The Midterms Project 2026 will financially support approximately ten U.S. Congressional districts and possibly two or three Senate races in the 2026 midterm elections with the primary goal of gaining a Democratic majority in the House of Representatives and Senate.

Led by DJ Smith, the Recommendation Committee is laser focused on identifying approximately the top ten congressional districts where our support can make a difference.  

DJ Smith has over 40 years of experience in California politics, both as a consultant and polling expert. Under DJ's guidance, the Recommendation Committee has been using a wide range of research tools to identify those Democratic candidates with the best chance of winning, including legitimate local District polls where available, direct communication with individual campaigns and candidates,  national political analytic groups like the Cook Political Report and Real Clear Polling, other appropriate national polling organizations like Emerson, Quinnipiac, CNN, RMG, Ipsos, Morning Consult, FOX News, Reuters, etc.   We have been watching where other Democratic support groups are investing their resources. 

We also are reaching out directly to the Campaigns. We just had two extremely informative calls with Mary Peltola's campaign staff on April 23rd with an inside view of Alaska polling, local politics and their really amazing ground game strategy to reach beyond Anchorage, Juneau and Fairbanks to the Native American villages- many of which are literally beyond even radio. This will be a new Blog post coming soon

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 Finally, there are several national political consultants who are running several congressional races in multiple states with whom we are communicating- including direct meetings with the Campaign staff and State Democratic Party organizations

By approximately mid-June this committee will recommend our initial slate of races to help finance.  At this point we plan to make our first round of donations. In mid-August we anticipate adjusting the slate of candidates, as the political landscape is certain to change. We will, again, donate to the updated slate.

Our plan is to send out a link to a secure Act Blue account preconfigured with the recommendations we have made, to equally fund our slate of democratic candidates. Your donation will  directly fund our candidates' campaigns. Funding will take place when you click on the link we will send you in mid-June and again in mid-August.  Your donations will be anonymous to our committee, so donors can donate privately.  No donation will be too big or too small.   There will be no email capture of your donor information- we are only tracking personal emails to send out regular updates- like the alert that the donation link is active. Your contact information will NOT be shared with ActBlue, and the ActBlue form itself is configured specifically in this manner, so that your donation here will not trigger ActBlue spam. 

We further ask that each of you personally send this letter out to all of your like minded friends.   The more people that participate, the better the chances of changing things in Washington.

Until we notify you- save your donation money until we have identified the candidates for whom your donations will be most effective. 

Once the donation link is active in June, you will be notified that its time to make your donation through our ActBlue link.