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Happy No Kings Day. Hope you all found something meaningful to do today, but you know what – activism doesn’t stop with No Kings, so there is plenty of ways to be involved between now and election day. Although Neighborhood Networks has completed its postcard writing for this election cycle, and many other groups are wrapping up on their postcards as well, there is still ample opportunity to get involved. The races that we have been pushing are all winnable, but our can

By now many of you have seen the television ads that begin “I'm Brian Fitzpatrick, and I approve this message,” followed by 30 seconds of trashing his Democratic opponent, Bob Harvie, with phrases such as “Bob Harvie calls himself a king,” “Bob Harvie has his FBI files but refuses to release them,” and “Bob Harvie to independent voters: ‘join a political party or lose your right to vote.’” All of these ads include citations from the Levittown edition of Patch, a news outlet

Unless you’ve been held captive by a bunch of radical Democratic Socialists over the past four years, and you have had no access to the outside world, you probably know that Pennsylvania has a split legislature. Currently, there are 103 Democrats and 100 Republicans in the state house, while there are 27 Republicans and 23 Democrats in the state senate. Over the past year, a number of progressive pieces of legislation have cleared the house floor, only to languish in a se

In case we get too confident about an impending Blue Tsunami this November, we might want to look at the most recent campaign finance data available. U.S. Congress District County/Counties Democratic Challenger Money on Hand - As of 6/30/2026 Republican Incumbent Money on Hand - As of 6/30/2026 1 Bucks/Montgomery Bob Harvie $794,921.25 Brian Fitzpatrick $6,355,534.34 7 Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton Bob Brooks $1,018,422.84 Ryan MacKenzie $2,938,717.17 8 Lackawanna, L

A few Blue Pennsylvania emails ago, there was a discussion about Ryan MacKenzie, the Republican U.S. representative from PA-7, which covers all of Carbon, Lehigh, and Northampton counties, and a part of Monroe county. Bob Brooks, a retired firefighter and union leader, is MacKenzie's Democratic opponent. The email echoed a Guardian article questioning MacKenzie's veracity in trying to make himself to be more than just a career politician. Bob Brooks

In the past nine months, data centers have migrated from obscurity to being the bête noire of all political issues. The vast majority of Pennsylvania voters oppose data centers being built in their community, according to a Quinnipiac University poll conducted in July. Under this backdrop, Republican State Senator Tracy Pennycuick spent over $7000 for a 15-second Facebook ad about her opposition to Big Tech by successfully stripping fast-track language from SB 939, a data c

Do you vote for somebody who is aligned with your political views 46% of the time, or do you vote for someone who will, in all probability, align with your political views 98% of the time? According to the latest AFL-CIO scorecard, the average score (i.e., the percentage voting with Labor) for the seven Pennsylvania Democrats in Congress was 98% for 2025 and 99% for their lifetime. The ten Republicans in Pennsylvania’s Congressional delegation achieved an average 6% in 2025

The good news is that since January, Democrats have increased their numbers by nearly 25,500 voters, while Republican registrations have declined by more than 4,500. This news is especially heartening in the counties where we will be working this fall. Here is a breakdown of the numbers and the changes in our five-county area plus Lehigh. County Democrats Republicans Others Democratic Change since December Republican change since December Bucks 193,815 201,992 88,154 1,0