Hey team —

I want to tell you something a lot of Democrats don’t want you to hear:

The Blue Wall isn’t a wall anymore, it’s a wish.

Pennsylvania. Michigan. Wisconsin. For twenty years, that’s basically been the whole Democratic map. Win those three, win the White House. Everywhere else — places like Mississippi, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Kansas — are written off. Not worth the investment.

But here’s the problem: that map is shrinking. Every cycle it gets tighter, more expensive, and more fragile. Yet, we keep betting our entire future on it.

You don’t have to look very far into it to tell that strategy sure as hell isn’t working. That’s why I started Groundwork Project PAC — I don’t believe in writing off entire regions of the country because they didn’t vote for us last time. You can help us reach more voters in overlooked places >>

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Here at Groundwork PAC we’re backing candidates in states everyone else gave up on. Governors, state legislators, judges, secretaries of state. The races nobody’s funding, in states everybody’s ignoring.

Because here's what nobody says out loud: the most extreme laws in this country — on abortion, on voting rights, on classrooms — they're not written in Washington. They're written in Jackson. In Oklahoma City. In Bismarck. Where the GOP has spent literal decades building power from the ground up.

And until we show up there, and invest in the incredible local candidates and campaigns fighting back all on their own right now, we won’t have a prayer of winning on these issues.

Stay tuned for more on the most promising candidates and campaigns to support in red states this fall. There are plenty that we’re excited about. A lot of races that are not just contestable but winnable.

Thank you,

— Joe Kennedy