STEPPING UP
We may not have heard a lot about her during this last campaign cycle, but that didn’t mean Congresswoman Haley Stevens (D-Oakland County) wasn’t just as busy as ever. While her seat for the 11th District wasn’t in serious jeopardy of flipping this time around, she was hardly idle – first spending her time canvassing the streets for fellow Democrats on the local level and to retain the state House, and then turning her sights to help elect her former fellow congresswoman – and now Senator – Elissa Slotkin – to replace the retiring former Senator Debbie Stabenow. If that wasn’t enough, she worked her derriere off to attempt to elect former Vice President Kamala Harris as the first female president and to keep Michigan blue. While that didn’t quite work, her hard work has been recognized by her fellow Dems. She was elected chair of the New Democrat Coalition Action Fund for the 2026 election cycle, where she will lead efforts to elect New Democrats across the country, including flipping Republican-held seats. Stevens explained that the New Democrat Coalition is a group of 110 pragmatic members of the U.S. House of Representatives that are majority makers. “New Democrats represent every day, hardworking families of every demographic and socioeconomic background – rural, urban, and suburban – in communities across America. I’m sleeves rolled up to lead our efforts to ensure commonsense candidates who promote American innovation, competitiveness, and prosperity to run and win in districts across the country.” Stevens just began her fourth term repping a majority of Oakland County, including Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills and Bloomfield Township.
