We’ve sent you a lot of email lately about our campaign to make Mitch McConnell pay for his efforts to block $21 billion to improve veterans’ health care.

And you’re gonna get a few more messages over the next couple of weeks.

But it’s important to note that VoteVets was started in large part as an effort to elect progressive veterans, and that remains a core focus of our work. We have a chance to do just that this November, and we hope you’ll help us send a few of them to Washington, D.C.

They all have a shared FEC deadline tomorrow night – their last of the campaign – and I hope we can we count on you to split a small contribution to the full VoteVets slate to show your support.

Here are the list we’re supporting for federal office in 2014.

The four candidates in the picture that I’ve highlighted in yellow all won Democratic primaries for U.S. House seats this year. Which means we’ll hopefully have four new, progressive Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in Congress next year.

In addition to those, we’re backing statewide candidates like Lt. Governor Anthony Brown’s race for Governor of Maryland, and State Rep. Connie Pillich campaign for Treasurer in Ohio.

And our emerging leader program supports 20 veteran candidates running for County Council to State Senate seats and everything in between.

But today – please consider a small contribution to our federal candidates as a show of support ahead of tomorrow’s final quarterly FEC Deadline of the 2014 campaign.

Your commitment and support of VoteVets allows us to continually expand our electoral work.

Thank you,

Rick Hegdahl
Iraq War Veteran
VoteVets.org