• Smear campaigns and déjà vu Russia-baiting for anyone who dares mention defense cuts won't stop me

Who will stand up to today's neo-McCarthyism?

In 1950, a neophyte senator from Maine stood to address the U.S. Senate. Margaret Chase Smith was in her first term, the first woman elected to both the House and Senate, and the only woman in the Senate. It was famously her "Declaration of Conscience."

PORTLAND, Me – Lisa Savage is a teacher, organizer, and grandmother from Solon, Maine who is exploring a run for US Senate to give Mainers a Senator who will fight for the people, not the powerful.

We the people are fed up with business as usual in Washington DC. The political establishment has brought us endless wars abroad, impoverished us at home, and sold our democracy to the highest bidder.