We have known this all year long: The power is in the South.
Scott recognized the strength of our movement there and the importance of this moment.
He makes history as the first Black senator elected in Mississippi since Reconstruction.
I saw firsthand when campaigning with him in his hometown that he is a brilliant leader and dedicated public servant who will work tirelessly to serve every Mississippian with pride.
Make no mistake: This race was not easy. Scott had to overcome tremendous odds with little outside support, and now he has to transition to delivering on Capitol Hill.
That is why I am asking for your support today. Scott needs lots of grassroots donations to help him get started, and I know we can count on this team to step up.
The American people delivered a resounding repudiation of the Trump administration’s cruelty toward our neighbors. But the administration is undeterred―they are moving ahead with a rule to super-charge deportation proceedings, making it harder for accused people to get legal representation.
The Department of Homeland Security proposed a new rule that would shrink the time neighbors with refugee status have to respond to a notice of intent from 30 days to just 10. And that time is counted from the date the notice is mailed―not the day it arrives.
This rule could apply to as many as 186,000 refugees.
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After the election, things are unsettled. Members of the Trump administration are considering their careers in 2028 and beyond―which is why an overwhelming number of comments can be especially powerful right now. And even if we fail, it will send a message to the next president that reforming our immigration system starts by reversing this brutal rule.
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This grassroots team is the fuel that led to our victory in Ohio. Your opinion matters more than ever. That’s why we want to know what’s top of mind for you as Sherrod prepares to be sworn in.
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Subject: Will you tell me your priorities before I’m sworn in?
Thank you.
Because of you, working families in Ohio are going to have a true voice in Washington.
My name was on the ballot, but this victory belongs to all of us. And the only way we can make real change is if I know what YOUR priorities, concerns, and hopes for the future are.
I wish I could talk to each of you personally, but until I can be in 100 places at once, surveys like this are genuinely the next best thing.
Together, we won Ohio by almost 5 full points, flipped the Senate, and stared down Donald Trump’s billionaires and corporate special interests and collectively told them, “Not in Ohio.”
But this victory doesn’t put us at the finish line. Our work is just getting started.
We’re going to fight to lower costs and make life better for working families. My staff and I are more fired up than ever to deliver for the people of Ohio.
We can do this. But I need to know what’s most important to you. That’s why I’m checking in today, and I’m really hopeful you will take a minute to fill out our short survey.
Thank you for making your voice heard. Thank you for standing with me. Thank you for everything.
We’re just getting started.
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Hey there! It's Sherrod Brown.
Thanks to you, we flipped this Ohio seat and the Senate. Now, I’m ready to get to work to change the status quo in Washington.
We say: Not another dime for Trump’s illegal warmongering.
Voters delivered a resounding anti-war mandate on Election Day, Pamela. They want leaders who listen, make life more affordable, and put our safety first. Congress must now choose: Listen to the people and reject a bloated Pentagon budget OR continue to prop up Trump’s war machine.
We don’t have to wait for the new Congress to be sworn in on January 3 to turn our anti-war vision into reality. Lawmakers are debating and negotiating multiple legislative vehicles that could plow more than $1.5 TRILLION toward the Pentagon today.
We know Congress must leverage the power of the purse to cut off funds for Trump’s war immediately. But after inexcusable absences sunk a crucial effort to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth earlier this week, it’s clear that not enough lawmakers are feeling the heat from their constituents. That changes now.
Trump has erroneously claimed “victory” in his disastrous war on Iran and indicated he won’t escalate even more, only after opposition to a historically unpopular conflict led to resounding Election Day defeats for his party. But we should all know better than to take his words at face value.
Let’s not forget how we ended up here, Pamela: Trump has turned to violence and horrific threats of war crimes again and again. Congress has no choice but to step in.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates Trump’s war on Iran has already cost the American people at least $38 billion — more than $2,000 per family.[1] As winter settles in and temperatures drop, the war is sending heating costs skyrocketing, and the economic impact is far from over. That’s real money that families need for healthcare, housing, and groceries.
We need relief from rising costs, not another check for Trump’s lawless wars. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle seem to agree. But their words mean nothing without subsequent action.
Voters gave Congress a mandate to act NOW. Waiting until 2027 simply won’t cut it. Let’s make lawmakers and their staff hear from the anti-war majority — including more than a dozen partner organizations and tens of thousands of activists like you.
Endless war does not deliver the security our communities need. Real strength comes from ending wars, not starting them — and we want our tax dollars funding diplomacy, not bombs.
Thank you for working for peace,
The Win Without War team
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We urge you to abolish ICE, investigate and shut down abusive ICE detention centers, and end DHS detention of children. We urge you to hold ICE accountable for breaking the law and committing violence across the country, and ensure ICE, DHS, and other federal officials are held accountable for shooting and killing people, including Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Democrats are gearing up to investigate and rein in ICE after flipping the House and Senate. Congress needs to get a lot done to slow down Trump's horrific mass deportations machine.
Markwayne Mullin, head of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), defiantly claimed after the election that "deportations will continue." The fight to stop ICE is urgent, and Congress must take decisive action. 60 people have died in ICE custody during Trump's 2nd term. Stephen Miller's ICE terror campaign is pushing speedy, lawless deportations and the detention of children.
The American people and prominent lawmakers are calling on Congress to hold the Trump administration accountable for DHS violence AND outright shut down ICE!
At least three people died in ICE prisons where systemic abuse and inhumane living conditions are the norm.
Trump, Miller, and Mullin unleashed a pre-election ICE arrest surge across California.
Trump officials have refused to cooperate with local investigations into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in order to protect ICE and CBP from accountability.
House Democrats are demanding answers on why ICE has detained over 500 U.S. citizens.
Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Pramila Jayapal called to break up Trump's far-right security forces at ICE.
And, after the election, lead Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Robert Garcia said he would pursue investigations into current and past Trump officials at DHS.
When the power balance changes in Congress, Democrats must prioritize dismantling ICE. No more funding for mass deportations and no more impunity for Trump and Stephen Miller. Congress must act to undo the horrors of mass deportations.
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House Whip Katherine Clark, Elect Democratic Women chair Rep. Lois Frankel, and EDW executive board member Rep. Julia Brownley attend the GRAMMYs on the Hill Advocacy Day Awards Dinner on April 8, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Photo by Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for The Recording Academy.
Maybe they waited too long for the cake pops to come back around.
After 11 Democrats missed the vote to impeach War Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday, an ill-timed Tuesday reception hosted by the political action committee Elect Democratic Women (EDW) has become the focus of increasing attention. According to an RSVP list of the event obtained by Drop Site News, the party was studded with representatives of the country’s top weapons makers and the city’s most powerful defense contractor lobbying firms.
A motion from Republicans to effectively kill the impeachment resolution passed 211-204. Three of the missing Democrats blamed their tardiness on traffic getting back to the Capitol from an event.
The unexcused absences have sent an angry Democratic base, which was already clamoring for leadership changes in the House and Senate and an end to the war with Iran, all the way up the wall. The complete list of EDW partygoers is unlikely to calm anyone down.
The event, billed as a “New Member Reception,” was expected to be attended by a slew of lobbyists for weapons makers, AI companies, crypto firms, insurance companies, Big Pharma, and others looking to press their case for federal largesse, according to the event RSVP list. EDW, chaired by Rep. Lois Frankel (D-Fl.), served as a major pass-through for AIPAC cash in the 2026 cycle. AIPAC’s super PAC United Democracy Projectfunneled at least $2.35 million into EDW Action this year, according to federal campaign finance records.
The event was to be attended, according to the list, by 132 lobbyists, The defense industry was represented by at least two people from Lockheed Martin, as well as representatives from top defense lobbying firms like Cornerstone Public Affairs, Invariant, Akin Gump, Porter Group, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, K&L Gates, and BGR Group. AI and Big Tech were represented by lobbyists from Anthropic, Google, Dell, Salesforce, Airbnb, and Intel. Big Pharma had people from PhRMA, Genentech, AstraZeneca, Blue Cross Blue Shield, CVS, and Elevance Health. Prediction markets were championed by a Kalshi lobbyist while cryptocurrencies were advocated for by someone from Coinbase. And, for good measure, two lobbyists from Bayer-Monsanto, the company responsible for releasing the cancer-causing weed killer RoundUp, attended the bash. Major firms like Walmart, Comcast, and Delta were in attendance, as were a handful of major unions.
The event ran from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. House leadership scheduled the vote to impeach Hegseth at 5:30 p.m., and the vote closed at 6:05.
The “run of show” had Frankel giving remarks at 5:00, cutting it close to the vote time, given rush hour traffic down Pennsylvania Avenue from the venue, Goldfinch Social.
Reps. Julia Brownley(D-Calif.), Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), and Brittany Pettersen (D-Colo.) missed the vote and attended the event. Brownley is an executive board member of EDW and Stansbury is a board member. Eight others missed the vote–Reps. Laura Gillen, Nancy Pelosi, Haley Stevens, Marilyn Strickland, Frederica Wilson, Jonathan Jackson, Steven Horsford, and Lou Correa. Pelosi said she was attending a Veteran’s Day event; Horsford cited a “personal emergency.” Jackson made it to the steps of the Capitol on time and was seen filming a social media video before the vote was gaveled to a close, but inexplicably missed the vote. He said he is taking “full accountability.” Stevens was endorsed by EDW but was thrown out of the Michigan Democratic Party for endorsing the Republican in the Michigan Senate race. She has been hanging out in the Republican cloakroom during votes.
“I am so sorry,” Stansbury posted to social media Wednesday morning. “There is no one who is more disappointed in myself than me that I was not here the moment that that gavel dropped.”
Pettersen has been less forthcoming. Drop Site reported Tuesday night that some members had been at an EDW event, and the local Colorado media pressed Pettersen as to whether she was one of them, but she initially declined to say, allowing only she had been “denied the ability to vote.”
“Her team twice refused to tell us where she was. Our Marshall Zelinger found that Pettersen was at a Super PAC party,” Local9 News in Colorado reported.
“Last night I was late to the floor and there is no excuse for that,” she said in a follow-up statement. “I was an Electing Democratic Women [sic] event celebrating the record-breaking number of new women members who were just elected, and unfortunately was significantly delayed with the blockade on Independence Avenue.”
Kyle Clark
@KyleClark
UPDATE: Rep Brittany Pettersen (D-CO) missed the Hegseth impeachment vote and her team dodged our questions about her whereabouts. @MarshallZNews learned Pettersen was at a party for an AIPAC-linked Super PAC.
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The Colorado local news anchor went on: “So why the hesitancy about being at an EDW event?” he asked, before explaining: “EDW Action is the Super PAC for EDW. It took in more than $2.3 million this year from a Super PAC affiliated with AIPAC, the group that helps elect congressmembers who support a strong relationship between the U.S. and Israel. Critics describe EDW Action as a conduit for AIPAC money.”
The rest of EDW’s executive board includes Reps. Joyce Beatty, Debbie Dingell, and Norma Torres. Board members include Reps. Nikki Budzinski, Laura Friedman, Julie Johnson, Jennifer McClellan, and Jill Tokuda. (Johnson lost a primary to Justice Democrat Frederick Douglass Haynes in Texas and is not returning to office.)
Frankel quit the Congressional Progressive Caucus in November 2023 over complaints that the caucus was too critical of Israel; she had previously been one of just six CPC members to vote to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib for using the slogan, “From the river to the sea.” Earlier this year, according to Democratic candidate Jamie Belsito, Frankel told Belsito that EDW could back her in a Massachusetts primary and funnel money from AIPAC, AI interests, and crypto companies into her race. When Belsito objected, saying she didn’t want the money whether it was direct or through a pass-through, EDW endorsed a rival candidate (who lost to incoming freshman Dan Koh).
After the effort to impeach Hegseth failed, Democratic Whip Katherine Clark released a statement claiming, “Republicans just blocked the House from impeaching Pete Hegseth,” calling the GOP “a disgrace” for “protecting an unqualified, incompetent man over our servicemembers.”
Clark, during a meeting of her deputy whips Wednesday, told her colleagues they had let the American people down.
She also reportedly noted that seven Republicans also missed the vote, so that even if Democrats had arrived in time, the GOP had votes to spare they could add to the board. It’s not obvious that her claim is true. Only two of the seven Republicans who missed the vote won re-election last Tuesday, making it unlikely they would have been trying to abstain, as members sometimes do, so as not to face backlash in their districts.
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