Lt. Gov Candidate David Pepper Reports In From Battleground OhioLet's close strong tonight for Ohio and other candidates and state parties across the country on this critical end of quarter filing deadline!
Greetings all. As part of our first quarter filing deadline push I’m excited to share an interview we just completed with our good friend, David Pepper. David who is now the candidate for Ohio Lt. Governor running along side Dr. Amy Acton, our inspiring gubernatorial candidate. I asked David to come by to update us on the two big statewide races there - his Acton-Pepper ticket for Governor/Lt. Governor, and Sherrod Brown’s campaign for US Senate. In our discussion David provides us with an in-depth look at this critical battleground state. A few highlights:
We’ve built a special fund that splits our contributions to Ohio three ways - the Pepper-Acton ticket, the Brown for Senate campaign, and the Ohio Democratic Party. As you will hear us discuss in the interview the stronger each of these efforts are the stronger they all will be. We’ve raised over $97,000 so far for our Winning Ohio campaign. I hope you will consider making a contribution today! Winning Ohio in 2026 matters. It will begin the process of restoring Ohio to battleground status and help us expand our Presidential map; it will dislodge one of the most corrupt and malevolent bands of Republicans in the country; and as I wrote this morning it could very well be the state that flips the Senate blue for us this year. So check out this compelling discussion with an old friend, and we look forward having Sherrod Brown and Dr. Amy Action come talk with us in the coming weeks so we can get a full picture of this critical 2026 battleground.
Let’s Close This First Quarter Strong Everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!We’ve made a lot of progress today everyone! Thank you all! Hopium’s Winning The House Campaign (2026) - $498,100 raised, $500,000 goal (revised q1 stretch goal!!!!!) - Donate to all twelve of our endorsed House challengers with one click | Enjoy our new conversations with Jamie Ager (NC-11), Christina Bohannan (IA-01), Mayor Paige Cognetti (PA-08), Sean McCann (MI-04), Jo Mendoza (AZ-06), and Janelle Stelson (PA-10) | Learn about the eight candidates we just added to our campaign here. Huge shout-out to the team at FridayAction. Our event last Wednesday with them has now raised $95,000 for our House candidates - amazing, amazing stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! With FridayAction’s help we’ve hit our $400,000 goal for the quarter, and yesterday we hit our stretch goal of $450,000 - great work everyone! We’ve set a new stretch goal of $500,000 - can you help us get there? James Talarico For Texas - $52,100 raised, $100,000 - Donate | Volunteer and Learn More | Enjoy my inspiring interview with Rep. Talarico as he fights to turn Texas blue Mary Peltola For Alaska Senate - $69,300 raised, $250,000 goal - Donate | Volunteer and Learn More | Enjoy my uplifting conversation with Mary Peltola as she fights to turn Alaska blue Winning Ohio - $98,700 raised, $250,000 goal - Our new campaign splits contributions evenly among Sherrod Brown, the Acton/Pepper ticket, and the Ohio Democratic Party. Donate today and help us turn this critical 2026 battleground blue! Roy Cooper for NC Senate (2026) - $97,600 raised, $250,000 goal - Donate | Learn More | Volunteer | Enjoy my conversation with Gov. Cooper as he fights to turn North Carolina blue Jon Ossoff GA Senate (2026) - $158,800 raised, $250,000 goal - Donate | Learn More | Volunteer | Enjoy my inspiring conversation with Senator Ossoff Hopium’s Audacious Expansion Fund - $448,800 raised, $500,000 goal (new stretch goal) - Join our campaign to expand our map by investing in the Democratic Parties of Alaska, Florida, Iowa, Maine, and Texas, and catch interviews with 5 intrepid state party chairs leading us into battle this year. Many thanks to two generous Hopium community members who have audaciously donated $10,000 to each of our five state parties. Thank you everyone! Let’s keep working hard. We have a country to save and an election to win this November!!!!!!!!!!!!- Simon Bio - David Pepper, Candidate For Ohio Lt. GovernorDavid Pepper is a lawyer, writer, political activist, former elected official, and adjunct professor, and served as the Chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party between 2015 and 2021. Pepper has written four novels that bridge real-world politics and fiction—including A Simple Choice (released in August 2022). His first novel, The People’s House, earned praise for having “predicted the Russia scandal.” The Wall Street Journal named Pepper "one of the best political-thriller writers on the scene.” Born and raised in Cincinnati, David is a fifth-generation Cincinnatian. David earned his B.A. magna cum laude from Yale University, where he was Phi Beta Kappa, and later earned his J.D. from Yale Law School. David finished first out of 26 candidates in his first run for political office, and served on Cincinnati City Council from 2001-2005. In 2006, he flipped Hamilton County blue for the first time in 40 years when he ousted the incumbent commissioner; he then served on the Commission from 2007-2010, including as its president in 2009-2010. David was the Democratic candidate for Ohio Auditor in 2010 and Ohio Attorney General in 2014. He was elected chair of the Ohio Democratic Party in December 2014. In 1999, David clerked for the Honorable Nathaniel Jones of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. After 2000, David also worked in the Cincinnati offices of major law firms Squire Sanders and Blank Rome, focusing his practice on commercial and business litigation, and appellate litigation. David also teaches election and voting rights law as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. Between his undergraduate and law school years, David spent three years doing international work in St. Petersburg, Russia. Based out of the Center for Strategic and International Studies—a Washington D.C. think tank—he served as a research intern for Zbigniew Brzezinski for part of 1993, followed by several years as the assistant director of a project providing technical assistance to the City of St. Petersburg as it underwent economic reform. In that role, David interacted with international figures such as Henry Kissinger, Paul Bremer, ambassadors, members of Congress, business leaders, and Vladimir Putin, who was then Vice Mayor of St. Petersburg. Learn more about David here, and let’s work together to turn Ohio blue this year!
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