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MEMORANDUM To: Interested Parties From: Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Date: September 9, 2019 Re: How KS-03 Candidate Amanda Adkins quarterbacked the Brownback agenda As a longtime advisor to former Kansas Governor Sam Brownback, KS-03 Republican candidate Amanda Adkins has spent her career deeply involved in building his record, including disastrous tax cuts that gutted funding […]

Kevin McCarthy and NRCC Publicly Tout Women Recruits While Quietly Discouraging Others From Running Washington Republicans, who claim to stay away from primaries, have decided to make at least one exception in New Jersey this cycle. According to the Huffington Post, Republican leadership has explicitly told at least one woman NOT to run for Congress […]

Elise Stefanik Escapes Protests and Bad Press Back Home It’s been a long summer for the Congresswoman. Elise Stefanik is heading back to Washington with a dark cloud of negative local press and constituent protests on her heels. From protests to a flurry of bad editorials, the past few months were pretty rough. Stefanik’s hometown paper […]

After multiple repeated campaign finance irregularities and deep ties to Jim and Jamie Schwartz, Congressman Chabot’s claims of victimhood ring hollow Today in Cincinnati, Southwest Ohio leaders are raising serious questions about the culture of corruption Congressman Steve Chabot has surrounded himself with and shedding new light on Chabot’s years and years of campaign finance […]

Republican Reagan Dunn: “I Am 100 Percent Out” And “There Is Very Little Energy Right Now For Candidates” In case you missed it over Labor Day weekend, Washington State Republicans are downright struggling to field a serious candidate to compete against Rep. Kim Schrier in 2020. With no real GOP bench to speak of after […]

What do you call two Republican retirements in one day? No, really. We’re still thinking of a catchy name ourselves but no matter what you call it, the cascade of Republicans fleeing Congress in 2019 is already a huge headache for Washington Republicans. On Tuesday morning, Congressman Bill Flores (TX-17) became the fifth Texas Republican […]

Since 2013, FEC officials have sent Chabot 21 letters flagging campaign finance irregularities Late Wednesday, Steve Chabot’s beleaguered campaign suffered another blow as another controversy emerged from his plodding and half-hearted reelection effort. Federal authorities are investigating Chabot’s campaign for the discrepancy of an unreported $123,625.72 on Chabot’s campaign finance filings. Chabot’s lawyers appeared to […]

After Representative Susan Davis announced her retirement, DCCC Chairwoman Cheri Bustos issued the following statement: “For nearly 20 years in Congress, Representative Davis’ selfless service to the people of San Diego could be most readily seen in the small things she did, away from the lights and cameras. I got to see that firsthand when […]

After Rep. Bill Flores followed Texas Republican Congressmen Pete Olson, Mike Conaway, Will Hurd and Kenny Marchant in choosing to retire, DCCC Chairwoman Cheri Bustos issued the following statement: “Congressman Flores is now the fifth Texas Republican to retire as the DCCC’s early and aggressive investment in Texas’s swing districts lays the groundwork for victory […]

Valladares Once by Touted National Republicans, Runs From House GOP Earlier this year, Washington Republicans’ campaign arm, the NRCC, touted Suzette Martinez Valladares as “evidence of enthusiasm among diverse Republican candidates.” NOW, Martinez Valladares has jumped ship as a GOP Congressional candidate in CA-25 and decided to run for office to serve in Sacramento instead… Talk […]