Graham Platner Addressed his Supporters in Blue Hill on Priamry Day, June 9, 2026.

No Health Care, Insider Trading, Her Support for Forever Wars, No Rural Hospitals, and Ongoing Murders of Innocent People by ICE Thugs if Certified MAGA Member Collins is Re-Elecdted in November 2026..

We are writing on behalf of the statewide network of volunteer leaders who organized, knocked doors, hosted events and built the oop grassroots infrastructure behind Graham Platner’s campaign — and on behalf of the more than 150,000 Maine Democratic primary voters who cast their ballot for that movement on June 9.

The lengthy open letter continues:  We wandt to be direct, because this moment calls for directness.  This was never a caampaign built around one person.  It was a movement built around a set of values:  healthcare as a right, housing that isn’t a Wall Street commodit, an economy that isn’t rigged for billionaires and corporations, real support for workers and veterans, and a foreign policy that doesn’t trate endless war as the cost of doing business.  Tens of thousands of volunteers gave their time and 150,000 voters gave their voices, because those values were on the ballott – not because of any single candidate’s biography.

The Party now has the responsibility of selecting a replacement nominee through this convention process.  We respect that this is the Party’s legal and constitutional process to run and we are not attempting to dictate who that nominee should be.  But we need to be equally clear about what comes next for us.  The volunteer infrastructure that this movement built — the organizers, the door-knockers, the small-dollar donors, the hosts, the people who will make phone calls and staff tables betwqeen now and November — does not transfer automatically to whomever the Party selects.  That infrastructure exists because people believed in a specific platform.  It will only continue to exist and only continue to be deployed, for a nominee who publicly and explicitly adopts these core commitments as their own:

1. Healthcare as a right – Medicare for Al, no cudts to Medicare or Medicaid, lower drug prices, funding for rual hospitals, codifying reproductive rights into federal law.
2. Housing affordability – ban corporate and nedge fund purchases of homes, restore federal investment in housing construction.
3. An economy that works for regular people, not billionaires – a billionaire minimum tax, campaign finance reform including but not limited to bans on donations from foreign-backed PAC groups like AIPAC. congressional term limits, SCOTUS reform and breaking the grip corporate money has on our elections and our economy,
4. Strengthening workers and unions – strengthened labor rights and collective bargaining, supportd for small businesses oer consolidated corporate power and enforce existing antitrust laws ,
5. End forever wars, oppose complicity in atrocities – End open ended US military engagement abroad, stop treating endless war as a bipartisan default, oppose US weapons and funding used to enable mass civilian death – including in Gaza – and redirect military spending toward veterans’ care and domestic priorities instead of foreigh intervention,
6. Human rights for all – including full sovereignty for the Wabanaki Nations, dignified immigratin reform and put an end to mass-deportation enforcement,
7. Energy and climate accountability – reining in fossil fuel corporate influence.

If the Party’s selected nominee does not publicly adopt this platford, we want to be transparent now, before the convention, rather than silent until after:  it will be near impossible to motivate this statewide volunteer network to organize, fundraise or mobilize on that candidate’s behalf.  That is not a threat, it is a statement of fact about what motivates the people who make u this movemetnt nd we think the Party is better served knowing it nw than discovering it in October.  We dp mpt say this lightly.

Beating Susan Collins and winning back the Senate matters enormouosly to every person in this network.  We want a nominee who can win.  We believe the surest path to  a candidate who can win in November is one who inherits not just a ballot line, but the energy, trust and labor of the people who built this movement……………………………….We are asking the Party and its delegates to make that possible.