Sen. HEIDI CAMPBELL says she will file the “Power to the People Act” to make sure that local elected officials have the final say over new data center construction. @axiosnashville: www.axios.com/local/nashvi...

After 15 years of complete Republican Party control in Tennessee, costs like groceries, healthcare and housing are higher than ever. Senator Minority Leader Raumesh Akbari says Democratic cost-cutting reforms for working families will define this election. MORE: open.substack.com/pub/tnsenate...

ANGELA WYNN is a mother, wife and community leader who is running for Senate in Rutherford County to boost our economic wellbeing by focusing on families, not big business; bolster public school students; and to make healthcare affordable & accessible. Follow @awynnforsenate.bsky.social

TIM ROBERTS is running for Senate to cut costs for working families by ending the grocery tax, making school meals free for all families and healthcare reform. He stands for the people—not corporations, big tech or party bosses. www.VoteTimRoberts.com

DAVID HARDY is a native Tennessean with deep ties to the community. He's running for Senate in Williamson County to bring down the cost of healthcare, strengthen our roads & bridges, and invest in our economy through small businesses and education. David will get it done! www.davidhardy4tn.com

BRYAN LANGAN wants to get money out of politics and put money back in your pocket by ending Tennessee's grocery tax. He also supports healthcare reform and putting people to work fixing our roads and infrastructure. www.langan4tn.com

DAVID MILLER is a retired teacher and labor leader, who supports better funding for public schools (not voucher scams) and ending Tennessee's sky-high grocery tax. He'll put people over big corporate profits. Send a teacher to Nashville! www.davidmillerfortennessee.com

🚨 Gov. Bill Lee says Tennessee is a finalist to store the nation’s nuclear waste—but he’s not saying where he wants to put the radioactive material. Sen. Heidi Campbell is demanding answers: 📍 Which towns did the governor volunteer for nuclear waste storage? open.substack.com/pub/tnsenate...

Unchecked Republican control in Tennessee has resulted in worse health outcomes, fewer hospitals, higher insurance premiums & more medical debt. Democrats are fighting back on rising costs and working to end the GOP’s self-made healthcare crisis. www.tennessean.com/story/news/h...

Republican Party policies are great for the wealthy. Everyone else gets inflation and stagnation. If you want to drive the economy forward, put the car in D! www.tennessean.com/story/money/...

😵‍💫 Under Gov. Bill Lee & the Republican Party, Tennessee is dead last in the U.S. for student funding per pupil. It would take $1B investment to catch Mississippi. But that won’t stop Bill from patting himself on the back.

State Republicans just gave a company — that in 2023 had no experience managing voucher programs — a big contract boost. Sen. Heidi Campbell raised red flags.

🪨 Sen. Heidi Campbell has thoughts about the new rock Republicans put on the Capitol lawn

DEATH ROW SECRECY: A bipartisan coalition—including Leader Raumesh Akbari & Rep. Gabby Salinas—backed reform to increase accountability and transparency on Tennessee’s death row. Then the Correction Dept. botched an execution. MLK50: mlk50.com/2026/06/02/a...

The cost of housing in Tennessee is at an all-time high. Groceries, healthcare & energy, too. Families are getting crushed by price gouging and soaring inflation. Without lifting a finger to bring down costs & strengthen families, Republicans invented a fake holiday to celebrate “strong families.”

Sen. Heidi Campbell writes about the dichotomy of the Tennessee Senate: One week honoring a soldier who bravely opposed fascism in Europe and then later rigging the state’s congressional elections in an attempt to amass more political power. open.substack.com/pub/theheidi...

The unprecedented GOP power grab was met with unprecedented resistance. Read the full statement on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/tnsenate...

$30 million of OUR tax dollars for a global corporation worth $121 billion. To working families & small business owners getting crushed under Trump’s high-inflation economy, this looks like state Republicans rigging the game for the billionaire class.

FACT: Republican Party lawmakers are the only thing standing between Tennesseans and a pro-family cost-cutting agenda Prices are skyrocketing while Republican politicians block our agenda. The GOP’s only focus is power, culture wars and handouts for the wealthy.

Trump’s reckless policies, tariff taxes and foreign wars are taking a toll on workers and one of Tennessee’s most important industries. @wkrntv www.wkrn.com/news/tenness...

Sen. Heidi Campbell on the Tennessee Republican Party abandoning conservatism for control and power: “There’s nothing conservative about using government power to eliminate dissent, nor redrawing maps to silence communities of color.” open.substack.com/pub/theheidi...

Sen. Raumesh Akbari called Rep. Steve Cohen one of Memphis's "fiercest champions" after the longtime public servant said he would not run for reelection. His decision came after state Republicans held an unprecedented special session to rig districts lines. tnsenatedems.substack.com/p/leader-rau...

“It’s time to get up and fight.” Sen. London Lamar tells Feminist’s Sydney Verde that rigged congressional maps are part of a pattern from Tennessee Republicans, who are targeting Black political power at every level. Lamar says it’s a #JimCrow tactics and time to organize at the polls.

TENNESSEE LAYOFFS HIT SIX-YEAR HIGH State data shows nearly 3,400 Tenn. workers were laid off in the first four months of 2026 — the largest layoff total for that period in six years. While TN’s one-party government focuses on power grabs, our economy is unraveling under their noses.

WATCH: Tenn. Senate Democratic Leader Raumesh Akbari explains the consequences of Republican map rigging, calling out the GOP for silencing Black voters in Memphis and across the South. #gerrymandering #jimcrow #tennessee #tndemocrats #tnpolitics

STACEY ABRAMS, democracy champion and founder of Fair Fight, calls out the TNGOP racial gerrymander that splits Memphis across three congressional districts. She warned this map returns Tennessee to a “vicious past” that silenced voters. #handsoffmemphis #jimcrow #Tennessee

SHOW SOME COURAGE: Caucus Chairwoman Sen. London Lamar tells Republican senators, who know it’s immoral to steal a congressional seat from Black voters in Memphis, to “show some courage.” #HandsOffMemphis #Democrats #tennessee #jimcrow

Senate Democratic Leader Raumesh Akbari opens the special session to rig Tennessee’s congressional map with a history lesson and fiery warning to Republicans. #HandsOffMemphis #jimcrow

Tennessee Republicans are literally breaking the laws they swore to uphold to silence Memphis voters. Tennessean: www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...

United against an immoral power grab, Senate Democrats wrote an open letter to Tennesseans expressing their opposition to Republican efforts to erase Black voting power on our congressional map. Read the full letter on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/tnsenate...