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Data doesn’t lie and House Republicans are running scared In special election after special election, Democrats are overperforming by a whopping 15.5 percentage points compared to 2024 presidential numbers, according to a new report from The New York Times and data compiled by The Downballot. Put into historical perspective, that 15.5 percent overperformance is more than double compared […]

Mariannette Miller-Meeks wants a participation trophy for jacking up Iowans’ energy costs. After months of claiming she was working to protect energy tax credits that allow “Iowa’s power costs [to be] among the lowest in the nation,” Miller-Meeks voted to gut them: “throwing Iowa’s 50-plus wind-related companies into uncertainty,” spiking costs, and jeopardizing good-paying jobs […]

REMINDER: Bill Huizenga voted AGAINST the funding being used to reopen Holtec’s Palisades power plant. Huizenga voted NO on the Inflation Reduction Act – which provided the funding to help finance the reopening of Palisades through its Energy Infrastructure Reinvestment (EIR) program’s loan guarantee. USDA: “DOE, through its Loan Programs Office (LPO), announced the closing of a loan guarantee of up to […]

Zach Nunn is refusing to hold town halls because he knows his voters aren’t happy with him. But as Nunn dodges Iowans and refuses to make public appearances, the local pressure on him just keeps mounting. KGAN reports that Nunn “is facing growing calls to hold in-person town halls” as Iowans question why he’s not […]

DCCC MEMORANDUM To: Interested Parties From: DCCC Regional Press Secretary Eli Cousin Date: September 2, 2025 Subject: Rob Bresnahan Has Deeply Damaged His Own Re-Election Odds With His Prolific Stock Trading Rob Bresnahan’s first months in Congress have been defined by a barrage of negative headlines drawing attention to the fact that he campaigned on a pledge to ban congressional stock trading, but has instead […]

National ad buy targets Latino, Black, and AANHPI voters in key GOP-held districts As working parents send their kids back to school, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is announcing a four-figure ad buy in 11 of the most competitive Republican-held districts across the country, focused on communicating to Latino, Black, and AANHPI voters that House […]

DCCC Chair Suzan DelBene released the following statement celebrating Labor Day and workers across the country: “On this day, we celebrate the working men and women of America whose strength and resilience are the backbone of our economy and the source of our country’s growth and prosperity.  “Celebrating America’s workers also means fighting for policies […]

Following the announcement by Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe to call a special legislative session to further gerrymander the state’s congressional map, DCCC Chair Suzan DelBene released the following statement: “Republicans are running scared, and they’ve decided their only hope for maintaining their majority is to pursue a cynical, unpopular scheme to gerrymander congressional maps. The […]

York Dispatch dubs Bresnahan “poster boy” of Washington corruption Boo, Rob Bresnahan! That’s what the York Dispatch editorial board is saying about the vulnerable NEPA congressman, whose first months in office have been defined by his broken promise to ban congressional stock trading. Bresnahan has become the “poster boy for why the problem he campaigned on urgently needs to […]

CNN: “Rep. Ashley Hinson is making plans to jump into the race, one GOP official says” Following news that Joni Ernst will not seek re-election and that Ashley Hinson is making plans to get into the Iowa Senate race, DCCC spokesperson Katie Smith released the following statement: “Ashley Hinson is clearly eager to jump off the sinking […]