Federal elections are critical, but please don't forget your local candidates. Sacrificing a donation to a candidate for governor, or state senator, or liberal judge to double up on donations for Congressional candidates can be detrimental to your area as well as the nation.
For example, it is up to a states senate whether or not to ban abortion. A fight against things like this can eventually work their way up to the supreme court, but only after years of battling it's way up. The conservatives on the supreme court are relatively far from retirement.
If your states judges are appointed, they are hand picked by a governor. The right has it's agenda. Another is the Attorney General. They are in charge of deciding which crimes to prosecute. If you are not part of their agenda, they will most likely not be of any help in filing charges if a crime is commited against you.
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