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Matt Maasdam 🇺🇸 @mattmaasdam.bsky.social · 22h

I don’t want to see them continually squeezed by rising costs, labor shortages, and trade wars. I’ll fight to make sure Michigan’s farmers can keep doing what they do best: feeding America.

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Matt Maasdam 🇺🇸 @mattmaasdam.bsky.social · 22h

On #NationalFarmersDay, thank you to the farmers in Michigan and across the country who make it possible for the rest of us to eat good food.

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Matt Maasdam 🇺🇸 @mattmaasdam.bsky.social · 2d

East Lansing, you showed up last night!!! Team Maasdam had a blast at the MSU Homecoming parade. Go Green!!! 🟩⬜️

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Matt Maasdam 🇺🇸 @mattmaasdam.bsky.social · 4d

As I told Steve Scully on Sirius XM this week, the fight right now is all about health care.
Tom Barrett's votes are driving costs up, and I’m fighting to bring them down for Michigan families.

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Matt Maasdam 🇺🇸 @mattmaasdam.bsky.social · 5d

Tom Barrett needs to choose: will he stand up for Michigan workers, or sit back and let us suffer while he takes orders from his party bosses? Too bad Barrett is ONLY loyal to his party and not the people he represents. #mi07

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Matt Maasdam 🇺🇸 @mattmaasdam.bsky.social · 5d

In this case it could cost Michigan 700 jobs at the Lansing Grand River plant. This isn’t a game. It’s paychecks and families on the line.

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Matt Maasdam 🇺🇸 @mattmaasdam.bsky.social · 5d

Donald Trump doesn’t get to ignore laws just because he feels like it. CONGRESS decides how taxpayer money is spent, and this funding was already approved by law.

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Matt Maasdam 🇺🇸 @mattmaasdam.bsky.social · 5d

Tom Barrett needs to choose: will he stand up for Michigan workers, or sit back and let us suffer while he takes orders from his party bosses? Too bad Barrett is ONLY loyal to his party and not the people he represents.

Matt Maasdam 🇺🇸 @mattmaasdam.bsky.social · 5d

In this case it could cost Michigan 700 jobs at the Lansing Delta Township plant. This isn’t a game. It’s paychecks and families on the line.

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Matt Maasdam 🇺🇸 @mattmaasdam.bsky.social · 6d

Spent the weekend out in Lansing with Jeremy Garza and some awesome Andy Schor volunteers - no better way to hear what’s on neighbors' minds than at their doors!

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Matt Maasdam 🇺🇸 @mattmaasdam.bsky.social · 12d

The shutdown is about health care.

Tom Barrett wants to take yours away.

I’ll fight to make it affordable.

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Matt Maasdam 🇺🇸 @mattmaasdam.bsky.social · 15d

It makes me sick to hear about the shooting today in Grand Blanc. Places of worship should always be safe. I’m thinking about the victims, and all of the family and community members. My heart goes out to them.

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Matt Maasdam 🇺🇸 @mattmaasdam.bsky.social · 18d

Another friend-raiser in the books this weekend! Thank you, Susan and Lee, for opening up your home to a great group of friends and neighbors. We’ll flip MI-07 by winning over voters who are common sense, love America, and want reasonably priced healthcare, housing, and groceries. Let’s go!

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Matt Maasdam 🇺🇸 @mattmaasdam.bsky.social · 20d

Deploying around the world showed me that America is the greatest country on Earth. What makes us great is that we hold our freedoms dear - and that includes the freedom of speech.

I’ve spent my career defending our freedoms, and I’ll keep fighting to protect them in Congress.

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Matt Maasdam 🇺🇸 @mattmaasdam.bsky.social · 21d

Right now, I’m the only candidate in this race who’s taken the pledge. And just like I did this summer, I challenge every other candidate in this race to put the country first and do the same thing.

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Matt Maasdam 🇺🇸 @mattmaasdam.bsky.social · 21d

I said I wouldn’t accept a single cent of corporate PAC money, and when I’m elected, I’ll support a ban on stock trading by members of Congress, and work to get dark money out of our elections.

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Matt Maasdam 🇺🇸 @mattmaasdam.bsky.social · 21d

I WANT MONEY OUT OF POLITICS.

Americans should be able to trust that their leaders are serving the people - not corporations, not political parties, and not themselves.

It’s a no-brainer for me to take the End Citizens United Unrig Washington pledge.
www.endcitizensunited.org/unrig-washin...

End Citizens United

Fixing our democracy by getting big money out of politics and protecting the right to vote.

www.endcitizensunited.org

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Matt Maasdam 🇺🇸 @mattmaasdam.bsky.social · 24d

Thank you to the Eaton County Dems for welcoming me at your monthly meeting this week! So much passion in the room - the Eaton County Dems are high on the list of people most excited to flip MI-07 and make Tom Barrett a one-term Congressman. He’s making life harder and more expensive in Michigan.

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Matt Maasdam 🇺🇸 @mattmaasdam.bsky.social · 27d

They’re hurting Michigan families and workers, and a flashy "rebranding" event won’t change that.

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Matt Maasdam 🇺🇸 @mattmaasdam.bsky.social · 27d

JD Vance should be coming to Michigan to apologize for the 42,000 manufacturing jobs he, Donald Trump, and Tom Barrett have destroyed with their chaotic tariffs, and for kicking Michiganders off their health care to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy.

www.whmi.com/news/article...

VP JD Vance to Visit Howell Manufacturing Facility Wednesday

To deliver remarks on President Trump’s tax cuts for working families and businesses.

www.whmi.com

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Matt Maasdam 🇺🇸 @mattmaasdam.bsky.social · 27d

Thank you to two awesome hostesses, Darlene and Colleen, for putting together such a fantastic event and helping us grow the Team!

Want to host your own “friend-raiser”? Give us a shout at [email protected]!

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Matt Maasdam 🇺🇸 @mattmaasdam.bsky.social · 27d

Tonight was our first official “friend-raiser” of the campaign - a chance for supporters to help us grow our network by inviting their own friends, neighbors, and community to come hear about the race.

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Matt Maasdam 🇺🇸 @mattmaasdam.bsky.social · 28d

At the end of the day, this bill is a net negative for our pocketbooks - no matter how you try to spin it.

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Matt Maasdam 🇺🇸 @mattmaasdam.bsky.social · 28d

Really, Tom Barrett? Michiganders aren’t "excited about" the double-digit rate increases in healthcare for everyone next year, or the massive cuts to Medicaid that kick millions of people off their insurance.

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