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National pro-science PAC endorses Democrat Joe Cunningham’s 2022 SC governor bid

June 14, 2021 A science-focused outside advocacy group that heavily invested in Joe Cunningham’s two bids for U.S. Congress will follow the Lowcountry Democrat into South Carolina’s governor’s race. 314 Action, a national political action committee, endorsed Cunningham’s bid for governor Monday. It is the group’s first endorsement of a gubernatorial challenger in the 2022 cycle, the group said […]

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Big effort aims to elect candidates with science backgrounds

April 2, 2021 RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — An advocacy group plans to spend millions next year to elect more doctors, scientists and other professionals to office, arguing the pandemic and Donald Trump’s handling of it have powerfully underscored a need to bring people with scientific backgrounds into policymaking. 314 Action, a nonprofit organization with offices […]

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The Giant Field for Ohio’s 2022 U.S. Senate Race

March 31, 2021 […] Dr. Amy Acton Acton, the former Ohio Department of Health director who became a household name when the coronavirus began, made waves when she announced in early February that she was seriously considering joining the Senate race. “I am stepping down from my role at The Columbus Foundation in order to […]

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PAC recruiting STEM candidates launches campaign to draft Amy Acton to run for Senate

March 11, 2021 CLEVELAND, Ohio – An organization aimed at recruiting candidates from STEM backgrounds to run for office is kicking off a campaign in Ohio to draft former Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Amy Acton to run for U.S. Senate. The 314 Action Fund is launching a petition site at RunAmy.run to encourage […]

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Former NASA astronaut eyes US Senate, advocacy group says

March 10, 2021 RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A nonprofit group encouraging STEM professionals to run for public office is pushing a former NASA astronaut to enter North Carolina’s Democratic primary for an open U.S. Senate seat. Joan Higginbotham, the third Black woman to go into space, is “seriously, seriously” considering entering the race and is […]

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Democratic group eyes $50 million effort to elect STEM candidates to House, Senate

314 Action says grassroots network has grown to nearly 6 million March 4, 2021 A group backing Democratic candidates with backgrounds in science, technology, engineering and math is looking to raise and spend $50 million in the 2022 midterms, listing two open Senate seats as top priorities. The group, 314 Action, is aiming to recruit […]

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Democrats With Science Resume Recruited to Run in Covid-19 Era

– Lawmakers sought to counter Trump-years attitudes on science – Group aims to increase fundraising to draw 2022 candidates March 4, 2021 An organization advocating for more lawmakers with science backgrounds is ramping up fundraising and training to draw candidates to address the pandemic and counter what it says were the anti-science attitudes of the […]

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Democratic candidates — some with medical backgrounds — lean into science as a campaign message

"I'm wearing a mask, and you may ask why," the Democratic congressional candidate said in a video he posted to Twitter late last month. Gandhi, who's hoping to unseat a longtime Republican in Texas' 10th District, filmed himself outside the Austin community health clinic where he's a physician and where, he explained, masks are required.

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Nightly Applause Is Nice, but Some Doctors Think Votes Would Be Nicer

By Emma Goldberg Maxine Dexter, an intensive care physician, remembers exactly where she was sitting the Thursday morning her political ambitions were born. She was looking out her bedroom window toward northwest Portland — the snow-capped peak of Mount Adams winking at her from across the valley. She clutched a coffee her husband had brought upstairs […]

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Is there a doctor in the House?

Ronny Jackson, Donald Trump’s former physician, had been struggling for months to break through in a crowded field of Republicans vying for a congressional seat in Texas — despite his ties to the president. But that’s all changed since the coronavirus outbreak:Jackson has become a regular presence on conservative radio and cable TV, tapping his […]

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