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Lassie

For a good chunk of my life, I was a two-child dog man. Meaning that, according to JD Vance’s screwy logic, I would have deserved two additional votes — plus enjoying the added advantage of having a pet whose loyalty I could count on if I fell into quicksand and needed my canine companion to run for help. Lassie did that all the time: “What’s the matter, girl? Is Al in trouble?”

Lassie was a female. I’m not sure she had any children or owned a cat. But she was a dog and couldn’t vote regardless. Right, JD?

Sometimes you have to believe that both the top and the bottom of the Republican ticket are indeed — in Tim Walz’s parlance — just weird.  

Last week, Trump suggested that our Vice President tried to hide the fact that she was Black. She didn’t help her cause by going to Howard University, a historically Black college, and belonging to a national Black sorority. 

I think that most Americans learned the Indian-American part second. Or at the exact same time. I can’t remember. Anyway, the Vice President has borne no children and therefore deserves either zero votes or just one. Frankly, I’m confused by Vance’s whole calculus there.

If this seems like a weird fundraising email, I agree. Just know that your donation will go to electing Democrats running at the local, state, and national level. And we support only candidates who believe in one vote per person 18 years and older. 

Thanks,

Al

P.S. If you’re not ancient like me, you may not remember the show “Lassie.” Timmy was an approximately 10-year-old boy who would have an adventure and get his leg trapped between a rock and a branch. And Lassie would run for help if she couldn’t free Timmy’s leg herself.

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Somehow, it’s been 20 years since I started Midwest Values PAC to help Democrats win elections — from progressive organizations to state legislatures to Congress to the White House — who share the values I grew up with in St. Louis Park, Minnesota.

Since 2006, Midwest Values PAC has invested more than $4 million in 341 candidates and organizations — and counting. 

Of course, none of this happens without you (or supporters like you) who care enough to pitch in.

As we mark our 20th anniversary, the work is more urgent than ever. This year, we have a big job: flip the House, take the Senate, and win up and down the ballot at the state and local level.

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Thanks for being part of this fight, and for sticking with us for 20 years (or for just joining — welcome!).

Al

P.S. Over the years, okay, decades, we’ve helped Democrats win tough races all across the country by investing early, intelligently, and strategically. That’s how you flip seats. That’s how you protect democracy. And that’s how you stop the worst impulses of a president who never should have been president in the first place.

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