Every Thanksgiving, my dad and I fry a turkey in the backyard.

John,

Every Thanksgiving, my dad and I fry a turkey in the backyard.

Every year we drink martinis while we cook it, and every year my mom gets annoyed that we finish the turkey late and throw off her carefully planned dinner schedule. I am sure these two things are related.

Thanksgiving – as we are supposed to remind ourselves – is a time to give thanks, and I am certainly thankful for my friends and family and the traditions we have in the Clancy house.

It is hard, I will admit, to feel thankful about anything political these days. If politics comes up at your Thanksgiving dinner table, count how many times someone uses a version of the phrase, “Can you believe X politician did or said Y?” You will lose count quickly.

But if politics does come up at your dinner table, here are a few ways to keep the conversation from going off the rails.

The first is to forget the name-calling and stick to the facts. And here is a singular fact that should matter to every No Labels supporter:

The most durable and consequential legislation in the last century was created with votes from both Democrats and Republicans.

Social Security in the 1930s, the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s, and the Balanced Budget Act in the 1990s. All bipartisan.

Contrast that with the fact we shared in our email yesterday:

Every major healthcare reform push in Washington for the last 15 years has been a one-party exercise, with Democrats first passing the Affordable Care Act on their own and then Republicans unilaterally trying (and failing) to repeal and replace it.

Maybe this is why healthcare is such a mess. Maybe there is a lesson there for today’s leaders?

The second thing you can do is to let your friends and family know that underneath the headline dysfunction they read about in DC every day, is a group of No Labels’ allied House and Senate members from both parties, who are keeping the flame alive for our politics of problem-solving. Leaders like Bill Cassidy, Susan Collins, Markwayne Mullin and Ron Johnson in the Senate and Josh Gottheimer, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, Adam Gray, Don Davis and Vicente Gonzalez in the House. The secret sauce to No Labels’ work is not just bipartisan problem-solving. It is bicameral problem-solving that brings together members of the House and Senate. This recipe is what led to passage of the 2021 infrastructure bill, and it is our proof of concept for how problems can be solved in this Congress.

These members are doing the unglamorous but essential work of governing every day. In just the latest example, several of our allies are leading the charge to deliver a bipartisan healthcare fix next month that could prevent insurance premiums from spiking for millions. This kind of work is not sexy, and it may not often make the news, but the job of a member of Congress is to pass bills that make Americans’ lives better.

Our allies take that job seriously.

Next week, the No Labels team will be back at work, and so too will the House and Senate members we are so proud to support. Next month will be busy, and we hope you will stick with us and stay tuned to our emails and social channels for updates.

In the meantime, we hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving with your friends and family. And if you are also frying a turkey, let me leave you with one lesson my dad and I learned the hard way after we almost burned our house down.

Do not fry your turkey in the garage.

Ryan Clancy

Chief Strategist

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