Context: Mary Peltola (Alaska Senate candidate)**: On the evening of October 24, 2026, the vehicle carrying her and her family was rear-ended while stopped at a red light in Anchorage (a three-vehicle collision). They sustained minor/non-life-threatening injuries and delayed some campaign events. Anchorage police said there were no indications it was a targeted attack; her campaign also said they had no reason to believe it was politically motivated. Heidi Kuhn (Democratic nominee for Tennessee’s 8th Congressional District)**: On the night of October 23, 2026, she and her husband were involved in a multi-vehicle crash on I-240 in Memphis. They were injured (she reported a broken nose, broken maxilla, and whiplash) but treated as non-critical and expected to recover. This was a standard multi-vehicle highway collision. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), who was injured in a hit-and-run crash on August 2, 2026, while a passenger on the way to church. A suspect was later arrested. This was months earlier, not “the past few days.” No recent (past-few-days) matching incident involving a female Democratic congressional candidate in Ohio appears in reporting.