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This lists the progressive candidates we have found so far from other endorsements. We've taken some editorial liberty of adding a few candidates we feel are progressive, even though they have not yet been recognized by the organizations we track. We have occasionally removed a few problematic candidates or added our own endorsements as well.
Most of these candidates are running as Democrats, but a few may be independent or other non-conservative party candidates. Note that there may be more than one endorsed candidate per district, each carrying endorsements from different groups.
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Working paramedic of over ten years and Anchorage renter running non-partisan, who publishes his own income, assets and housing situation for transparency. Supports universal healthcare for all Americans, aggressively taxing billionaires through a wealth tax, ending private equity firms that strip vulnerable businesses, banning congressional stock trading, imposing 18-year Supreme Court term limits, and housing people rather than jailing them.
Courage for Democracy, Integrity Index PledgeA Democrat challenging in Massachusetts's Fifth District on a platform naming money in politics as the root cause linking endless wars, healthcare costs and housing prices. He supports Medicare for All, abolishing and replacing ICE, ending U.S. weapons transfers to Israel, recognizing Palestine, and regulating AI in the public interest rather than for Silicon Valley executives.
North Shore dad and business leader who built companies while working in consumer protection, running on restoring what he calls the basic deal that once defined America. Proposes tuition-free community college nationwide, making the expanded Child Tax Credit permanent, first-time homebuyer tax credits, expanded vocational and technical high school programs, and required financial literacy classes.
Citizens Against AIPAC Corruption, Organize for Peace, Integrity Index PledgeFirst Arab-American woman elected to the Massachusetts state legislature; spent her career expanding healthcare access for mothers and babies through the Maternal Mental Health Leadership Alliance. Backs Medicare for All, a $20 minimum wage, the PRO Act with sharply increased union-busting penalties, the Green New Deal, universal childcare, free community college, and an end to all weapons sales and military aid to Israel.
Abolish ICE Pledge, Integrity Index PledgeEmergency veterinarian and former State Department foreign affairs officer who managed $20M+ in foreign aid for human rights and conservation; member of the queer community. Champions Medicare for All wiping all medical debt, abolishing ICE and dismantling DHS, $25/hour minimum wage indexed to inflation, 100% clean energy by 2040, banning corporate PAC money and overturning Citizens United, and invoking Leahy Laws to end the genocide in Gaza.
Integrity Index PledgeFled a war-torn country with her family and became a Massachusetts State Representative, where she serves as House Chair of Climate Action and Sustainability. She authored the Commonwealth's first law protecting undocumented immigrants who report abuse or trafficking, and helped shape its 2024 gun safety package. She is running in the Sixth District on housing, climate and human rights.
Integrity Index PledgeA union organizer who helped form UAW Local 5118 for graduate student workers and struck twice before winning a first contract. She is the only federal candidate in America not on social media, refusing to enrich the tech billionaires she wants to regulate. She runs in NH-01 on housing, a livable wage and Palestinian rights.
Runs with no PAC money and no television budget on what he calls the Worth Doing agenda, arguing New Hampshire is short fifty thousand homes because building them was made illegal. Would tie federal transportation dollars to zoning reform, unfreeze physician residency caps from the 1990s, publish all hospital prices, and end the filibuster first because everything else depends on it.
Progressive Voters NetworkA Rhode Island Democrat challenging for the U.S. Senate on an explicitly anti-oligarchy platform. He has drafted six named bills, including an Affordable Utilities and Energy Democracy Act creating publicly owned Municipal Utility Boards, a National Climate Superfund Act making fossil fuel companies pay, and a Corporate Landlord Restriction Act capping how much of any city's rental market one landlord may own.
Teacher turned PhD historian of American political and religious culture, hands-on AI systems builder, girl dad of four and grandfather to one. Runs on a ten-year constitutional program: Medicare for All paired with breaking up Big Medicine, an amendment overturning Citizens United, a digital privacy amendment requiring warrants, congressional authorization for war, public sharing of AI wealth, and no PAC money.
Progressive Voters Network, Patients Over Profits, Integrity Index Pledge, Our RevolutionRunning for Congress in California's newly drawn Fourth Congressional District, which stretches from parts of Sonoma County through Napa and into the Northern Sacramento Valley. He has worked in healthcare and education companies and alongside California's leading veterans' service organization, and campaigns as an independent-minded Democrat who refuses all corporate PAC and special interest money.
Integrity Index PledgeA multidisciplinary researcher, executive and activist based in Berkeley who has already authored legislation rather than only campaigning on it. Her MAD Act runs more than one hundred sixty pages on AI policy alone, including immediate red-line regulations and interim safeguards, and also carries her provisions on surveillance, reining in ICE, electoral reform and executive overreach.
Progressive Voters Network, CAIR Action, Working Families Party, CPC PAC, National Nurses United, Everytown, Our Revolution, Organize for Peace, PDA, IndivisibleCalifornia State Senator, doctoral social worker, and former environmental consultant who expanded rent stabilization from 1,000 to 10,000 units and passed an insulin price cap. Champions raising the federal minimum wage, banning Wall Street private equity from buying single-family homes, universal childcare and paid family leave, moving toward universal healthcare, banning congressional insider trading, and year-round CalFire staffing.
Progressive Voters Network, Organize for Peace, Abolish ICE PledgeCommunity organizer and activist in Los Angeles; advocated for the Pico neighborhood's 19th Street community garden in Santa Monica; mother and daughter of immigrant communities. Backs a National Health Insurance system (all-inclusive with dental, vision, and mental health), the Green New Deal, "End Israeli Aid," tuition-free public college, Homes for All Act, ranked choice voting, For the People Act, and ending Citizens United.
A retired Navy veteran running as an Independent in Florida's Fourth District because he believes the two-party system has failed working Americans. His signature proposal, the American Prosperity Card Act, targets the roughly $500 billion he says banks skim yearly through overdraft, swipe and transfer fees, aiming to recapture that value for the ninety-nine percent.
A No Party Affiliation candidate on Florida's 13th District November ballot who describes himself as a former Republican and a self-styled constitutional purist. He proposes universal healthcare with premiums capped at half of weekly income, federally built wind and solar funded by ending oil subsidies, and a 15 percent cap on auto loan interest rates.
Former Sarasota mayor and Eckerd College dean who beat a well-funded incumbent with 75% of the vote and led Florida's strongest local campaign-finance reform, approved by more than 80% of voters. Runs to lower the cost of living: an insurance backstop, repealing Medicare and Medicaid cuts, letting government negotiate drug prices, expanding affordable housing while stopping Wall Street from buying single-family homes, clean energy, and tearing up billionaire tax breaks.
Integrity Index Pledge, Take BAC CongressA labor-first Idaho Democrat who enrolled in college at the age of thirty after the COVID lockdown, double-majoring in criminal justice and political science. She won the ID-01 primary and advances to the November general election on a platform built around government accountability and a labor-first economy, including repealing right-to-work laws and aggressively penalizing union-busting.
Daughter of Mexican immigrants; PhD in Education Policy from the University of Illinois; 15+ years fighting for immigrant and working-class families; seven years running 's congressional operation as Chief of Staff to Chuy Garcia. Champions Medicare for All, abolishing ICE, 100% pro-labor union infrastructure jobs, and a foreign policy rooted in human rights over military occupation.
Harvard and MIT mathematician turned community activist; former Illinois state senator and Evanston mayor; Jewish, with relatives who survived the Holocaust. Champions Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, abolishing ICE, recognizing a Palestinian state and halting U.S. offensive weapons to Israel. As mayor, created Evanston's non-police C.A.R.E. crisis response program and enacted the first-in-state Healthy Buildings Ordinance.
Registered nurse before entering politics; became the youngest Black woman ever elected to Congress in 2018. Cosponsors Medicare for All and authored the Black Maternal Health Momnibus, a legislative package addressing racial disparities in pregnancy-related deaths and improving prenatal and postpartum care nationwide. Member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, with a legislative focus on public health infrastructure and maternal care access.
Take BAC Congress, Citizens Against AIPAC CorruptionA Marine veteran running in Indiana's Fourth District who won his May primary and advances to the November general election. He supports a single-payer Medicare for All system, overturning Citizens United, pulling military aid over Gaza, a federal moratorium on AI data centers, and uncapping the House of Representatives to restore full proportional representation nationwide.
Progressive Voters NetworkAn Indiana Democrat running in the Ninth Congressional District under the banner Standing up for Democracy, with a platform grounded in the rule of law as economic infrastructure. He supports Medicare for All, a national clean energy standard, raising the standard deduction from $15,750 to $20,000, and expanding overtime protections to salaried workers earning under one hundred thousand dollars.
Born with Spina Bifida, he underwent twenty-one surgeries before the age of twelve, receiving care through Shriners Children's Hospital thanks to his father's union benefits. A Paralympic gold medalist and Iowa state legislator, he won the Democratic Senate primary and advances to the November general election running on health care, disability rights and congressional ethics reform.
Shreveport educator and researcher who describes his approach as listening first and giving people space to think for themselves. Campaigns for universal healthcare never tied to employment with gender-affirming care protected as a fundamental right, a $15 minimum wage in a state with no minimum of its own, universal pre-K, overturning Citizens United, congressional term limits, and banning member stock trading.
A Maryland Democrat who won the MD-05 primary and advances to the November general election. His platform pairs Medicare for All with a public option, a Climate Superfund requiring fossil fuel polluters to pay for climate damage, abolishing ICE alongside comprehensive immigration reform, and sentencing reform to reduce mass incarceration and eliminate mandatory minimums for nonviolent offenses.
A Michigan state senator and the first out gay person to serve in that chamber. As chair of the Senate Elections Committee he drafted the laws that expanded voting access in Michigan, and he championed the ballot proposal that restored abortion rights to the state constitution after Roe was overturned. He also passed the Reproductive Health Act into law.
Former federal official with two decades at the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, running in northern and central Minnesota. Fights for universal healthcare, enforcing antitrust laws so a few companies cannot drive up food and fuel costs, livable wages with strong union protections, protecting the Boundary Waters from sulfide mining, Right to Repair, and permanent legal status for Dreamers.
Has spoken with thousands of Nebraskans over the past decade and says many of them have lost faith in government, believing politicians look out only for themselves. She is running in Nebraska's Second District on congressional ethics reform, including a lifetime lobbying ban, and on a fair path to citizenship for long-term immigrants and Dreamers.
Environmental scientist representing Albuquerque; won a 2021 special election after Deb Haaland joined the Cabinet. Congressional Progressive Caucus member committed to Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, student debt cancellation, and an assault weapons ban. Focuses on Indigenous rights, climate resilience, and clean water infrastructure for underserved New Mexico communities. Champion of tribal land protection and environmental justice.
Integrity Index PledgeA New York State Assembly member and former official in the state Attorney General's Office who won the NY-12 Democratic primary. He supports Medicare for All and co-sponsors the New York Health Act, and his legislative record includes barring warrantless arrests at sensitive locations and stopping twenty school districts from blocking the enrollment of undocumented children.
Former North Carolina state senator representing the Chapel Hill and Durham area; succeeded longtime Congressman David Price. Member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and cosponsor of Medicare for All. Built her legislative career around education funding and civil rights protections, maintaining a consistent voting record on democracy and voting-rights legislation throughout her time in Congress.
An Independent running for Congress in Rhode Island's First District who worked in restaurants, built a small business and moved into a data career after COVID. His platform mixes single-payer healthcare and a ban on Wall Street ownership of single-family homes with Second Amendment absolutism, and calls for ending military funding to Israel and dissolving AIPAC.
Progressive Voters NetworkA best-selling author who grew up poor in a small Ohio town and was the first in her family to attend college, later building her adult life in Roanoke. Her deeply reported books exposed how opioid executives preyed on vulnerable communities and helped shift America's understanding of addiction. She won the VA-06 primary and faces Ben Cline in November.
Milwaukee congresswoman representing since 2005 and the first African American elected to Congress from Wisconsin. Former single mother who grew up in public housing; lifelong champion of poverty reduction, economic justice, and Medicaid expansion. Congressional Progressive Caucus and Congressional Black Caucus member; Medicare for All cosponsor with deep roots in working-class Milwaukee communities.
