Our Priority House Districts
The Cook Political Report, a respected political analysis website, currently identifies 18 House districts represented by Republicans that it considers a “toss up” or “lean Republican.”
At this stage of the election cycle, these are the 18 most flippable districts in the country. Activate America’s early focus will be to connect with voters in these districts about the many ways their Members of Congress are failing to represent them.
They all voted to gut Medicaid by up to $800 billion; they’ve all looked the other way as Trump tanks the economy and retirement security; they’ve all done essentially nothing to defend Congress’s role in authorizing federal programs as Trump illegally takes a chainsaw to the Social Security Administration, education programs, critical lifesaving research, our national parks, and so much more.
Their constituents deserve real representation, and the 2026 election is their chance at leaders who will put people first.
Click on the states to read more about our priority house districts and the Republicans we are up against.
Arizona
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An election denier who voted to overturn the presidential election AFTER the deadly insurrection on the U.S. Capitol, Rep. David Schweikert has never been afraid to let his MAGA extremist flag fly. More recently, he said he thinks it's “wonderful” that DOGE is making unconstitutional cuts to school lunch programs, national parks, cancer and Alzheimer’s research, and starvation prevention, calling these programs authorized by Congress “bundles of free cash to hand out to people to buy their votes.”
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Rep. Juan Ciscomani missed his calling as a ventriloquist, because he’s a master of talking out of both sides of his mouth. He voted to gut Medicaid by up to $880 billion, even signing a letter acknowledging that “Medicaid [is] expected to bear the brunt of these reductions.” But he also claims that protecting Medicaid is his top priority. You can’t have it both ways, Congressman.
1 in 4 of his constituents depend on Medicaid to stay healthy, and they deserve a Congressmember who will vote to save Medicaid, not destroy it.
California
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Rep. David Valadao represents more Medicaid recipients (68% of CA-22 residents) than any other Member of Congress.
You’d think he’d be laser-focused on protecting their health care. You’d be wrong. Valadao voted to cut almost $880 billion from Medicaid, putting his loyalty to Trump above the needs of his constituents.
Luckily, this ailment has a remedy: vote him out. CA-22 is the most Democratic district represented by a Republican, and the great people of this Central Valley district deserve a representative who will fight for them.
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As Rep. Young Kim continues to avoid her constituents and refuses to hold a town hall, we've been proud to co-sponsor town halls in her district. She’s always welcome to come, but we won’t hold our breath.
In 2024, Trump only won in CA-40 by less than three points, and as he continues to destroy our country with Rep. Kim’s wholehearted support, we’re optimistic CA-40 voters will want a Member of Congress that will actually look out for them.
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Ken Calvert was a MAGA extremist long before Trump came on the scene. He’s developed a long voting record of being hostile to immigrants and the LGBTQ+ community in a district full of immigrants and LGBTQ+ people. He also voted in lockstep with Trump’s plan to gut Medicaid.
On brand for a MAGA extremist, Calvert also voted to thwart American democracy and to overturn a lawful presidential election.
He’s a poster child of what’s wrong with House Republicans, and we’ll work hard to vote him out in 2026.
Colorado
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When Rep. Gabe Evans voted to cut up to $880 billion from Medicaid, he wanted you to believe it won’t cut benefits, only “fraud, waste, and abuse.” Hogwash. One in four people in CO-8 depend on Medicaid to stay healthy, and he knows quite well that his actions would lead to many of them losing their health care.
After DOGE made sweeping cuts to the VA, costing many veterans their jobs, Evans also denied that there would be any impact to VA services. He can deny reality all he wants; we’ll make sure CO-8 voters know the truth.
Iowa
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799 votes. That’s what separated Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks from her Democratic challenger in 2024.
Representing such a highly contested swing district, you’d think she would be focused on being a bipartisan bridgebuilder and defending her constituents from the worst excesses of the Trump Administration. Instead, she’d been a party line vote for the President, joining her Republican colleagues in decimating Medicaid and turning a blind eye to devastating cuts to programs that sustain Iowa family farmers and feed Iowa students.
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As the Trump Administration fires veterans left and right and causes long delays at the VA as part of its DOGE purge, Rep. Zach Nunn has stood by and said nothing.
It’s the standard operating procedure for Nunn: profess bipartisan bona fides while rubberstamping everything Trump wants. Iowa families deserve champions in Washington who will protect the state, but Nunn is nowhere to be found.
Nebraska
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We know Rep. Dan Bacon really doesn’t want you to know that he voted to gut Medicaid by up to $880 billion, because when a Democratic Party-alligned PAC put up billboards highlighting the vote, National Republicans threatened the vendor with lawsuits if they didn’t take it down.
When Bacon isn’t busy voting to take away healthcare from his constituents, he’s cosponsoring national abortion bans with no exceptions and calling for raising the age of Social Security eligibility.
New Jersey
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New Jersey receives $1.2 billion every year from the Department of Education. With the Trump Administration working to abolish the department, New Jersey students deserve champions in Congress who will protect them.
Residents of NJ-07 have repeatedly asked Tom Kean, Jr. to host a town hall to explain why he’s silent on the Department of Education cuts and other disastrous Trump Administration policies like the tariffs and freezing Alzheimer’s and cancer research. We’ll update you if Kean stops hiding from his constituents.
New York
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They say if you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life, and luckily for Rep. Mike Lawler, he loves depriving women of their reproductive rights.
While a member of the New York State Legislature, Lawler voted against protecting doctors who provide reproductive care and against enshrining abortion rights into the State Constitution. He even praised the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Lawler likes to present himself as a bipartisan leader, but scratch the surface, and his MAGA extremism is easy to find.
Pennsylvania
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The modern Republican Party is no stranger to anti-abortion extremists, but Ryan Mackenzie gives the worst of them a run for their money.
He voted for an abortion ban with no exceptions for rape or incest and calls himself “100%” anti-abortion. When he’s not busy interfering in health care decisions, he votes against raising the minimum wage, against investing in Pennsylvania’s aging infrastructure, and against enshrining workers’ rights to collectively bargain and join a union into the State Constitution. One thing he voted for: gutting Medicaid by up to $880 billion.
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Rep. Rob Bresnahan is really adamant that he opposes gutting Medicaid, yet he voted to cut Medicaid by up to $880 billion.
He wants PA-08 voters to listen to what he says, not what he does. He also claims to support military families and veterans, but he’s remained silent as the Trump Administration imposes huge cuts to the VA and lays off thousands of veterans across the country.
When given the choice between siding with Trump or siding with his constituents, Bresnahan chooses Trump every time.
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Rep. Scott Perry played a central role in the efforts to overturn American democracy after the 2020 election. Among the numerous texts he sent to high-ranking Republican operatives plotting to overthrow the election was one asking the Trump Administration to invalidate the vote in Pennsylvania.
When he’s not busy trying to steal elections, Perry serves as a rubber stamp for the Trump Administration, voting to cut Medicaid by up to $880 billion and refusing to speak out against massive cuts to the Social Security Administration, VA, and Department of Education.
Virginia
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When concerned residents of VA-02 urged Rep. Jen Kiggans to hold a town hall and explain her support for the Trump Administration’s chainsaw approach to cutting critical federal programs like the Department of Education, school breakfast and lunch programs, and the VA, Kiggans responded with an insulting statement that claimed, without a shred of evidence, that they were the same people “now firebombing cars.”
It’s an outrageous accusation. If she actually hosted a town hall in her community to hear from her constituents instead of hiding from them, she would know that.
Wisconsin
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“Every American who is lawfully receiving Medicaid will continue to receive their benefits.” That’s the lie Rep. Derrick Van Orden is going with after voting to gut Medicaid by up to $880 billion.
After a veteran who worked at the VA wrote to Rep. Van Orden concerned about Trump Administration cuts to the VA that are costing many veterans their jobs, Van Orden replied to him, “I will be referring you to DOGE as it seems that at 13:46 on a Monday you should have been working for veterans, not posting trash about your boss, President Trump.”
That veteran would have loved to be working, but he was already fired by Van Orden’s boss, Donald Trump. It’s time to fire Van Orden in 2026.