The midterm elections are just a little more than three weeks away and major gun control groups are backing up the Brink’s truck to dump sizeable sums into political races to buy more influence and put anti-Second Amendment politicians into office.
With the balance of power in Washington, D.C., teetering on a pinhead, any dollars going to candidates for U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate races are going to have an impact on what the policy landscape looks like in the coming new congressional term. Gun control activists are going all in.
“For nearly two years, a MAGA House has rubber-stamped the Trump administration as it tore up federal gun safety laws, and flipping these eight seats is how we put a stop to it,” said Everytown for Gun Safety President John Feinblatt, in a statement announcing his group’s recent investment. Everytown, of course, is the gun control activist group founded and funded by billionaire Michael Bloomberg, who himself is no stranger to spending 3- or 4-comma amounts to buy more gun control.
Everytown’s Newest Windfall
Axios reported that Everytown has made a significant investment in several congressional races to buoy gun control-supporting candidates and to flip seats from Republican to Democrat. The current U.S. House of Representatives Republican margin only sits at four seats, 218-214. That means flipping even three of the eight seats targeted by the Everytown cash dump would flip control of the House.
The Everytown spending splurge totals at least $10 million and every single one of the eight candidates included in the strategy is a former Moms Demand Action volunteer with a known track record of supporting those groups’ strict gun control demands.
The $10 million total in new Everytown campaign spending matches a $10 million “seed” donation plan that the gun control group GIFFORDS announced less than one month ago. GIFFORDS’ spending included U.S. Senate races in Michigan and U.S. House races in Virginia and New Jersey. This new spending by Everytown is a much larger expanded map.
According to Axios, the Everytown $10 million will be split between JoAnna Mendoza of Arizona, Pia Dandiya of Florida, Christina Bohannan, Sarah Trone Garriott and Lindsay James of Iowa, Christina Hines and state Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet of Michigan and Paige Cognetti of Pennsylvania.
U.S. House Democrats’ main super PAC, the House Majority PAC, praised the Everytown announcement, which would help Democrats take the majority in next year’s new Congress and make House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) the new Speaker of the House. Mike Smith, who leads House Majority PAC, stated, “Every seat on this map is a chance to put a check on a Trump administration and a MAGA House that have spent two years putting the gun lobby ahead of American families.”
If You Thought $10 Million Was A Lot
As if there were any way to do so, Second Amendment supporters cannot forget the impact billionaire gun control and defund the police funder George Soros and his son Alex are having on the political landscape. Their collective bank accounts are seemingly bottomless and they are making it known, too, in the final weeks before Election Day.
NSSF has reported time and time again on the political bankrolling the elder Soros has done, how his son, Alex, has continued that effort and on the terrible consequences innocent Americans feel as a result of the politicians who have received their support.
If you thought the new Everytown spending would raise eyebrows, you better be sitting for the Soros news. According to Fortune, George Soros, his son and the family organizations are all dumping a whopping $102 million into Democracy PAC, a Soros organization super PAC that backs candidates who support more gun control, soft-on-criminal prosecutors and defund the police advocates in communities all across the country.
“About half that sum [$102 million] came from Geosor Corp, a private investment company owned by Soros. The other half came from the Fund for Policy Reform, a nonprofit that’s part of Soros’ Open Society Foundations, which supports progressive organizations and whose board is chaired by his son, Alex Soros,” Fortune reported.
This election cycle is notable as it’s the first full cycle after the elder Soros transferred control of his political spending to the younger Soros. Alex, unsurprisingly, backed Kamala Harris in 2024 and urged Democrats to unite behind her.
Altogether, these are just simply massive totals for gun control candidates to receive in the final stretch of the midterm elections.
Protect the Backstop
Voting-aged Americans who support their Second Amendment rights to purchase and possess firearms need to get and stay active ahead of Election Day. NSSF’s Protect Liberty Political Action Committee is doing all it can to boost federal candidates who will preserve and protect liberty, freedom and the Constitutional rights of all Americans, especially the Second Amendment.
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Larry Keane is SVP for Government and Public Affairs, Assistant Secretary and General Counsel of the National Shooting Sports Foundation.
There’s a ton of money to be made in politics for low effort work. Just look what Kamala blew through last cycle. No pun intended.
What Everytown is really buying are marx* ist-socia*lists communists just like Bloomberg wants them to do.
A new data base is on line tracking which of those running for office or in office are marx* ist-socia*lists communists and behind each one is either Bloomberg or Soros bucks through a multitude of paths including from Everytown and other gun control-groups.
This is the data base (still new so it does not include everyone yet) > ht* tps://citizensforfreeenterprise.com/socialism-is-spreading (note: its in the center of the page, the big graphic is really a scrolling thing so click on it and scroll down to see the list – no, this does not show funding sources but those have already been exposed via datarepublican on X).