Stand up for democracy

Patriots must work together to protect our rights, freedoms, and democracy every year.

Please join us.

We created Friends of Democracy CD6 to educate, equip, and energize voters who share our belief that protecting our representative democracy takes priority over loyalty to a party.

What’s at stake in 2025 and 2026

  • “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless, if the left allows it to be."Kevin Roberts, President of The Heritage Foundation, speaking on Steve Bannon's War Room podcast. July 2, 2024

    If this sounds like a threat, that's because it is. The Heritage Foundation has published Project 2025, a revolutionary plan for a second Trump presidency that would replace our representative democracy with authoritarianism.

  • The January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol was shocking. And we must remember it was not a spontaneous event.

    Various actors, including Trump and our own Congressman, Ben Cline, created and cultivated the conditions for January 6.

    Any Republican leader who has spoken out against the insurrection has been driven from the party and/or removed from office. Some, such as Liz Cheney, refuse to be silenced. Ben Cline has survived by going all-in on the extremist agenda. We no longer trust him to put his constituents' needs ahead of Trump's demands for loyalty.

  • When we only talk about Trump, the man, we hide the threat of the movement that has grown around him.

    The real threat is TrumpISM. An unholy alliance of White Supremacists, Christian Nationalists, and oligarchs that share the goal of replacing a pluralistic, representative Democracy with an authoritarian regime.

    Many who have voted for Ben Cline are disappointed with his embrace of Trumpism. Ken Mitchell gives them a great choice in 2024.

  • The United States is not alone in facing the threat of far-right authoritarian rule.

    At Friends of Democracy CD6, we draw hope and inspiration from the recent election in France. There, political parties set aside their differences and created a "Republican Front" that rejected a far-right party espousing many of the same policies supported by Trumpism.

We no longer have two parties committed to democratic rule — differing only on policy.

Trump and the unelected billionaire Elon Musk have set about destroying government services and programs and overturning the rule of law. It is up to us to defend democracy with our vote and with our actions.

We aim to provide other concerned citizens in Congressional District 6 with information and resources to engage their neighbors in conversations about the need to send democracy-defending representatives to Richmond in 2025 and Washington in 2026. In 2025, we aim to ensure those we send to Richmond will support policies that will fill in the loss of needed federal programs and defend us against attacks on our constitutional rights. In 2026, we will support defeating Ben Cline, who has failed to uphold his oath to defend the Constitution and supported policies that directly harm residents of his Congressional District.