Kai Newkirk for Congress in Arizona’s 4th District
At a moment when too many Democrats are afraid to confront corporate power, authoritarianism, and endless war, Kai Newkirk is running directly into the fight.
That’s why Our Revolution is proud to endorse Kai Newkirk for Congress in Arizona’s 4th District.
Kai is a longtime organizer, labor activist, and movement leader — and he’s taking on an AIPAC-funded Democrat incumbent to turn this seat bright blue.
He first started organizing in college through the global justice and anti-war movement after 9/11, then served as a union organizer with UNITE HERE and other labor campaigns. He went on to help found national democracy movements, including Democracy Spring — organizing nonviolent direct action against corruption, oligarchy, and attacks on democratic rights.
Since moving to Arizona in 2018 with his wife, immigrant rights leader Erika Andiola, Kai has continued building grassroots progressive power as co-chair of the Progressive Council of the Arizona Democratic Party.
A Clear Contrast in AZ-04
This race is a battle over the future of the Democratic Party.
Kai’s opponent, incumbent Greg Stanton, is a corporate-aligned “New Democrat” backed heavily by corporate PAC money and AIPAC. Stanton opposes Medicare for All and voted to sanction the International Criminal Court after it moved to indict Benjamin Netanyahu.
Kai is offering a fundamentally different vision.
He’s running on:
- Medicare for All
- Ending corruption and billionaire control of politics
- Defeating authoritarianism and MAGA extremism
- Abolishing ICE and protecting immigrant communities
- Ending U.S. support for genocide and criminal wars
- Affordable housing and lowering costs for working families
- Worker rights and union power
- Climate action and environmental justice
Kai rejects corporate PAC money and is unapologetically challenging the billionaire-driven politics dominating both parties.
A Movement Candidate
Kai isn’t running a conventional campaign.
He’s spent his adult life organizing nonviolent struggles for democracy, peace, workers’ rights, climate action, and justice for all people.
And he understands what’s at stake in this moment.
This campaign is about proving that Democrats who enable genocide, mass deportation, corporate greed, and billionaire influence can be challenged — and beaten.
It’s about building the ranks of progressive fighters in Congress and shifting the Democratic Party in a truly progressive populist direction.
And it’s about showing that voters are hungry for leaders willing to actually confront entrenched power instead of accommodating it.
Our Revolution is proud to stand with Kai Newkirk in this fight.
When we organize, we win.