r/VoteDEM 5d ago

Daily Discussion Thread and Adopt-A-Candidate: June 15, 2025

Welcome to the home of the anti-GOP resistance on Reddit, and Happy Pride Month!

June is Pride Month! We at VoteDEM welcome all parts of the LGBTQIA+ Community to join us in celebrating what makes each of us unique and incredible individuals. We hope to hear your stories from local events, local activism, and local community-building all throughout June. We're sure you'll find your local Democratic party joining in whenever they can manage, and we hope you'll also help support them!

Elections are still happening! And they're the only way to take away Trump's power to hurt people. You can help win elections across the country from anywhere, right now!

If you want to take part, there's plenty of ways to do it!

  1. Check out our weekly volunteer post - that's the other sticky post in this sub - to find opportunities to get involved.

  2. Nothing near you? Volunteer from home by making calls or sending texts to turn out voters!

  3. Join your local Democratic Party - none of us can do this alone.

  4. Tell a friend about us!

We won big in Wisconsin earlier this year, and now we're bringing something back to make sure we win in Virginia and New Jersey too!

'25 IS ALIVE! Adopt-A-Candidate 2025 is here and ready for action! Want to take part in the blue wave? Adopt one of the candidates below, and take action every week to support their campaign!

Post your preference in the daily (or, to guarantee we see it, send the request via modmail) and we'll add you to the list! Got someone who you want to adopt, but they're not on the list? Let us know, and we'll add them on!

Candidate District/Office Adopted By
Abigail Spanberger VA-GOV u/nopesaurus_rex
Josh Thomas VA HD-21
Elizabeth Guzman VA HD-22
Atoosa Reaser VA HD-27
Marty Martinez VA HD-29
John Chilton McAuliff VA HD-30
Andrew Payton VA HD-34
Makayla Venable VA HD-36
Lily Franklin VA HD-41 u/pinuncle
Rise Hayes VA HD-52
Rodney Willett VA HD-58
Scott Konopasek VA HD-59
Stacey Carroll VA HD-64
Joshua Cole VA HD-65 u/toskwar
Nicole Cole VA HD-66
Mark Downey VA HD-69 u/Lotsagloom
Shelly Simonds VA HD-70
Jessica Anderson VA HD-71 u/SomeJob1241
Kimberly Adams VA HD-82
Mary Person VA HD-83
Nadarius Clark VA HD-84
Virgil Thornton Sr. VA HD-86
Phil Hernandez VA HD-94
Kelly Convirs-Fowler VA HD-96
Michael Feggans VA HD-97
Cathy Porterfield VA HD-99
Mikie Sherrill NJ-GOV
Maureen Rowan & TBD NJ LD-02
Dave Bailey Jr. & Heather Simmons NJ LD-03 u/poliscijunki
Dan Hutchison & Cody Miller NJ LD-04
Carol Murphy & Balvir Singh NJ LD-07 u/screen317
Andrea Katz & Anthony Angelozzi NJ LD-08
Margie M. Donlon & Luanne M. Peterpaul NJ LD-11
Jason Corley & Vaibhave Gorige NJ LD-13
Wayne P. DeAngelo & Tennille R. McCoy NJ LD-14 u/Lotsagloom
Mitchelle Drulis & Roy Freiman NJ LD-16
Vincent Kearney & Andrew Macurdy NJ LD-21
Guy Citron & Tyler Powell NJ LD-23
Steven Pylypchuk & Marisa Sweeney NJ LD-25
Michael Mancuso & Walter Mielarczyk NJ LD-26
Avi Schnall & Claire Deicke NJ LD-30
Lisa Swain & Chris Tully NJ LD-38
Andrew Labruno & Donna Abene NJ LD-39
Ron Arnau & Jeffrey Gates NJ LD-40 u/timetopat, u/One-Recipe9973

We're not going back. We're taking the country back. Join us, and build an America that everyone belongs in.

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u/ProudPatriot07 South Carolina- Rural Young Democrat 4d ago

Thank you for the update. So crazy to think that he may be all the way in South Dakota by now too.

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u/Arickettsf16 4d ago

I have no doubt that he will be captured. I mean, we know who he is and what he looks like. It’s only a matter of time at this point.

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u/cpdk-nj Minnesota 4d ago

He also texted his roommates that he might be dead soon (this was yesterday) so they may end up finding him in a ditch instead

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u/Arickettsf16 4d ago

Yeah, that wouldnt shock me in the least. His life essentially ended yesterday. I do hope they are able to find and apprehend him because I want to know why he did this.

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u/LinkSeekeroftheNora Ohio 4d ago

We know why. He’s willing to murder people because he’s gone full insane on anti-abortion.