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Congratulations to our Democratic nominees! Together, we're ready to build a better future for our state. Onward to November 3.
Congratulations to @janooforvt.bsky.social, our Democratic nominee for Governor! Vermont is ready for new energy and bold ideas. Amanda is ready to build a future where every Vermonter can thrive. See you at the polls on November 3. 🗳️
Congratulations to Molly Gray, our Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor! A champion for communities across our state, Molly is fighting for every Vermonter. See you at the polls on November 3. 🗳️
Congratulations to Tim Ashe, our Democratic nominee for State Auditor! Vermonters deserve excellence from state government and Tim is ready to deliver. See you at the polls on November 3. 🗳️
Congratulations to @mikeforvermont.bsky.social, our Democratic nominee for State Treasurer! Because we need Vermonters who will stand up, now more than ever. See you at the polls on November 3. 🗳️
Congratulations to Sarah Copeland Hanzas, our Democratic nominee for Secretary of State! The fight to protect our democracy continues. See you at the polls on November 3. 🗳️
Congratulations to @charityclark.bsky.social, our Democratic nominee for Attorney General! Protecting Vermont means standing up for our rights, defending our communities, and refusing to let corporations put profit ahead of Vermonters. See you at the polls on November 3. 🗳️
Congratulations to @beccabalintvt.bsky.social, our Democratic nominee for Congress! Becca is ready to keep fighting for the future Vermonters deserve. See you at the polls on November 3. 🗳️
If these polls tell you anything, it's that these races are competitive and that every vote matters. We're focused on doing the work necessary to earn Vermonters’ support and move Vermont forward.
The poll numbers are encouraging — but polls don't win elections, people do. We're building the infrastructure right now — staff, data, voter contact — so that the enthusiasm we're seeing becomes votes in November. We're organizing to win up and down the ballot.
The numbers show Vermonters are ready for change, and we're ready to deliver it.
250 years ago, our country’s founders wrote that all people are created equal. We're still fighting to make that true. We honor the founding by working to uphold the ideas America represents. Let's celebrate what America is — and fight for what it can be.
Help us elect Democrats who will keep fighting for every Vermonter. Today, the Supreme Court said Donald Trump can strip legal status from hundreds of thousands of people. This is not the country we were promised, and not one we will accept. Vermont has to hold the line.
Meanwhile, Trump ripped $60M in federal subsidies away from Vermont families. They're skipping doctor's visits. They're choosing between a premium and a grocery bill while hospitals absorb costs they can’t recover.
Governor Phil Scott vetoed it. Every Republican senator voted against it. And on the House floor, 43 Republicans voted against it too.
S.190 would have saved you money. Governor Scott vetoed it. Democrats spent two years — weekly working groups, public testimony, collaborative process — building a bill that would have lowered health insurance premiums for families and small businesses and cut costs driving your property taxes up.
This bill was about making sure Vermont sets guardrails before billion-dollar corporations arrive from out-of-state demanding exceptions, subsidies, and weaker oversight.
Instead, Scott rejected those safeguards, drawing praise from Americans for Prosperity — a massive corporate right-wing dark money machine. The Vermont legislature had approved H.727 with overwhelming bipartisan support.
H.727 was designed to ensure that industrial AI data centers cannot drive up costs for working families and local communities. The bill included protections against pollution, environmental damage, unchecked energy use that would increase bills for Vermonters, and other negative impacts.
Governor Scott vetoed what would have been one of the strongest AI data center safeguard laws in the country. He sided with Big Tech and Koch-backed special interests over Vermonters.
Vermont Republican State Senator Steven Heffernan stood on the Vermont Senate floor last week and compared transgender people to animals. Repeatedly. Even after being corrected on the law.
With this new initiative, we’re taking a major step toward: ✔️ Reducing generational poverty ✔️ Strengthening rural communities ✔️ Giving young Vermonters a reason to stay and build their future here Vermont Democrats are taking action to build an economy that works for everyone.
Every child in Vermont deserves a fair shot. Treasurer Mike Pieciak is launching a Baby Bonds pilot program in the Northeast Kingdom — helping kids start building wealth from the day they’re born.
Mark your calendar — the 2026 Curtis-Hoff Awards Dinner is Friday, May 1st at Hotel Champlain in Burlington! 🎉 Reserve your seat → secure.actblue.com/donate/26cur...
Attorney General Charity Clark has sued President Trump over his unconstitutional executive order attacking mail-in voting — an order that threatens states with criminal prosecution and loss of federal funding if they don't hand control of their elections over to Washington.
Attorney General Charity Clark and Secretary of State Sarah Copeland Hanzas are standing shoulder to shoulder to defend Vermonters' right to vote.
Donald Trump signed an executive order targeting mail-in voting — a direct attack on free and fair elections and the latest in a series of escalating efforts to restrict voting access ahead of the 2026 midterms. Vermont is fighting back.
We are heartbroken by the passing of former Vermont Democratic Party Chair Terje Anderson.
Federal agents misidentified a driver, triggered a chaotic multi-car crash during rush hour on a busy road, surrounded the home of a family with children, escalated tensions with over a hundred Vermonters, broke down the door — and apprehended the wrong people.
ICE agents attempted to apprehend a man driving on Dorset Street in South Burlington. We now know that the man ICE was looking for was never on Dorset Street. He was not in the car, and he was not in the house ICE then targeted.