Brady:United Against Gun Violence is an American nonprofit organization that advocates for gun control and against gun violence. It is named after former White House press secretary James "Jim" Brady,who was permanently disabled and later died in 2014 as a result of the Ronald Reagan assassination attempt of 1981,and his wife Sarah Brady,who was a chairwoman of the organization from 1989 until her death in 2015.
Marion P. Hammer is an American gun advocate and lobbyist who was the first female president of the National Rifle Association of America (NRA),from 1995 to 1998.
Everytown for Gun Safety is an American non-profit organization which advocates for gun control and against gun violence. Everytown was formed in 2013 due to a merger between Mayors Against Illegal Guns and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.
GIFFORDS is an American advocacy and research organization focused on preventing gun violence. The organization draws its name from one of its co-founders,Gabby Giffords,a former Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Rep. Giffords was shot along with 18 others at a constituent meeting in Tucson in 2011. The organization has three parts:a 501(c)(4) lobbying arm,a 501(c)(3) research arm and law center,and a super PAC. It was previously known in a different configuration as Americans for Responsible Solutions.
Lois Jane Frankel is an American politician and lawyer who has been the United States representative for Florida's 22nd congressional district since 2023 and from 2013 to 2017 and Florida’s 21st congressional district from 2017 to 2023. As a member of the Democratic Party,Frankel was a 7-term member of the Florida House of Representatives and a two-term mayor of West Palm Beach.
Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg is an American politician and former naval officer who is serving as the 19th United States secretary of transportation. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as the 32nd mayor of South Bend,Indiana,from 2012 to 2020,which earned him the nickname "Mayor Pete".
Richard "Rick" Stark is an American Democratic politician from Florida. He served four terms in the Florida House of Representatives,representing the 104th District in southern Broward County,from 2012 to 2020.
Americans for Responsible Solutions (ARS) was a United States non-profit organization and super PAC that supports gun control. The group's stated goal was "to encourage elected officials to stand up for solutions to prevent gun violence and protect responsible gun ownership." It typically supported Democratic politicians in elections. In 2016,the organization merged with the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence to become Giffords.
Stephanie Murphy is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Florida's 7th congressional district from 2017 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party,she defeated incumbent Republican John Mica in 2016. Her district included much of downtown and northern Orlando,as well as all of Winter Park,Maitland,Sanford,and Altamonte Springs.
The 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Florida were held on Tuesday,November 6,2018,to elect the 27 U.S. representatives from the state of Florida,one from each of the state's 27 congressional districts. The elections coincided with the elections of other offices,including a gubernatorial election,other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate,and various state and local elections. The party primaries were held on August 28,2018.
Never Again MSD is an American student-led political action committee for gun control that advocates for tighter regulations to prevent gun violence. The organization,also known by the Twitter hashtags #NeverAgain,and #EnoughIsEnough,was formed by a group of twenty students attending Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (MSD) in Parkland,Florida at the time of the deadly shooting in 2018,in which seventeen students and staff members were killed by the gunman,Nikolas Cruz,who was a 19-year-old former student of the school and was armed with an AR-15 style semi-automatic rifle. The organization started on social media as a movement "for survivors of the Stoneman Douglas Shooting,by survivors of the Stoneman Douglas Shooting" using the hashtag #NeverAgain. A main goal of the group was to influence that year's United States mid-term elections,and they embarked on a multi-city bus tour to encourage young people to register to vote.
Cameron Marley Kasky is an American activist and advocate against gun violence who co-founded the student-led gun violence prevention advocacy group Never Again MSD. He is notable for helping to organize the March for Our Lives nationwide student protest in March 2018. Kasky is a survivor of the February 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Kasky was included in Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People of 2018".
David Miles Hogg is an American gun control activist. He rose to prominence during the 2018 United States gun violence protests as a student survivor of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting,helping lead several high-profile protests,marches,and boycotts,including the boycott of The Ingraham Angle. He has also been a target and scapegoat of several conspiracy theories.
The 2020 presidential campaign of Pete Buttigieg was an election campaign by the former mayor of South Bend,Indiana. It was formally announced on April 14,2019,in South Bend. Buttigieg was the first openly gay candidate to seek the Democratic nomination for president. At 38,he was the youngest candidate in the 2020 primary race. Although considered a lower-tier candidate at launch,his campaign later gained prominence,winning the most delegates in the Iowa caucuses and tying with Bernie Sanders for the most delegates in the New Hampshire primary.
This page describes the stances held by Democratic candidates in the 2020 United States presidential election on a variety of policy issues. Only candidates still in the race during the 2020 Iowa caucuses are included.
The 2019 South Bend,Indiana mayoral election was held on November 5,2019,to determine the next mayor of South Bend,Indiana.
Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg is an American politician who served as mayor of South Bend,Indiana,from 2012 to 2020,and is currently serving as US Secretary of Transportation. He was a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2020 United States presidential election.
Kristin Sunde is a former Democratic member of the Iowa House of Representatives who represented District 42 from 2019 to 2023.
