By Zach Montellaro

The bill would give the Department of Justice, private citizens and political parties, among others, the ability to bring lawsuits challenging congressional maps. Undercutting some attempts to subvert elections The bill also has sections that address attempts to subvert a federal election, mainly targeting attacks on elections administrators and the tallying of votes. One provision makes it harder to remove local election officials, giving a removed official the right to sue and the federal government the explicit ability to intervene in lawsuits to try to stop the removal. The bill makes it an explicit crime to “intimidate, threaten, coerce, or attempt […]

“In order to run effective campaigns, and to win, it’s our belief, and I think the belief in most of the Democratic Party, that you need to have managers that are culturally competent, that have the ability to speak to every part of the coalition,” said Myers. Myers said the class of managers being hired at congressional campaigns were all part of a cohort that managed Virginia state legislative races earlier this year. A dozen members of that class will manage congressional campaigns, Myers said. “I remember what it was like to try to even become a manager on the other […]

But Jones and other backers of Democrats’ voting bills may be in for another round of disappointment. When Democrats accepted the short-term, debt-limit deal offered by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to punt the deadline until December, it also postponed any discussion about changes to the filibuster — which advocates see as blocking any real chance of sending legislation to Biden’s desk. Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY) delivers remarks at the “March On for Washington and Voting Rights” on the National Mall on Aug. 28, 2021 in Washington, D.C. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images “Quite frankly, we know that the likelihood of legislation […]

Hybrid PACs allow organizations to still collect and spend unlimited amounts of money for its independent expenditures, while maintaining a segregated bank account to donate to candidates. Donations for that separate account face contribution limits, and there is also a limit to the amount the CLF Trailblazers Fund and other hybrid PACs can give to candidates. “As we fight to win back the House and elect more Republican rising stars, CLF Trailblazers Fund will enable us to endorse and financially support key candidates of distinction with additional hard dollars,” Dan Conston, the president of Congressional Leadership Fund, said in a statement. […]

“The rapid success of WinRed is testament to unprecedented party unity behind the need to take on ActBlue — quickly and aggressively,” WinRed president Gerrit Lansing wrote in a memo. The boon for WinRed comes as Republicans scramble to replace many of the in-person fundraisers that filled their coffers and combat Democrats’ advantage in online donations. Democrats up and down the ballot have routinely crushed their Republican counterparts in fundraising, largely from small-dollar donors who contribute through ActBlue, a Democratic payment processor that launched in 2004 and has morphed into a fundraising behemoth. Top Republican officials have warned that the wide […]