
Exciting news:
Leaders We Deserve is proud to announce we’re endorsing Kristina Knickerbocker for Congress in Ohio’s 10th Congressional District!
I’ll tell you more about Kristina, but first, this is a critical red-to-blue race that we need to win for Ohio. Will you split a $25 contribution between Kristina and Leaders We Deserve today to help us flip this seat?
Kristina Knickerbocker has spent her life serving others. First as an Air Force major, where she led medical teams and improved care for active duty service members and their families, and then as a neuro-oncology nurse practitioner at Ohio State University Medical Center, where she watched our broken, for-profit healthcare system force cancer patients to choose between life saving treatment and groceries.
She knows this fight personally, and deeply. She has lived the harrowing experiences working people face, both as a patient and as a provider, and it’s made her more determined to fight for a healthcare system that actually works for patients, not insurance companies.
In Congress, Kristina will fight to restore ACA subsidies so working families can actually afford coverage, pass paid family leave so no parent has to choose between their job and their newborn, and take on the maternal mortality crisis that nearly took her own life. She’ll fight to overturn Citizens United and get big money out of politics, and demand real ethics reform for a Supreme Court that has spent years operating without meaningful oversight.
Her opponent, Mike Turner, has been in Congress for over 20 years, taking millions in corporate PAC money. He voted to slash food assistance for hundreds of thousands of Ohioans, and gutted Medicaid coverage for nearly 200,000 working people in his own state. And he eliminated the energy tax credits that were creating Ohio jobs and keeping utilities prices down — all to protect breaks for billionaires.
OH-10 is winnable, and Kristina is exactly the candidate to win it.
She brings something Turner never could: a lifetime of service to her community, and the conviction that comes from having lived the struggles she’s running to fix.
But Kristina can’t win this race without you.
Leaders We Deserve doesn’t take a single dollar from corporate PACs or special interests — and neither does Kristina. Our ability to back candidates like her depends entirely on grassroots supporters like you showing up when it counts. And right now is exactly when your support makes the biggest difference.
But here’s the honest truth: the hardest part is still ahead. We have many more critical races to win in this final stretch. Red-to-blue flips that could break the GOP’s grip on power. Primary challenges against do-nothing Democrats. Candidates who need real resources to compete against opponents with corporate PAC money and the party machines behind them.
We’re up against rightwing billionaires, corporations, and special interests that will spend whatever it takes to buy the candidates of their choosing and protect the status quo. With 75 days to go until Election Day, right now is exactly when grassroots support makes the biggest difference. That’s why we need your help today to stay competitive and keep our candidates in the ring.
Thank you,
David Hogg
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