John,

If we haven’t met before, I’m Chuck Hubbard. I’m a native of northwestern North Carolina who's spent forty years of my career working in local journalism, and I'm also the Democrat running for Congress to unseat Virginia Foxx.

(You may remember her from when she screamed at a reporter to shut up last year. As a former journalist myself, I took that one personally.)

These mountains have been my home all my life. I've spent most of my adult life working at the local paper my granddaddy built, and I always put my community first—and that's exactly why I decided to take a leap and run for this seat. I’m proud to say that I never once let my political beliefs influence my reporting. In Congress, I’ll take that same mindset, rejecting political theater and focusing on what’s important—improving the lives of the folks back home.

But I’m also running because my opponent, Virginia Foxx, is one of the most dangerous Republicans you may have never heard of.

She’s an ultra-conservative Trump loyalist whose MAGA agenda is too extreme for North Carolina. As Chairwoman of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, she's been the Republican Party's main architect for dismantling public education and workers’ protections as we know it. I've watched her rise to power with a journalist's eye, and I've never once seen her put people before politics, or even before her own ambition.

John, I refuse to sit back and watch any longer as Virginia Foxx and Republicans in Congress ignore the needs of our neighbors, only focusing on their extremist social legislation and anti-worker policies. That’s not the North Carolina way, and we have a duty to stand up and fight it—and to stand up and fight for rural voters.

My campaign is going to every single county, and we’re going to do whatever we can to reach every single voter and make sure they know we care, we’re fighting for them, and we value their votes.

But I'll be honest: this isn't going to be easy. If we're going to stand a chance of winning, then I really need your support, John. If you’re able to, please consider splitting a contribution of $10, $25 or anything you can between my campaign and the Voter Protection Project, in support of our campaign's effort to beat Virginia Foxx and flip this district blue.

If we stand together, we’ll have the resources to spread the Democratic message to every corner of my district—we’ll be able to fund a real campaign operation so that I can spend my time knocking on doors, turning out and talking with every Democrat and Unaffiliated voter I possibly can! I know it’s an uphill fight, friend, but I never met anybody who climbed a mountain by not trying.

Thanks for standing with me,
Chuck Hubbard
Democrat for Congress