Congratulations! ADAM GRAY is officially the Democratic nominee for CA-13! On to November!
17 House Dems voted for Trump's $1+ trillion defense budget in September:
-Cuellar #TX28
-Davis #NC01
-Gillen #NY04
-Golden #ME02
-Gonzalez #TX34
-Gottheimer #NJ05
-Gray #CA13
-Horsford #NV04
-Kaptur #OH09
-Lee #NV03
-Delaney #MD06
-Rivet #MI08
-Mrvan #IN01
-Perez #WA03
-Sykes #OH13
-Vindman #VA07
-Whitesides #CA27
Trump said he will request a $1.5 trillion defense budget for FY27. (Total national security spending is already much higher, blowing past the $1 trillion mark many years ago.)
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#AdamGray, #CA13, voted “yea” on #HR719 (Honoring the life and legacy of Charles “Charlie” James Kirk)
Links: https://clerk.house.gov/Members/G000605, https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025282, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Gray, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California's_13th_congressional_district
Do people in #WA03, #TX34, #TX28, #NJ05, #ME02, and #CA13 want federal spending to create jobs?
If so, they can ask their Blue Dog reps if they've read studies that education spending creates 3x more jobs than military spending. Healthcare more than 2x.
The conservative Democrats voted for a trillion-dollar defense budget for Trump's Department of War and defense spending in FY26, despite the Pentagon having never passed a financial audit.
https://readsludge.com/2025/09/12/blue-dog-democrats-vote-for-trillion-dollar-defense-budget/
House Democrats from states that Trump has threatened with National Guard presence voted for the GOP defense policy bill that further enmeshes the military domestically.
- Blue Dog whip Adam Gray of #CA13, in the San Joaquin Valley
- George Whitesides of #CA27, north of L.A.
- Laura Gillen of #NY04, in Long Island
- April Delaney of #MD06, an hour west of Baltimore
House GOP denied votes on all Democratic amendments to the NDAA, including on limiting troop usage.
https://readsludge.com/2025/09/12/blue-dog-democrats-vote-for-trillion-dollar-defense-budget/
If we win both these races the House will be 220R-215D,
and we will have picked up two seats net from the last Congress.
With three vacancies due to House members leaving to join (or attempting to join - Gaetz) the Trump cabinet,
House Rs will begin Congress next year at 217-215,
a one vote majority in what has been a very factious and fragile Republican “Majority.”