Senator Al Franken founded Midwest Values PAC (MVP) in the fall of 2005 in order to provide financial and organizational support to progressive candidates and causes in his home state of Minnesota, throughout the Midwest, and around the country. In 2006 MVP helped elect 18 strong progressives to Congress, victories that played a key role in Democrats regaining control of the House and Senate. Many of those MVP-backed winners have gone on to become progressive leaders on Capitol Hill, helping to pass historic health care reform and Wall Street reform legislation. Now, with your help, Senator Franken can mobilize this progressive powerhouse to protect and expand our Democratic majorities in Congress.

This year, MVP will provide financial support to candidates around the country who promote the progressive values we live by here in Minnesota: community, fair play, and common sense. For too long we had a government that didn’t understand those values; that valued special interests and the rich over middle-class families and hard-working Americans. Since 2006, we’ve been working to right this injustice. And we’ve come pretty far. But there is still a very long way to go – and very powerful opposition to overcome.

We need more progressive Democrats in Washington who believe that every family has the right to quality, affordable health care, that equal opportunity and ending discrimination are not open to compromise, that our economy should work for working people, that investing in clean American energy is right for our climate and our economy, that everyone has the right to a quality education, and that government should be honest with the people who elect them.