ENDORSED CANDIDATES
We are honored to endorse the following candidates who meet our rigorous criteria for leadership, protecting democracy, and delivering results for the American people.
We have identified candidates who are prepared to lead and move us forward into 2026.
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House
Challenger Flip Opportunity Rebecca Bennett, NJ-07
Military Veteran | Healthcare Policy
Rebecca Bennett is a former U.S. Navy helicopter pilot and healthcare-innovation executive, and a graduate of Cornell University and The Wharton School. Over more than 15 years of military service she was an experimental test pilot and aircraft commander in the Navy and Air National Guard, and she later worked with startups and global companies to expand access to affordable care. Her priorities emphasize pragmatic, mission-driven leadership focused on strengthening democracy and expanding opportunity.
Challenger Flip Opportunity Paige Cognetti, PA-08
Mayor | Government Reform
Paige Cognetti, mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania, is a first-generation college graduate with an MBA from Harvard Business School. From 2009 to 2012, she was a senior advisor to the Under Secretary for International Affairs at the U.S. Treasury; she later advised the Pennsylvania Auditor General on school and elder care oversight and served on the Scranton School Board. As Scranton's first woman mayor, she led the city out of 30 years of state-designated financial distress to an investment-grade credit rating, championing responsible budgeting and honest government.
Challenger Flip Opportunity Cait Conley, NY-17
Military Veteran | National Security
Cait Conley, a fourth-generation Hudson Valley native, holds degrees from West Point, Harvard, and MIT. She served 16 years in the U.S. Army with six overseas deployments, including combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, earning three Bronze Stars. She later served as Director for Counterterrorism on the National Security Council and as Senior Advisor to the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), where she led its election-security work. She brings practical, mission-driven leadership to the challenges facing New York families.
Challenger Rebecca Cooke, WI-03
Small Business Owner | Economic Development
Rebecca Cooke, who grew up on a family dairy farm in western Wisconsin and graduated from the University of St. Thomas, is a small-business owner and founder of the Red Letter Grant, which funds women entrepreneurs across the region. Appointed to the board of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, she co-chaired its Entrepreneurship and Innovation Committee. Her priorities focus on expanding rural opportunity, strengthening local economies, and supporting small-business growth.
Incumbent Laura Gillen, NY-04
Former Mayor | Government Reform
Rep. Laura Gillen is a graduate of Georgetown University and NYU School of Law who began her public service as a George Baker Scholar. In 2017 she became the first Democrat elected Hempstead Town Supervisor in more than a century, overseeing a roughly $500 million budget, and she previously practiced law and taught as an adjunct professor at Hofstra University. Her priorities include affordability, government accountability, and effective local governance that restores public trust.
Incumbent Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, WA-03
Small Business Owner | Rural Economy
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, a fifth-generation Washingtonian, attended Reed College and co-founded and co-owns an auto-repair and machine shop with her husband. She previously served on the Underwood Conservation District Board and now sits on the Agriculture and Small Business Committees, co-chairing the Blue Dog Coalition. She focuses on lowering costs, strengthening the skilled trades, and supporting the small businesses that drive local economies.
Incumbent Maggie Goodlander, NH-02
National Security | Prosecutor
Rep. Maggie Goodlander holds degrees from Yale University and Yale Law School and served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve. She was a foreign-policy advisor to Senators Joe Lieberman and John McCain, clerked for Judge Merrick Garland and Justice Stephen Breyer, and served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department's Antitrust Division. In the House she serves on the Armed Services and Small Business Committees, advancing economic competition, national security, and democratic institutions.
Incumbent Kristen McDonald Rivet, MI-08
Nonprofit Leader | Education Policy
Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet earned a bachelor's degree from Michigan State University and a master's in public administration from the University of Michigan–Flint. Before Congress she served in the Michigan Senate as assistant majority floor leader and led education and child-development organizations, including as Executive Director of Michigan Head Start and Vice President at the Skillman Foundation. She serves on the Agriculture and Transportation & Infrastructure Committees, focusing on family economic security, workforce readiness, and community resilience.
Incumbent Josh Riley, NY-19
Economic Development | Union Leader
Rep. Josh Riley, a fifth-generation Upstate New Yorker, graduated from William & Mary and Harvard Law School. He served as general counsel to Senator Al Franken on the Senate Judiciary Committee and as a policy analyst at the U.S. Department of Labor, clerked on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and practiced at Boies Schiller Flexner and Jenner & Block. He focuses on rebuilding infrastructure, lowering costs, and bipartisan, practical governance.
Incumbent Pat Ryan, NY-18
Military Veteran | Healthcare Policy
A West Point graduate with a master's degree from Georgetown University, Rep. Pat Ryan served as an Army intelligence officer with two combat tours in Iraq before co-founding the data-analytics firm Praescient Analytics. He later served as Ulster County Executive, where he led economic-development and public-safety initiatives. In Congress he serves on the Armed Services Committee and focuses on veterans, small businesses, and resilient infrastructure.
Incumbent Emilia Sykes, OH-13
Health Care Policy | Affordability
Rep. Emilia Sykes holds degrees from Kent State University and the University of Florida. She served eight years in the Ohio House, including two years as Minority Leader, working across the aisle on public safety and economic development. She serves on the Transportation & Infrastructure and Science, Space & Technology Committees and belongs to the New Democrat Coalition and Problem Solvers Caucus, focusing on lowering costs, expanding opportunity, and accountable government.
Incumbent George Whitesides, CA-27
Former Corporate Executive | Climate & Clean Energy
Rep. George Whitesides holds a bachelor's degree from Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and was a Fulbright Scholar in Tunisia. He served as Chief of Staff of NASA and as CEO of Virgin Galactic, helping advance U.S. commercial spaceflight, and co-chaired the Antelope Valley COVID-19 task force. In Congress he serves on the Armed Services and Science, Space & Technology Committees, focusing on national security, advanced manufacturing, and good jobs for the future.
Challenger Christina Bohannan, IA-01
Educator | Economic Development
Christina Bohannan earned a bachelor's degree in environmental engineering and a law degree from the University of Florida, and worked as an environmental engineer before becoming a law professor at the University of Iowa College of Law, where she teaches torts and intellectual property law. She served in the Iowa House from 2021 to 2023. Her priorities center on lowering costs, protecting reproductive rights, and defending Social Security and Medicare.
Challenger Sarah Trone Garriott, IA-03
Faith Leader | Economic Development
Sarah Trone Garriott holds a bachelor's degree from the College of St. Scholastica, a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School, and a Master of Divinity from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. An ordained minister who has worked as a hospital chaplain and interfaith nonprofit coordinator, she has served in the Iowa Senate since 2021. Her priorities emphasize lowering costs for working families, protecting health care access, and defending reproductive rights.
Incumbent Greg Landsman, OH-01
Educator | Economic Development
Rep. Greg Landsman earned a bachelor's degree from Ohio University and a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School. A former public-school teacher, he served as executive director of the education nonprofit Strive Partnership and on the Cincinnati City Council before his election to Congress. He focuses on health care, the economy, and reproductive rights.
Challenger Luke Bronin, CT-01
Veteran | Government Reform
Luke Bronin holds a B.A. from Yale College, an M.Sc. from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and a J.D. from Yale Law School, and served as a U.S. Navy Reserve officer, including a deployment to Afghanistan on an anti-corruption task force. He served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, as general counsel to Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy, and as mayor of Hartford from 2016 to 2024, and he currently lectures at Yale Law School. His work has centered on municipal finance, economic development, and effective governance.
Challenger Janelle Stelson, PA-10
Former Journalist | Healthcare Policy
Janelle Stelson holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Puget Sound and studied at the Austro-American Institute in Vienna. She spent roughly 37 years as a television news anchor and reporter in the Harrisburg area, primarily at WGAL News 8, before entering politics. Her priorities emphasize pocketbook issues such as the rising costs of housing and health care.
Senate
Open Seat Angie Craig, Minnesota
Former Corporate Executive | Healthcare Policy
Rep. Angie Craig, a graduate of the University of Memphis, built her career in the medical-technology industry as a senior executive and small-business investor, leading global human resources for a company of 16,000 employees. She has represented Minnesota's 2nd District since 2019, serving on the Agriculture, Transportation & Infrastructure, and Small Business Committees, and has championed affordable health care, small-business growth, and bipartisan economic policy. She authored the HUMBLE Act to permanently ban lobbying by former members of Congress.
Challenger Roy Cooper, North Carolina
Former Attorney General | Economic Development
Roy Cooper served as North Carolina's 75th governor from 2017 to 2025 and, before that, as the state's longest-serving attorney general, from 2001 to 2017. A lifelong public servant from Eastern North Carolina, he holds a BA and JD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As governor, he worked to expand health care, strengthen public education, and drive statewide economic growth, building a record of pragmatic, bipartisan leadership.
Incumbent Jon Ossoff, Georgia
Entrepreneur | Government Reform
Sen. Jon Ossoff, Georgia's senior U.S. senator, is a former investigative journalist and documentary-film executive who holds a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and a master's from the London School of Economics. Since taking office in 2021, he has authored laws improving veterans' mental-health care, protecting children online, enhancing public safety, and combating corruption in federal prisons. He has focused on Georgia's economic growth through broadband expansion, infrastructure modernization, and clean-energy and manufacturing investment.
Challenger Mary Peltola, Alaska
Commercial Fisher | Economic Development
Mary Peltola served a decade in the Alaska House of Representatives and later directed the Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission before becoming, in 2022, the first Alaska Native person elected to the U.S. Congress. Yup'ik and a lifelong Alaskan, she built a reputation for cross-partisan collaboration during her time in the House. Her priorities, framed as “Fish, family, freedom,” include fisheries and rural-community interests, food security, and congressional term limits.
Open Seat Chris Pappas, New Hampshire
Small Business Owner | Economic Development
Rep. Chris Pappas, a Manchester native, earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard and co-owns his family's Puritan Backroom restaurant. He served in the New Hampshire House and on the state's Executive Council before his election to represent New Hampshire's 1st District in 2019, where he built a reputation as one of the most bipartisan members of Congress. His priorities include lowering costs, health care access, education, and workforce development.
Open Seat Flip Opportunity James Talarico, Texas
Educator | Government Reform
James Talarico holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a master's in education from Harvard, and taught sixth-grade language arts in San Antonio through Teach for America. First elected to the Texas House in 2018 at age 29, he became a prominent legislator, earning a Texas Monthly "Best Legislator" designation, and is also a Presbyterian seminary student. His priorities center on public-school funding, affordability, and taxes.
Challenger Josh Turek, Iowa
Economic Development | Paralympian
Josh Turek is a member of the Iowa House of Representatives and a two-time Paralympic gold medalist in wheelchair basketball who was born with spina bifida and represented the United States across four Paralympic Games. First elected to the Iowa House in 2022, he describes himself as a “prairie populist.” His priorities center on economic populism, disability rights, and working-family issues.
Challenger Seth Bodnar, Montana
Military Veteran | Government Reform
Seth Bodnar graduated first in his class from West Point and studied at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes and Truman Scholar, earning two master's degrees. A former Army Green Beret, he was a senior executive and chief digital officer at GE Transportation before serving eight years as president of the University of Montana, where he reversed an enrollment decline and expanded access for low-income, first-generation, Native American, and military-affiliated students. He remains an officer in the Montana National Guard.
Challenger Seth Moulton, Massachusetts
Military Veteran | National Security
Rep. Seth Moulton earned his bachelors degree and dual masters degrees in business and public administration from Harvard. A U.S. Marine Corps officer, he completed four tours in Iraq before his election to represent Massachusetts' 6th District in 2015, where he serves on the House Armed Services Committee. His priorities emphasize affordability in health care, housing, and education, a national public-health insurance option, and veterans' care.
Challenger Dan Osborn, Nebraska
Military Veteran | Economic Development
Dan Osborn is a U.S. Navy veteran, former Nebraska National Guardsman, and industrial mechanic who worked for nearly two decades at Omaha's Kellogg's cereal plant. As president of the local Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union, he led the 2021 Kellogg's strike, which involved roughly 1,400 workers and drew national attention. His populist platform centers on protecting workers, small businesses, and family farmers.
Governor
Open Seat Jocelyn Benson, Michigan
Government Reform | Experienced Election Administrator
Jocelyn Benson holds a bachelor's degree from Wellesley College, a graduate degree from the University of Oxford, and a law degree from Harvard Law School. She served as dean of Wayne State University Law School, becoming the youngest woman to lead a top-100 accredited U.S. law school, and has been Michigan Secretary of State since 2019. Her priorities include voting rights and election administration, government transparency, and expanding economic opportunity, and she authored a book on the office of secretary of state.
Open Seat Amy Acton, Ohio
Health Care Policy | Physician
Amy Acton, a physician, earned her bachelor's degree from Youngstown State University, her medical degree from Northeast Ohio Medical University, and a master's in public health. She served on the faculty at Ohio State University and directed the Ohio Department of Health from 2019 to 2020, where she led the state's early COVID-19 response and became a nationally recognized public-health voice. Her priorities center on the affordability of health care and everyday costs, including tools such as Medicaid and caregiver tax credits.
Challenger Rob Sand, Iowa
Prosecutor | Education Policy
Rob Sand earned a bachelor's degree from Brown University, where he was named a Truman Scholar, and a law degree from the University of Iowa. As an assistant attorney general, he served as Iowa's chief public-corruption prosecutor, notably prosecuting the largest lottery-rigging scheme in U.S. history, before being elected State Auditor in 2018. His priorities include lowering costs, expanding access to education — including universal all-day pre-K — and an "Accountability for All" agenda featuring term and age limits, a ban on lawmaker stock trading, and restoring auditor oversight powers.
Challenger David Pepper, Ohio
Government Reform | Civil & Voting Rights
David Pepper earned his bachelor's degree and law degree from Yale University. He served on the Cincinnati City Council and the Hamilton County Board of Commissioners, chaired the Ohio Democratic Party, and has written books on American democracy, including “Laboratories of Autocracy.” His focus centers on democracy reform, voting rights, and state-level accountability.
Attorney General
Incumbent Kris Mayes, Arizona
Climate & Clean Energy | Government Reform
Kris Mayes holds an undergraduate degree from Arizona State University, a Master of Public Administration from Columbia University, and a law degree from ASU's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law. A former political reporter, she served as press secretary to Governor Janet Napolitano and spent nearly a decade on the Arizona Corporation Commission, the state's utility regulator, before becoming Arizona Attorney General in 2023. As attorney general she has prioritized consumer protection, reproductive rights, water and utility regulation, and combating fraud.
Incumbent Josh Kaul, Wisconsin
Prosecutor | Government Reform
Josh Kaul graduated from Yale University and Stanford Law School, where he was president of the Stanford Law Review. He worked at Jenner & Block, served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Baltimore prosecuting violent-crime and drug cases, and practiced at Perkins Coie in Madison before being elected Wisconsin Attorney General in 2018. His priorities include combating the opioid epidemic, reducing gun violence, defending abortion rights, funding the state Office of School Safety, and advocating for universal background checks.
State Legislature
Arizona Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, Arizona
Arizona State Legislature | Democratic Majority
The Arizona Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (ADLCC) is the only organization exclusively dedicated to winning Democratic majorities in both chambers of the Arizona Legislature. In 2026, Democrats have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to flip the House and Senate and secure the state's first Democratic trifecta in 60 years, a shift that requires gaining just four House seats and three Senate seats. Running a lean, cost-efficient caucus model, the ADLCC builds coordinated district campaigns, recruits and supports strong candidates, and mobilizes voters in the battleground districts that will decide control, backed by a minimum $12 million investment plan.