Over Past Four Cycles, Everytown For Gun Safety Action Fund and Victory Fund Have Spent More than $9 Million to Help Elect and Re-Elect Representative McBath
Everytown Supporters, Alongside Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action Volunteers, Made More Than 12 Million Voter Contacts To Support Gun Sense Candidates Nationwide
WASHINGTON — Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund and its grassroots networks, Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, and Everytown for Gun Safety Victory Fund declared a major victory today as voters re-elected gun sense champion Lucy McBath, a former Everytown employee and Moms Demand Action volunteer and gun violence survivor, to the U.S. Congress.
“When Lucy McBath left her position as Everytown’s faith outreach leader and ran for Congress, we went all-in — and now she’s a national leader on gun safety who can count on our full support as she heads into her fourth term,” said John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety. “From the day she took office, Representative McBath has honored the memory of her son, Jordan, by fighting relentlessly to keep her fellow Americans safe from gun violence. Lucy is an inspiration to the growing ranks of gun safety volunteers who, like her, are making the leap from advocating for laws to writing them.”
“Lucy McBath is not only a fierce leader for Georgia and my personal Shero, but now a four-term representative in Congress,” said Angela Ferrell-Zabala, executive director of Moms Demand Action. “It’s been one of my greatest privileges to know and support her, and our movement will always do everything in our power to stand with her as she fights for a safer world in honor of her son, Jordan.”
“Representative McBath has been a steadfast leader in our movement — from starting as a Moms Demand Action volunteer to helping pass the first major gun safety legislation in almost thirty years last Congress,” said Christy Akers, a volunteer with the Georgia chapter of Moms Demand Action. “Her commitment to this work has made us safer in Georgia and we were so proud to support her during this election as she continues to fight for us in Washington.”
Over the past four cycles, Everytown For Gun Safety Action Fund and Victory Fund have spent more than $9 million to help elect and re-elect Representative McBath, ensuring her continued leadership on behalf of survivors and the gun violence prevention movement. When she decided to run for Congress in 2018, Everytown worked aggressively to help her flip Georgia’s 6th Congressional District, running a $4 million paid communication campaign across digital, mail, TV, radio and phones in addition to email and SMS communication to in-district Everytown members. Everytown Victory Fund ran a similar program for her 2020 and 2022 election campaign, spending $3 million and $2 million respectively across digital, TV, radio and direct mail. Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action volunteers made tens of thousands of calls and texts to support Representative McBath.
Earlier this year, Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund and Victory Fund announced a $45 million major electoral program, which included launching a new grassroots voter contact program to help elect gun sense candidates and defeat gun extremists up and down the ballot in key swing districts and states. These efforts focused on young voters on college campuses, voters of color, and suburban women in Arizona, California, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. As part of the electoral program, Everytown hired and deployed 36 field organizers across the ten states.
Everytown for Gun Safety Victory Fund and Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund also invested a record $7.5 million to train and elect Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action volunteers, including many running in key races across the country. Representative McBath’s leap from volunteer to Congresswoman inspired Everytown to launch Demand a Seat, which has now trained more than 1,000 Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action volunteers and gun violence survivors how to build and run winning campaigns.