Sep 22, 2026 · 21 min · 13 segments
America’s Credit Unions Head of Political Affairs Trey Hawkins walks through everything that we are doing to elect a pro-credit union Congress, some key races across the country, and how you can get…
But kind of a strange thing, midterms though, and we've talked about this, they're just not known for driving people to the polls.
Now that's changed a little bit, but there are some that are going to say, ah, the president's not on this ballot.
Well, I always say this, you know, a little less than a century ago, Congress created credit unions in the Federal Credit Union Act.
Congress rights, you know, governs what credit unions can do for their members, how they can operate in their communities, the local economies.
So it definitely matters to us that we're playing in that and we're trying to do everything we can to get the right pro-credit union candidates selected.
You know, America's credit unions members, credit unions, credit union employees, professionals, volunteers, members, they need to pay attention and get engaged.
This isn't really one of the questions we talked about, but it also seems to me even the president and presidential contenders for 28, they're going to be looking at this, right? This is a chance for Americans to weigh in.
And, you know, usually you won't see drastic changes, but this is where we get to weigh in every couple of years and kind of grade how we feel.
I feel like these are, I think people are going to be taking copious amounts of notes about exit polling and what people feel like, and that's going to determine the next two years and then maybe the next six years.
But kind of a strange thing, midterms though, and we've talked about this, they're just not known for driving people to the polls.
Now that's changed a little bit, but there are some that are going to say, ah, the president's not on this ballot.
Well, I always say this, you know, a little less than a century ago, Congress created credit unions in the Federal Credit Union Act.
Congress rights, you know, governs what credit unions can do for their members, how they can operate in their communities, the local economies.
So it definitely matters to us that we're playing in that and we're trying to do everything we can to get the right pro-credit union candidates selected.
You know, America's credit unions members, credit unions, credit union employees, professionals, volunteers, members, they need to pay attention and get engaged.
This isn't really one of the questions we talked about, but it also seems to me even the president and presidential contenders for 28, they're going to be looking at this, right? This is a chance for Americans to weigh in.
And, you know, usually you won't see drastic changes, but this is where we get to weigh in every couple of years and kind of grade how we feel.
I feel like these are, I think people are going to be taking copious amounts of notes about exit polling and what people feel like, and that's going to determine the next two years and then maybe the next six years.
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