Blue Dog Action Fund

Blue Dog Action has endorsed several policy initiatives, including efforts to expand voting rights and expand the size of the U.S. House of Representatives, create term limits for federal senators and representatives, remove the influence of foreign funding from domestic elections, address the fentanyl crisis in America, and reduce the national debt, among others. ³

Activities

In June 2025, Politico’s daily “Influence” newsletter announced a plan by the Blue Dog Coalition, a caucus of moderate Congressional Democrats, to launch the Blue Dog Action Fund and a charitable sister organization. ⁴ The Blue Dog Action Fund also announced the launch of its Blue Dog Radio podcast show, a three-part series intended to explain the mission and policy priorities of the Blue Dog Action Fund. ⁵

Deregulation and Work

Blue Dog Action put its support behind the Cutting Red Tape on Child Care Providers Act of 2025 which seeks to reduce regulation surrounding what food child care providers can serve. Blue Dog Action also voiced support for the REPAIR Act, a legislative effort to improve access for vehicle owners and small repair shops to repair and diagnostic data needed to fix vehicles. As of 2026, Blue Dog Action was also supporting the Secure Rural Schools Reauthorization Act of 2025 which seeks to improve the quality of rural public schools. ³

Voting and Electoral Policies

Blue Dog Action has endorsed an effort to establish a Select Committee on Electoral Reform which would implement systemic voting reforms, including independent redistricting commissions, instant-runoff voting, multimember districts, and expanding the size of the House. As of 2026, it was also supporting the Let America Vote Act which would end closed primaries and allow independent voters to vote in any election funded by taxpayers. ³

Blue Dog Action has endorsed the Congressional Term Limits Amendment to limit House members at three terms and Senators at two terms. The action fund has also endorsed the TRUST in Congress Act which would require members of Congress, their spouses, and their kids to sell their individual stocks or put them in a blind trust while in office. As of 2026, Blue Dog Action was also supporting the Get Foreign Money Out of U.S. Elections Act to forbid U.S.-based companies that are largely owned by foreign entities to spend in U.S. elections. ³

Tax and Budgetary Policy

As of 2026, Blue Dog Action was supporting the Fiscal Commission Act which seeks to create a fiscal commission to address the national debt and prevent cuts to Social Security and Medicare. It was also supporting the Cost Estimates Improvement Act which would require the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) to include the cost of interest payments to service the debt on fiscal estimates for proposed legislation before Congress. ³

National Security Policy

Blue Dog Action has endorsed the Invest to Protect Act of 2025 which seeks to support small and midsize police departments with increased funding and training. As of 2026, Blue Dog Action was supporting the Fight Fentanyl Act which seeks to fund more efforts to seize and stop fentanyl distribution. Blue Dog Action has also endorsed the Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act of 2025, an effort to strengthen sanctions on foreign entities helping Iran continue its oil trade. ³

Blue Dog Coalition

The Blue Dog Coalition is a U.S. House of Representatives caucus for Democrats who oppose more liberal or socialist factions of the Democratic Party. The Blue Dog Action Fund is the 501(c)(4) advocacy arm of the coalition. The Blue Dog Coalition was founded following the 1994 mid-term election when the Republican Party gained 54 seats in the House of Representatives and eight seats in the Senate, a shift the coalition viewed as an indication that the Democratic Party had gone too far left. The coalition claims to focus its political agenda on fiscal restraint and political centrism. ⁶ It operates a political action committee (PAC) which donates funds to more moderate Democratic political candidates. ⁷

The Blue Dog Coalition’s legislative priorities have included campaign finance changes, pay-as-you-go budget policies, the “No Budget, No Pay” legislative movement, the effort to end openly partisan gerrymandering, efforts to balance the federal budget, initiatives to strengthen national security, and others. ⁸

As of 2026, the five leading Democratic lawmakers in the Blue Dog Coalition and promoting the Blue Dog Action Fund were U.S. Representatives Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA), Jared Golden (D-ME), Adam Gray (D-CA), Lou Correa (D-CA), and Vicente Gonzalez Jr. (D-TX). ¹

Leadership

As of 2026, Aisha Woodward was the executive director of the Blue Dog Action Fund. She was formerly Chief of Staff to U.S. Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME). ⁴ She also previously worked as a policy advocate, team manager, and policy strategist at Protect Democracy. Woodward received her B.A. in Government and Legal Studies from Bowdoin College and her M.A. in Italian Language and Literature from Yale University. ⁹