Blue America PAC

Raised on this page: 13 180
Raised across ActBlue: 15,102 608,794

Restore Equality 2010

Raised on this page: 3 55
Raised across ActBlue: 107 10,801

Jennifer Brunner

OH-Sen (Map)

Jennifer is a working class hero-- a proven and effective advocate for working families in a political environment filled with politicians catering to the special interests who fund their campaigns. You might want to go through the live blog session we did with her in May at Firedoglake. She's the kind of strong and independent voice we need in the Senate, someone who will not buy into the House of Lords mentality that has made that body so useless for anyone without a big checkbook.

Raised on this page: 6 155
Raised across ActBlue: 2,242 222,526

Paulette Garin

WI-01 (Map)

Raised on this page: 1 50
Raised across ActBlue: 13 347

Billy Kennedy

NC-05 (Map)

Billy Kennedy is a popular radio talk show host-- and a farmer and carpenter-- with a fiery populist message that sounds a lot like the saner noises coming from the Tea Party movement-- but without the racism, hatred, and Fox-stoked paranoia. Kennedy's speaking authentically for working Americans like himself-- and that could spell real trouble for Big Business shill Virginia Foxx

Raised on this page: 13 383
Raised across ActBlue: 50 2,733

Pat Meagher

CA-41 (Map)

Finally a progressive fighter taking on California's most corrupt member of Congress. Often when I ask candidates what caucus they will join if elected to Congress they hum and haw and beat around the bush. Meagher immediately answered "the Progressive Caucus." He supports single payer, marriage equality and ending the war in Afghanistan. Imagine the Inland Empire with a congressman who's fighting FOR working families instead of fighting against them!

Raised on this page: 3 150
Raised across ActBlue: 8 475

Joe Sestak

PA-Sen (Map)

Blue America supported Joe Sestak when he ran for Congress and beat Curt Weldon in 2006. Since then we haven't agreed with him about every single vote but we've never felt like he's betrayed progressive values or working families. And unlike many other candidates, Joe has never-- not once-- shied away from discussion and consultation. He's consistently been one of the most open members of Congress with our community. His instincts are great and there are few members of Congress I respect more, even members with whom we agree on a more regular basis.

Meanwhile, Arlen Specter has always been-- as a Republican and now as a Democrat-- one of the most corrupt members of the Senate. He's taken more thinly disguised bribes than any other senator who hasn't run for president from lobbyists, the sleaziest segment of our political system. And whenever there is a hot debate with elites and status quo special interests desperate to hold the aspirations of regular American working families at bay, they always turn to Arlen Specter... with their check books. Specter is always on the top of every list of senators who gets the big bucks from corporate interests. Examples:

Finance/Insurance/Real Estate Sector- $5,879,085

Medical Industrial Complex- $4,074,683

Energy & Natural Resources Sector- $1,328,280

Raised on this page: 6 305
Raised across ActBlue: 3,232 578,343

Regina Thomas

GA-12 (Map)

State Senator Regina Thomas is running against one of the worst of the Blue Dog Democrats, John Barrow. In 2008 she took him on, only to see Barack Obama come in with a blazing, and very much misplaced endorsement of the incumbent. Barrow returned the favor by voting against almost every important item on the president's agenda, including the historic health care reform bill-- although not before he took the opportunity to vote for the Stupak Amendment that would severely restrict women's right to choice. Regina differs with him in both instances and there is a growing consensus in Georgia's sprawling 12th CD that it's time for Barrow to move back to Athens.

Raised on this page: 4 100
Raised across ActBlue: 488 11,045

Doug Tudor

FL-12 (Map)

Doug's wasn't a race the DCCC targetted in 2008 and it wasn't on any Inside the Beltway radar screens. Many of us first met Doug Tudor here at DWT early in July when he came out swinging against Bush's anti-Constitutional FISA bill which encompassed warrantless wiretaps and retroactive immunity for corporate executives who had been illegally spying on American citizens. What made Doug's stand doubly interesting was that he was running against the third ranking member of the Republican House hierarchy, Adam "Howdy Doody" Putnam, in a district centered on Polk County east of Tampa, Florida. Putnam was one of the foremost backers of Bush's FISA plan to strip American citizens of a right to privacy. The Blue America PAC sent Doug $1,000 for his FISA stand. Now that Putnam was kicked out of the GOP leadership and has decided to retire from the House altogether, there is a real opportunity to get a grassroots progressive into that House seat. It's either that or a tweedledee- tweedledum multimillionaire from one of the party establishments.

Raised on this page: 32 2,385
Raised across ActBlue: 693 43,674

Russ Warner

CA-26 (Map)

Russ Warner was a great candidate in 2008 against a right-wing rubber stamp for all the worst of Bushism. Ironically, it was Prop 8 that defeated Russ since Mormons turned out in great numbers and voted for the Republican, never suspecting David Dreier is a notorious and hypocritical closet queen. Meanwhile, Russ is running again this year and is looking like an even better candidate for a district that voted for Obama 51-47%.

Raised on this page: 3 45
Raised across ActBlue: 3,204 559,837