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May 29
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Aparna Raj for DC Council, Ward 1

By ALL, DC, Endorsement

Aparna Raj for DC Council, Ward 1

Our Revolution is proud to endorse Aparna Raj for DC Council in Ward 1.

Aparna is a community organizer, union member, tenant advocate, and the daughter of immigrants who has spent years fighting alongside working people in Washington, DC. Her campaign is grounded in a simple belief: government should work for ordinary people — not wealthy insiders, corporate developers, or special interests. She understands the challenges facing working families because she’s been organizing around them for years.

As a tenant organizer, Aparna has helped residents take on negligent landlords, fight unsafe housing conditions, and win real improvements for tenants. She has advocated for stronger tenant protections and served on the ANC 1A Housing Justice and Zoning Committee, working to ensure housing policy serves residents instead of developer profits.

As a union member, she served on her bargaining committee to win better pay and benefits for workers. She has fought to raise the tipped minimum wage and stood with workers organizing for dignity and economic justice across the city.

Those experiences have shaped a bold vision for Ward 1 and for Washington, DC.

Aparna is campaigning to expand affordable housing and strengthen rent control protections so that working families, seniors, and longtime residents can remain in the communities they helped build. She supports expanding childcare access and moving toward universal free childcare so that no family is forced to choose between financial stability and caring for their children. She is committed to defending immigrants, federal workers, LGBTQ+ communities, and DC’s right to self-government against attacks from right-wing politicians and powerful interests.

At a moment when working people are being priced out of their neighborhoods and corporate influence too often dominates politics, Aparna represents the kind of leadership our movement needs.

Her campaign is powered by grassroots supporters, not corporate donors. She understands that meaningful change comes from organized people coming together to fight for their communities. That’s the same principle Our Revolution was founded on when millions of Bernie supporters came together to build a political home for the progressive movement.

We don’t just need better policies. We need leaders who will organize with their communities, challenge entrenched power, and build lasting change from the ground up.

That’s why electing progressives to city councils, school boards, state legislatures, and local offices is so important. These are the leaders who shape people’s daily lives and who form the foundation of a stronger progressive movement nationwide. Building power locally is how we win nationally.

Aparna Raj is exactly the kind of movement leader Our Revolution was created to support.

She has spent years fighting for tenants, workers, immigrants, and families. She’s running a people-powered campaign rooted in community organizing and economic justice. And she’s ready to bring that same commitment to Ward 1 on the DC Council.

Our Revolution is proud to endorse Aparna Raj for DC Council.

Join us in supporting her campaign and helping build a government that puts people before profits.

May 27
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Join Our Revolution’s National Organize-to-Win Call June 1st

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Big progressive fights are happening RIGHT NOW in the Democratic Primaries — and Our Revolution is mobilizing to win.

Join us LIVE for our national Organize to Win Call on Monday, June 1 at 8:30 PM ET / 5:30 PM PT as we hear directly from movement candidates taking on the establishment in key elections across the country.

Special guests include:

🔥 U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN-05) — standing strong against MAGA attacks and fighting for peace, justice, and working families in Congress.

🔥 Alex Bores for Congress (NY-12) — taking on Big Tech and corporate power while fighting for affordable housing and a government that works for everyday people.

🔥 Wala Blegay for Congress (MD-5) — a bold champion for Medicare for All, labor rights, and economic justice.

🔥 Nate Blouin for Congress (UT-1) — organizing for voting rights, public lands, reproductive freedom, and a new generation of progressive leadership in Utah.

🔥 Effie Phillips-Staley for Congress (NY-17) — fighting for working families, healthcare access, and people-powered politics over corporate influence.

🔥 Randy Villegas for Congress (CA-22) — a working-class organizer standing up for immigrant communities, labor rights, and economic justice in California’s Central Valley.

🔥 Yuh-Line Niou for NY State Senate — a fearless progressive leader fighting for tenants, immigrants, reproductive rights, and working New Yorkers.

These candidates are standing up to big money and the far right to fight alongside our movement and deliver for working families. Let’s build power up and down the ballot this election season!

RSVP NOW to join us LIVE Monday night and strategize with these progressive leaders to win major victories for working people nationwide.

May 27
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Sam Forstag for Congress (MT-01)

By ALL, Endorsement, MT

Sam Forstag for Congress (MT-01)

Our Revolution is proud to endorse Sam Forstag for Congress in Montana’s 1st Congressional District.

At a time when working people are being crushed by rising housing costs, unaffordable healthcare, scarce childcare, and a political system dominated by corporate money, Sam Forstag is bringing something desperately needed to Congress: real working-class representation.

Sam isn’t a millionaire politician or corporate insider. He’s a smokejumper, union leader, and organizer who understands firsthand what it means to work hard and still struggle to get by. Raised largely by a single mother who worked extra nursing shifts to pay the bills, Sam spent much of his own life juggling multiple jobs while fighting for better healthcare, public education, civil liberties, and economic justice for working Montanans. 

After eight years as a wildland firefighter — including years parachuting into remote areas as a smokejumper — Sam became a union leader fighting for federal workers and public lands. As Vice President of NFFE Local 60, he organized Forest Service workers, stood up against attacks on public servants, and spoke out against the growing power of oligarchs and corporations over working people’s lives. 

Now, he’s taking that fight to Washington.

Sam’s campaign is centered on a simple but powerful belief: if you work full-time in America, you should be able to afford housing, healthcare, and childcare.

That means investing in affordable housing through community land trusts, deed-restricted housing, and partnerships that keep homes affordable for Montanans — while cracking down on hedge funds and corporate investors buying up housing and pricing families out of their communities.

It means fighting for universal healthcare by allowing every American to buy into Medicare, expanding ACA subsidies, and ensuring healthcare includes vision and dental coverage.

It means making universal childcare and pre-K a reality so working families can afford to stay and raise children in Montana.

And Sam knows exactly how to pay for it: by making the ultra-wealthy and giant corporations finally pay their fair share through higher taxes on millionaires, closing loopholes for capital gains, and restoring the corporate tax rate.

Just as importantly, Sam understands that none of these fights can be won while corporate money dominates our political system. He supports overturning Citizens United, banning corporate spending in elections, banning congressional stock trading, and closing the revolving door between Congress and corporate lobbying.

This race is one of the most important congressional contests in the country. Montana’s First Congressional District MT-01 is considered one of the key districts that could determine control of the House of Representatives. But this campaign is about more than flipping a seat — it’s about transforming who government works for.

For too long, working-class people have been shut out of political power while wealthy donors and corporations dictate the agenda in Washington. Sam Forstag represents a new generation of leaders rooted in labor, organizing, and community — leaders who know that government should improve people’s lives, not enrich billionaires.

As Sam says, “It’s become too damn hard for most Montanans to afford basic things like housing, healthcare, childcare, and even groceries.” 

Our Revolution believes Montana deserves a representative who will fight unapologetically for working people — not corporate donors and political insiders.

That’s why we’re proud to endorse Sam Forstag for Congress in MT-01. ✊

May 27
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Justin J. Pearson for Congress in Tennessee’s 9th District

By ALL, Endorsement, TN

Justin J. Pearson for Congress in Tennessee’s 9th District

Our Revolution is proud to endorse Justin J. Pearson for Congress in Tennessee’s 9th District — a bold fighter for racial justice on the frontlines of the struggle for democracy and working people in the South.

Before entering elected office, Pearson organized his neighbors to stop the toxic Byhalia Pipeline from being built through a Black working-class community in Southwest Memphis — a major grassroots victory against environmental racism and corporate pollution.

Then, after leading protests demanding gun reform following a school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee Republicans expelled him from the State House for standing up to the NRA and refusing to stay silent.

Voters sent him right back.

That spirit of organizing and resistance defines Justin Pearson’s campaign for Congress.

And now he’s taking on an even bigger fight.

Following the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on the Voting Rights Act, Tennessee Republicans rushed through a gerrymandering plan to redistrict the state’s majority-Black congressional district, which had been based in Memphis. Pearson has emerged as one of the loudest voices fighting back — both politically and legally — while organizing directly within his community.

Pearson had already been hard at work building a serious grassroots challenge against longtime incumbent Rep. Steve Cohen, an AIPAC-backed Democrat who consistently sided with corporate interests and supported blank checks for war abroad. Before Republicans redrew the district, Pearson’s insurgent campaign had gained major momentum and exposed growing hunger for a new kind of leadership in Memphis.

Now the race has shifted again, with Cohen dropping out and MAGA Republicans State Senator Brent Taylor and State Representative Todd Warner jumping in. But Pearson knows the path forward is organizing — especially among Black voters, young people, and working-class communities – to spread his message throughout this new 200-mile district that sprawls from the southwest corner of the state, all the way to the Nashville suburbs.

 

And his campaign is centered on exactly the issues working people are demanding action on:

  • Affordability
  • Gun reform
  • Environmental racism
  • Protecting democracy
  • Expanding opportunity

Pearson has also become a leading voice challenging Elon Musk’s xAI data center project in his district and warning about the intersection of corporate greed, environmental injustice, and political corruption.

At a moment when too many Democrats play it safe, Justin Pearson represents something different: movement politics rooted in courage, grassroots organizing, and a willingness to directly confront entrenched power.

This campaign is about proving that bold progressive leadership can compete — and win — even in the face of voter suppression, corporate money, and MAGA extremism.

Justin Pearson has already shown he’s willing to stand up when it matters most.

That’s why Our Revolution is proud to stand with him.

When we organize, we win. ✊

May 26
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Bold Progressive Slate in Colorado

By ALL, CO, Endorsement

Bold Slate of Progressives in Colorado

Colorado has become a critical battleground for the future of the Democratic Party — and Our Revolution is proud to endorse a new generation of progressive leaders fighting for working people, democracy, affordability, and real accountability from the grassroots up.

From Congress to the State Legislature to local offices, these candidates represent a people-powered vision for Colorado rooted in economic justice, democracy reform, healthcare, labor rights, and public investment.

U.S. Senate

Julie Gonzales for U.S. Senate
Colorado State Senator Julie Gonzales is running an unapologetically progressive campaign focused on affordability, universal healthcare, voting rights, housing, immigrant protections, and challenging billionaire influence in politics. Her campaign calls for “putting power back in the hands of the people.” 

Secretary of State

Amanda Gonzalez for Secretary of State
Amanda Gonzalez is a former non-profit executive and current Jefferson County Clerk focused on protecting voting rights and defending democracy. Her campaign emphasizes election integrity, expanding access to the ballot, and ensuring Colorado elections remain in the hands of voters — not partisan extremists. 

U.S. Congress

Melat Kiros for Congress (CO-01)
Melat Kiros is a lawyer, organizer, and first-generation Ethiopian-American running for a new generation of leadership in Congress. She’s campaigning on Medicare for All, universal childcare, housing as a human right, and rejecting corporate PAC money in one of the country’s most progressive districts. 

Colorado State Legislature

Chela Irlando Garcia for State Senate (SD-34) – running to fight for working families, stronger public schools, and affordable communities in Colorado.

Iris Halpern for State House (HD-6) – focused on equity, affordability, and expanding opportunity for working Coloradans.

Neal Walia for State House (HD-9) – an organizer campaigning on labor rights, housing justice, and economic democracy.

Junie Joseph for State House (HD-10) – a progressive legislator and immigrant rights advocate fighting for affordable healthcare, reproductive freedom, and working families.

Steph Vigil for State House (HD-16) – a labor-backed progressive championing workers’ rights, public education, and economic justice.

Anil Pesaramelli for State House (HD-19) – campaigning to expand healthcare access, affordability, and public investment for Colorado families.

Kenny Van Nguyen for State House (HD-33) – a community organizer and public servant focused on equity, affordability, and immigrant communities.

Other Key Races

Kubs Lalchandani for University of Colorado Board of Regents (District 2) – fighting for affordable higher education, student opportunity, and accessible public universities.

Michael Farrington for RTD Board District K – running to strengthen public transit, improve accessibility, and build sustainable infrastructure for working communities in Adams County.

At a time when corporate interests and political insiders are trying to maintain the status quo, these candidates are building grassroots movements rooted in people power and progressive change.

This is how we build lasting progressive power in Colorado: from Congress to state legislatures to local governing boards.

When we organize, we win. ✊

May 23
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Ilhan Omar for Re-Election to Congress in MN-05

By ALL, Endorsement, MN

Ilhan Omar for Re-Election to Congress in MN-05

Our Revolution is proud to endorse Ilhan Omar for re-election to Congress in Minnesota’s 5th District.

From the moment she entered Congress, Ilhan has been one of the clearest and most courageous voices fighting for working people, immigrants, peace, racial justice, and democracy — even as she’s faced relentless attacks from the far right, corporate interests, and the political establishment.

At a time when too many politicians stay silent in the face of authoritarianism and corporate power, Ilhan Omar continues to stand up and fight.

According to her campaign, Ilhan is running to continue building a future rooted in:

  • Economic justice
  • Universal healthcare
  • Housing affordability
  • Climate action
  • Immigrant rights
  • Democracy reform
  • End endless war

Her campaign emphasizes that government should work for ordinary people — not billionaires, corporations, or political insiders.

And that’s exactly why powerful forces continue targeting her.

Ilhan has long been one of Donald Trump’s favorite political targets. In recent months, Trump escalated his attacks even further — suggesting she should be jailed or deported and amplifying false conspiracy theories targeting both her and Minnesota’s Somali community. 

Despite the threats and intimidation, Ilhan has remained outspoken against ICE and MAGA extremism. She will always stand strong for immigrant communities and progressive values.

Right now, she faces multiple challengers in both the Democratic primary and general election, while outside groups and right-wing media continue pouring attention and attacks into the race.

At a moment when authoritarian politics, billionaire influence, and anti-immigrant attacks are intensifying across the country, we need leaders who won’t back down under pressure.

Ilhan Omar has shown that courage time and time again.

That’s why Our Revolution is proud to stand with her once more.

When we organize, we win. ✊

May 23
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Kai Newkirk for Congress in Arizona’s 4th District

By ALL, AZ, Endorsement

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. 

May 23
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Adelita Grijalva for Congress in AZ-07

By ALL, AZ, Endorsement

Adelita Grijalva for Congress in AZ-07

Our Revolution is proud to endorse Adelita Grijalva for Congress in AZ-07 — a lifelong organizer, education advocate, and progressive leader fighting for Southern Arizona families and immigrant communities.

We were proud to back Adelita in her campaign last year, and we’re proud to stand with her again as she runs for a full term in Congress representing Arizona’s 7th District.

Adelita stepped up to run after the passing of her father, longtime progressive champion Rep. Raúl Grijalva, who spent decades fighting for labor rights, environmental justice, immigrant communities, Indigenous sovereignty, and progressive change in Congress. 

But Adelita isn’t simply carrying forward a legacy — she’s built one of her own.

Before being elected to Congress in 2025, Adelita served for years on the Tucson Unified School District Governing Board and later on the Pima County Board of Supervisors, where she focused on public education, affordable housing, environmental protection, and expanding opportunity for working families. 

Her campaign is deeply rooted in Southern Arizona and grounded in the belief that government should work for ordinary people — not corporations or billionaire donors.

As her campaign puts it: “Community-rooted. Southern Arizona strong. One of us. Fighting for all of us.” 

Adelita is running for re-election to continue fighting for public schools, labor rights, environmental justice, healthcare access, immigrant communities, and economic opportunity in a district that has long been a center of progressive organizing in the Southwest. 

She has also emerged as a strong progressive voice willing to stand up to MAGA extremism and attacks on democratic institutions. After winning this seat last year, House Republicans delayed swearing her into office for weeks during a government shutdown standoff — a move widely criticized by Democrats and voting rights advocates. 

Adelita currently faces Republican Daniel Butierez, a repeat GOP challenger backed by conservative interests. 

And while massive outside spending transformed last year’s Arizona special election into a national battleground, Adelita continued building a grassroots coalition powered by labor, progressives, Latino communities, young voters, and movement organizations. 

At a time when too many politicians cave to corporate pressure and billionaire influence, Adelita Grijalva has remained grounded in community organizing, public service, and progressive values.

That’s why Our Revolution is proud to endorse her once again.

When we organize, we win. ✊

May 14
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NY ASSEMBLY SLATE

By ALL, Endorsement, NY

Our Revolution Endorses a Bold Progressive Slate Across New York

New York should be leading the nation on progressive policy — and it can if we build power up and down the ballot.

Time and again, Albany Democrats have watered down or blocked the bold solutions working people are demanding — from taxing the rich to passing single-payer healthcare. At a moment when billionaires and corporate interests are shaping the political “permission structure” for the entire country from Wall Street and Manhattan boardrooms, we can’t afford for deep blue states like New York to play it safe.

That’s why this is such an insurgent moment in New York politics — and why Our Revolution is mobilizing our one million members across the state to elect a new generation of progressive fighters at every level of government.

These candidates are taking on corporate power, political insiders, real estate interests, and the billionaire donor class — while fighting for housing justice, labor rights, healthcare, climate action, and economic democracy.

U.S. Congress

Claire Valdez (NY-07)

Claire Valdez is a democratic socialist, union organizer, and New York State Assemblymember who has been a strong advocate for worker protections, social housing, and immigrant rights. A former UAW member and labor organizer, Claire is running for Congress to bring working-class politics directly into Washington and fight for Medicare for All, stronger unions, and housing as a human right.

Brad Lander (NY-10)

As New York City Comptroller, Brad Lander has built a reputation for taking on corruption, corporate landlords, and billionaire influence in city politics. A longtime progressive reformer, he has championed affordable housing, climate action, labor rights, and government accountability while pushing back against the influence of real estate and corporate money.

Alex Bores (NY-12)

Alex Bores has emerged as one of the country’s leading voices on AI accountability and the dangers of unchecked corporate technology power. A State Assemblymember and former tech worker, Alex is fighting to regulate artificial intelligence, strengthen democracy protections, and challenge monopolistic corporate influence over public life and politics.

Darializa Avila Chevalier (NY-13)

A working-class Afro-Latina organizer, UAW member, and public defense investigator, Darializa Avila Chevalier is building a grassroots challenge rooted in immigrant rights, housing justice, labor power, and economic dignity. From organizing against ICE to supporting mutual aid efforts in the Bronx and Harlem, she represents a new generation of movement leadership.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14)

AOC helped redefine what’s politically possible in America. Since defeating one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress in 2018, she has become one of the nation’s leading voices for Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, labor rights, climate justice, taxing the rich, and taking on oligarchic power. Alongside Bernie Sanders, she continues helping lead the modern progressive movement.

Effie Phillips-Staley (NY-17)

Effie Phillips-Staley is an educator, labor advocate, and Tarrytown Trustee running one of the clearest grassroots-vs-establishment campaigns in the country. She’s fighting for Medicare for All, universal childcare, housing as a human right, and redirecting resources away from endless war and toward working families. After speaking publicly about the human rights abuses she witnessed firsthand in the West Bank, Effie faced backlash from Democratic insiders and pro-Israel lobby groups — further highlighting the stakes of this race and the larger fight over the future of the Democratic Party.

NY State Senate

Aber Kawas (SD-12)

A Queens organizer and healthcare advocate pushing for economic and social justice, affordability, and stronger public services.

Yuh-Line Niou (SD-27)

A former Assemblymember and fearless progressive champion for tenants, immigrants, and working families who has consistently challenged corporate influence and fought for marginalized communities.

Jon Rivera (SD-61)

A Buffalo Assemblymember and progressive fighter focused on “urgency, service, and accountability,” standing up for working families, housing protections, and investments in Western New York.

NY State Assembly

Samantha Kattan (AD-37)

A Queens organizer fighting for tenant protections, affordability, and working families.

Christian Celeste Tate (AD-54)

A Brooklyn community advocate focused on affordability, education, and equity.

David Siffert (AD-66)

A progressive leader taking on mass surveillance and fighting for affordable housing in Manhattan.

Eli Northrup (AD-69)

A public defender, policy advocate, and community leader fighting for justice and protecting working families in Harlem.

Maurice Brown (AD-129)

A Syracuse leader fighting to lower costs, expand affordable housing, and deliver real results for working families.

Kurtis VanWuyckhuyse (AD-134)

A labor-backed progressive fighting for workers’ rights and economic fairness in Western New York.

This is how we build real progressive power: block by block, district by district, seat by seat.

When we organize, we win. ✊

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