Welcome to Red Wine & Blue Pennsylvania

In 2025, Red Wine & Blue PA will focus even more on electing commonsense candidates to school boards across the Commonwealth, so that our public education remains a place of truth, inclusion, and opportunity for all our kids.

Extremist groups are trying to rewrite history, marginalize LGBTQ+ students, and ban books that encourage critical thinking and empathy. But we beat more than 70% of the extremist school board candidates in 2023 and we are ready to push even harder in 2025. We’re helping you — our powerful community — push back against these efforts and elect school board members who prioritize honest education, student well-being, and parental engagement over political agendas.

Protecting the teaching of real, honest history is a top priority, as certain politicians continue to erase uncomfortable but essential truths about race, civil rights, and American history from our classrooms. We support candidates who know students deserve to learn a full and accurate history—one that fosters understanding and civic engagement rather than division and fear.

We’ll also work to elect candidates who stand with our LGBTQ+ students rather than dehumanize them. At a time when book bans and curriculum censorship often target LGBTQ+ representation, we’re fighting for school board members who ensure that all students feel safe, seen, and supported in their schools. That means opposing policies that seek to erase LGBTQ+ identities, block inclusive books, or limit discussions about diverse families and experiences.

In addition to defending honest education and inclusion, we’re fighting against school voucher programs, which divert public funds away from our public schools and into private schools that lack accountability and often discriminate against students. Private school vouchers rarely cover the full cost of attending private schools, which means they don’t actually help low-income families. Instead, they are essentially scholarship funds for rich families who are already sending their kids to private schools. Voucher programs are a direct threat to public education, draining critical resources from already underfunded schools and leaving many kids behind.

Through local organizing and talking to our family, friends, and neighbors, we’ll continue to reject extremism in school board elections. This is more important than ever now that Donald Trump is shutting down the U.S. Department of Education. Our local schools will lose millions in funding and our students who rely on the Department of Education’s services will suffer.The boards we elect will be the frontline of handling the fallout from that disastrous decision. We need board members who understand these impacts and who will find ways to keep these important services in place. By electing leaders committed to fairness, facts, and freedom, we’ll protect public education and keep our schools as places where every child can learn and thrive.

In 2025, we’re protecting reproductive freedom by focusing on judicial elections and state supreme court races.

With abortion rights under constant attack, the courts have become the last line of defense in protecting a woman’s right to make her own healthcare decisions. Anti-choice extremists know this, which is why they are working hard to stack the courts with judges who will take away our reproductive rights. We’ll counter their efforts by supporting judges and justices who will uphold our personal freedoms and protect abortion access.

Pennsylvania will have key judicial elections and retention votes in 2025 that could determine the future of abortion rights at the state level. We’re educating voters about the importance of these races, ensuring that suburban women understand how their vote can safeguard our reproductive healthcare. While judicial races often receive less attention than legislative or executive elections, they are just as critical—if not more so—when it comes to defending our fundamental rights.

We provide voters with clear, accessible information about judicial candidates, and cut through the noise and misinformation pushed by anti-choice groups. Our goal is for every PA woman to know where these judges stand on reproductive rights. By electing and retaining justices who respect precedent, value privacy, and defend personal freedoms, we’ll continue to fight for safe, legal, and accessible abortion care in Pennsylvania.

In 2025, we will fiercely advocate for LGBTQ+ rights, ensuring that every person—regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation—has the freedom to live authentically and without fear. As extremist politicians push harmful policies targeting LGBTQ+ individuals, from book bans to bathroom restrictions to attacks on transgender healthcare, we support commonsense leaders who stand for equality and inclusion at every level of government.

Beyond our work on school boards, we also focus on municipal and judicial elections to protect the broader rights of LGBTQ+ Pennsylvanians. We support candidates who will defend marriage equality, protect anti-discrimination laws, and push back against efforts to roll back LGBTQ+ rights. Every LGBTQ+ Pennsylvanian deserves to be treated with dignity and respect, and to have full legal protections. Look for us at PRIDE events across the Commonwealth!

With gun violence on the rise and extremist politicians blocking necessary reforms, suburban women across Pennsylvania are stepping up to demand action. We work alongside CeaseFire PA, Moms Demand Action, and other advocates to push for common-sense gun laws that protect our families and communities. In fact, already this year, we helped make Delaware County the first county in PA to ban ghost guns and machine gun converters. More of this, please!

We support leaders who prioritize gun safety, ensuring that every Pennsylvanian can live, learn, and work without fear of gun violence. A major focus in 2025 will be on electing school board members, state legislators, and judges who support policies like universal background checks, safe storage laws, and red flag laws to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous individuals. Gun violence affects not just cities, but suburban and rural communities as well. We want to make sure all voters know the impact of weak gun laws and the importance of electing officials who are committed to preventing mass shootings, domestic violence homicides, suicides and everyday gun violence.

We’ll help Pennsylvanians cut through the gun lobby’s fear-mongering and misinformation. By partnering with groups like CeaseFire PA and Moms Demand, we’ll amplify the voices of parents, educators, and survivors who are demanding change. Together, our groups are building unstoppable momentum for real gun safety reform, ensuring that Pennsylvania’s leaders prioritize lives over lobbyists and create safer communities for everyone.