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Endorsing Progressive Champions for Ann Arbor

By ALL, Endorsement, MI

Endorsing Progressive Champions for Ann Arbor

Strong cities are built by leaders who put people before corporate interests, invest in thriving neighborhoods, and believe local government should improve everyday life for working families.

That’s why Our Revolution is proud to endorse Yousef Rabhi for Mayor of Ann Arbor, Dave Zeglen for City Council (Ward 4), and Ryan Bartholomew for City Council (Ward 3).

Together, these candidates are running people-powered campaigns focused on making Ann Arbor more affordable, strengthening public services, expanding democracy, and ensuring that working people—not wealthy special interests—shape the city’s future.

Yousef Rabhi for Mayor

Yousef Rabhi has spent more than a decade serving the Ann Arbor community in public office, including as a Washtenaw County Commissioner and State Representative. His campaign is centered on making Ann Arbor affordable for working families and seniors while putting residents—not consultants or special interests—at the center of city government.

Yousef is campaigning to make historic investments in permanently affordable public housing, strengthen public services, repair infrastructure, eliminate unnecessary consultant contracts, and ensure that public work is performed by public workers. His vision is grounded in the belief that government should lower costs, expand opportunity, and work for everyday people.

Dave Zeglen for City Council (Ward 4)

Dave Zeglen is a union organizer, teacher, and proud democratic socialist running because he believes Ann Arbor should belong to its people—not corporations, landlords, or the wealthy few.

His campaign calls for permanently affordable social housing, publicly owned renewable energy through municipal power, stronger labor rights, and protecting immigrant communities. Dave is committed to building a city where public resources serve the public good and where working people have a stronger voice in local government.

Ryan Bartholomew for City Council (Ward 3)

Ryan Bartholomew serves as a policy director in the Michigan Legislature and is running to make Ann Arbor more affordable for working-class people, families, and seniors. His campaign is focused on delivering practical progressive solutions that put residents ahead of corporate interests.

Ryan’s platform includes expanding permanently affordable housing, protecting renters, strengthening public services by ending privatization, embracing public power, defending workers, increasing transparency in city government, and rejecting corporate PAC contributions. He believes Ann Arbor should be governed with integrity, independence, and accountability to the people who call the city home.

Building People Power in Ann Arbor

Across Ann Arbor, voters have an opportunity to elect leaders who understand that affordable housing, strong public services, worker power, climate action, and transparent government go hand in hand.

Yousef Rabhi, Dave Zeglen, and Ryan Bartholomew are running campaigns rooted in community, accountability, and grassroots organizing—not corporate influence. Together, they’ll fight to build a city where government works for working people and every resident has the opportunity to thrive.

Election Day for the Democratic Primary is August 4.

When we organize, we win.

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Our Revolution Supports the Michigan Money Out of Politics Initiative

By ALL, Endorsement, MI

Our Revolution Supports the Michigan Money Out of Politics Initiative

Our democracy should belong to the people—not billionaires, monopoly utilities, or corporations looking to buy influence.

That’s why Our Revolution proudly supports the Michigan Money Out of Politics ballot initiative, a people-powered campaign to restore accountability, transparency, and trust in Michigan’s democracy.

For too long, powerful corporations and special interests have used campaign contributions and dark money to gain outsized influence over the decisions that affect millions of Michiganders. Regulated monopoly utilities and large government contractors have poured money into politics while everyday people are left wondering whether their elected officials are working for the public—or for their biggest donors.

The Michigan Money Out of Politics initiative offers a straightforward solution.

The citizen-led ballot proposal would:

  • Ban regulated monopoly utilities from contributing to state officeholders and political party committees.
  • Ban corporations with large state or local government contracts from contributing to candidates who oversee those contracts.
  • Close the “issue ad” loophole that allows dark money groups to spend heavily on political advertising while hiding their donors.
  • Modernize Michigan’s campaign finance disclosure laws so voters know who is paying for political ads, including online advertising.

These reforms strike at the heart of pay-to-play politics.

Michigan voters deserve to know who is trying to influence their elections and should be confident that elected officials are accountable to the people—not corporations seeking favorable treatment or lucrative government contracts. According to polling commissioned by supporters of the initiative, there is broad bipartisan support for limiting political contributions from regulated monopolies and companies seeking government contracts.

Just as importantly, this campaign is being driven by ordinary Michiganders.

Rather than waiting for politicians to reform a system that often benefits them, a broad coalition of community organizations launched this citizen-led initiative and collected more than 560,000 signatures to place the proposal before voters. After a bipartisan vote of the Michigan Board of State Canvassers, the initiative has officially qualified to move forward toward the November 2026 ballot.

At Our Revolution, we’ve long fought to get corporate money out of politics because democracy works best when every voice carries equal weight—not just those with the deepest pockets.

The Michigan Money Out of Politics initiative represents exactly the kind of structural reform our democracy needs. It would shine a light on dark money, reduce conflicts of interest, and help ensure that elected officials answer to voters instead of powerful corporations.

Michigan has the opportunity to become a national leader in campaign finance reform.

Our Revolution is proud to support the Michigan Money Out of Politics initiative, and we urge Michiganders to vote YES for a more transparent, accountable, and people-powered democracy.

When we organize, we win.

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Rep. Pramila Jayapal for re-election to Congress

By ALL, Endorsement, WA

Rep. Pramila Jayapal for re-election to Congress

Our Revolution is proud to endorse Pramila Jayapal for re-election to Congress in Washington’s 7th District.

Pramila has been one of the nation’s most effective progressive leaders—transforming bold ideas into real legislative power while never losing sight of the movement that sent her there.

Whether she’s fighting for Medicare for All to workers’ rights to immigrant justice, Pramila has consistently stood with the values Our Revolution was founded to advance.

A Champion for Progressive Change

Pramila has spent her career fighting for government to work for ordinary people—not just the wealthy and well-connected.

In Congress, she has been a leading voice for Medicare for All, lower drug costs, affordable housing, abortion rights, defending immigrants, strengthening labor unions, confronting corporate power, and building an economy where every family has the opportunity to thrive.

She has consistently fought to make healthcare a human right, raise wages, expand paid family leave, protect voting rights, and ensure every community has the resources it needs to succeed.

Her work reflects a simple belief: our government should put people before profits.

Building Progressive Power in Congress

As Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Pramila helped reorganize the caucus to be even more impactful on Capitol Hill.

Under her leadership, the caucus became larger, more united, and more strategic—bringing members together around shared priorities and demonstrating that organized progressives can shape national policy.

She helped strengthen the caucus into a disciplined coalition capable of advancing bold legislation while ensuring working families had a stronger voice in negotiations over some of the most significant legislation considered by Congress.

Pramila’s leadership showed that progressives don’t just have ideas—we have the power to organize, build coalitions, and deliver results.

A True Partner to Our Revolution

Pramila has always understood that lasting change doesn’t begin inside the halls of Congress—it begins with people organizing in their communities.

That’s why she has remained one of Our Revolution’s closest allies.

Over the years, Pramila has joined Our Revolution’s national organizing calls time and again, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with our members as we mobilized to elect progressive candidates, defend democracy, and push for economic justice.

She knows that elected leaders are strongest when they’re accountable to grassroots movements—not corporate PACs or billionaire donors.

That partnership is exactly what Bernie Sanders envisioned when he founded Our Revolution: elected leaders and grassroots organizers working together to build lasting political power from the bottom up.

The Leadership This Moment Demands

At a time when working families face rising costs, attacks on fundamental freedoms, and growing corporate influence over our democracy, we need experienced progressive leaders who are willing to fight—not compromise away our values.

Pramila Jayapal has earned that trust.

Together, let’s send one of our movement’s strongest champions back to Congress.

Vote Pramila Jayapal for Congress in Washington’s 7th District.

When we organize, we win.

Our Revolution

Rashida Tlaib for re-election to Congress

By ALL, Endorsement, MI

Rashida Tlaib for re-election to Congress

Our Revolution is proud to endorse Rashida Tlaib for re-election to Congress in Michigan’s 7th District because she has never stopped advocating for working people, challenging corporate power, and standing up for communities too often ignored by Washington.

From her first day in Congress, Rashida has refused to back down from the toughest fights. Whether she’s defending immigrant communities, taking on corporate power, or defending civil rights, she has remained accountable to the people—not special interests.

Fighting for Working Families

Rashida’s campaign is rooted in a simple belief: government should put working people and vulnerable communities first.

In Congress, she has fought to lower costs for families, pushed for Medicare for All, and worked to ensure every person has the opportunity to thrive. Rashida has remained one of Congress’s strongest independent voices.

Her campaign is powered by people, not corporate PAC money, and she has made clear that she’s running to take on billionaire bullies that too often drown out the voices of everyday Americans.

Delivering for Her Community

Rashida believes that public service means showing up for your community every day.

Her congressional office has helped hundreds of thousands of constituents, resolved thousands of individual cases, and returned millions of dollars to residents of Michigan’s 12th District while continuing to fight for justice.

She understands that effective representation means both delivering real results at home and fighting for bold change in Washington.

The Leadership This Moment Demands

Working families need leaders who won’t compromise with corporate power or abandon their values when the pressure mounts.

Rashida Tlaib has built her career confronting injustice and organizing alongside the communities she represents. She continues to fight for a more equitable country and will never give up on the values she holds dear.

Together, let’s send one of our movement’s boldest champions back to Congress.

When we organize, we win.

Our Revolution

Teresa Mosqueda for King County Council WA

By ALL, Endorsement, WA

Teresa Mosqueda for King County Council, WA

Our Revolution is proud to endorse Teresa Mosqueda for re-election to the King County Council, District 8.

Teresa has built her career fighting for working families, advancing bold progressive solutions, and delivering real results for communities across King County. 

From expanding affordable housing to strengthening public health and standing up for workers, she has shown that government can improve people’s lives when it puts people—not powerful interests—first.

Fighting for Healthy, Housed, and Resilient Communities

Teresa is running with a clear vision: build a King County where every family has the opportunity to be healthy, housed, and economically secure.

Her priorities include expanding behavioral and public health services, addressing displacement, building more affordable and workforce housing, supporting childcare, improving transit, and creating pathways to good-paying jobs. 

She believes every resident deserves the infrastructure and public investments needed to thrive.

Delivering for Working Families

Throughout her time in public office, Teresa has focused on making life more affordable for working people.

Her campaign highlights a record of delivering investments for small businesses, cash assistance for workers, grants to expand childcare, rental assistance for working families, relief for immigrants, and food security programs.

She understands that when families have stable housing, accessible healthcare, affordable childcare, reliable transit, and living-wage jobs, entire communities become stronger.

Leading with Progressive Values

Teresa has earned the trust of labor unions, community organizations, and progressive leaders because she consistently brings people together to advance solutions that put equity and opportunity first.

Her campaign is centered on improving public health, expanding affordable housing, supporting workers, and ensuring that economic growth benefits everyone—not just those at the top.

These are the values Our Revolution was founded to fight for.

When we organize, we win.

Our Revolution

Peggy Flanagan for U.S. Senate in Minnesota

By ALL, Endorsement, MN

Peggy Flanagan for U.S. Senate in Minnesota

Our Revolution is proud to endorse Peggy Flanagan for U.S. Senate because Minnesota deserves a senator who will stand up to corporate power, defend working families, and never stop fighting for a fair shot for everyone.

As Minnesota’s Lieutenant Governor, Peggy has helped deliver real results for working people. She helped pass paid family and medical leave, expand investments in education, healthcare, and housing, support family farms and small businesses, and lead the fight to keep abortion legal in Minnesota.

Now, she’s running for the U.S. Senate to continue that fight in Washington.

Fighting for Working Families

Peggy knows firsthand what too many families are going through.

Growing up, her family relied on public programs to get by. Those experiences shaped her lifelong belief that everyone deserves the opportunity to succeed—not just those with wealth or powerful connections. Today, she’s running to make sure every Minnesotan has that same fair shot.

In the Senate, Peggy will fight to lower costs for families, protect essential services, and make government work for everyday people instead of billionaires and special interests.

Taking on Billionaires and Corporate Power

At a time when Washington is increasingly dominated by corporate interests, Peggy is running to challenge a system that’s rigged against working people.

She is campaigning to stop Donald Trump and the billionaires who are making it harder for families to get ahead, and she has pledged to take on the toughest fights to deliver for Minnesotans.

That’s exactly the kind of leadership our movement needs in the United States Senate.

A Leader Who Delivers

Peggy has shown that progressive values can become real victories.

Her work helping secure paid family and medical leave, investing in affordable housing and healthcare, supporting Minnesota’s farmers and small businesses, and defending reproductive freedom demonstrates what’s possible when leaders put people before politics.

She isn’t just talking about change—she’s already helping make it happen.

Vote Peggy Flanagan for U.S. Senate

Minnesota needs a senator who will fight for working families, protect fundamental freedoms, and challenge the corporate interests standing in the way of progress.

That’s why Our Revolution is proud to endorse Peggy Flanagan for U.S. Senate.

Together, we can elect a proven progressive leader who will take Minnesota’s values to Washington and keep fighting for a future where every family has the opportunity to thrive.

When we organize, we win.

Our Revolution

Keith Ellison for Minnesota Attorney General

By ALL, Endorsement, MN

Keith Ellison for Minnesota Attorney General

Our Revolution is proud to endorse Keith Ellison for re-election as Minnesota Attorney General.

Keith Ellison has spent his career standing up for working people, protecting fundamental freedoms, and holding powerful interests accountable. As Minnesota’s Attorney General, he has embraced the role of “the People’s Lawyer,” fighting every day to help Minnesotans afford their lives and live with dignity, safety, and respect.

Fighting for the People

Keith believes government should stand with ordinary people—not corporations or those who abuse their power.

As Attorney General, he has worked to protect consumers, lower healthcare costs, defend reproductive freedom, safeguard access to gender-affirming care, fight corporate misconduct, and ensure Minnesotans receive the justice and protections they deserve. His campaign is centered on helping families afford the essentials while defending the rights and freedoms that every community deserves.

Standing Up to Powerful Interests

Keith has never been afraid to take on the toughest fights — like prosecuting Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd.

His campaign highlights his leadership defending Minnesotans from unlawful actions by the Trump administration because, as he says, no one is above the law. He has fought to protect voting rights, defend reproductive freedom, and stand up for communities facing discrimination and attacks on their civil rights.

That fearless commitment to justice is exactly the kind of leadership Our Revolution believes our movement needs.

Delivering Results for Minnesota

Keith has shown that progressive leadership means producing real results for working families.

As Attorney General, he has secured affordable insulin for Minnesotans, defended access to reduced-cost healthcare, recovered millions through opioid settlements, fought Medicaid fraud, challenged corporate abuses, protected consumers, and taken action against companies putting public safety at risk.

His work demonstrates that government can improve people’s lives when it is willing to confront powerful interests on behalf of the public.

A Lifetime of Public Service

Before serving as Attorney General, Keith represented Minnesotans in Congress for 12 years, where he championed consumer protections, workers’ rights, environmental justice, and civil rights. Earlier, he served in the Minnesota House of Representatives and spent 16 years as a civil rights and criminal defense attorney, including leading the Legal Rights Center.

Throughout his career, Keith has remained committed to ensuring that everybody counts and everybody matters.

Together, let’s re-elect a proven progressive leader who will continue standing up for consumers, defending civil rights, and making government work for the people.

When we organize, we win.

Our Revolution

Marialana Kinter for Congress

By ALL, Endorsement, FL

Marialana Kinter for Congress

 

Our Revolution is proud to endorse Marialana Kinter for Congress in Florida’s 7th District.

Marialana is a Navy veteran, former nuclear reactor plant supervisor, and working-class candidate running to bring accountability, integrity, and a commitment to public service to Congress. 

She knows firsthand what families experience when housing, healthcare, childcare, and other basic necessities become unaffordable—and she is ready to fight for a government that delivers real results for the people it serves.

A Fighter Who Understands Working Families

Marialana was raised by a single mother as the youngest of four children. Her family relied on Medicaid and free school lunches, and she experienced housing instability and the foster care system. She worked two jobs during high school and learned early that even hard work is not always enough to escape poverty.

Those experiences shaped her commitment to affordable medical and dental care, accessible childcare, and an economy that gives working people a genuine chance to build stable lives.

Marialana is running because Central Florida families deserve a representative who understands their struggles—not another politician who puts personal ambition and powerful interests ahead of the community.

Putting Community First

Marialana believes public service begins long before a candidate takes office.

Through her campaign’s food, clothing, and feminine-hygiene drives, Marialana and her volunteers are already working to support families across Central Florida. Her campaign has collected clothing directly from community members and delivered it to nonprofit stores where neighbors can access essential items at no cost and with dignity.

That community-first approach reflects the kind of leadership we need in Congress: listening to people, taking action, and delivering tangible results.

Fighting to Make Life More Affordable

In Congress, Marialana will fight to lower housing costs, stabilize Florida’s insurance market, expand access to affordable healthcare, strengthen public education, improve childcare access, and create an economy that works for working families.

She also understands that Florida communities need reliable disaster funding and resilient infrastructure as families face increasingly severe storms and rising costs.

Marialana’s priorities are grounded in the everyday challenges facing the people of Florida’s 7th District—not the demands of wealthy donors or corporate interests.

Unbought, People-Powered Leadership

Marialana is the only candidate in her race refusing corporate PAC money. Her campaign is powered by people—not billionaires or corporations.

That matters because working people need representatives who are accountable to them. Marialana is running to end corruption, restore trust in government, and prove that public office can once again be treated as public service.

She knows that Congress should work for the people—not the powerful.

Marialana Kinter has the experience, determination, and commitment to community that’s needed to deliver real change for Florida’s 7th District.

Together, we can elect an unbought, working-class champion who will fight to lower costs, expand affordable healthcare, support veterans, strengthen public education, and put people ahead of politics.

When we organize, we win.

Our Revolution

Abdul El-Sayed for U.S. Senate in Michigan

By ALL, Endorsement, MI

Abdul El-Sayed for U.S. Senate in Michigan

At a time when we need bold, transformational leadership, Our Revolution is proud to endorse Abdul El-Sayed for U.S. Senate in Michigan.

Abdul is a physician, epidemiologist, and public health leader — perhaps best known as a powerful surrogate for Medicare for All during the presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders, who has also come out to endorse him in this Senate run.  

From leading public health efforts in Michigan to addressing national systemic health inequities, his work has always been grounded in the belief that everyone deserves dignity, care, and opportunity.

He’s running on a bold campaign platform to deliver for working people:

  • Medicare for All – healthcare is a human right
  • Taking on corporate greed
  • Restoring worker power
  • Ending corporate influence in politics
  • A humane immigration system
  • Foreign policy rooted in peace and accountability

This is a campaign powered by people — not corporate PACs — and driven by a commitment to build a government that truly represents working families.

At Our Revolution, we know that real change doesn’t come from the top down — it comes from movements.

Abdul El-Sayed has been part of that movement for years. Now, he’s ready to bring that fight to the United States Senate.

We’re proud to stand with him — and we’re ready to help build the grassroots power needed to win.

When we organize, we win.

Aisha Wahab for Congress (CA-14)

By ALL, CA, Endorsement

Aisha Wahab for Congress (CA-14)

Our Revolution is proud to endorse State Senator Aisha Wahab for Congress in California’s 14th District — a bold, movement leader who has spent her career fighting for working people, tenants, and communities too often left behind.

Aisha Wahab’s story is one of resilience and purpose. Born to Afghan refugees and raised in the East Bay after time in foster care, she understands firsthand the struggles that so many families face. That lived experience has shaped her commitment to building an economy that works for everyone — not just the wealthy and well-connected.

In the California State Senate, Wahab has been a leading voice for affordability, workers’ rights, and housing justice. She has taken on powerful interests to expand tenant protections, lower costs for working families, and push back against corporate-driven policies that put profit over people. 

Wahab’s progressive leadership is backed by a strong record. She has earned top marks from organizations like Planned Parenthood, labor unions, environmental groups, and healthcare advocates — reflecting her unwavering support for reproductive freedom, workers’ rights, climate action, and expanding access to care. 

She has also broken barriers as the first Muslim and Afghan American elected to the California State Senate, bringing new voices and perspectives into government while fighting to make it more responsive to the people it serves. 

At a time when too many politicians are beholden to corporate donors and political insiders, Aisha Wahab has consistently stood with working-class communities — taking on corporate monopolies, advocating for economic justice, and pushing for policies that center human dignity.

Now, she’s bringing that same fight to Congress.

California’s 14th District deserves a representative who will stand up to entrenched power, fight for affordability and justice, and deliver real results for working families. Aisha Wahab has the experience, the values, and the movement behind her to do just that.