Top Progressive Candidates
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These are the challengers we think deserve your attention the most — optionally including incumbents. They got here one of two ways: lots of endorsements (6 or more!) from the organizations we are tracking, or a progressive score of 80 or higher on our own rubric. That second path is how we find the progressives you may never have heard of, who aren't getting much national attention yet. Send them some love (e.g. donations, or volunteer) so they can win in November!
Endorsements alone don't get an incumbent onto this page. We leave out sitting members who have earned a strike on our own Wall of Shame — no matter how many organizations have endorsed them. Even Ro Khanna.
We feature Democrats here, except in the rare race where no Democrat is on the ballot. There may be more progressive candidates running as independents or third parties; they are listed with their progressive scores on the Full List. (Before voting for one, please read our note on strategic voting.)
Of course, this is not a popularity contest, and neither an endorsement count nor a score is a voting recommendation. Candidates who haven't racked up many national endorsements may be focusing on their local ground game, and a thin website can hide a great candidate.
Candidates: Want a stronger listing here? There are three ways: apply for endorsements, sign progressive pledges, and spell out your positions in detail on your own website — perhaps using our super-platform as inspiration. We can only go by what you publish! Our candidate information page walks through all three.
Progressive organizations: Now is a great time to take a close look at the high scorers here who don't have many endorsements yet, and consider endorsing them!
Raised in northeast Detroit near Seven Mile Road and Van Dyke Avenue; poverty wages led to 13 evictions and five-hour daily bus commutes to school; University of Michigan public policy grad (Gerald R. Ford School); SEIU Healthcare Michigan Political and Coalition Director; Michigan state rep since 2023. Backed by Rashida Tlaib, Bernie Sanders, Justice Democrats, and SEIU. Champions utility regulation, lead pipe replacement, housing stability, gun violence intervention, and lower childcare and car insurance costs.
Five-term Pennsylvania state rep representing a majority-Black district in northwest Philadelphia; Yale grad; Temple University business professor; identifies as Democratic Socialist; great-great-grandfather Jack Rabb was formerly enslaved, founded a meat market in Mississippi after Emancipation — campaign logo recreates that storefront. Backs Medicare for All, workers' rights, dismantling systems of oppression, and ending pay-to-play politics.
Michigan-born physician and public health leader; son of an Egyptian immigrant father and a Michigan family mother; Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, medical degree from Columbia; rebuilt Detroit's Health Department after bankruptcy and Wayne County's DHHS serving 1.8M people; secured free glasses for kids, removed lead from Detroit schools, made Narcan universally accessible, and spearheaded cancellation of $700M in medical debt for 300,000 Michiganders; ran for Michigan governor 2018. Authored Medicare for All: A Citizen's Guide.
Memphis state rep; valedictorian from Mitchell High School; Bowdoin College grad; fourth son of five boys born to teenage parents; began advocating at 15, demanding textbooks and AP courses for his peers; co-founded Memphis Community Against Pollution and blocked the Byhalia Pipeline from running through a Black Memphis neighborhood; expelled from Tennessee legislature in 2023 for protesting gun violence on the House floor, then reinstated unanimously by Shelby County commissioners. Backs Medicare for All, environmental justice, workers' rights.
Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia weeks before her father was selected by the U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery, she grew up in Denver watching her parents work multiple jobs to get by. A Notre Dame-trained attorney, she was fired from a top New York firm after refusing to retract an article she wrote defending students protesting for Palestine.
Lansing activist and co-founder of the Progressive Democrats of Michigan PAC; built organizing infrastructure around economic justice and democratic reform in central Michigan. Platform: Medicare for All, universal basic income, workers' rights, and campaign finance reform. Has worked to mobilize progressive voters in a district that leans competitive in 2026.
Jacksonville native and Florida State Representative whose mother worked two jobs to get by; lost a cousin to gun violence; runs a community bookstore providing nutrition and educational resources. Former union organizer and voter registration director. Champions Medicare for All, PRO Act, universal childcare, codifying Roe, raising wages. Refuses corporate PAC and AIPAC money; supports banning Congressional stock trading.
Daughter of Dominican immigrants and a PhD student studying how the immigration system criminalizes Afro-Latino and Black New Yorkers. Campaigns on abolishing ICE, passing the PRO Act with full NLRB funding, a federal jobs guarantee, capping rent increases at 5% annually for large landlords, transitioning to a 100% clean energy economy with union jobs, and banning US weapons transfers to Israel used to bomb Gaza. Refuses corporate PAC money.
Army Lt. Colonel and combat trauma surgeon who treated future Senator Tammy Duckworth in Iraq, responded at Ground Zero after 9/11, and conducted medical missions in Gaza in 2024–2025; witnessed the genocide firsthand after Israel closed the Rafah Crossing. Grew up working-class in Old Bridge, NJ; ROTC scholarship to Rutgers; private practice in Princeton. Medicare for All, abolish ICE, Palestinian rights as centerpiece; Justice Democrats-endorsed.
Challenging less progressive incumbent Democrat
Born and raised in Highland Park, Los Angeles; daughter of a deportee, raised by a single mother on SNAP and Medicaid; co-founded and led the Highland Park Neighborhood Council; worked in the LA Mayor's Office; serves on Metro's Public Safety Advisory Committee; current work helps people transition from prison into universities and promotes intergenerational permanent affordable housing. Justice Democrats–endorsed; rejects corporate PACs.
Urban planner born in suburban St. Louis; graduate of University of Chicago and Pratt Institute; led the Fifth Avenue Committee building affordable housing; served 12 years on NYC City Council and co-founded its Progressive Caucus; served as NYC Comptroller 2022–2025; arrested at a pro-Palestinian protest in 2024. Endorsed by Warren, Sanders, and Zohran Mamdani. Fights for working families and against corporate influence in politics.
First in his family to earn a PhD; college professor, mentor, and community organizer raised in Kern County; son of immigrant parents; May Day marcher in Bakersfield; teaching and organizing in the Central Valley. Champions universal healthcare, workers' rights, housing affordability, public school funding, and immigrant dignity. Rejects corporate PACs; challenging Republican David Valadao.
Labor organizer who grew up watching her parents struggle until her mother got a union job, then spent 25 years winning the $15 minimum wage and paid sick days in New Jersey. Runs on being unbought and unbossed, having taken on bosses and bullies in both parties. Co-sponsored a $25 an hour federal minimum wage bill and calls for abolishing ICE.
Dual citizen of the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Nation and the United States; originally from Lubbock, Texas; moved to New York City in 2015; worked at Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and Trader Joe's before joining Columbia University as a UAW Local 2110 worker; organized to democratize her union and was elected unit chair in 2022; DSA member; New York State Assembly member representing the 37th District since 2025. Democratic socialist running on Medicare for All, worker power, housing justice, and end of US support for genocide in Gaza.
Challenging less progressive incumbent Democrat
Daughter of Hmong refugees who fled war in Laos; oldest of 16 children; grew up on SNAP and Medicaid; first in her family to attend college; co-founded Hmong Innovating Politics; Sacramento City USD school board member who passed the first Safe Haven Resolution in California to protect students regardless of immigration status during Trump's first term; Sacramento City Council member who led one of the most linguistically diverse COVID vaccination clinics in the nation. Backs Medicare for All, workers' rights, housing, and immigrant protections.
Raised the eldest of 14 children in southwest Detroit by Palestinian immigrant parents, she became the first Muslim woman elected to the Michigan Legislature and one of the first two Muslim women in Congress. A public interest attorney and Squad member, she fights for healthcare for all, economic and housing justice, environmental justice, and human rights without corporate PAC money.
Ojibwe member of the White Earth Nation; raised by a single mother in St. Louis Park relying on Section 8 housing, SNAP, childcare assistance, and Medicaid for serious asthma; became youngest-ever Minneapolis School Board member at 25; co-chaired the Raise the Wage Coalition; Minnesota Lt. Governor since 2019; helped pass Minnesota's paid family and medical leave; if elected, would be first Native American woman to serve in the US Senate. Does not take corporate PAC money.
Son of Mexican immigrants; former labor and immigrants' rights organizer in Austin; served on Austin City Council before winning Congress in 2022; now Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Fights for $20 minimum wage, PRO Act, Medicare for All, immigrant protections, clean energy transition, and voting rights. Rejects corporate PAC money.
Born in Chennai, India, she immigrated to the United States at 16 and became a citizens' rights and healthcare advocate before winning election to Congress in 2016. As founding co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, she has led the push for Medicare for All, authored major progressive legislation, and champions immigrant rights, workers, and racial justice from Seattle.
Attorney and organizer born and raised in the Mon Valley, and the first Black woman elected to Congress from Pennsylvania. She served in the Pennsylvania State House from 2019 before winning the seat in 2022. She sits on the Judiciary and Education and Workforce committees, and has worked to get money out of politics, advance environmental justice and push criminal legal reform, bringing over $2.7 billion back to the district.
The Squad founder and democratic socialist representing (Bronx/Queens) since 2019. Primary sponsor of Medicare for All and the Green New Deal; rejects all corporate PAC money; called Gaza a genocide and voted against military aid to Israel. Former bartender who unseated a 10-term incumbent in 2018, becoming the youngest woman ever elected to Congress.
Born in Mogadishu, Somalia, she fled civil war as a child and spent years in a Kenyan refugee camp before arriving in the United States. In 2016 she became the first Somali-American Muslim legislator in the U.S. when elected to the Minnesota House, then made history as one of the first two Muslim women in Congress. A Squad member, she fights for Medicare for All, immigrant rights, and Palestinian rights.
Daughter of Guatemalan immigrants, raised in Chicago's Humboldt Park while her father worked two jobs. Spent 18 years leading nonprofits, then rose to Majority Floor Leader in the Illinois House and co-founded its Progressive Caucus. Secured $450 million for affordable housing; expanded Medicaid to seniors regardless of immigration status. Co-leads the Dream and Promise Act; introduced the Tenants Right to Organize Act; refuses corporate contributions.
Bethlehem firefighter for 20 years; held every position on the truck; former President of the Pennsylvania Professional Fire Fighters Association; won 10-year battle for mental health coverage for firefighters with PTSI; grew up raised by a single mom who worked as a bartender; also ran Brooks Lawn Care small business since 2013; has four kids and two granddaughters; coached youth and varsity baseball at Nazareth Area High School for over two decades. Fighting for working families, not corporate PACs.
Lifelong Lakeville, Minnesota resident who built a law practice representing seniors and people with disabilities before entering public life as a city councilor, mayor, and state senator. Running on a family-first platform of affordable healthcare, retirement security, childcare, and cost-of-living relief. Frames his candidacy around his mother's healthcare needs, his father's retirement, and his daughter's future.
Challenging a less progressive Democrat
California 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.
Challenging Republican Aaron Flint
Union smokejumper and Forest Service firefighter who organized labor efforts between fire seasons. Challenges incumbent Ryan Zinke on public lands protection, opposing federal cuts to the Forest Service. Supports affordable housing and childcare, healthcare reform, wage increases, stronger union protections, and corporate tax fairness — backed entirely by grassroots donors, no corporate PACs.
A lifelong Tucsonan and daughter of former Congressman Raúl Grijalva, she grew up on the south side of Tucson and earned a political science degree from the University of Arizona. Spent two decades in public service, including directing Pima County Teen Court and serving on the Tucson Unified School District board. Won a special election in September 2025 to become the first Latina elected to Congress in Arizona history.
Registered nurse and patient advocate whose own undiagnosed genetic disease exposed her to systemic healthcare failures firsthand; grew up in poverty in Ohio and became a mother through both adoption and IVF. Champions healthcare as a human right, humane immigration reform, Arizona water security, fully funded public schools, reproductive freedom, and rejecting all corporate PAC money.
Working-class Massachusetts kid who spent 37 years in the House before winning his Senate seat in 2013, then held it in a landmark 2020 primary against Joe Kennedy III backed by the progressive grassroots. Green New Deal Senate co-author; Medicare for All co-sponsor; voted to block .8B in bombs to Israel; endorsed by Sunrise Movement, NRDC Action Fund, Ayanna Pressley, and major labor unions.
Union ironworker and Brook Park city councilman; card-carrying Ironworkers International member with decades on job sites. Champions portable healthcare not tied to employment, robust anti-outsourcing protections, and the right to organize without retaliation. Focuses entirely on working-class economic dignity — fair wages, strong union rights, and Made in America manufacturing as the foundation of community prosperity.
Making history in 2018 as the first woman of color elected to Congress from Massachusetts, she came up through the Boston City Council before joining The Squad. An advocate, survivor, and policymaker, she fights to ensure those closest to the pain are closest to the power — centering racial justice, economic equity, reproductive rights, and carceral reform in every piece of legislation she pursues.
Grew up in public housing in Louisville's West End, living the poverty and food insecurity he now fights to end. Former Kentucky state legislator who ran competitively for Senate in 2020 and 2022. Running again in 2026 on Medicare for All, a $45,000 minimum wage floor ($40x40x45), universal basic income, free college, reparations, and explicit support for a free Palestine.
Challenging a less progressive Democrat
First-generation immigrant from Hong Kong; former San Francisco Supervisor who banned oil extraction in SF and shut down a polluting power plant. Supports Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, the PRO Act, raising the national minimum wage, direct federal investment in affordable housing, and pathway to citizenship; rejects corporate PAC and AIPAC money; cosponsors the Block the Bombs Act to prohibit weapons transfers to Israel.
Born in 1997 in Orlando, he became the first Generation Z and first Afro-Cuban member of Congress when elected in 2022 at just 25 years old. A former youth organizer with March for Our Lives and Black Lives Matter, he champions gun violence prevention, housing justice, and climate action — channeling a generation's frustration with political inaction into bold legislation from the House.
Senior pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas for more than four decades, growing it from under 100 members to over 13,000; holds four degrees including a PhD; invested over $3 million in HBCUs. Champions development without displacement, environmental justice confronting racist zoning, capping predatory interest rates, banning stock trading for members of Congress, closing super PAC loopholes, and a 5-year post-Congress lobbying ban.
A logger and former President of the Maine Senate now challenging Susan Collins. In the legislature he lowered prescription drug prices, passed universal school meals, protected union jobs and expanded rural health care. He refuses corporate PAC and billionaire money, and his campaign is backed by more than one hundred current and former elected officials across Maine.
Third-generation Baptist pastor who founded Vintage Fellowship in Springdale; 20-year resident of Northwest Arkansas; wife Vanessa and four kids raised locally. Ran for Congress in 2018 on working-class issues. Fights for healthcare, housing affordability, and an accountable government that works for families, not parties — rejects all corporate PAC money.
Navy veteran and software engineer. "No amount of money will change my positions. I don't care about being a good Democrat or politician. I care about being a good American." Believes government has the power to lower costs in nearly every aspect of life but that too many officials watch the stock market rather than feel what families face.
Challenging less progressive incumbent Democrat
Born and raised in the East San Fernando Valley; mother of five, community organizer, and two-term president of the Sun Valley Area Neighborhood Council. Advocates Medicare for All, abolish and prosecute ICE, end unconditional U.S. military aid funding genocide, cancel student debt, tuition-free college; rejects all corporate PAC, AIPAC, Big Pharma, and Big Oil money.
Special education teacher of seventeen years and union organizer from southeast Louisiana who grounds every national position in district data. Would cosponsor Medicare for All with no premiums or deductibles, vote to dismantle ICE, back the PRO Act and wealth taxes, provide rent control and tenant right to counsel, eliminate all federal private prison contracts, and overturn Citizens United.
Challenging a less progressive Democrat
Born in San Francisco in 1977, she grew up in poverty and dropped out of school at sixteen before being recruited into a youth program. Earned a public policy degree from Mills College and an MPA from the University of San Francisco. Spent two decades as a nonprofit executive focused on criminal justice reform, then served eight years on the BART Board. Elected in 2024 to succeed Barbara Lee.
Physician associate and educator running in one of North Carolina's most competitive districts. Supports Medicare for All, ending prior authorization by insurance companies, and untethering healthcare from employment. Advocates for the Green New Deal, abolishing ICE, recognizing Palestinian statehood and ending U.S. funding of Israeli attacks, banning gerrymandering, expanding the Supreme Court, and DC and Puerto Rico statehood.
Stay-at-home mom from a union family in Terrell, Texas; personally experienced high-risk pregnancies and financial strain while watching billionaire headlines; grassroots organizer who has marched with parents, nurses, and teachers across East Texas. Champions Medicare for All, right to organize, reproductive rights, ending mass detention, restoring the Voting Rights Act, and overturning Citizens United; opposes school vouchers.
Born in Myrtle Creek, Oregon and raised in a blue-collar east Portland neighborhood, he was a first-generation college student who earned degrees at Stanford and Princeton before working as a nuclear policy analyst at the Pentagon. Served in the Oregon House from 1999 to 2009, including two years as Speaker. First elected to the Senate in 2008. A strong Senate voice on labor, climate, and healthcare.
Twenty-one-year military veteran running in a newly redrawn Tampa-area district, campaigning to work for constituents rather than the president or his own party. Supports Medicare for All as a human right, refuses AIPAC contributions including undisclosed AIPAC-linked donors, opposes any further arms to Israel, would ban congressional stock trading, and would restore EPA standards and FEMA programs.
Eighth-generation Texan; former middle school teacher; Presbyterian seminarian; type 1 diabetes diagnosis inspired his fight for guaranteed healthcare. Champions Medicare access for all Americans, raising the federal minimum wage to $15, the PRO Act, paid family leave, and banning super PACs and corporate PACs. Supports stopping offensive weapons sales to the Netanyahu government and using diplomacy to achieve a two-state solution.
A mother and community advocate from Northwest Florida who lost her husband to ALS and her son to a brain tumor, channeling personal tragedy into public service. Campaigns for universal affordable healthcare, reinstating the $35 insulin cap, strengthening the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, stopping Wall Street investors from buying up homes, universal background checks and federal red flag laws, and a full-service VA hospital.
Retired Air Force Major with 37 years of service and three combat deployments; Hanford nuclear cleanup worker; raised in a union household. Supports moving toward universal healthcare, restoring ACA subsidies, lowering drug costs, raising the federal minimum wage, protecting the right to organize, closing tax loopholes like carried interest, overturning Citizens United, and banning Congressional stock trading. No corporate PAC money.
Challenging less progressive incumbent Democrat
Son of a nurse and a disabled veteran, raised on food stamps and Medicaid in a rural farm town; now a Napa father who built healthcare and education companies. Wants Medicare to cover dental, vision, hearing and in-home nursing at 65, free generic drugs, rent made tax-deductible, zero-down first-time mortgages, and an end to corporate money in politics. Calls himself antiwar.
Madison small business owner who ran a union printing company for 37 years, Chair Emeritus of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and co-founder of the Labor Caucus, in the House since 2013. An original Medicare for All cosponsor and Green New Deal backer who authored legislation to dissolve ICE within six months, co-led the Block the Bombs Act, moved to cut the Pentagon budget by $100 billion, and refuses corporate PAC money.
Army veteran who deployed to Iraq; senior automation engineer with 15 years at NASA, Boeing, Ford, and the City of Seattle — where he helped conserve salmon runs through wastewater control systems. Eighth-generation western Pennsylvanian from Erie County. Champions Medicare for All, PRO Act, union jobs, and clean energy; home-schools four daughters and coaches youth hockey.
Pulmonary and critical care physician at Kaiser Permanente; first in her family to finish college and medical school, helped by the union job at Albertsons she started at 16. Former Oregon state representative who secured housing investments, strengthened abortion protections and closed gun-law loopholes. Champions universal, affordable healthcare, climate justice, housing as a fundamental right, and protecting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
Challenging less progressive incumbent Democrat
Community 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.
An 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.
39 challengers, 2 recent special-election winners, and 14 full-term incumbents.
Honorable Mentions
Candidates with 4 to 5 endorsements, or a progressive score of 70–79.
Dan Osborn, Nebraska, Senate Independent (Peace Action, Integrity Index Pledge, Organize for Peace, Patriotic Millionaires, The AI P.A.C.T.)
No Democrat in this race
Conrad Cable, Louisiana, LA-04 Primary Nov 3 (Integrity Index Pledge, Progressive Voters Network, Take BAC Congress, The AI P.A.C.T.)
LaMonica McIver, New Jersey, NJ-10 Incumbent C+ (PDA, Working Families Party, CAIR Action, Organize for Peace)
Christian Menefee , Texas, TX-18 Incumbent A-- Special Election Winner (Leaders We Deserve, National Nurses United, Integrity Index Pledge, Patriotic Millionaires)
Richard Ojeda, North Carolina, NC-09 (Integrity Index Pledge, Progressive Voters Network, Take BAC Congress, Patriotic Millionaires)
Micah Lasher , New York, NY-12 (Integrity Index Pledge, Progressive Voters Network)
The higher-endorsed candidate Karen Ortiz (Independent) may warrant consideration.
Kaylee Peterson , Idaho, ID-01 (Integrity Index Pledge, Take BAC Congress)
Beth Macy , Virginia, VA-06 (Progressive Voters Network)
Stefany Shaheen , New Hampshire, NH-01
30 challengers, 1 recent special-election winner, and 1 full-term incumbent.
Also Worth Mentioning
Candidates with a progressive score of 60–69.
Cait Conley , New York, NY-17 (Working Families Party, Integrity Index Pledge)
Dan Koh , Massachusetts, MA-06 (Integrity Index Pledge)
Ace Parsi , West Virginia, WV-02 (Integrity Index Pledge, Take BAC Congress)
Luke Bronin , Connecticut, CT-01 (Integrity Index Pledge)
Rachel Fetty Anderson , West Virginia, Senate (Take BAC Congress, Patients Over Profits)
Robert Garcia , California, CA-42 Incumbent C+ (CAIR Action, Organize for Peace)
Mitchell Berman , Wisconsin, WI-01 (Integrity Index Pledge, Progressive Voters Network)
Christina Bohannan , Iowa, IA-01 (Everytown)
Jeremy Moss , Michigan, MI-11
Mike McGuire , California, CA-01 (CPC PAC, National Nurses United)
Kelly Kirschner , Florida, FL-16 (Integrity Index Pledge)
Adrian Boafo , Maryland, MD-05
Kevin Burge , Texas, TX-24 (Take BAC Congress)
Eunice Lehmacher , South Carolina, SC-03 (Integrity Index Pledge, Progressive Voters Network)
Bob Harvie , Pennsylvania, PA-01 (MoveOn, Integrity Index Pledge)
Doug Chapin , Minnesota, MN-06 (Courage for Democracy, Progressive Voters Network, CAIR Action)
Josh Turek , Iowa, Senate (Peace Action)
19 challengers and 3 full-term incumbents.
Candidates with Potential
Candidates with a progressive score of 50–59.
Cyril Jefferson , North Carolina, NC-06 (Integrity Index Pledge, Take BAC Congress, Patients Over Profits)
Aaron Gies , New York, NY-23 (Working Families Party)
Laura Jones , Texas, TX-08 (Progressive Voters Network)
Robert White , District of Columbia, DC-AL (Working Families Party, CPC PAC)
Erik Osberg , Minnesota, MN-07 (Integrity Index Pledge)
Eric Yonce , Florida, FL-06 (Integrity Index Pledge, Patients Over Profits, Abolish ICE Pledge)
Rebecca Cooke , Wisconsin, WI-03 (Bernie Sanders, Patriotic Millionaires)
Tom Perriello , Virginia, VA-05 (CPC PAC, Integrity Index Pledge, Patriotic Millionaires)
Denise Powell , Nebraska, NE-02
Ben Ambrose , Michigan, MI-02 (Progressive Voters Network)
Bill Hill , Alaska, AK-AL Independent (Integrity Index Pledge)
No Democrat in this race
Katy Padilla Stout , Texas, TX-23 Special TBD (MoveOn)
Colin Allred , Texas, TX-33 (Abolish ICE Pledge)
Alani Bankhead , Montana, Senate (Courage for Democracy)
Kimberly Hardy , North Carolina, NC-07 (Take BAC Congress, Patriotic Millionaires)
Trina Swanson , Minnesota, MN-08
James Russell , Arkansas, AR-04 (Progressive Voters Network, Take BAC Congress)
Joy Powers , Virginia, VA-09 (Take BAC Congress)
Dan Schwartz , Maryland, MD-01 (Integrity Index Pledge, Take BAC Congress, The AI P.A.C.T.)
20 challengers.
This is the Class of 2026 — your progressive candidates. No matter where we draw the line as to what constitutes a “progressive,” this is an impressive group of people.
If all of our progressive incumbents were to be re-elected and all of these progressive Democratic candidates were chosen on November 3, we could see 47 progressives in the House and 10 in the Senate. If you include the Honorable Mentions — still pretty darned progressive — we have the potential for 76 progressives in the House and 13 in the Senate. The next two levels of “progressiveness” in the candidates here would bring the House potentially to 96 or even 115, and the Senate to 15 or even 18 senators with progressive tendencies!
Let’s do this!