@TheDemocrats Rules & Bylaws Committee Member | @CA_Dem #DNC Member | @LADemocrats @MiracleMileDems | Signal: michaelkapp.85 (he/him/his)
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The media keeps focusing on spreadsheets.
Consultants keep focusing on spending that used to make them rich.
I’m focused on wins.
💪 90% overperformance
🧹 30-0 in state legislative flips.
💵 50% more cash on hand than 2018
Read my op-ed in @thehill: thehill.com/opinion/campaign…
Monthly checks to every state party, starting early, red states too. A Southern States Resource Hub. After historically writing off the South, that's what @KenMartin73 and @TheDemocrats built this cycle.
@iamwesmoore named the mistake. This DNC fixed it.
abcnews.com/Politics/gov-wes…
.@teddyschleifer Your own story says Republicans are now spending to defend seats they once counted as safe red. That's the DNC's state party strategy working. The RNC started moving this money 2 months ago, and the polls have only moved our way since. I know who I'd rather be.
NEWS —
The Republican National Committee is transferring $50 million to help Republicans down ballot, exacerbating the party’s considerable financial advantage over the Democrats in the midterms.
nytimes.com/2026/10/20/us/po…
Michael Kapp retweeted
"We want to be more on the offense."💪
ASDC President @JaneKleeb to @usnews on how state parties are protecting the polls, banking votes early, and countering disinformation in all 57 states and territories.
Read more ➡️ usnews.com/news/politics/art…
.@iarnsdorf says Republicans counted on money to save them, but after spending half a billion dollars, the polls didn't move.
That's what saving it for the end gets you. @KenMartin73 spent early, on @DemStateParties and organizers.
The last four weeks belong to @TheDemocrats.
Since Labor Day, Republicans have pumped half a billion dollars into competitive House and Senate races.
A month later, the polls haven’t moved in their direction. wapo.st/477GObB
.@hollyotterbein in @axios: "Dems' primary plan gives Native Americans more power"
axios.com/2026/09/13/democra…
Michael Kapp retweeted
Don't look now, but the DNC is doing truly good things: 1) strong investments in local organizing that is paying dividends in elections; 2) setting a diverse primary calendar to truly battle test our nominees; 3) and pushing back on bad establishment ideas.
Michael Kapp retweeted
I've always said that the DNC is the road that the cars—our state parties—drive upon.
Without roads, cars can't get anywhere.
That's why having permanent infrastructure to support state parties is so important. It allows candidates to do more with the money that they raise.
Michael Kapp retweeted
For the first time, @kenmartin73 pledged to finish his term as DNC Chair no matter what happens in the Midterms.
“I intend to complete the term and do my part to change the culture of this organization and also this town,” he told me.
My @Newsweek report on why Martin believes the road to Democratic success runs outside the beltway:
newsweek.com/dnc-chair-ken-m…
Tonight’s #Dodgers lineup vs. Pirates:
ALT Tonight’s Dodgers lineup vs. Pirates on Saturday, August 22 at 4:15 pm PT: Ohtani DH Freeman 1B Betts SS Muncy 3B Edman 2B Tucker RF Hernández, T. LF Thomas CF Rortvedt C Skubal P WATCH: FOX/FOX ONE LISTEN: AM 570, KTNQ 1020
Michael Kapp retweeted
Dnc: won 90% of all races since 2025
Rnc: won 10%
Dnc: invests 1 million a month into all state parties to win full ballot
RNC: invests zero
Dnc: building election protection program in all state parties
Rnc: doing nothing
Michael Kapp retweeted
Over the past 19 months, we’ve increased the DNC’s investments to our state parties so they can build the infrastructure necessary to win.
It’s paying off.
ALT An image of DNC Chair Ken Martin speaking in front of a row of American flags. Text below reads, "Investing to Win, Investing to Build, Investing to Last. For too long, Democrats have relied on a broken boom-and-bust cycle that sits on our resources until the last minute and then tries to deploy them in a spending blitz in the closing weeks before Election Day. I reject that idea wholeheartedly. We need to give communities a reason to trust us. Not by parachuting in three months before Election Day. But with the honest-to-goodness work of grassroots organizing. kenmartin73.substack.com." An image of Ken Martin appears next to the Substack logo.
Building off of last week's successful DNC meeting, @TheDemocrats Chair @kenmartin73 just announced the following cities are finalists to host the 2028 Democratic National Convention:
🦞 Boston
🏔️ Denver
🔔 Philadelphia
Michael Kapp retweeted
Thx @TerryMcAuliffe. I would tag all the pundits, outside group heads, etc but you know who you are...we are a team. One candidate strategy or stance on an issue doesn't make them a bad Dem because they don't agree with you 💯-- it's our strength. We are a coalition of regions and issues.
WISE WORDS FROM @TerryMcAuliffe: "I have a message for all of those geniuses out there who constantly go on TV and twitter, democrats trashing fellow democrats, I have a simple message: knock it off or get off the playing field. We have too much work to do!"
The DNC met in Austin last week, and three things happened worth your time.
The ranked choice voting ban is dead. "Abolish ICE" is our official position. And we confirmed a six-state early window that includes Nevada & New Mexico.
Read my DNC Re-Kapp: mdkapp.substack.com/p/dnc-re…
Before a single state applied, the DNC agreed on three tests: is it rigorous, is it fair, is it efficient? The whole early window should look like our Party, not a piece of it.
I'm proud to have made some small impact on this historic & diverse calendar.
Now let's go win.
🖐️☝️
IT’S OFFICIAL: The DNC has voted to confirm the early window states for the 2028 Democratic presidential nominating process.
These states reflect the diversity of America and will help ensure our nominee is best positioned to take back the White House in 2028.
ALT A blue and white graphic. Text reads, "2028 Democratic Presidential Primary: Early Window States: South Carolina, Jan 22, 2028 Nevada, Feb 1, 2028 New Hampshire, Feb 8, 2028 New Mexico, Feb 15, 2028 Michigan, Feb 22, 2028 Virginia, Feb 29, 2028."
BREAKING: the Democratic National Committee unanimously approved a resolution calling for the abolition of ICE!
After terrorizing our friends, families, and neighbors, ICE has no place in our nation. I'm grateful the DNC agreed. Now we're onto the hard work to make that happen!
The DNC's General Session has begun. We will:
✅ pass the strongest ever *six* state early calendar
✅ revise the proposed delegate selection rules to remove the RCV ban
✅ ensure the passage of the "abolish ICE" resolution
Watch the DNC make history: youtube.com/live/medKEeh8ddU…
I sit on the DNC Rules & Bylaws Committee and I oppose banning ranked choice voting in the presidential primary. I moved to let the states whose laws require RCV be heard. That motion failed. This Saturday, I'll vote to strip the ban. Thank you @jamie_raskin for your leadership.
🧵 THREAD:
I’ve been traveling across America campaigning for truly wonderful and surging Democratic candidates for Congress–most recently Blake Gendebien (NY-21), Chris Gallant (NY-01), Eugene Vindman (VA-07), Dan Schwartz (MD-01), and Pat Halpin (NY-02). Next up for me are campaigns in the Southwest, Midwest and Deep South. The energy out there is phenomenal.
One skeptical question I sometimes get on the road is about the “party apparatus” and whether it has lost touch with the Democratic grassroots engaged in the fight against Trump and MAGA. I try to assure people that our party leaders are working hard to bolster all the sensational action taking place at the state and local level.
But that particular job may get a lot harder depending on what happens this weekend at the DNC meeting in Austin. Let me explain.