You’re on the wrong track

I just can’t take anyone seriously who’s talking about the 2024 election – which is two full years away – when we’re five weeks from the 2022 midterms. 2024 doesn’t even exist yet. No one knows how popular Joe Biden will be by then, or if he’ll seek reelection. No one knows who will rise or fall on the Republican side if Trump is in prison by then. Prognosticating about 2024 is just an empty excuse to focus on an election cycle that doesn’t exist yet, with no need to get any of it right, and no need to put in any work.

If 2024 is giving you nightmares, the best way to fix that is to put in the work and win the midterms. The Democrats will be in a much better position to win the 2024 election if they’re able to spend the next two years continuing to deliver progress and passing voting rights legislation – and that first requires winning a majority in the House and Senate in 2022.

Chatter about 2024 is for people who want to be able to run their mouths about an election that doesn’t exist, so they can make up anything they want, and lazily ignore the work that needs to be put in right now in the 2022 election cycle. It’s time for us to set 2024 aside and spend these final five weeks putting in the work on the midterms. Here’s where to get started:

Toss-up races (Democratic challenger)

Yadira Caraveo CO-08 (Colorado): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Eric Sorensen IL-17 (Illinois): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Wiley Nickel NC-13 (North Carolina): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Jevin Hodge AZ-01 (Arizona): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Seth Magaziner (Rhode Island): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Josh Riley NY-19 (New York): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Jamie McLeod-Skinner OR-05 (Oregon): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Francis Conole NY-22 (New York): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Christy Smith CA-27 (California): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Rudy Salas CA-22 (California): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Annette Taddeo FL-27 (Florida): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Chris Deluzio PA-17 (Pennsylvania): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Emilia Sykes OH-13 (Ohio): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Tony Vargas NE-02 (Nebraska): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Gabe Vasquez, NM-02 (New Mexico): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Greg Landsman OH-1 (Ohio): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Adam Gray CA-13 (California): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

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Toss-up races (Democratic incumbent)

Dina Titus NV-01 (Nevada): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Susie Lee NV-03 (Nevada): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Steven Horsford NV-04 (Nevada): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Elaine Luria VA-02 (Virginia): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Mary Peltola (Alaska): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Dan Kildee MI-08 (Michigan): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Matt Cartwright PA-08 (Pennsylvania): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Jared Golden ME-02 (Maine): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Frank Mrvan IN-01 (Indiana): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Kim Schrier WA-08 (Washington): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Sharice Davids KS-03 (Kansas): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Elissa Slotkin MI-07 (Michigan): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Chris Pappas NH-01 (New Hampshire): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Tom Malinowski NJ-07 (New Jersey): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Angie Craig MN-02 (Minnesota): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

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Lean-R races

Tom O’Halleran AZ-02 (Arizona): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Kirsten Engel AZ-06 (Arizona): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Bridget Fleming NY-01 (New York): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Michelle Vallejo TX-15 (Texas): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Cindy Axne IA-03 (Iowa): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Will Rollins CA-41 (California): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Jay Chen CA-45 (California): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Brad Pfaff WI-03 (Wisconsin): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Susan Wild PA-07 (Pennsylvania): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez WA-03 (Washington): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

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Lean-D races

Marcy Kaptur OH-09 (Ohio): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Andrea Salinas OR-06 (Oregon): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Nikki Budzinski IL-13 (Illinois): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Katie Porter CA-47 (California): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Josh Harder CA-09 (California): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Sean Casten IL-06 (Illinois): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Pat Ryan NY-18 (New York): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Annie Kuster NH-02 (New Hampshire): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Sean Patrick Maloney NY-17 (New York): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Abigail Spanberger VA-07 (Virginia): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Robert Zimmerman NY-03 (New York): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Jahana Hayes CT-05 (Connecticut): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Don Davis NC-01 (North Carolina): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Mike Levin CA-49 (California): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

Hillary Scholten MI-03 (Michigan): Campaign website • Donate • Volunteer • Follow on Twitter

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About this list: The “volunteer” links are the volunteer page provided by the candidate’s official website. The “donate” links lead directly to the ActBlue donation page that the candidate has designated on his or her official website, meaning the money goes directly to the candidate. The Toss-up, Lean-R, and Lean-D rankings primarily come from Cook Political Report, which has had a strong track record with such predictions. The order of the candidates is random with each category, and is changed each time the list is republished, in an attempt at promoting them evenly. Broken or incorrect links? Email us.