Lauren Jewett Raises At Least $423,000 in Third Quarter, Tops $675,000 Overall
New Orleans teacher reports more than 21,000 donors as fundraising surpasses totals of recent Democratic challengers to Steve Scalise.
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‘We Just Don’t Write It Off’: Lauren Jewett on Taking On Steve Scalise in LA-1
Lauren Jewett knows the odds. The Metairie special education teacher is running for Congress in Louisiana’s 1st Congressional District, a reliably Republican seat represented for the past 18 years by House Majority Leader Steve Scalise. Scalise has more than $10 million flowing through his campaign operation this cycle. Jewett had raised just under $143,000 through…
Hammond Roadshow Forum Highlights Voting Rights, Health Care and Candidate Contrasts Ahead of May 16 Primary
The “To The People, For The People” 2026 Democratic Roadshow made its Hammond stop Wednesday night, bringing candidates for U.S. Senate and Congress to Reimer’s Auditorium for a forum shaped by voting-rights uncertainty, affordability, immigration, reproductive freedom, LGBTQ+ protections and environmental accountability. The forum featured U.S. Senate candidates Nick Albares and Gary Crockett, 1st Congressional…
The DSCC Has Made Its Picks in Louisiana’s Democratic Primaries
The Louisiana Democratic State Central Committee on Saturday moved ahead with a long-debated endorsement meeting, formally backing candidates in the U.S. Senate race, all six congressional districts, and several statewide contests ahead of the party’s new closed-primary cycle. By the end of the day, the party had endorsed Jamie Davis for U.S. Senate; Lauren Jewett…
Louisiana AFL-CIO Endorses Lauren Jewett in LA-1, Giving Democrat Major Boost as Field Clears
The Louisiana AFL-CIO has endorsed Democrat Lauren Jewett in Louisiana’s 1st Congressional District, giving the educator and union member a significant institutional boost as she emerges as her party’s presumptive nominee following the withdrawal of James “Jim” Long. The endorsement is an early but meaningful marker in the race to challenge Republican House Majority Leader…
“Show Up”: Lauren Jewett Bets Louisiana’s 1st Congressional District Is Ready for a Different Kind of Politics
A special education teacher and union member is challenging Steve Scalise with a blunt promise: stop treating District 1 like an afterthought, and start “showing up.” Lauren Jewett talks like someone who’s spent a career dealing with the consequences of systems that don’t work. Not in theory — in real time, with real people, and…