David Roth · [email protected]

December 3, 2023 at 9:17 PM

Update: New developments on Idaho’s abortion ban

Two months ago the DOJ lost its bid to block this deadly ban. John,   We have new developments in the fight to overturn Idaho’s abortion ban – the most extreme ban in the nation.   First, a quick recap of how we got here:   SCOTUS overturned Roe in June …

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November 30, 2023 at 10:59 PM

Is Social Security on the chopping block?

What is Mike doing?? John – This is unbelievable.   Right now Republicans in the House are holding secret, closed door meetings plotting to gut our Social Security system – and Mike Johnson is right in the thick of it.   Actually, I take that back. It’s co…

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November 29, 2023 at 10:23 PM

Brand new campaign merch!

Show your Idaho PRIDE inside. Hey John!   We’ve just dropped the first items in our new shop, check it out! SHOP NOW >> We’ll be adding more products in the coming weeks, so this is your chance to get a jump…

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  David Roth · [email protected]

November 27, 2023 at 7:33 PM

What’s on the agenda for 2024? Our rights.

Republicans have big plans for the next Congress, and none of them are good. John,   I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend with their loved ones. My boys and I were grateful for a little break from work, school, and the campaign to enjoy our time…

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  David Roth · [email protected]

November 21, 2023 at 7:38 PM

They gutted voting rights

John,   We have a problem that will impact the whole country.   For almost 60 years, individuals and civil rights groups such as the ACLU and the NAACP have used Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act to challenge state gerrymandering, extreme voter ID laws, …

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November 18, 2023 at 8:10 PM

I can’t stop thinking about this

John – Most of my fellow Idahoans will recognize this image. Photo credit: Jeremy Segrott For everyone else, that’s a picture of the Snake River, taken from Lewiston, ID, overlooking the border with Washington state. …

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  David Roth · [email protected]

November 15, 2023 at 11:18 PM

This is no way to run a government

Republicans just kicked the can down the road another 45 days. Good news and bad news, John.   The good news is, the government is NOT going to shut down this week.   The bad news is, we get to have this fight again in 45 days.   Republicans have once aga…

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  David Roth · [email protected]

November 13, 2023 at 11:33 PM

Back to square one

Republicans are playing games with our livelihoods again. John – Is that déjà vu? Or…could it be?   That’s right, folks. We’re on the brink of another government shutdown.   If you feel like we were just here, you’re not crazy. We were. The dysfunctional …

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  David Roth · [email protected]

November 11, 2023 at 12:27 AM

Abortion wins elections.

This week’s election results prove it. John – Republicans spent 50 years trying to overturn Roe.   They finally succeeded, and justified their judicial coup against American women by claiming this issue needed to be decided by voters.   Well the voters hav…

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November 7, 2023 at 5:39 PM

This one’s for my kids

John, Did you know November is National Adoption Month? You won’t see most politicians talking about it, but adoption is personal to me.   I adopted my sons six years ago on November 1, 2017, and I am grateful every day that I get to be a dad and provide …

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  David Roth · [email protected]

November 4, 2023 at 8:37 PM

November isn’t just an election month

John, Did you know November is National Adoption Month? You won’t see most politicians talking about it, but adoption is personal to me. I adopted my sons six years ago this past week, on November 1, 2017, and I am grateful every day that I get to be a da…

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October 31, 2023 at 3:50 PM

The latest SCARE for LGBTQ+ Americans

John,   Another version of this email went out last weekend, but I’m sending it again because EVERYONE needs to know what happened with the House Speaker fiasco – and what it means for my community.   When my opponent Mike Simpson voted against electing J…

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  David Roth · [email protected]

October 30, 2023 at 10:48 PM

I won’t stop fighting

John,   The response to my last email was overwhelming. Thank you for being as concerned about Mike Johnson’s speakership as I am, and to the kind folks who donated… I simply can’t thank you enough. Running for office in a state like ours, against an oppo…

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  David Roth · [email protected]

October 28, 2023 at 8:17 PM

This might be it for LGBTQ+ Americans.

John,   When Mike Simpson voted against electing Jim Jordan for House Speaker, I was relieved. Jordan would have been a nightmare for Democrats, and Simpson took a hit from his Republican colleagues for blocking their pick.   But then Mike Johnson threw h…

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  David Roth · [email protected]

October 26, 2023 at 4:17 PM

The worst news to wake up to

John,   I woke up this morning, turned on the TV, and flipped to the news.   President Biden had just ordered flags to be lowered to half-staff. That’s when I learned that – as I tucked my kids into bed last night – at least 18 people in Maine would never…

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  David Roth · [email protected]

October 24, 2023 at 10:04 PM

Idaho could have prevented this.

It’s a constitutional crisis. John,   Republicans are still casting for the role of House Speaker, and the options are laughable – or they would be if this weren’t so serious. Of the NINE new extremist hopefuls, all but two voted against certifying the 202…

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  Team Roth · [email protected]

October 23, 2023 at 9:48 PM

We’re calling on all volunteers!

Will you be one of them? It’s about that time, John.   Team Roth is ramping up our organizing efforts and laying the groundwork to mobilize volunteers, and we have an important question to ask: Will you be one of them? Sign up to Volunteer  …

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  David Roth · [email protected]

October 21, 2023 at 10:54 PM

Idaho’s abortion ban is back in court!

John,   I have GOOD NEWS this weekend – and it’s not that Jim Jordan lost his third attempt at becoming Speaker of the House.   Earlier this month, I wrote to let you know that the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Idaho’s total abortion ban, eve…

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  David Roth · [email protected]

October 19, 2023 at 9:27 PM

EXPOSED: GOP dysfunction hits Idaho

John,   While the country’s attention was locked in on the House Republicans’ ongoing clown show, Idaho Republicans found themselves in their own circus here at home.   Earlier this month, the six top officials in the Ada County Republican Party RESIGNED …

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  David Roth · [email protected]

October 15, 2023 at 6:46 PM

Why do Republicans do this to us?

Jim Jordan is a problem. John,   I want to talk about Jim Jordan, but first –     The team tells me we are still $12,900 away from hitting our October fundraising goal, and we only have TWO WEEKS left. If you can help, any amount is appreciated: https://se…

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  Team Roth · [email protected]

October 13, 2023 at 7:51 PM

We’re with David

Happy Friday the 13th, John!   David is out today preparing for events this weekend, but if you have a moment, I thought you might like to know more about our behind-the-scenes work to get him elected.   Our most important task every week is finding oppor…

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  David Roth · [email protected]

October 11, 2023 at 4:25 PM

It’s National Coming Out Day!

Hey John,   Today is National Coming Out Day, a day to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community and remember those who made the choice to live out-and-proud when we were not accepted like we are today.   On October 11, 1987, my community and our allies marched in D…

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  David Roth · [email protected]

October 8, 2023 at 8:31 PM

GOP scandals run the House.

What else are they hiding? John,   In return for leading the initiative to remove Kevin McCarthy from his position as Speaker of the House, Matt Gaetz is taking hits from Republicans in Congress.   “We had all seen the videos he was showing on the House fl…

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  David Roth · [email protected]

October 5, 2023 at 10:59 PM

Republicans are playing, but this is no game

People’s lives are on the line while the GOP squabbles like children. John,   Earlier this year, Kevin McCarthy crawled through FIFTEEN humiliating rounds of voting to get the job as Speaker of the House – which he only won after groveling and giving away …

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  David Roth · [email protected]

October 2, 2023 at 7:43 PM

Women will die because Idaho won

John,   We have a problem.    A few days ago, the Justice Department lost in its attempt to protect Idaho doctors from prosecution for performing emergency, life-saving abortions.    Last year, our state legislature made it a crime for emergency room phys…

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  Team Roth · [email protected]

September 30, 2023 at 7:09 PM

We can STOP the next shutdown

Hey John,   Team Roth here with a short update as we head into October.    As we write this, the future of hundreds of thousands of government jobs are in limbo. Either Congress agrees to a 45-day continuing resolution TODAY, or the government shutdown hi…

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  David Roth · [email protected]

September 29, 2023 at 8:34 PM

The racist future of education.

If those were my kids… John,   A couple days ago, a student at Salmon High School posted a photo to Instagram that made headlines, for good reason.    The photo shows the student and five of his classmates standing around another student on the ground and …

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  Alex, Team Roth · [email protected]

September 28, 2023 at 7:15 PM

FWD: A drag queen, a bomb, and a bookshop.

This is domestic terror. Hey there John, As a gay man myself, I know how underrepresented the LGBTQ+ community is in Congress. David’s email yesterday (below) really hit home for me. He’s right: violence against LGBTQ+ Americans or ANY group of Americans i…

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  David Roth · [email protected]

September 27, 2023 at 4:14 PM

A drag queen, a bomb, and a bookshop.

This is domestic terror. John,   Last Sunday, a Salt Lake City bookshop closed unexpectedly after receiving a bomb threat. The threat wasn’t made because someone hates books (though we should also talk about these book bans, too).   The bomb threat was mad…

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  David Roth · [email protected]

September 25, 2023 at 9:04 PM

Mike might win this quarter

but we can’t let him win this election. John,   Every three months, the Federal Election Commission requires campaigns to report on fundraising and makes those reports public.   I can say without a doubt that my opponent’s fundraising will look much better…

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September 23, 2023 at 9:04 PM

Social security is on the line

Presidential candidates Tim Scott, Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie and Nikki Haley have all publicly said they want to make today’s 30 and 40-year-olds retire later than their parents. And Donald Trump proposed cuts to Social Security every year he was Presi…

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  David Roth · [email protected]

September 21, 2023 at 6:44 PM

91 victims in Idaho & counting...

This one was hard to write. John,   Just 19 men with box cutters and one man with a shoe bomb completely changed the airline industry and the way we fly forever. But the rise of mass shootings and gun violence in this country over the past decade has gone …

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  David Roth · [email protected]

September 19, 2023 at 7:17 PM

Congress needs leaders like us

John,   By voting for President Biden in the 2020 election, every single one of us helped dodge a second Trump term and saved one branch of government from the harmful rhetoric and dangerous policies of the MAGA movement.     But if the last three years h…

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  David Roth · [email protected]

September 17, 2023 at 9:00 PM

Imagine a life without retirement...

I’d rather not. Presidential candidates Tim Scott, Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie and Nikki Haley have all publicly said they want to make today’s 30 and 40-year-olds retire later than their parents. And Donald Trump proposed cuts to Social Security every ye…

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  David Roth · [email protected]

September 16, 2023 at 10:32 PM

Last Weekend at Pride! (Photos inside)

John,   Last Sunday, I hopped in the car at 3 o’clock in the morning to make it to Boise in time for the parade – and it was the best trip I’ve made in months!   This year’s Boise Pride surprised me for a couple reasons.   First – after last year’s cultur…

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  Team Roth · [email protected]

September 14, 2023 at 7:22 PM

We just checked and here’s where we stand

Hi John,   We’re writing because we checked the numbers, and today are SO close to hitting our daily goal. In fact we’re only $328 away and we have until midnight!    Can you pitch in $5 or any amount so we can crush our goal tonight?   David’s campaign h…

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  David Roth · [email protected]

September 10, 2023 at 11:26 PM

YOU can help save retirement.

Add your name here. Presidential candidates Tim Scott, Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie and Nikki Haley have all publicly said they want to make today’s 30 and 40-year-olds retire later than their parents. And Donald Trump proposed cuts to Social Security ever…

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  David Roth · [email protected]

September 9, 2023 at 9:00 PM

Say HI at Boise Pride!

I will not be silenced John,   This weekend I have the pleasure of walking in the Boise Pride parade another year!    Last year’s pride event was truly amazing, and I was so grateful to have a chance to connect with so many members of my community – despi…

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  David Roth · [email protected]

September 7, 2023 at 2:03 PM

Happy Birthday to this wonderful woman

My grandmother, Lucile John,   Today I’m with my grandmother Lucile, celebrating her 106th birthday!   A lot has changed in the last 106 years. My grandmother has lived to witness some of the most pivotal moments in American history, the accomplishments of…

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  Team Roth · [email protected]

September 6, 2023 at 5:00 PM

The campaign is growing!

Hi John,   Next year’s election might seem far into the future, but every single day matters at Team Roth. We know that David is the underdog candidate, and that’s why we launched this campaign early and haven’t let a moment go to waste. That’s also why w…

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  David Roth · [email protected]

September 4, 2023 at 3:01 PM

Labor Day

John,   When thinking of the labor movement in 2023, most Americans focus on the ongoing joint strike by Hollywood writers and actors. What they don’t know is that today’s strikes may not be possible without the sacrifices of workers here at home.   Today…

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  David Roth · [email protected]

September 2, 2023 at 2:31 PM

Tell Republicans: Hands OFF Social Security

We will not raise the retirement age. Period. Presidential candidates Tim Scott, Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie and Nikki Haley have all publicly said they want to make today’s 30 and 40-year-olds retire later than their parents. And Donald Trump proposed cu…

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  David Roth · [email protected]

August 31, 2023 at 3:10 PM

No, not THAT David Roth – the other one

As much as I love being confused with a rock star... John,   When I reach out to voters and donors on the phone and introduce myself as David Roth, there’s one response I hear over and over again. “David Roth? The Van Halen singer??” …

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  David Roth · [email protected]

August 30, 2023 at 6:33 PM

A good omen

You won’t believe this! John,   I’m not usually one to get superstitious, but this morning I was looking over fundraising with my team and you won’t believe what we saw.   THIS is a screenshot taken at 8:04 a.m. this morning from our ActBlue dashboard show…

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  David Roth · [email protected]

August 28, 2023 at 6:55 PM

A heavy lift

Hi John,   We are just four days away from the end of the month, and unfortunately fundraising is significantly behind.   This is a terrible time to fall short, because to build the formidable campaign we must have to win, we need to make some investments…

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  David Roth · [email protected]

August 26, 2023 at 8:31 PM

I want to retire — and my kids, too

Presidential candidates Tim Scott, Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie and Nikki Haley have all publicly said they want to make today’s 30 and 40-year-olds retire later than their parents. And Donald Trump proposed cuts to Social Security every year he was Presi…

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  David Roth · [email protected]

August 24, 2023 at 6:04 PM

Extremism took center stage in Milwaukee

Last night’s debate proves why we MUST contest every GOP seat. John,   Last night’s GOP primary debate was a terrifying display of extremism becoming mainstream Republican policy.   Besides the glaring fact that none of these candidates are prepared for th…

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  David Roth · [email protected]

August 22, 2023 at 8:19 PM

Another school year is starting, and nothing has changed

John,   Like many of you, I’m in the process of sending my kids back to school.   It’s an exciting time, full of new beginnings and opportunities. I’m hoping all our kids have a great year – learning, growing, and building community.    But as a parent in…

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  David Roth · [email protected]

August 20, 2023 at 10:07 PM

We’re losing our Teacher of the Year

Another casualty of GOP extremism John,   Karen Lauritzen won Idaho’s Teacher of the Year award, and expected for 2023 to be her best teaching year. But now she’s leaving.    After the award was announced last September, Lauritzen has been the target of r…

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  David Roth · [email protected]

August 17, 2023 at 3:35 PM

Here’s how we protect our progress

I need your help. John,   Yesterday marked one year since the historic passage of the Inflation Reduction Act – and its impact has been HUGE.    But polls show that a shocking number of Americans still don’t know what the IRA is or how it’s helping us.   S…

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