Anti-Maniac Defense
Now that the Republican Party has gone full dumbfuck fascist, they’re attracting some truly batshit candidates. We can’t do much about the QAnon lady down in Florida, that’s a safe Republican seat, but THESE assholes? These are the angriest, craziest, Trumpiest loons running in competitive districts, and they must be kept out of Congress at all costs.
Carolyn Bourdeaux
Carolyn Bourdeaux is an insanely experienced and accomplished public servant and educator, with a killer resumé. She’s seen up close the way the American health care system can devastate a family’s finances, and she believes we deserve better. Bourdeaux came with in one or two KDTs (Kemp Dirty Tricks) of flipping this seat in 2018, and that was without running against an absolute clown. One of our best pick-up opportunities.
- Visit the official website
- On Twitter as @Carolyn4GA7
- Visit Facebook page
Georgia
GA-07
Ratings
Cook: Lean Dem
Inside Elections: Tilt Dem
Roll Call: Tilt Dem
Sabato: Lean Dem
The Bad Guy
Rich McCormick
Donnie Dotard retweeted one of Rich McCormick’s wingnut rants about the coronavirus, making him an instant Cult45 celebrity, so now he gets to be a congressional candidate, how fun. That this drooling quack been so dangerously wrong about the pandemic, over and over again (Hydroxychloroquine? Really?) makes me think maybe he’s not the leader we need right now. Rich is one of these new post-reality, post-sanity Republican leeches trying to latch a ride to power on Trump’s ass, and he absolutely must be fucking stopped.
Dan Feehan
Dan Feehan is an Iraq veteran (he earned the Bronze Star) who served as a Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense under Obama, but he still puts his teaching experience on equal footing with his showier credentials, because he takes the idea of “service” seriously. Feehan knows his district’s unique needs, and came within a hair of winning in 2018. This one’s like choosing between the ribeye at Gibsons & a dumpster full of diapers.
- Visit the official website
- On Twitter as @danielfeehan
- Visit Facebook page
Minnesota
MN-01
Incumbent
Ratings
Cook: Lean Rep
Inside Elections: Tilt Rep
Roll Call: Tilt Rep
Sabato: Toss-Up
The Bad Guy
Jim Hagedorn
Jim Hagedorn was already known as an unusually bigoted and misogynistic sack of shit, even by the standards of Trump’s GOP, and then the Black Lives Matter protests sent him over the edge into full white nationalism. Hagedorn hates poor people as much as he hates black people, but there’s nothing he hates as much as Minnesotans who believe they have a right to health care. Losing elections is an old hobby of Jim’s, and it’s time to reacquaint him with that sensation.
Sri Preston Kulkarni
Sri Preston Kulkarni served the nation as a diplomat overseas for fourteen years before the sight of Nazis marching through Charlottesville spurred him to bring his fight back home. Running an innovative campaign targeting voters in 21 different languages, Sri is the perfect new Congressman for the New Texas that’s emerging. His healthcare-focused message nearly flipped this district in 2018, so let’s push him over the finish line.
- Visit the official website
- On Twitter as @SriPKulkarni
- Visit Facebook page
Texas
TX-22
Ratings
Cook: Toss-Up
Inside Elections: Toss-Up
Roll Call: Toss-Up
Sabato: Toss-Up
The Bad Guy
Troy Nehls
Troy Nehls is a local sheriff who is perhaps most famous for repeatedly downplaying his county’s notorious human trafficking problem. Before he was a shitty sheriff, Troy was a shitty cop, who got fired for “reasons including destruction of evidence.” Lately, he’s been a dangerous anti-mask/anti-science voice during the pandemic, even as COVID-19 spread through his district. Oh and he’s rabid Trumper, of course. Unless we want Gym Jordan’s Creepy Wingnut Caucus to grow, let’s keep this clown away from Congress.
Lucy McBath
Lucy McBath showed us we could beat the murderous GOP/NRA team-up even in Newt Gingrich’s backyard, and she’s kept right on beating ‘em in Washington. And while yes, McBath has been a leading voice for gun control since her son’s tragic murder, she’s also led on issues ranging from veterans to Pell Grants. Definitely a keeper.
- Visit the official website
- On Twitter as @lucymcbath
- Visit Facebook page
Georgia
GA-06
Incumbent
Ratings
Cook: Lean Dem
Inside Elections: Tilt Dem
Roll Call: Tilt Dem
Sabato: Lean Dem
The Bad Gal
Karen Handel
Karen Handel is so shitty, she’s managed to be shitty at CHARITY. While serving as a Vice President at Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Karen tried to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood, and when that blew up in her face, she threw a fit and quit. As Georgia Secretary of State, Handel was a ferocious vote suppressor. Anti-health care, anti-minimum wage, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ…Karen Handel fucking sucks, y’all. We beat her in the midterms, but it looks like this one needs one more flush.
Abigail Spanberger
We knew we’d gotten an ass-kicker when Abigail Spanberger first rose up to challenge Tea Party maniac Dave Brat. The former CIA operative now fights for gun control and health care from a seat the GOP held for 38 years. And her leadership on impeachment showed the world that even our most vulnerable members were willing to risk their careers to protect the nation from Trump’s lawlessness. We should keep her around, is what I’m saying here.
- Visit the official website
- On Twitter as @spanbergerva07
- Visit Facebook page
Virginia
VA-07
Incumbent
Ratings
Cook: Toss-Up
Inside Elections: Tilt Dem
Roll Call: Tilt Dem
Sabato: Lean Dem
The Bad Guy
Nick Freitas
Nick Freitas is a cookie-cutter Rand Rand Paul/Heritage/FreedomWorks jackass who launched himself to wingnut stardom with a deranged, hateful, pro-gun speech on the floor of the House of Delgates that sounds like a bot after being fed 5,000 hours of Fox commentary. Anyway, young Nick is that magic combination of whinging victimhood, regurgitated talking points, and white boy mediocrity that drives Cult45 wild, but holy fuck he has no business writing anybody’s laws.
Candace Valenzuela
Candace Valenzuela overcame childhood homelessness to become the first member of her family to graduate college, going on to fight for her community on her local school board. She understands the needs of working Texans from lived experience, while her opponent wallows in the right-wing fever swamps. Valenzuela knows what America needs in 2020 is less Donald Trump and more John Lewis.
- Visit the official website
- On Twitter as @candacefor24
- Visit Facebook page
Texas
TX-24
Ratings
Cook: Toss-Up
Inside Elections: Toss-Up
Roll Call: Toss-Up
Sabato: Lean Dem
The Bad Gal
Beth Van Duyne
Celebrity hate-monger Beth Van Duyne rocketed to wingnut superstardom when, as Mayor of Irving, Texas, she said a bunch of hellaciously racist shit to Glenn Beck following the Ahmed Mohamed clock incident, and she’s been vomiting up insane, hateful lies about “Sharia law” ever since. That’s pretty much the whole argument here, “Look how much I hate Muslims, please send me to Congress to hurt them.” Shitty person, shitty mayor…she’d be a super-shitty Congresswoman.