Get Endorsed, Sign Pledges, Strengthen Your Platform

Hey Candidates! This website aggregates endorsements from national progressive organizations. Our goal is to help get the word out about progressive Congressional candidates.

There are three things that improve how your campaign appears on this site, and you can work on all of them at once:

• Get endorsed. The organizations we track have different paths in: some take supporter nominations, some take direct applications, and some just ask you to sign a pledge.
• Sign progressive pledges. Several endorsements on this site are pledge-based, so a signature is the whole application. Pledges also tell voters where you stand, and most pledge organizations link back to your campaign site.
• Strengthen your website. We can only go by what your public campaign site actually says. A detailed, specific issues page is the single highest-leverage change — it is how voters, organizations, and we ourselves learn where you stand, and it is the one thing here that needs nobody’s approval but your own.

Some candidates have garnered endorsements from as many as 10 different groups. National-level endorsements aren’t a guarantee of a win, but they’re a way to attract attention and donation support from across the country. Some of these endorsements are pledge-based — taking a public pledge is also a powerful way to communicate your values to potential supporters.

In the tables below, we list the organizations tracked on this site (and how many endorsements/pledges they have), a quick overview, and notes on connecting with them. Realize that some organizations may have only a single endorsement per district, so if they have already endorsed a candidate in your district, it may be too late. Then again, others — especially the purely pledge-based organizations — may feature several candidates per district.

Take these suggestions with a grain of salt — every campaign is different, and you may have already decided to focus your energy elsewhere. This information is shared in the spirit of helping as many progressive candidates as possible succeed.

Not sure where you already appear? Check the full list, the top endorsed candidates, and our unsung heroes. If something about your listing is wrong or out of date, tell us and we will fix it.

Improving Your Progressive Score

Some candidates are shown with a progressive score — our best estimate of how progressive you are, scored across ten issue areas and explained in full on our methodology page. Here’s the important part: we can only judge you by what we can find on your website. We (and the AI and human reviewers who help us) read your public campaign site; we don’t assume positions you haven’t stated. So if your score seems lower than your actual convictions, the fix is almost always to say more, and say it plainly, on your own site. Looking for inspiration and ideas? Review the websites of some of our top-scoring candidates or highest-ranked unsung heroes, or the sites and speeches of well-known, strongly progressive members of Congress such as “the Squad.”

A few concrete ways to make sure your progressive values come through:

• Have a detailed “Issues” page. You do have an issues page, right? This is the single most important thing. A page that spells out where you stand, issue by issue, is what we read most closely. A thin or vague platform will score lower than your real views deserve — not because you aren’t progressive, but because we can’t see it.
• Name mechanisms, not goals. This is where most platforms lose points. “Expanding affordable housing” and “improving healthcare access” are goals every Democrat shares — they earn some credit, but only a fraction of what a named policy earns. Name a program, an action, or legislation you would actually push: Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, a $15+ minimum wage and the PRO Act, taxing the wealthy and corporations, a permanent ceasefire and conditioning military aid, rejecting corporate PAC and AIPAC money, reproductive rights, canceling student debt, rent stabilization. One named policy beats five aspirations. See the progressive principles we look for, and our methodology for how scoring works, issue area by issue area.
• Vagueness is almost as poor as silence. We score ten issue areas. An area your site never mentions scores zero; one mentioned only in general terms scores just above that. So if you have a position on immigration, criminal justice, foreign policy, or democracy reform, put it in writing — even briefly — and say what you would actually do.
• Mention the pledges you’ve taken. If you’ve signed any progressive pledges (some of which are tracked directly on this website — see the lists below), say so publicly on your site. Pledges are a clear, verifiable signal of where you stand. Many pledge organizations also list their signers publicly, creating links back to your campaign site — good for voters trying to find you, and good for search engine optimization (SEO), making your site more likely to show up in search results.

If you update your website with more detail, let us know and we’ll take another look.

Organizations Accepting Supporter Nominations

These organizations accept nominations submitted by supporters, not (only) by the candidates themselves. The application questions can be detailed and benefit from local knowledge, so consider enlisting your most engaged supporters to submit on your behalf.

Organizations with Direct Application Paths

These organizations have a publicly accessible way for candidates to apply for endorsement directly.

Pledge-Based Endorsements

These organizations endorse candidates who publicly commit to a specific pledge. Taking a pledge is also a direct signal to voters about your values — independent of the endorsement itself. Three more pledge lists follow this one, in roughly descending order of how much signal they carry: additional pledges we track, more worth considering, and lower-signal pledges. Start at the top.

More Difficult Paths for Endorsement

These organizations either work exclusively through local chapters and grassroots networks, or have no publicly documented endorsement application process. Your best starting point is building authentic relationships with local affiliates and being deeply engaged in the issues each organization cares about.

Additional Pledges

These pledges are tracked on this site but not featured as primary organizations. Taking them still signals your values to voters and may attract additional supporters.

More Progressive Pledges Worth Considering

These pledges aren’t tracked on this site (yet), but they’re national, candidate-facing, and align well with progressive values. Signing them still communicates your priorities to voters — and if you take one, let us know.

Lower-Signal Pledges

These pledges cross party and ideological lines. Some have been signed by many progressives but also by incumbents who have voted against progressive values on other issues; others draw most of their signers from the right. Taking one still communicates your position on that specific topic, but be aware that signing alone does not distinguish you as a progressive.