Today, I am proud to share with you that the PCCC is making a major congressional endorsement for Vermont’s open congressional seat: State Senator Becca Balint. She is making economic populism key to her campaign against a more conservative, corporate-funded opponent.

As a Vermont legislator who was in this congressional race until recently, and as a longtime ally of the PCCC, I am excited to celebrate Becca Balint’s endorsement. Progressives are united in order to win this seat.

With incumbent Rep. Peter Welch running for Senate, this strongly Democratic seat is open for the first time since 2006, when Bernie Sanders left it to run for Senate! It would be malpractice to let it go to a more conservative Democrat, and it’s a huge opportunity to elect a progressive leader like Becca who will fight for Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, corporate accountability, pro-worker policies, reproductive justice, and so much more.

Our primary is on August 9.

Can you join me and the PCCC in unifying around Becca Balint, so we can elect a bold progressive to Congress from Vermont? Chip in here.

Vermont has never sent a woman to Congress…until now.

As President Pro Tempore in the Vermont State Senate, Becca Balint has meaningfully improved life for working families across the state. She delivered on raising the minimum wage, paid family and medical leave, Vermont’s first gun violence prevention legislation, increased affordable housing, and the nation’s strongest protections for reproductive rights.

Before running for office, Becca Balint spent most of her career as a middle school teacher, where she was a rank-and-file member of the National Education Association. Unlike her opponent, whose donor base is filled with lobbyists from industries like Big Pharma and Big Tech, Becca isn’t taking corporate money at all.

When she’s in Congress I know she will do Vermont proud as a champion for urgent, systemic change for working families.

Becca and I have been colleagues in the Senate and opponents in the congressional campaign, but we have never strayed from the ultimate goal of advancing a popular, progressive agenda. Vermonters witnessed us come together to unite the progressive movement for this shared purpose.

We need you with us to win on August 9. Please join other PCCC members in chipping in to Becca Balint’s campaign here to prove what progressives can do when we build our power together.

Thanks for being a bold progressive.

-- Kesha Ram Hinsdale, Vermont State Senator and longtime PCCC ally

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