This week, DNC Chair Ken Martin kicked off his first official tour as DNC chair, traveling to blue, purple, and red states across the country. As a part of his “Organizing Everywhere” Tour, Chair Martin visited Pennsylvania, Texas, Illinois, and Missouri this week and will be in Wisconsin tomorrow. As DNC chair, Martin is committed to ensuring Democrats are using every tool at our disposal to compete across the country. 

• In Pennsylvania: 90.5 WESA: National Democratic chair Ken Martin visits McKeesport, vows ‘We’re willing to fight’
• In Pennsylvania: Washington Examiner: New DNC chairman makes a pitch to working-class Pennsylvanians 
• In Pennsylvania: Axios Pittsburgh: New DNC chair starts anti-Trump push in Pittsburgh
• In Pennsylvania: TribLive: Newly elected Democratic chairman begins national tour in Western Pa.
• In Pennsylvania: Washington Post: Martin heads to Pennsylvania to win back workers
• In Texas: Houston Chronicle: New Democratic National Party chair makes early stop in Texas to drive home message
• In Texas: New York Times: Reeling Texas Democrats Get a Rare Sight: Their National Chair
• In Missouri: St. Louis Post-Dispatch: New Democratic Party leader stops in St. Louis on national tour 
• Nationwide: NBC News: New DNC chair kicks off multistate tour as he takes over the party
• Nationwide: The Hill: New chair kicks off multistate tour in effort to get DNC ‘out of DC’

Ahead of Chair Martin’s first tour stop in Pittsburgh, PA, the chair released a new memo underlining how Trump and his billionaire backers are enriching themselves at working Americans’ expense. Since Day 1, the Trump administration’s attacks on workers’ rights have made lives harder and his Project 2025 agenda threatens to roll back worker protections and make it harder for workers to unionize. In the memo, Chair Martin emphasized that Democrats must be the party of working people and unite behind the kitchen table issues that connect us all. 

• Nationwide: The Guardian: DNC chair outlines pro-worker, union focus in first memo in fight against Trump
• Nationwide: The Hill: New DNC chair: Union workers, labor leaders will be ‘core to my decision-making’
• Nationwide: Washington Examiner: Ken Martin targets labor in first trip as DNC chairman

Also, this week, the DNC reaffirmed its commitment to protecting the will of North Carolina and Nevada voters from MAGA Republicans’ attempt to silence and disenfranchise them. In North Carolina, the DNC filed its opposition brief with the North Carolina Supreme Court to block Republicans’ shameless attempt to overthrow an election decided more than three months ago. The DNC also filed a brief supporting the North Carolina State Board of Elections’ position that federal courts retain jurisdiction to protect the rights of the voters at issue in this case. In Nevada, the DNC filed a brief in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals urging the court to throw out the RNC’s challenge against a Nevada law that allows mail ballots postmarked by Election Day and received within four days of the election to be counted. 

• In North Carolina: Salon: DNC intervenes in North Carolina Supreme Court fight, accuses GOP of trying to “steal an election”
• In North Carolina: CBS 17: DNC joins federal fight in NC Supreme Court election challenge
• In Nevada: Nevada Independent: Democrats ask appeals court to toss GOP lawsuit over Nevada’s late-arriving mail ballots
• In Nevada: Rolling Stone: Dems Seek to Block GOP Attack on Mail-In Voting

Across the country, Democrats are taking charge against Trump and MAGA Republicans’ attacks by introducing legislation that will improve the lives of Americans.

• In Florida: Florida Phoenix: Democrats file bill to repeal six-week abortion ban, want more data transparency
• In Illinois: WGN9: Illinois Democrats vow to push back on Trump administration cuts to programs, staff
• In Nevada: KOLO 8 ABC: Nevada Democrats introduce bill to expand IVF treatments in the state
• In Wisconsin: Associated Press: Wisconsin’s Democratic governor calls for tax cuts, pushback on Trump’s tariffs

Meanwhile, Trump is losing favor in his own backyard as Americans in red districts turn their backs on him and Elon Musk – joining the millions of Americans furious that Trump and Musk have done nothing to lower costs and ease the burdens facing working families, all while they enrich themselves and their billionaire buddies. In deeply red House districts in Georgia, Wisconsin, Alaska, and Oregon, constituents voiced their frustration about Trump giving Elon Musk and DOGE unlimited and unchecked power to harm communities.

• In Alaska: Alaskan Public Radio: Begich town hall meeting yields gripes, fury and sprinkles of praise
• In Georgia: Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Georgia congressman confronted by angry crowd over support for Trump’s agenda
• In Oregon: Baker City Herald: Congressman Cliff Bentz fields questions about Trump, federal firings, Musk during Baker City town hall
• In Wisconsin: TMJ4: West Bend voters raise concerns about Pres. Trump and Elon Musk at Republican Congressman’s town hall