing. The effort was part of MoveOn Political Action’s largest intervention in Democratic primaries to date…
Read More...“It would be the easiest thing to do, because they have a Supreme Court decision that tells them exactly what their regulation should say,” Andrew Tutt said. Congress – Federal News Network
Read More...The semiquincentennial events that President Trump has personally directed have been a celebration of his very particular version of America. The bloody UFC fight on the White House lawn was followed by the sparsely attended Great American State Fair and a world-record-breaking July 4 fireworks show held alongside a dangerous lightning storm. Next weekend will bring a high-speed car race through the museum-lined streets of Washington. But of all of these festivities, the Patriot Games in Ohio this week might have been the oddest. Organizers convened 120 teenagers from across…
Read More...Voters continue to choose leaders who will fight Trump’s unpopular agenda on ICE, healthcare, and war. SAINT PAUL, Minn.—In response to Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan decisively winning her primary race to become the Democratic candidate for the open U.S. Senate seat in Minnesota, MoveOn Political Action Chief Communications Officer Joel Payne released the following statement: “Minnesota Democrats voted for Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan because they know she will fight like hell to get them the healthcare they need, to get ICE off their streets, and to get corrupt, corporate money…
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