Category: Federal Legislator — U.S. Senator / Major-Party Gubernatorial Nominee Role: Senior U.S. Senator (TN) since 2019; first woman elected to U.S. Senate from Tennessee; former U.S. Representative for TN-7 (2003–2019); former Tennessee State Senator (1999–2003); declared candidate for Governor of Tennessee in 2026 (announced August 6, 2025) Priority: P1 (Sitting U.S. Senator with documented pattern of post-2020 election certification objection, voted against federal voting-rights protections, voted to acquit Trump on incitement of insurrection, chaired controversial Planned Parenthood investigation, and now seeks state executive office overseeing Tennessee’s election administration)

Role

Blackburn is the senior U.S. Senator from Tennessee, having become the state’s senior senator in January 2021 upon the retirement of Senator Lamar Alexander. She was reelected to a second six-year term in 2024, defeating Democratic nominee Gloria Johnson 63.8% to 34.2%. On August 6, 2025, she announced her candidacy for Governor of Tennessee in the 2026 election, with the Republican primary scheduled for August 6, 2026, and the general election on November 3, 2026. Because she was reelected to the Senate in 2024, her Senate seat is not at risk by running for governor; if she wins, she would, as governor, possibly appoint her own temporary Senate replacement.

Blackburn currently serves on the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, and the Senate Finance Committee. Polling through the 2026 cycle has consistently shown her leading the Republican gubernatorial primary by wide margins over U.S. Rep. John Rose and state Rep. Monty Fritts.

Background

Mary Marsha Blackburn (née Wedgeworth) was born June 6, 1952, in Laurel, Mississippi. She earned a B.S. in home economics from Mississippi State University in 1973 and worked in book sales for the Southwestern Company before entering Tennessee politics. She served in the Tennessee State Senate from 1999 to 2003 and represented Tennessee’s 7th congressional district in the U.S. House from 2003 to 2019, during which the National Journal rated her among the House’s most conservative members. She was a supporter of the Tea Party movement and is a staunch ally of President Donald Trump. She became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from Tennessee on November 6, 2018, defeating Democratic former governor Phil Bredesen with 54.7% of the vote.

Documented Actions

1. House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives — Chair (2015–2016)

Evidence: On October 23, 2015, then-Speaker John Boehner named Blackburn chair of the House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives, a select subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, created by H. Res. 461 on a party-line vote of 242–189. The panel was formed in response to undercover videos released by the anti-abortion group Center for Medical Progress (CMP) that purported to show Planned Parenthood officials engaging in the sale of fetal tissue from aborted fetuses. The CMP videos were widely characterized by independent fact-checkers, forensic analysts retained by Planned Parenthood, and at least one prosecutor as deceptively edited; multiple state-level investigations triggered by the videos did not find evidence supporting the central allegations.

The panel issued its final report on December 30, 2016, recommending that the National Institutes of Health stop funding fetal tissue research and that Planned Parenthood be stripped of federal funding. Blackburn’s office subsequently stated that the panel’s work resulted in 15 criminal referrals to federal and state authorities related to late-term abortion providers, abortion clinics, and tissue procurement businesses. As of this profile’s date, no major federal prosecutions arising from those referrals have been publicly reported. The two CMP videographers, David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, were themselves indicted by a Harris County, Texas grand jury in January 2016 on charges of tampering with a governmental record (later dismissed) and, in California, were convicted in 2019 of civil violations of state recording laws.

Sources: Wikipedia, “United States House Select Investigative Panel on Planned Parenthood,” accessed June 24, 2026; LifeLegal.org, “Final Report Select Investigative Panel” (December 30, 2016); Ballotpedia, “Republican effort to defund Planned Parenthood, 2015”; Reuters and AP reporting on CMP indictments and dismissals (2016–2019).

Pattern: Use of a select House investigative panel to formalize criminal referrals based on materials whose underlying evidentiary basis was contested in court and by independent fact-checking. The chairmanship is itself a documented official action, distinct from the substance of Blackburn’s policy views on abortion.

2. January 2, 2021 — Public Announcement of Intent to Object to 2020 Electoral Certification

Evidence: On January 2, 2021, Blackburn joined a group of eleven Republican senators (the “Cruz coalition”) in publicly announcing they would vote on January 6 to oppose certification of Electoral College results from “disputed states” unless an “emergency 10-day audit” of those results was conducted by an electoral commission. In a joint statement issued from Blackburn’s Senate office, she and Senator-elect Bill Hagerty wrote: “On behalf of Tennesseans, we are taking a united stand against the tainted electoral results from the recent Presidential election… On January 6, we will vote to oppose certification of the 2020 election results.” The statement cited “allegations of voter fraud, irregularities and unconstitutional actions.”

Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election was certified by all 50 states and the District of Columbia and affirmed by the Electoral College on December 14, 2020. More than 60 lawsuits seeking to overturn certified 2020 results were dismissed or denied by federal and state courts, including by judges appointed by Donald Trump. The U.S. Supreme Court twice declined to hear election-result challenges from the 2020 cycle.

Source: Blackburn Senate press release, “Blackburn, Hagerty and Colleagues Will Vote to Oppose Electoral College Results” (January 2, 2021), blackburn.senate.gov; Wikipedia, “2021 United States Electoral College vote count,” accessed June 24, 2026; Ballotpedia, “Counting of electoral votes (January 6-7, 2021).”

Pattern: Sitting U.S. Senator publicly committing — in writing, on official letterhead — to vote against certification of a presidential election whose results had been certified by all 50 states and affirmed by the Electoral College, conditioned on a 10-day “emergency audit” demand without statutory basis.

3. January 6–7, 2021 — Final Senate Floor Vote on Electoral Certification

Evidence: After the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol — during which a mob disrupted the joint session of Congress convened to count the electoral votes — the Senate reconvened that evening and into January 7. When the final Senate roll-call votes were taken on objections to the Arizona and Pennsylvania electoral slates, Blackburn voted “No” on both objections, declining to follow through on her January 2 stated intent to vote to exclude electoral votes from disputed states. Six Republican senators (Cruz, Hawley, Hyde-Smith, Kennedy, Marshall, Tuberville, plus a seventh on Pennsylvania) still voted to sustain at least one objection. Blackburn was not among them.

Sources: Ballotpedia, “Counting of electoral votes (January 6-7, 2021)” (roll-call record listing TN Senator Marsha Blackburn — Republican — “No”); GovTrack.us, “Sen. Marsha Blackburn [R-TN, 2019-2030]” (note on January 6 objection sequence).

Pattern: Public pre-commitment to object, followed by a different recorded vote after the violent attack on the Capitol. Profile documents both the pre-commitment (Action 2) and the subsequent vote (Action 3) as separate factual events without inferring intent.

4. February 13, 2021 — Vote to Acquit Donald Trump on Article of Incitement of Insurrection

Evidence: On February 13, 2021, the U.S. Senate voted 57–43 on the article of impeachment against former President Donald Trump for “incitement of insurrection” arising from the January 6 attack on the Capitol. Conviction required a two-thirds majority (67 votes). Blackburn voted “Not Guilty,” joining 42 other Republican senators in voting to acquit. Seven Republican senators voted to convict.

Blackburn issued a written statement immediately after the vote: “The House Impeachment Managers launched an unconstitutional show trial to humiliate the former President and his supporters. The Impeachment Managers have accomplished nothing but to extend the pain of the American people. They achieved one thing — Donald J. Trump’s acquittal.”

Sources: Blackburn Senate press release, “Blackburn on Donald J. Trump’s Acquittal” (February 14, 2021); Ballotpedia, “Impeachment of Donald Trump, 2021” (roll-call record); WPLN News, “Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn: Impeachment Trial ‘Accomplished Nothing'” (February 13, 2021).

Pattern: Recorded vote to acquit a former president of the charge of inciting the January 6 attack on the Capitol, accompanied by an official statement characterizing the trial as “unconstitutional” notwithstanding the Senate’s prior 56–44 vote that the trial was constitutional.

5. January 19, 2022 — Vote Against Cloture on the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act

Evidence: On January 19, 2022, Blackburn voted against the motion to invoke cloture on the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act (offered as a substitute amendment to H.R. 5746). The bill would have, among other provisions: made Election Day a federal public holiday; established minimum early voting periods; allowed for same-day voter registration; permitted no-excuse absentee voting; restricted partisan removal of local election administrators; regulated congressional redistricting; expanded campaign finance disclosure rules; and amended the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to restore the federal preclearance regime that the U.S. Supreme Court suspended in Shelby County v. Holder (2013). The cloture motion failed 49–51.

Source: Ballotpedia, “Marsha Blackburn” (federal scorecard); Wikipedia, “Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act” (roll-call record).

Pattern: Sitting U.S. Senator from a former Confederate state casting a recorded vote against legislation that would have restored federal Voting Rights Act preclearance jurisdiction over Tennessee and other states with documented histories of racial discrimination in voting.

6. March 2022 — Senate Judiciary Committee Questioning of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson

Evidence: During the March 2022 Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, Blackburn — a committee member — pressed Jackson on questions about transgender athletes in NCAA women’s sports, asked Jackson whether she could “provide a definition for the word ‘woman'” (to which Jackson responded “Not in this context — I’m not a biologist”), and questioned Jackson about her record as a federal public defender representing Guantanamo Bay detainees. On April 7, 2022, Blackburn voted against Jackson’s confirmation. Jackson was confirmed 53–47, with three Republican senators voting to confirm (Collins, Murkowski, Romney).

Sources: Blackburn Senate press release, “Judge Jackson Cannot Define ‘Woman’ During Blackburn SCOTUS Day Two Hearing Remarks” (March 23, 2022); Ballotpedia, “Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation hearings and votes”; Senate Judiciary Committee hearing transcript, CHRG-117shrg47858, Government Publishing Office.

Pattern: Use of Judiciary Committee questioning time for substantive challenges to a Supreme Court nominee — within the bounds of legitimate advice-and-consent — combined with social-media and press amplification of moments framed around contested cultural questions.

7. 2022 – Co-Sponsorship of Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA)

Evidence: On February 16, 2022, Blackburn and Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) introduced the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), S. 3663, which would impose a “duty of care” on covered online platforms to prevent and mitigate enumerated harms to minor users (including mental health disorders, addiction, physical violence, and sexual exploitation). KOSA was reintroduced in subsequent Congresses and passed the Senate 91–3 in July 2024 before failing to advance out of the House before the end of the session. Civil liberties organizations including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the ACLU, and Fight for the Future opposed KOSA on First Amendment and state-attorney-general-discretion grounds, arguing the bill’s duty-of-care framework could be used by state officials to restrict access to LGBTQ+ resources, reproductive health information, or other constitutionally protected content. KOSA’s text does not amend Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

Sources: Wikipedia, “Kids Online Safety Act,” accessed June 24, 2026; Lawfare, “The Kids Online Safety Act and the State of Tech Policy”; Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, “As Section 230 Debate Continues, Congress Finds Reform Opportunities in Child Online Safety Statutes”; EFF and Fairplay published legal analyses of KOSA.

Pattern: Bipartisan child online safety legislation that nevertheless raises documented First Amendment and content-moderation concerns, particularly given concurrent statements by Blackburn on enforcement targets and her stated views on online content “indoctrination” of minors.

8. Recurring — Recorded Votes Against Federal Reproductive-Rights Legislation

Evidence: Blackburn has voted, in the Senate, against multiple cloture motions and final-passage votes on federal legislation that would have codified federal reproductive-rights protections, including the Women’s Health Protection Act of 2021 and 2022 (which would have codified Roe v. Wade-era abortion protections in federal statute) and the 2023 motion to advance the Right to Contraception Act. In June 2022, following the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Blackburn issued an official statement applauding the ruling, which triggered Tennessee’s 2019 “trigger law” banning nearly all abortions in the state.

Sources: Reproductive Freedom for All, “Marsha Blackburn’s Congressional Scorecard” (full vote list with bill numbers and dates); Ballotpedia, “Marsha Blackburn” (federal scorecard); Blackburn Senate press release, “Blackburn Statement on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization” (June 24, 2022).

Pattern: Consistent, multi-Congress voting record against federal codification of reproductive rights, combined with public celebration of the Dobbs decision that activated Tennessee’s near-total abortion ban.

9. June 2, 2026 — Introduction of the Election Security Partnership Act

Evidence: On June 2, 2026, Blackburn and Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, introduced the Election Security Partnership Act, which would create federal incentives for state governments to submit their voter registration lists to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for verification against the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) Program database. Voting-rights organizations and election administrators have raised concerns about the accuracy of the SAVE database for citizenship verification purposes, the federal preemption implications for state-administered voter rolls, and the historical use of comparable cross-state purge programs (e.g., Interstate Crosscheck) that produced documented false-positive removals disproportionately affecting voters of color.

Source: Blackburn Senate press release, “Blackburn, Graham Introduce Legislation to Incentivize Every State to Submit Voter Rolls to DHS” (June 2, 2026), blackburn.senate.gov; Congressional Record, S. 1314 (March 19, 2026), debate on related SAVE America Act.

Pattern: Sponsorship of federal legislation conditioning incentives on state submission of voter rolls to a federal executive-branch database for citizenship verification, while Blackburn is a candidate for an office (Governor of Tennessee) that includes oversight of Tennessee’s election administration.

10. August 6, 2025 — Announcement of 2026 Tennessee Gubernatorial Campaign

Evidence: On August 6, 2025, Blackburn formally announced her candidacy for the Republican nomination for Governor of Tennessee in 2026. In her launch announcement, she stated: “In his first six months, President Trump has made historic strides in Making America Great Again, but as he sends power back to the states, he’s going to need strong conservative governors who can bring that revolution home.” Her opening campaign ad promised “defining boys and girls the way God made them” and “deporting immigrants in the country illegally, whether it takes planes, trains or starships.” Polling through 2026 has consistently shown her leading the Republican primary by 40+ points over U.S. Rep. John Rose and state Rep. Monty Fritts. Incumbent Republican Governor Bill Lee is term-limited.

Sources: PBS NewsHour / Associated Press, “Sen. Marsha Blackburn jumps into race for Tennessee governor” (August 6, 2025); Wikipedia, “2026 Tennessee gubernatorial election”; Ballotpedia, “Tennessee gubernatorial election, 2026.”

Pattern: Sitting U.S. Senator with documented post-2020 electoral-certification objection record and documented votes against federal voting-rights protections seeks state executive office that includes oversight of Tennessee’s election administration.

Pattern Analysis

Cross-References

Blackburn’s documented actions cluster around four accountability-relevant patterns: (a) pre-commitment to object to certified 2020 electoral results, followed by a recorded vote not to object after the Capitol attack; (b) vote to acquit Trump on the article of incitement of insurrection; (c) consistent recorded votes against federal voting-rights protections that would have restored Voting Rights Act preclearance over Tennessee; and (d) chairmanship of a House select panel whose criminal referrals rested on materials whose evidentiary value was contested in court and by independent fact-checking.

Related profiles:

• ted-cruz-profile-profile — Senate colleague; led the January 6 electoral objection “commission” coalition that Blackburn joined publicly on January 2, 2021
• josh-hawley-profile-profile — Senate colleague; objected to certification after Capitol attack (Blackburn did not)
• djt-profile — Senate impeachment trial defendant whom Blackburn voted to acquit

Related skills:

• patriot-voting-research — Tennessee voting-rights and registration administration
• patriot-private-citizen-inclusion-gate — Anchor A (public office) satisfied
• malice-evaluator — Subject for future DMA review on votes/sponsorships, not on speech

Severity Assessment

Immediate harm: Moderate — Recorded votes against federal voting-rights protections that would have restored federal preclearance over Tennessee; recorded vote to acquit on insurrection charge; co-sponsorship of voter-roll federalization legislation while a candidate for the state office that oversees Tennessee’s elections.

Democratic erosion: High — Public pre-commitment to object to certified 2020 electoral results conditioned on a non-statutory “10-day audit” demand normalized the practice of contesting certification of valid electoral outcomes; consistent multi-Congress record against federal voting-rights legislation; sponsorship of federal voter-roll-submission legislation.

Authoritarian markers: Pre-commitment to object to certified electoral results; vote to acquit on insurrection charge; sustained alignment with executive demands to overturn certified election outcomes; sponsorship of legislation transferring state voter-roll data to federal executive-branch verification programs.

Accountability Status

Current status: Active (serving U.S. Senator, TN, second term 2025–2031); declared candidate for Governor of Tennessee, Republican primary August 6, 2026, general election November 3, 2026.

Legal exposure:

• No federal indictment or court finding against Blackburn has been publicly reported as of this profile’s date.
• 14th Amendment § 3 (“Insurrection Clause”) — Section 3 disqualification has been raised in academic and litigation discussions regarding members of Congress who publicly committed in writing to vote against certification of the 2020 election; the Trump v. Anderson (2024) Supreme Court decision held that states cannot enforce Section 3 against federal candidates without congressional implementing legislation, but the constitutional standard remains.
• Senate ethics jurisdiction (Senate Select Committee on Ethics) — covers any official conduct found to bring the Senate into dishonor; the January 2, 2021 joint statement and the related “Cruz coalition” letter are documented official-letterhead actions within the committee’s jurisdiction.

Congressional oversight:

• Senate Select Committee on Ethics — jurisdiction over the conduct of sitting Senators; complaints filed by outside groups against several “Cruz coalition” senators in 2021 were not acted upon.
• House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol — issued its final report on December 22, 2022; documented the broader Senate objection coalition. Blackburn was not individually named in criminal referrals from the House Select Committee.
• House Committee on Energy and Commerce — successor oversight of fetal-tissue research funding decisions arising from the 2015–2016 Select Investigative Panel.

Public accountability:

• Tennessee gubernatorial general election (November 3, 2026) — Tennessee voters’ general-election decision is itself the primary public-accountability mechanism.
• Tennessee state ethics filings and Senate financial disclosures — ongoing reporting via Senate.gov public disclosure portal and Tennessee Registry of Election Finance.
• Organizational tracking: Reproductive Freedom for All (Senate scorecard), Brennan Center for Justice (voting-rights legislation tracker), Common Cause Tennessee, Tennessee League of Women Voters.

Truth and Reconciliation Considerations

Investigation priorities

1. Document the full sequence of communications between the eleven members of the “Cruz coalition” leading to the joint January 2, 2021 statement: who drafted it, who circulated it, what legal counsel reviewed it, and what each senator was told about the underlying “10-day audit” demand’s statutory basis.
2. Document the decision sequence behind Blackburn’s January 6–7, 2021 final votes against the Arizona and Pennsylvania objections (i.e., the gap between the January 2 written commitment and the January 6–7 recorded votes), including any communications with Senate Republican leadership during the Capitol breach and afterward.
3. Identify all communications between Blackburn’s Senate office and the Trump campaign, the Republican National Committee, and outside groups (e.g., Center for Renewing America, Heritage Action) regarding electoral certification, the January 6 rally, and the post-January 6 messaging strategy.
4. Document the evidentiary basis for each of the 15 criminal referrals made by the House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives during Blackburn’s chairmanship, the disposition of each referral by the relevant federal or state authority, and the role of CMP-supplied materials in each referral packet.
5. Document Blackburn’s role, if any, in shaping Tennessee state-level Republican responses to the 2020 election certification cycle and to the 2022 attempt to advance the Independent State Legislature doctrine.

Testimony value

Compelled testimony from Blackburn under use immunity (18 U.S.C. § 6002) could illuminate: (a) the internal deliberations and legal advice provided to the “Cruz coalition” senators between November 2020 and January 6, 2021; (b) the communications between Senate Republican leadership and the Trump White House during the Capitol attack and the reconvened session; (c) the basis on which she announced intent to object on January 2, 2021 but voted against the final objections on January 6–7; (d) the operational coordination of the House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives, including which staff, outside organizations, and CMP affiliates supplied evidentiary materials to the panel.

Institutional reform

• Electoral Count Reform Act enforcement — The Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022 raised the threshold for congressional objections and clarified the Vice President’s ceremonial role; codify or strengthen the requirement that any senator joining a written pre-commitment to object disclose contemporaneously the statutory basis for the objection.
• Senate Ethics jurisdiction clarification — Amend Senate Rule XXXVII or its enabling resolution to clarify that official-letterhead public commitments to vote against certification of a certified federal election fall within the Select Committee on Ethics’ jurisdiction over conduct “tending to bring the Senate into dishonor.”
• Federal voting-rights restoration — Pass and signal-strengthen the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (H.R. 14 in the 119th Congress) to restore the federal preclearance regime that Shelby County v. Holder (2013) suspended for Tennessee and the other covered jurisdictions.
• Voter-roll federalization safeguards — Enact statutory due-process protections for voters flagged by federal cross-database verification programs (SAVE, equivalents) before removal from state voter rolls, including notice, opportunity to cure, and prohibition on bulk removals within 90 days of a federal election under the National Voter Registration Act.
• Select Committee evidentiary standards — Codify minimum evidentiary standards for House select investigative panels making criminal referrals based on outside-group-supplied materials, including independent forensic review of recordings and source disclosure.

Cross-References

Skills: patriot-voting-research, patriot-private-citizen-inclusion-gate, malice-evaluator, public-corruption-ombudsman

Related profiles: ted-cruz-profile-profile, josh-hawley-profile-profile, djt-profile

Topics: federal-legislators, tennessee, electoral-certification-objection, voting-rights, abortion-rights, kids-online-safety-act, voter-roll-federalization, 2026-gubernatorial-elections

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Sources

1. Blackburn Senate press release, “Blackburn, Hagerty and Colleagues Will Vote to Oppose Electoral College Results,” January 2, 2021. https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/2021/1/blackburn-hagerty-and-colleagues-will-vote-to-oppose-electoral-college-results
2. Blackburn Senate press release, “Blackburn on Donald J. Trump’s Acquittal,” February 14, 2021. https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/2021/2/blackburn-on-donald-j-trump-s-acquittal
3. Blackburn Senate press release, “Judge Jackson Cannot Define ‘Woman’ During Blackburn SCOTUS Day Two Hearing Remarks,” March 23, 2022. https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/2022/3/video-release-judge-jackson-cannot-define-woman-during-blackburn-scotus-day-two-hearing-remarks
4. Blackburn Senate press release, “Blackburn Statement on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization,” June 24, 2022. https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/2022/6/blackburn-statement-on-dobbs-v-jackson-women-s-health-organization
5. Blackburn Senate press release, “Blackburn, Graham Introduce Legislation to Incentivize Every State to Submit Voter Rolls to DHS,” June 2, 2026. https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/2026/6/blackburn-graham-introduce-legislation-to-incentivize-every-state-to-submit-voter-rolls-to-dhs
6. Ballotpedia, “Counting of electoral votes (January 6-7, 2021).” https://ballotpedia.org/Counting_of_electoral_votes_(January_6-7,_2021)
7. Ballotpedia, “Impeachment of Donald Trump, 2021.” https://ballotpedia.org/Impeachment_of_Donald_Trump,_2021
8. Ballotpedia, “Marsha Blackburn.” https://ballotpedia.org/Marsha_Blackburn
9. Ballotpedia, “Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation hearings and votes.” https://ballotpedia.org/Ketanji_Brown_Jackson_confirmation_hearings_and_votes
10. Ballotpedia, “Tennessee gubernatorial election, 2026.” https://ballotpedia.org/Tennessee_gubernatorial_election,_2026
11. PBS NewsHour / Associated Press, “Sen. Marsha Blackburn jumps into race for Tennessee governor,” August 6, 2025. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/sen-marsha-blackburn-jumps-into-race-for-tennessee-governor
12. WPLN News, “Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn: Impeachment Trial ‘Accomplished Nothing,'” February 13, 2021. https://wpln.org/post/tennessee-sen-marsha-blackburn-impeachment-trial-accomplished-nothing
13. GovTrack.us, “Sen. Marsha Blackburn [R-TN, 2019-2030], Senator for Tennessee.” https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/marsha_blackburn/400032
14. Wikipedia, “Marsha Blackburn,” accessed June 24, 2026. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsha_Blackburn
15. Wikipedia, “United States House Select Investigative Panel on Planned Parenthood,” accessed June 24, 2026. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Select_Investigative_Panel_on_Planned_Parenthood
16. Wikipedia, “Kids Online Safety Act,” accessed June 24, 2026. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_Online_Safety_Act
17. Wikipedia, “Second impeachment of Donald Trump,” accessed June 24, 2026. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_impeachment_of_Donald_Trump
18. Wikipedia, “2021 United States Electoral College vote count,” accessed June 24, 2026. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_United_States_Electoral_College_vote_count
19. Wikipedia, “2026 Tennessee gubernatorial election,” accessed June 24, 2026. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Tennessee_gubernatorial_election
20. Lawfare, “The Kids Online Safety Act and the State of Tech Policy.” https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-kids-online-safety-act-and-the-state-of-tech-policy
21. Reproductive Freedom for All, “Marsha Blackburn’s Congressional Scorecard.” https://reproductivefreedomforall.org/lawmaker/marsha-blackburn
22. House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives, “Final Report,” December 30, 2016 (archived at LifeLegal.org). https://lifelegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Select_Investigative_Panel_Final_Report.pdf
23. Ballotpedia, “Republican effort to defund Planned Parenthood, 2015.” https://ballotpedia.org/Republican_effort_to_defund_Planned_Parenthood,_2015
24. Federal Election Commission, “BLACKBURN, MARSHA MRS. — Candidate overview,” candidate ID S8TN00337. https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/S8TN00337

Last Updated: 2026-06-24 Profile Status: Draft — pending review and Democratic Malice Assessment Next Review: Quarterly during the 2026 Tennessee gubernatorial cycle