“It’s time to pay attention to the state races, the races where the battles for our rights are being urgently fought. Money is being raised but it is going to federal candidates. We need to raise and use funds to support the pivotal state races in each and every state – the races we need to win to keep our rights. ChooseBetterPac will step in to help the candidates who represent our values to win those crucial state races and defeat the right wing extremism.”
Fighting for our Rights and our Progressive Values—In Every State
For far too long, we’ve ignored extreme right-wing Republicans and allowed them to go unchallenged on the state legislative level—with catastrophic consequences. This regressive movement has been growing unchecked in many states. The results have been:
- An all-out war against women with abortion bans, even in the case of rape and incest. IN some places, these laws are so extreme that a woman would face a longer sentence for having an abortion than her rapist would face for attacking her.
- Attacks on voting rights that threaten to bring back Jim Crow. States like Florida are even reinstitution poll taxes. Numerous states ID restrictions are so onerous that they are taking away the right to vote from hundreds of thousands minority voters
- Numerous states refusing to expand Medicaid and joining lawsuits that would overturn the ACA, taking away health insurance from millions of Americans.
- Attacks on public education and our teachers, with many states diverting needed funding from public schools to unaccountable private schools that put profits ahead of the educations of our children.
- Refusal of many states to address climate change, putting the health and livelihoods of millions of Americans at risk as our climate becomes more unstable.
Now, it’s past time for us to fight back.
ChooseBetterPAC will invest in legislative elections across the country to defeat candidates and incumbents who would vote or have voted for these harmful, out-of-step policies. We can turn the tide in state legislators to defend reproductive freedoms, support voting and civil rights, expand health care coverage, improve public education and address climate change. We can do this everywhere and not give in to these extreme policies regardless of whether it is a red state, a swing state, or a blue state.
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”