Critical, competitive Congressional races, November 2020:

SENATE:

Barbara Bollier (D) v. Roger Marshall (R-”Mitch funded me because Kobach is so bad”), Kansas
https://bollierforkansas.com/
@BarbaraBollier
After a fulfilling career as a doctor, Barbara ran for the Kansas House of Representatives in 2010 to make a difference across the state. There, she served as an independent voice for Kansans, earning a reputation as a leader willing to stand up to both political parties to solve the challenges facing KS families (for example: when Governor Sam Brownback forced his radical tax experiment on Kansas, she stood up to her own political party and his and voted no.) Barbara is a strong advocate for public schools, access to affordable healthcare, and balanced budgets. Following the Great Recession, she worked with a bipartisan coalition to put the state back on sound fiscal footing.

Steve Bullock (D) v. Steve Daines (R-who?), Montana
https://stevebullock.com/
@stevebullockmt
A native, lifelong Montanan, former MT Attorney General, and two-term MT Governor, Bullock has long fought for Montanans. He’s worked hard to protect access to public lands, end the corrupting influence of money in politics, save the state’s rural hospitals, and expand affordable health care to 90,000 Montanans. Prior to serving in public office, Bullock was a union-side labor law lawyer and led a successful state initiative to raise the minimum wage. Growing up, the only reason Bullock knew there was a Governor’s residence in town was because he delivered newspapers to it. Now, Steve and his wife are raising their three kids in that very same house in Helena.

Cal Cunningham (D) v. Thom Thillis (R-), North Carolina
https://www.calfornc.com/
@CalforNC
At the age of 27, Cal was elected one of the NC’s youngest State Senators. Over the course of his term in the legislature, Cal fought for smaller class sizes, higher teacher pay, and investments in early childhood education and our university and community college system. Cal was also an advocate for landmark clean air legislation, land preservation, and campaign finance reform. After the attacks on 9/11, Cal joined the U.S. Army Reserve and has since served three active duty tours, including overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was awarded the Bronze Star and the prestigious General Douglas MacArthur Leadership Award, in part for groundbreaking work prosecuting contractors for criminal misconduct. Cal has also performing legal work on behalf of workers exposed to hazards on the job, was named Vice Chairman of Governor Roy Cooper’s Crime Commission where he led efforts to address school gun violence, curb the opioid addiction crisis, and fund services for women and families affected by domestic violence and sexual assault.

Sara Gideon (D) v. Susan Collins (R-spineless), Maine
https://saragideon.com/
@SaraGideon
After serving on her local town council, Gideon was elected to the ME state legislature in 2012 and now serves as Speaker of the House. She has been a great support to Maine families by helping pass anti-discrimination healthcare laws, championing job training legislation, passing a landmark bill to provide property tax refunds to Maine homeowners, and passing a bipartisan bill to draw attention to and deliver resources to combat Maine’s opioid epidemic. She is a vocal advocate for protecting and expanding access to women’s reproductive care, and unlike Collins, Gideon would not vote with McConnell and Trump 94% of the time. She would not have voted to confirm Kavanaugh (a lying, smug sack of garbage calendars).

Theresa Greenfield (D) v. Phoni, er, Joni Ernst (R-pathetic stooge who tried to diss Greenfield by making fun of the selfie Greenfield took with her dog), Iowa
https://greenfieldforiowa.com/
@GreenfieldIowa
Greenfield grew up on a family farm, and put herself through college. When she was expecting her second child, her husband was killed in an accident at his job as a union electrical worker. As a young widow, times were tough but Theresa set out on a path to provide for her two boys as a single mom. One of the things that helped Theresa’s family stay out of poverty and get back on their feet was Social Security survivor benefits, and she’s committed to protecting Social Security against partisan attacks in Washington.

Jaime Harrison (D) v. Lindsay Graham (R-sycophant), South Carolina
https://jaimeharrison.com/
@harrisonjaime
Harrison served as the Chair of the SC Democratic Party from 2013-2017, and is now an associate chair of the DNC. Born to a teenage, single mom, Harrison was raised by his grandparents and ultimately earned a scholarship to Yale. He has experienced, deeply and painfully, poverty, lack of access to healthcare, and the importance of mentors, social safety nets, and policies that work for all. He is in a dead heat with Graham and would represent SC in an entirely new, more holistic and equitable way. Change is needed, and Harrison would be an incredible start to that.

Doug Jones (D) v. Tommy Tuberville (R-“trump’s the best president we’ve ever had”), Alabama
https://dougjones.com/
@DougJones
Jones became Alabama’s junior Senator in 2018 after a special election to replace Jeff Sessions who had resigned to accept the role of US Attorney General under Trump. Jones is a thoughtful man with years of legal and Congressional experience. While practicing law, his most prominent cases were the successful prosecution of two Ku Klux Klan members for the 1963 Birmingham church bombing that killed four African-American girls and the indictment of domestic terrorist Eric Rudolph. In my opinion, he’s a real asset to the Senate.

Mark Kelly (D) v. Martha McSally (R-no, Martha, he’s not a liberal hack, you partisan wench, and also, you didn’t win an election to get where you are), Arizona
https://markkelly.com/
@ShuttleCDRKelly
Kelly, a retired astronaut and Navy combat veteran who flew 39 combat missions in Desert Storm, is the husband of Gabby Giffords, former House member representing AZ-8 and recovering victim from a 2011 mass shooting in Tucson. Kelly and Giffords cofounded and run their organization, GIFFORDS, which unites veterans, law enforcement officials, gun owners, faith leaders, and Americans of all stripes to reduce gun violence and make our communities safer.

Amy McGrath (D) v. Mitch McConnell (R-jackass), Kentucky
https://amymcgrath.com/
@AmyMcGrathKY
McGrath served twenty years in the Marines, flying 89 in Iraq and Afghanistan and, in 2002, becoming the first woman in the Marine Corps to fly a combat mission in an F/A-18. She later served as a Congressional Fellow advising a senior member of the Armed Services Committee, in the Pentagon as Marine Corps’ liaison to the State Department, and as senior instructor in the Political Science Department at the US Naval Academy. She would be an incredible victory, in all ways, over McConnell.

HOUSE:

Phil Arballo (D) v. Devin Nunes (R-lying turd), CA-22
philarballo.com
@PhilArballo2020

Shannon Freshour (D) v. Jim Jordan (R-jacketless molester-hider), OH-4
https://shannon4ohio.com/
@ShannonFreshour

Michael Muscato (D) v. Debbie Lesko (R-uneducated), AZ-8
https://www.muscato4congress.com/
@michael_muscato

Phil Ehr (D) v. Matt Gaetz (R-so much wrong), FL-1
https://www.ehrforcongress.com/
@PhilEhr

Kim Mangone (D) v. Kevin McCarthy (R-Kiev McCarthy), CA-23
https://mangoneforcongress.com/
@KimMangone

Tedra Cobb (D) v. Elise Stefanik (R-smug, disrespectful liar), NY-21
https://www.tedracobb.com/
@tedracobb

Sima Ladjevardian (D) v. Dan Crenshaw (R-pirate), TX-2
https://simafortx.com/
@SimaforTX

State ballot measures

There's still plenty of time for issues to make it onto state ballots, but already these seem likely:

• Colorado will vote on whether all nine of its electoral college votes should go to the winner of the national popular vote in a presidential election.

• Louisiana will vote on whether it should amend its state constitution to state that it does not protect the right to an abortion.

• Montana will vote on whether to get rid of local governments' authority to regulate guns.

• Nevada will vote on whether to amend the state constitution to recognize a marriage regardless of gender and repeal language that defines marriage as between "one man and one woman."

• Nebraska and Utah will both vote on whether to remove language in their state constitution that allows for slavery as criminal punishment.

• Utah will also vote on whether it should completely remove gendered language from its constitution and replace it with gender-neutral words.