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(Please note the details of this story are extremely disturbing.)

Since the last time we checked in about scumbag Republican congressman Max Miller, the strange quiet around the horrific accusations against him has finally lifted – and the details are gut wrenching.

His ex-wife (who happens to be the daughter of Ohio’s Republican Senator Bernie Moreno) has reported him throwing boiling hot water at her in front of their two-year-old child, scalding her chest and stomach (an incident a voice recording shared by Miller seems to confirm took place), holding a gun to her head after she angered him while changing their daughter’s diaper, and possibly breaking their daughter’s collarbone as part of “a history of violence and misconduct going back more than a decade.” She’s presented photographic evidence of her own injuries. He’s also been accused of harassing his ex-wife’s lawyer, who has sought a restraining order against him, and withholding their daughter’s little blue sleep bunny from her.

This isn’t even the first allegation of domestic violence by Miller – former Trump press secretary Stephanie Grisham has also stated he hit her during a dating relationship while he was a White House aide, and multiple witnesses have confirmed he shoved a girl down the stairs as a high schooler when she rejected his attempts to touch her. (He also falsely accused a pro-Palestinian constituent of threatening him and running him off the road.)

The eyes of the country are now on the Ohio Seventh District representative, who has retained the support of his former boss Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson, and the RNC, and refused to drop his reelection campaign. It’s an R+5 district that Trump won by 11 in November 2024. Miller seems to be counting on that partisan lean to help him avoid accountability. They did, after all, elect him the first two times with Grisham’s reports and the violence against women in high school already on the public record.

We’re not going to let it happen.

Miller is being challenged by Brian Poindexter, a city councilman and union ironworker. He’s got a working-class background, having made his living in machine shops, kitchens, trucks and the high beams on skyscrapers. He’s sworn off corporate PAC money and emphasized the value of a strong labor movement and protecting the right to organize as part of building a economy that works for every American and not just the billionaires, along with moving towards Medicare For All.

Let’s do our part to get an advocate for working folks in power and a dangerous creep out of it. ☎️ The Poindexter campaign is officially launching virtual phonebanks next week, running every Thursday from 6-7PM ET. We can sign up here. ☎️

MAX MILLER DOES NOT BELONG IN CONGRESS

Also in today’s List:

-  Make calls tomorrow night to help make abortion access a constitutional right in Nevada

-  Primary breakdown: we’ve got our picks to beat a January 6ther and the legislative leader on the SAVE Act in Wisconsin

-  Mass call tomorrow on May Day Strong’s plans for solidarity schools, nonviolent direct action training for Labor Day

- Join United We Dream Action’s textbank to drive calls to Congress in favor of a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrant youth TONIGHT and hit the streets all this week for Care Not Cruelty protests at the offices of pro-deportation machine reps

Two of the most competitive and impactful midterm races will be in Maine, where we’re facing off against two very different kinds of right-wing oligarch enablers.

At the Senate level, we have a chance to flip a crucial seat for the majority by unseating the highly concerned Susan Collins, who can always be counted on to cluck her tongue and wag her finger at Donald Trump, right up until she provides him with the vote he needs to get his agenda over the top. We experience the consequences of her surrender constantly, with every ruling Brett Kavanaugh makes, with the loss of labor and delivery wards in her state and with the deportation machine’s murder of her constituents.

On the House side, GOP Second Congressional District nominee and former governor Paul LePage doesn’t bother with Collins’ hemming and hawing. Instead he’s gleefully embraced extremism, hate-mongering and corruption, repeatedly and noisily vetoing Medicaid expansion, deriding Social Security and Medicare and giving massive tax breaks to the wealthy while driving up property taxes.

Finally beating Collins is likely necessary for Democrats to control the Senate. Holding off LePage in one of the most Trump-friendly seats currently held by a Democrat is crucial for Democrats taking the House.

We’ve nominated two bold progressive fighters for the working class to take them on. Fifth-generation lumberjack and former Senate president Troy Jackson and state auditor and union man Matt Dunlap are running hard on Medicare for All and taxing the billionaires. They’re candidates with a vision to vote for, offering real solutions instead of the status quo.

Their campaigns are kicking into high gear, and they need our help. ☎️ Dunlap has just launched phonebanks on Tuesday and Thursday evenings running from 6-8PM ET. We can sign up for shifts here. And the Maine Democratic Party is getting going making calls for Jackson, Dunlap and candidates up and down the ballot on Thursdays from 6-8PM, which we can join here. ☎️

MAKE CALLS FOR MATT DUNLAP

BACK JACKSON, DUNLAP, AND THE FULL SLATE

Also in today’s List:

-  Help make sure elections run smoothly – sign up to be a poll worker for these midterms

-  Join Lead Locally in phonebanking for clean energy initiatives, pro-climate action legislative candidates on Mondays this month

-  Textbank to drive calls to Congress for a path to citizenship for immigrant young people WEDNESDAY

-  National actions for this first week of recess: show up for Care Not Cruelty at congressional offices to demand accountability and an end to ICE terror, encourage MoCs to back a federal data center moratorium and Dump Big Tech

- Join Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, Will Lawrence and Donavan McKinney for a mass call with the Working Families Party on how we keep up the momentum against corporate interests in November TONIGHT at 8PM ET