We Can't Leave 'Flipping Congress' To The DCCC

The Democratic Party is focused on reelecting Biden as the top priority. Well over a billion dollars will be spent on that. We hope Biden divests himself from Netanyahu in time to save his presidency. But whichever way the presidential race goes— not a race that a small grassroots committee like Blue America can have much impact on— it is crucial that the House flips blue. A quick scan of congressional headlines tells us that it shouldn’t be that hard but…

“But” has a lot to do with some of the incredibly unappealing conservatives the DCCC has selected to run, in some cases corrupt state legislators like Rudy Salas and Adam Grey in California who were well known by voters and who already rejected them in blue districts in 2022.

We’ll just leave those kinds of races alone. Instead, we have a short, tight list of districts held by conservatives that can be flipped, not just for Democrats but for progressive Democrats. The ActBlue page is called, simply enough, Flip Congress. Right now we have an even dozen candidates in districts held by conservatives.

All of them are Republican districts and one, in blue, blue Broward County, Florida, is Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s seat, where progressive activist Jen Perelman is running to replace her in the Democratic primary.

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