Knocking doors! Couldn’t have asked for a more beautiful day in East Lansing this weekend. Thanks to everyone who came out, whether you were checking out the campaign for the first time or gearing up to knock doors and grow the Team.

I’m proud to have earned the Moms Demand Action Gun Sense Candidate distinction. As a dad, a retired Navy SEAL, and a responsible gun owner, I know firsthand that you can respect the Second Amendment *and* take common sense steps to keep our kids safe from gun violence.

@mattmaasdam.bsky.social signed onto our #UnrigWashington campaign because he knows elected officials should be serving the people that voted for them, not themselves or their ultra-wealthy donors.

Yard signs are in and have been going up across #MI07! Haven’t gotten yours yet? Request it at the link below!

Memorial Day is a personal day for me and Laura. Today we’re thinking about the dozens of friends we served with who didn’t make it home, and many more who made it home but lost their lives to suicide.

No one should go broke just because they get sick. But Tom Barrett voted to gut Medicaid and kill ACA tax credits that 28,000 people in our district were counting on. I’ll fight for your healthcare in Congress - and I’m proud to have Healthcare for Action’s support in that fight.

Never in my lifetime has it been more important to have someone fighting for the middle class, and that's organized labor. I'm proud to stand with the working men and women of IBEW Local 665, and I'm honored to have their endorsement.

The Action Gals are fired up, and so am I! It was great to spend time with this group in Laingsburg last week- women who care deeply about their community and aren't afraid to do something about it.

From last Friday - gas at $4.99 a gallon in Webberville. Tom Barrett voted to give Trump a blank check in Iran and now we’re all feeling the pain.

A friend said recently that it feels like he’s working just to fill up his tank. Every Michigander is feeling the pain. But after all his talk about gas prices in past campaigns, Tom Barrett is supporting the reckless policies that drive costs even higher. Michigan families are paying the price.

MAGA Republicans like Tom Barrett are setting women back decades by imposing more and more restrictions on their reproductive rights. When I'm in Congress, I won't ever back down in the fight for women- not a bunch of guys in DC- to make these decisions.

#TeamMaasdam had hundreds of great conversations on the doors yesterday! We heard: 🔱 Prices are too high-gas is the latest gut punch. 🔱 People are fed up with corruption. Trump has taken it to a new level. 🔱 They’re ready for a Navy SEAL to take on Tom Barrett and win.

Happy May Day! On this day in 1886, workers in Chicago took to the streets demanding an 8-hour workday- and helped build the middle class.

As a hockey dad, I’ve made the rotisserie chicken run more times than I can count. It’s fast, affordable, and feeds the whole family.

The other day Tom Barrett brushed off high gas prices as a matter of “national security.” What about our families’ economic security, as they ration groceries to fill up the tank? What's the plan, Tom?

Stopped for coffee in Eaton Rapids yesterday with a great group - and like a lot of people around this district, they’re fed up.

For those of us who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, what’s happening now in Iran feels personal. We know the cost of endless war and we see American families paying the price.

I read this story about Tom Barrett's hypocrisy and had to react. For a guy who previously campaigned on lower gas prices, Tom is sure quiet now that Trump's war in Iran is driving them back up!

John Phelan is just the latest in a long line of US military leaders being forced out by Pete Hegseth. He’s destabilizing our military during wartime and it’s making us all less safe. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Michigan knows better, Barrett, and so do you. You voted twice to give Trump unlimited war powers in Iran. Unforgivable. For a war that still has no evidence, no plan, and no definition of winning. All we have to show for it is 15 dead Americans, four-dollar gas, and no exit plan.

The strength of our campaign has Trump and the Republicans running scared! Tom Barrett’s allies are attacking me on Fox News today, months before the Democratic primary - and now Donald Trump's campaign is attacking me directly.

I'm not here to tell people how to feel, and I'm not here to take DC to Michigan. I'm running for Congress to take Michigan to DC.

Big news, Team! Yesterday we turned in 2,000 volunteer-collected signatures to get on the August ballot, then celebrated with some of the 100+ volunteers who made it happen.

We should take Trump's statement that "a whole civilization will die" in Iran seriously. Those are the words of a madman threatening a war crime.

I spent 20 years serving this country, and I'm not done yet. Michigan doesn't need more politicians- we're a state full of reasonable people who just want their representatives to show up and do the hard work. That’s what this campaign is about: service.

🚨ENDORSEMENT ALERT🚨 We’re proud to endorse @mattmaasdam.bsky.social in his race for #MI07. As a member of #UnrigWashington, Maasdam is committed to leading with reform. Michiganders can trust that he’ll put them first, not corporate special interests. We look forward to helping him win.

As a leader in the government, your service is supposed to be to the American people. Never yourself. Never corporations. But too many politicians are enriching themselves, or voting to help their corporate donors. Working families pay the price.

A political action committee focused on campaign finance reform is backing former U.S. Navy SEAL Matt Maasdam in the race to represent one of the most competitive congressional districts in the nation. From @kdavidsonjrn.bsky.social

The Q1 momentum is real! Thank you to the tens of thousands of people chipping in to fund this grassroots campaign. I'm especially proud that we don't take a dime from corporate PACs. Michiganders deserve a representative who works for the people- not corporations, not their own self-interest.

When I joined the Navy, I swore an oath to the Constitution- not to any party or person. I won’t stand by while it’s ripped apart. I’m running for Congress because the oath didn’t end when I took off the uniform.

I grew up going to church several times a week, especially during Lent. There’s something special about the way a church fish fry brings the community together. Cristo Rey’s Annual Fish Fry on Friday was exactly that.

No Kings Lansing ✅ Lincoln said it best: government of the people, by the people, for the people.

No Kings Brighton ✅ Big crowd gathered to say presidents and representatives serve the people, not the other way around! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Some of my earliest memories are in fire stations- tagging along with my dad, who taught CPR and volunteered as a firefighter on the side. That's where I first learned what real service looks like.

Awesome meet-and-greet this week with folks from Milford, South Lyon, Brighton, and Pinckney. What I heard: everything costs more, and everyone knows it.

There's never been a more important time in my lifetime to stand up for working people, and Teamsters Local 243 knows how to fight. I'm excited to work together - welcome to Team Maasdam. 💪

Team Maasdam hit TWO St. Patrick's Day parades this weekend - the temperatures may be dropping again but there was plenty of green, plenty of smiles, and plenty of "everyone's Irish today" spirit to go around. From Pinckney to Grand Ledge, mid-Michigan knows how to throw a parade! 🍀

You know you’re at a midwestern house party when you enter through the garage, and see deer in the front yard on your way out. Thanks to an awesome group for hosting me last week in Stockbridge- a small town that punches above its weight when it comes to showing up!

Spent some time on the Oakland County side of #MI07 this week with Huron Valley Indivisible, whose members are motivated, organized, and ready to go. Thanks for having me, and for your great questions!

Maasdam: What we’re doing overseas — spending billions of dollars a day. In two weeks, we probably spent $25 billion. We had an Ayatollah Khomeini to start, and now we have a new Ayatollah Khomeini. And how is this making things in my district more affordable for people? It’s not

Horrified to see these initial reports of a very scary situation at Temple Israel. Praying for the safety of everyone in the synagogue and our first responders.

Tom Barrett looks out for his wealthy donors, and Michigan families feel the pain. Last summer Barrett voted to make health care unaffordable for Michigan families, just so ultra-wealthy donors get a a tax cut that you can’t access.

Iran, two weeks in. What do we have to show for it? Seven American service members are dead. Oil prices are skyrocketing. I’m still asking: what’s the plan?

I've been to Dover to receive my friends. Six more families are living that nightmare following our actions in Iran. The politicians calling the shots need to remember that American families pay the price.

Spent a foggy afternoon in Owosso yesterday. History hiding in plain sight - Elias Comstock's home, still standing, and Curwood Castle right on the Shiawassee River where James Oliver Curwood wrote about the wilderness he fought to protect. Cool stuff!

The images coming out of Southwest Michigan from last night’s tornado are gut-wrenching. Praying for everyone affected and for the first responders who ran towards the damage to help.

I carried the nuclear codes. This moment is dangerous and the stakes are high. If I were in Congress right now, these would be my questions about Iran.

This is dangerous and the stakes are high. What's the plan?

This is what we do with our free time…🏒🥅

Lansing rents are rising way too fast, and today’s Detroit News confirms it. The federal government can incentivize local governments to cut red tape and build more housing. That’s the kind of practical solution I’ll fight for in Congress.