Stand up for democracy
Patriots must work together to protect our rights, freedoms, and democracy in 2024.
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 this election
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“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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Even the Wall Street Journal says that Project 2025 offers a new administration “a blueprint for executing a right-wing agenda from purging the government of thousands of civil servants to dismantling the Department of Education.”
It is up to us to defend democracy with our vote!
We support Ken Mitchell for Congress
Ken is a veteran, an experienced leader, a small farmer, and a man of integrity who knows that...
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"Government is instituted for the common good, for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family or class of men." John Adams
The common good encompasses the well-being of all members of our society regardless of race, creed, gender, age, occupation, class, or any other differentiator. Ken knows that we benefit from our diversity and we thrive when we leave no one behind.
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... the answer is always country before party.
Ken took an oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; ... and bear true faith and allegiance to the same." He held true to that oath for twenty-four years including six years serving in the White House under President George H.W. Bush and President Bill Clinton.
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"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" means we are a nation where Christians can live freely. Still, we are not a "Christian Nation" as some today would have us become.
About Friends of Democracy CD6
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 Ken Mitchell to Congress instead of Ben Cline, who has failed to promote the common good, joined in supporting Christian Nationalism, and put loyalty to his party ahead of his oath to defend the Constitution.
Ken Mitchell agrees with President Ronald Reagan and President John F. Kennedy.
Who does Ben Cline agree with on matters of church and state?
“We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are, and must remain, separate.”
Ronald Reagan
October 26, 1984 Valley Stream, NY
“I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute.”
John F. Kennedy
Sept. 12, 1960
News You Can Use
We must educate ourselves about the real threats to democracy on the ballot in 2024
Ken Mitchell is the kind of Democrat who can win in our part of Virginia
“…Ken Mitchell is a 24-year military veteran with business experience who stands firm on women’s reproductive rights, broad-based civil rights, the protection of democracy and, bottom line, is focused on getting things done.”
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Would-Be Authoritarians in Their Own Words
We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless—if the left allows it to be,” Roberts said, in front of a backdrop advertising the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank involved in Project 2025.