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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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Unmarked candidates are Democrats. Other parties: Democratic-Farmer-Labor, Florida Forward, Independent.
Openly gay progressive Democrat from Kansas running for U.S. Senate, filed with FEC and Kansas SOS. Endorses Medicare for All, the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, and the Freedom to Vote Act. Calls the Gaza genocide and Palestinian ethnic cleansing crimes against humanity and rejects AIPAC and all PAC money. Backs creating a cabinet-level Department of Peace (H.R.1111). Supports the Equality Act plus a constitutional amendment for LGBTQIAP2S+ rights.
Environmental chemist, mom, and daughter of an Air Force veteran raised in Foristell, Missouri; started career testing corn, soybeans, and forage for farmers. Now works in energy and water infrastructure testing communities for lead and PFAS contamination. Platform: collective bargaining rights, universal healthcare, clean air and water, fully funded public education, and stopping water-guzzling data centers from exploiting Missouri's resources.
Downtown Spokane resident and Gonzaga alumnus who describes himself as a concerned citizen pushed into action. Supports Medicare for All framed as healthcare serving people not shareholders; abolishing ICE; cutting U.S. military aid to Israel; overturning Citizens United; banning congressional stock trading; limiting corporate farm control; and investing in infill housing, transit, and clean energy infrastructure across Eastern Washington.
East Tennessee small-business owner running for District One on a comprehensive 19-plank platform: single-payer universal healthcare with Medicare expanded to dental/vision/hearing; $15 minimum wage indexed to inflation; constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and ban corporate PAC money; federal assault weapons ban; codify Roe; legalize marijuana federally; ban congressional stock trading; raise taxes on the wealthy.
Nashville music-industry veteran and small-business owner running in TN-04. Platform: gradually lower Medicare eligibility age starting with the most vulnerable, decouple health coverage from employment, negotiate all prescription drug prices, break up pharmacy benefit managers, stop Wall Street from buying single-family homes, increase the federal minimum wage, end Citizens United, ban congressional insider trading, restore congressional war powers, reinstate canceled IRA industrial investments, and create an independent redistricting commission.
Disability advocate with lived experience navigating Social Security and HUD systems; community organizer focused on vulnerable women, children, and the disabled. Champions free universal government-funded healthcare modeled on Medicare, abolishing ICE, rent control and housing as a human right, raising the minimum wage to a living wage, free childcare and Pre-K, abolishing Citizens United and the Electoral College, and reducing fossil fuel influence in politics.
Born in Memphis; lifelong environmental-justice fighter and 2020 Democratic nominee for US Senate (first African-American woman to win major-party nomination in any Tennessee statewide race) returning to challenge Marsha Blackburn-style politics. Platform: Healthcare for All, Green New Deal, $15 minimum wage, abolish ICE, restorative justice, overturn Citizens United, universal background checks, DACA support, high-quality public education, and protecting democracy.
Veteran of the U.S. Army and a working chef in Hawai'i, running explicitly against career politicians and lawyers as a representative for the rest of us. Platform: universal healthcare that cuts out the health insurance industry, abolishing ICE to rein in the Trump administration, repealing the Jones Act to lower Hawai'i's cost of living, and banning members of Congress from trading individual stocks.
Birmingham cashier at Target since 2021 and disability-rights organizer with People First of Alabama; History graduate of the University of Montevallo and a devout Christian. Platform calls for abolishing ICE and breaking up DHS, passing the DREAM Act, expanding Medicare eligibility, the PRO Act, independent redistricting commissions, recognizing Palestine and suspending military aid to Israel, plus a Motorist Bill of Rights limiting qualified immunity.
MN-08 Democrat publishing 18 months of Duluth News Tribune op-eds on rebuilding the middle class through single-family housing. Core platform: wartime taxes on the wealthy and corporations to address debt; cut ICBM upgrade to save $2 trillion; oppose Medicare Advantage profit-extraction; drug treatment over incarceration; small-farmer parity Farm Bill; Marshall Plan reboot for Central and South America; published essay on US Jewish divisions on Gaza.
Born and raised on a small family farm in Sheboygan County; bussed tables and bartended before spending nearly 25 years at the U.S. Geological Survey, directing a multi-state science agency protecting water and natural resources. Still substitute teaches. A progressive populist rejecting special-interest money. Backs single-payer healthcare, living wages, curbs on corporate housing ownership, union rights, a citizenship pathway, and reproductive freedom.
Alaska public interest attorney and grassroots candidate. Backs "guaranteed not-for-profit health care coverage" regardless of employment or income — near-single-payer framing — alongside drug cost reduction and reproductive freedom. Calls for billionaires to pay their fair share, strong antitrust enforcement, child tax credit expansion, SNAP restoration, banning congressional stock trading, and community-based affordable housing investment.
Certified Project Management Professional and Navy veteran who built roots in Jacksonville after military service. Advocates for Medicare for All, climate resilience along Florida's coastline, and protecting Social Security and Medicaid from Republican cuts. Challenging an incumbent in a district where economic anxieties are high and working families are losing ground.
Clinton administration presidential appointee, former staffer to Senator Bob Graham, and attorney running to flip a retiring Republican's seat. Making the fight to lower costs personal through caring for his aging mother, he backs protecting Social Security and Medicare, defending the Affordable Care Act, federal funding for the housing crisis and property insurance, eliminating income taxes under $100,000, ending gerrymandering, and passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.
Former paramedic and firefighter with eight years in the field; later earned degrees in business management and sustainability, with specializations in coastal zone management and renewable energy. Survived a catastrophic injury and watched profit-driven healthcare systems fail families firsthand. Supports universal healthcare, eliminating unchecked ICE enforcement, ending Citizens United, banning corporate housing ownership, and building climate-resilient clean energy infrastructure across Florida.
First-generation American, former Harlem high-school principal, and White House Fellow born in Palm Beach County to parents from India, later leading public-sector initiatives at Apple. Runs on tackling the affordability crisis: negotiating prescription-drug prices, protecting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, universal pre-K and stronger public-school funding, debt-free apprenticeships, codifying reproductive rights including abortion and contraception, protecting LGBTQ+ rights, and expanding voting access.
Intellectual-property attorney and University of Vermont and Brooklyn Law graduate running as an anti-establishment Democrat who accepts no corporate or PAC money. Her ten-priority platform fights grocery, housing, and insurance costs, codifies Roe v. Wade, backs healthcare for everyone regardless of income, protects Social Security and Medicare, overturns Citizens United and bans congressional stock trading, expands renewable energy, and pursues immigration reform protecting Dreamers.
South Florida attorney and public servant, grandson of Congresswoman Carrie Meek and son of Congressman Kendrick Meek, running at 29 to bring a young voice to a deep-blue district. Platform expands ACA subsidies and Medicaid, lets Medicare negotiate drug prices, raises wages and protects the right to organize, builds affordable housing while cracking down on corporate landlords, ends ICE raids, funds prevention over prisons, and makes community college free.
New Jersey-born; served in the Army Reserve 2017–2022; Lehigh University graduate now working in elder care in Rhode Island. Running as a grassroots-only candidate who refuses corporate PACs, wealthy donors, and dark money. Campaigns on averting climate disaster, universal healthcare, economic justice and income equality, rebuilding the social safety net, and equal access to education.
Former K-12 educator and community organizer from rural Maine. Calls Gaza a genocide and supports enforcing the Leahy Law to block U.S. weapons to Israel. Champions Medicare for All, a $25/hour minimum wage, an $800B Homes for All Act, universal childcare, tribal sovereignty, and abolishing ICE. Rejects corporate PAC money and links climate justice to labor and racial equity.
Physician and former director of the Maine CDC who steered the state through the pandemic, later principal deputy director of the U.S. CDC. Son of immigrants and a trained attorney. Champions Medicare for All, the PRO Act, a wealth tax, universal childcare, free public college, abolishing ICE with a citizenship pathway, halting U.S. weapons transfers to Israel, term limits for Congress, and overturning Citizens United.
Anchorage paramedic and flight medic with over twenty years in EMS, running a self-built, shoestring campaign — genuinely progressive but with no fundraising and little chance of winning. Frustrated by corruption and corporate greed, he calls for universal health care, wealth taxes on billionaires, getting corporate money out of elections, a ban on congressional insider trading, term limits for Congress and the Supreme Court, and bodily autonomy for all.
Labor attorney in the Obama Administration and San Diego City Council member who wrote California's first ghost gun ban and led the fight against ICE enforcement in her community. Champions the PRO Act, a public option with dental and vision coverage, Medicare drug price negotiation, overturning Citizens United, the For the People Act, and a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers.
Made history in 2022 as the first openly gay candidate ever to receive a statewide Democratic nomination in Idaho — only the second gay man ever nominated to the U.S. Senate. Running again in 2026 with a platform built on working families: Medicare for All, a living wage, and creating paths to affordable homeownership. Campaign is entirely grassroots-funded.
Indiana state senator and the first openly LGBTQ+ lawmaker in Indiana history; raised in a union household, son of a truck driver and school secretary. Calls for banning big corporations and international investors from buying homes, fair wages and the right to organize, capping insulin and epi-pen prices, ICE accountability with mandatory body cameras, and codifying Roe v. Wade. Only candidate endorsed by labor.
Born with spina bifida — his father's Agent Orange exposure in Vietnam contributed to the diagnosis. Endured 21 surgeries by age 12, then competed in four Paralympic Games, winning gold twice for Team USA. Iowa state rep holding the reddest Dem seat in the chamber. PRO Act, ban private equity from buying homes and farmland, Citizens United amendment, no corporate PACs.
Maryland state delegate from Prince George's County and Steny Hoyer's chosen successor. Backs Medicare for All with a public option, the ICE Breaker Act to defund abusive ICE officers, banning hedge funds from single-family homes, the PRO Act, a $15-plus minimum wage, universal childcare, a Climate Superfund making polluters pay, overturning Citizens United, and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.
Native of Wilkes County; over 40 years as a local journalist covering community life in western North Carolina. Champions working families and small businesses; raising the minimum wage; protecting Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security; expanding rural broadband and 21st-century infrastructure; government healthcare option for rural communities; reproductive rights; overturning Citizens United; banning congressional stock trading; Hurricane Helene recovery funding.
Consultant, minister, and Chief Strategy Officer of a community development financial institution; over two decades in financial services and small business development serving entrepreneurs and working families. Supports protecting and strengthening the ACA, capping prescription drug and out-of-pocket costs, raising the federal minimum wage, affordable housing investment, student debt relief, rural broadband and hospital funding, and protecting voting rights.
Public administration graduate from Stephen F. Austin and UT Arlington; lifelong Tyler, Texas native; NAACP and League of Women Voters volunteer; Special Olympics supporter. Advocates for Medicare for All with no co-pays, $15 minimum wage, ban on for-profit prisons, universal pre-K, free school breakfast and lunch, and a faster pathway to citizenship; would ban immigrant detention centers.
