Election Day Is Every Tuesday: Jan 4- Jan 11

It's State Legislative Week!

There are six elections this week, and they are all state legislative. We have AR HD70, CT HD139, GA HD23, SC HD98, VA SD15, and VA HD77 (HD - House District, SD - Senate District)

These may not feel important, but oh my god they are. Two of them are flip opportunities, and the rest are holds, either way we need to win, and overperform.

Remember, most of our rights come from the state, so if you care about your rights you should care about state level races.

I hope this guide is helpful!

Arkansas

• State House District 70

  • Democratic Primary

    Alex Holladay Priorities: affordable healthcare, strong schools, soaring costs

    Cordelia Smith-Johnson Priorities: affordable healthcare, universal school breakfast and lunch, strong schools, investing in job training, raising wages, helping small businesses; ensuring veterans have access to healthcare, mental health care, housing and job opportunities; expand mental health and addiction services; protect right to bring issues directly to the ballot; affordable housing and rent, expanded Pre-K access, expand childcare resources, after school programs; improve infrastructure and transportation, support farmers markets, independent grocers and mobile markets

  

• State Senate District 26 - Republican Primary (I assume you’re not voting in it so I’m not giving more details)

Connecticut

• State House District 139

  Iris Sanchez DEMOCRAT

  Jamie Vaughan REPUBLICAN

Georgia

• State House of Representatives, District 23 (FLIP OPPORTUNITY)

  Bill Fincher REPUBLICAN Priorities: small government, personal responsibility, pro-life policies, 2^nd amendment protections, lowering taxes, strengthen public safety, expand opportunities in trade and technical education

  Scott Sanders DEMOCRAT Priorities: increase funding to schools and increase pay and resources for teachers, review curriculum restrictions; find options for affordable health care premiums, help Georgians to be able to afford food, utilities and housing; ensure first responders have the resources they need, increase funding for healthcare, libraries, parks and community centers

South Carolina

• State House of Representatives, District 98 (FLIP OPPORTUNITY)

  Greg Ford REPUBLICAN Priorities: eliminate state income tax, require infrastructure prior to growth, supports policies that support religious values, supports legislation that eliminates ideological and indoctrination courses in schools and the workplace, supports 2^nd amendment rights, supports no-excuse early voting, monthly voter roll maintenance, available funding for full audit after elections, standardized voter ID for voting, opposes vaccine mandates, parent rights in education

  Sonja Ogletree Satani DEMOCRAT Priorities: increasing economic growth through job creation, increasing wages, attracting businesses to the district and investing in infrastructure projects; prioritize funding for public schools and improve access to high education and vocational training; invest in affordable housing, access to health care and support initiatives that address food insecurity and homelessness

  

Virginia

• State Senate, District 15

  Mike Jones DEMOCRAT Affordable housing, affordable healthcare including reproductive care, mental health and reasonable prescriptions, job creation, access to quality food within the community citizens live in, reproductive freedom, improve schools with modern infrastructure, technology, sufficient quality teachers and staff including counselors, mental health professionals and subject area specialists; protecting voting rights, protecting the LGBT community and eliminating racism; protect the environment, especially communities impacted by polluted waters and factory fumes; climate change

  John Thomas REPUBLICAN Priorities: growing small businesses, expanding workforce development, improving education by access to technical training as early as middle school, school resource officers and practical solutions for mental health

  

• State House of Delegates, District 77

  Charlie Schmidt DEMOCRAT Priorities: Support affordable housing through rebates for working families, banning “junk fees” from rental properties; fully fund and support public schools, limit charter schools, vouchers and private enterprise encroachment, support teachers and their right to unionize; improve access to healthcare, lower health insurance premiums, ensure healthcare subsidies for Medicaid and the Marketplace; support universal childcare for all workers; support union workers by repealing the “right to work” laws, reward companies that respect a unionized workforce, expand collective bargaining to state and public university employees

  Richard Stonage, Jr REPUBLICAN Priorities: public safety, best training for sheriffs and police, great pay for state police; safe and reliable water, investigate Richmond water operations; parents control their child’s education, review safety procedures, limit women’s sports to biological females, match students to schools – trade/vocational, special, charter, college, school choice system; lower taxes, end regulations that costs jobs, support Right to Work law to keep unions accountable; repeal or lower the car tax; raise the top income tax bracket to $34,000; focused laws to combat gangs and organized drug networks; shorten early voting, encourage allowing all clean energy sources including natural gas, coal, wind and nuclear; stop copying other states

I hope this helped you vote. Going forward I am doing to try to be a week in advance. If you want to help make that possible and you have the time, I would love more volunteers, please DM me if that sounds like you!

Remember YOUR vote is YOUR voice, but ONLY if you use it!