By Dave Workman
Editor-in-Chief
The New York Times is reporting that Everytown for Gun Safety, the gun prohibition lobbying organization co-founded by anti-gun billionaire former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, will spend $10 million to help elect Democrats as state attorneys general this year and in 2026.
The money will be spent in races in “10 competitive states,” according to the NYT article. Those states include Virginia this year, and next year in Arizona, Georgia, Minnesota, Nevada and Wisconsin.
The report is plausible because Everytown contributed to the Washington state AG race in 2024, giving the campaign for Democrat Nicholas Brown $2,400 on Oct. 18 last year, according to the Washington State Public Disclosure Commission.
Likewise, the Seattle-based Alliance for Gun Responsibility, another gun control lobbying group backed by wealthy liberals, contributed $1,200 on Aug. 1 and another r$600 on Nov. 4 to Brown’s campaign last year, PDC records show.
Brown has, like his predecessor Bob Ferguson, who is now Washington’s governor, already filed lawsuits against the Trump administration.
According to the NYT article, Everytown’s effort “is meant to help protect the rule of law and democracy while President Trump holds the White House.”
The Times quotes Everytown President John Feinblatt explaining that the money pledged to support Democrat attorneys general will be called the “Everytown Rule of Law Fund.”
“We want to make sure that the A.G.s know that groups like us will support them if they do the right thing, and we want them to know that we have their back today and we’ll have their backs in 2026,” Feinblatt told the Times.
Left out of the discussion, but certainly part of this effort, will be the installation of state attorneys general who willingly defend restrictive gun control laws adopted or proposed in their states.
The Times story notes Everytown has already spent “about $5 million backing attorneys general since 2017.”
Perhaps the most telling paragraph of the Times story was this: “This spring, the group spent $553,000 to air television ads backing the liberal candidate for the Wisconsin Supreme Court in the final month of that $100 million campaign. The candidate, Susan Crawford, won a decisive victory to keep liberals in control of the battleground state’s top court.”
