{"id":17361,"date":"2026-01-07T13:16:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T13:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/warren-cuts-checks-to-state-democratic-parties\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T13:16:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T13:16:57","slug":"warren-cuts-checks-to-state-democratic-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/warren-cuts-checks-to-state-democratic-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"Warren cuts checks to state Democratic parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Sen. Elizabeth Warren is donating $400,000 to 23 state Democratic parties in an effort to fund Democratic infrastructure ahead of the 2026 midterms.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview, the Massachusetts Democrat called the \u201cearly money\u201d investment \u201ccrucial\u201d for state parties. She\u2019s urging fellow Democrats to follow her lead on donating now because \u201cthe best time to do it is January, not waiting until next October.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 23 states are ones with competitive congressional or statewide races in the 2026 midterms, and include Maine, North Carolina, Ohio and Texas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey need the resources to build out infrastructure that all of our Democratic candidates will need to win in November,\u201d Warren said. \u201cThey need money now to hire staff, recruit volunteers, knock on doors, make calls, do all the things that make Democrats competitive in these elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s also raised more than $1.1 million for candidates this cycle, while weighing in on a handful of contested primaries.<\/p>\n<p>Warren, a longtime progressive champion, is urging candidates to focus their campaign messaging on \u201cthe high costs that families are struggling with every day\u201d and \u201cmake it clear that we have solutions and that we will fight to deliver real change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Warren also donated $250,000 to state parties, a sign of her early presidential primary preparations ahead of the 2020 campaign. But when asked if the same applied to this year\u2019s investment, Warren said, \u201cno.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats need to win elections everywhere, and I am 100 percent committed to making that happen in November 2026,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Elizabeth Warren is donating $400,000 to 23 state Democratic parties in an effort to fund Democratic infrastructure ahead of the 2026 midterms. In an interview, the Massachusetts Democrat called the \u201cearly money\u201d investment \u201ccrucial\u201d for state parties. She\u2019s urging fellow Democrats to follow her lead on donating now because \u201cthe best time to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}