BIPOC Broads
Hey Resisters! Sara here again (ShowerCap’s Web Hero and from the podcast Broads You Should Know; telling the stories of the most incredible, badass women to ever walk the face of this planet), and since I just can’t seem to stop thinking about all the awesome BROADS running for office right now I’ve got ANOTHER six-pack for you: BIPOC BROADS.
If you’re on a personal mission, like I am, to smash the white male patriarchy or if you’re toeing the line hard for plain old motherfucking EQUALITY, this is the six-pack* for you. We’ve got a group of SUPER TALENTED, savvy women from a variety of non-white backgrounds, from Indigenous Americans to Black women to Latinas. Some are even first or second generation immigrants! If you want to see more women of color representing you in DC then DONATE TO THESE BROADS and help them get/stay there.
*It’s called a six-pack, but there are seven BROADS here because I won’t leave a sister behind!
Sharice Davids
One of the first Native women in Congress, Sharice Davids brought her devotion to service to this longtime Republican bastion. A strong team player, Davids has an especially impressive record on health care, including her anti-surprise medical billing legislation. Plus, down the stretch in our battle to save American democracy, she’s been a leader in the fight to save the Post Office from Turd Reich sabotage. Well worth rehiring.
- Visit the official website
- On Twitter as @sharicedavids
- Visit Facebook page
Kansas
KS-03
Incumbent
Ratings
Cook: Likely Dem
Inside Elections: Likely Dem
Roll Call: Likely Dem
Sabato: Likely Dem
The Bad Gal
Amanda Adkins
Amanda Adkins frankly has a lot of fucking nerve even running, after her role in transforming my beloved Kansas into Brownbackistan. After her batshit wingnut policies crotch-punted the state’s education system, Adkins now says, “also I want to take away your health care, vote for me!” Amanda needed her rich father’s money to bail her out of a nasty little primary, likely because her reckless, anti-science coronavirus jabber proves her judgement remains extremely shitty.
Jackie Gordon
Jackie Gordon’s resume: 29 years in the Army Reserve, attaining the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, with four overseas deployments, plus 32 years as an educator and guidance counselor, with more than a decade on the Babylon Town Council, where she delivered big, especially for veterans. A lifetime of service. A proven, battle-tested fighter. Let’s help Jackie take her fight for Long Island’s working families to Congress.
- Visit the official website
- On Twitter as @VoteJackie4NY
- Visit Facebook page
New York
NY-02
Ratings
Cook: Toss-Up
Inside Elections: Toss-Up
Roll Call: Toss-Up
Sabato: Lean Rep
The Bad Guy
Andrew Garbarino
Andrew Garbarino has been such an obedient little puppet in the New York State Assembly, his donor masters want to send him to Washington to cut their federal taxes for change. Garbarino’s own stated reasons for seeking this seat are full of cold political calculations, and eerily free of constituent concerns. This Dem-trending district was loyal to Peter King for decades, but Pete finally flushed himself off into the sunset, and we can absolutely beat this glorified accountant to plutocrats.
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.
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, the first South American immigrant to serve in Congress, is about two things: hard work and service. She brings valuable experience from the nonprofit sector to the struggle against climate change (crucial for her South Florida district), and a passion born of personal tragedy to the fight for gun control. And lord knows Debbie’s steady leadership on the Congressional Coronavirus Task Force stands in sharp contrast to her opponent’s deadly incompetence.
- Visit the official website
- On Twitter as @debbieforfl
- Visit Facebook page
Florida
FL-26
Incumbent
Ratings
Cook: Toss-Up
Inside Elections: Toss-Up
Roll Call: Toss-Up
Sabato: Toss-Up
The Bad Guy
Carlos Giménez
Carlos Giménez, as Mayor of Miami-Dade County, followed the disastrous Trump/DeSantis/Grim Reaper coronavirus playbook, perhaps assuming voters would elevate him to higher office if only to get him to stop killing them. Also, since Giménez is so corrupt he has a legit monorail scandal on his record, it shouldn’t surprise you to learn he’s waving fistfuls of CARES Act funding around under a GET YER BRIBES HERE sign. Just another servile Trump sellout lookin’ to crawl into the swamp.
Dr. Hiral Tipirneni
Dr. Hiral Tipirneni is an emergency room physician and cancer research advocate, and you’re already thinking, “holy crap, that’s a voice we could sure fuckin’ use in Congress right about now,” aren’t you? A proven team player and problem-solver, Tipirneni has been serving her community for decades, and this is precisely the sort of suburban district we’ve been flipping lately.
- Visit the official website
- On Twitter as @hiral4congress
- Visit Facebook page
Arizona
AZ-06
Incumbent
Ratings
Cook: Toss-Up
Inside Elections: Tilt Rep
Roll Call: Tilt Rep
Sabato: Toss-Up
The Bad Guy
David Schweikert
David Schweikert is so fucking corrupt, even members of his own party joined a unanimous House vote to reprimand his crooked ass. When he’s not committing crimes, Schweikert likes trying to steal his constituents’ health care, or get them killed outright, serving as one of the NRA’s nuttiest lapdogs. Still, history teaches us that Dave will pull every dirty trick in the book to keep his grift going, because he’s not one of those fun, noble, anti-hero criminals from the movies, he’s just a sack of shit.
Xochitl Torres Small
Xochitl Torres Small brought her killer resumé as a water attorney and Senate staffer to Congress, along with a firm understanding of the issues facing southern New Mexico: health care, water rights, energy development, broadband access, and more. Republicans thought they could take Xochitl down by hitting her over her impeachment vote, but that plan hit a coronavirus-shaped wall.
- Visit the official website
- On Twitter as @xochforcongress
- Visit Facebook page
New Mexico
NM-02
Incumbent
Ratings
Cook: Toss-Up
Inside Elections: Tilt Dem
Roll Call: Tilt Dem
Sabato: Lean Dem
The Bad Gal
Yvette Herrell
This one’s a rematch; Yvette Herrell won’t take “leave us the fuck alone” for an answer. Before her failed attempt to bring Dotard-style hate politics to New Mexico, Herrell served on the board of everyone’s favorite band of corporation-humping ratfuckers, ALEC, ewwwwww. She won her primary by claiming to be the Trumpiest of Them All, which she proves by attacking the media and lying a lot. Another premature victory speech sure would be hilarious, though.
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.