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Key takeaways on DCCC promoting women in campaign leadership: 16 of 33 Red to Blue candidates have female managers (48%) 40% of Democratic campaign managers nationally are female 51% of Democratic finance directors nationally are female DCCC Training Department stats (through 3/22): Total trained: 8,069 Total sessions led: 204 25 cities trained 3,652 operatives trained […]

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT Florida lawmaker who helped craft new tax law stands to gain By Richard Lardner // AP April 2, 2018 WASHINGTON — As Republicans streamed out of Washington in late January for their annual retreat, dozens of them headed to Union Station near the U.S. Capitol to catch a train to […]

Curbelo ties his political future in Congress to an unpopular tax law By David Smiley and Alex Daugherty // Miami Herald April 3, 2018 Carlos Curbelo, one of the most vulnerable Republicans in Congress, is doubling down on the nation’s new — and largely unpopular — tax code. Nearly four months after Congress passed $1 […]

TO: Interested Parties FR: Dan Sena, DCCC Executive Director DT: April 3, 2018 RE: Take it Back: Democrats Have Clear Advantage in New District Polls It’s game time. Month by month, week by week, primaries will produce battle-tested and uniquely qualified Democratic candidates. And vulnerable House Republicans will be forced to face reality: According to […]

On Easter Sunday, President Trump took to Twitter to officially rule out a future DACA deal. This comes despite promising for months that he wanted to see a DACA solution for the more than 800,000 DREAMers protected under this critical program. This morning, the DCCC is calling on every one of these vulnerable Republicans representing […]

In case you missed it, Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers refused to promise that she’d protect Social Security when asked at a town hall in her district. After McMorris Rodgers helped push through the GOP Tax Scam that will raise the deficit, setting the stage for cuts to Social Security, her constituents deserve to know where […]

It’s a New Year and a brand new Mike Bishop in Michigan’s 8th Congressional District. Bishop, who was outraised the past two quarters by national security leader Elissa Slotkin, is now desperately trying to re-brand himself and hide his positions on a variety of issues as he faces the toughest election battle of his career. […]

You may have noticed that yesterday Rep. Peter Roskam took a bizarre victory lap, claiming a “win” for Illinois taxpayers who stood in line to prepay their 2017 property taxes. Here is what you need to know: These families – well the ones who could afford to – stood in line in record numbers to […]

PENCE ON VIDEO: “Congressman Paulsen Has Been Fighting Everyday Shoulder to Shoulder with President Trump” In what might be one of the most unhelpful comments of the 2018 election cycle, Vice President Mike Pence today gave a full-throated endorsement of vulnerable Rep. Erik Paulsen, saying he has been “fighting everyday shoulder to shoulder with President […]

Speaker Ryan’s Super PAC confirmed exactly how worried they are about the re-election chances of freshman Congressman and Wall Street ally, Ted Budd, when they announced this morning they’re parachuting in to put “boots on the ground” in North Carolina’s 13th District. This move comes as Democratic challenger Kathy Manning outraised Budd and ended the […]