Everytown’s $10 Million Push Targets Eight House Races and Gun Rights
With the midterm elections less than a month away, Everytown for Gun Safety—the billionaire-backed gun prohibition lobbying group founded years ago by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg—is reportedly pumping at least $10 million into eight key congressional races in five states in an effort to shift House control to anti-gunners.
Axios and Yahoo News are carrying the report, which identifies the eight candidates so far getting support from Everytown. They are all reported to be “former volunteers for Moms Demand Action,” a subsidiary of Everytown. Reportedly getting Everytown cash are JoAnna Mendoza, running in the 6th District of Arizona; Pia Dandiya, running in Florida’s 22nd District; Christina Bohannan (1st District), Sarah Trone Garriott (3rd District) and Lindsay James (2nd District) all of Iowa; Christina Hines (10th District) and Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet (8th District), both of Michigan, and Paige Cognetti (8th District) of Pennsylvania.
Everytown has also endorsed Democrat Dr. Annie Andrews in her U.S. Senate race in South Carolina against Sen. Darlene Graham, sister to the late Senate powerhouse Lindsey Graham, who died unexpectedly earlier this year. Andrews is a former volunteer at Moms Demand Action and since 2023 has served as a senior advisor for Everytown. Andrews’ position on guns can be found here.
There is no small irony in this, considering how The Trace, another Bloomberg-backed entity which supports gun control efforts under the guise of news, once lamented about all the money the National Rifle Association spent to support pro-rights candidates.
Not reported, except perhaps by TheGunMag.com and Ammoland News, were the contributions Bloomberg and other wealthy anti-gunners have made over the years to support gun control, including restrictive anti-Second Amendment initiatives in Washington state. Presumably pouring millions of dollars into the campaign war chests of gun grabbing Democrats is okay, while supporting candidates who defend the Second Amendment is not.
A story at Axios quotes John Feinblatt, president of Everytown, stating, “For nearly two years, a MAGA House has rubber-stamped the Trump administration as it tore up federal gun safety laws, and flipping these eight seats is how we put a stop to it…There’s a Moms Demand Action volunteer on the ballot in every one of these districts, and we’re partnering with House Majority PAC to turn them into majority makers.”
Feinblatt overlooks multiple U.S. Supreme Court rulings which have overturned key elements of the gun control agenda, and appear poised to do it again by accepting for review a pair of cases challenging bans on so-called “assault weapons,” Viramontes v. Cook County (Illinois) and Grant v. Higgins (Connecticut), both involving the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF). Oral arguments are scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 2, and an opinion is expected sometime in June 2027.
In 2008, the gun ban in Washington, D.C. was overturned and two years later, the decades-old handgun ban in Chicago was nullified as the high court incorporated the Second Amendment to the states via the 14th Amendment in the SAF-led case of McDonald v. City of Chicago. That opened the floodgates, allowing challenges of state and local gun control laws and regulations on Second Amendment grounds. The 2022 Bruen ruling struck down New York’s arbitrary and restrictive gun permit law, which unconstitutionally prevented untold millions of Empire State citizens from exercising their right to keep and bear arms for an entire century.
In response to the big money support for the eight (so far) female Democrats running for Congress, National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Mike Marinella told Axios, “House Democrats have fully embraced the radical socialist agenda of abolishing prisons, releasing criminals back on the streets, and defunding the police.”
Democrats and their gun control allies have been furious lately over moves by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to change their enforcement approach dramatically under Director Robert Cekada, who made history by appearing recently at the Gun Rights Policy Conference in Dallas, Texas. He assured the conference audience of Second Amendment activists that ATF is backing away from Biden-era policies which were aimed at putting many federal firearms license holders out of business.
As the Nov. 3 elections draw closer, many races are tightening, and there are efforts around the country, especially on social media, to turn out the conservative/gun owner voters, who all-too-often in the past have demonstrated lethargy, if not downright apathy, toward voting in midterm elections.
About Dave Workman
Dave Workman is a senior editor at TheGunMag.com and Liberty Park Press, author of multiple books on the Right to Keep & Bear Arms, and formerly an NRA-certified firearms instructor.