The 2024 List of Noncorporate Progressive Candidates Running for National Office
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The 2024 List of Noncorporate Progressive Candidates Running for National Office
"Noncorporate" means they reject corporate contributions, which means they are "progressive."
UPDATED: September 26, 2023
The 2024 List of Noncorporate Progressive Candidates is a free resource that highlights “unbought” political candidates—whether Democrat, 3rd Party, or Independent. The list does not endorse any political candidates. It aims to help voters vet the candidates.
More importantly, the list is a statement about the corrupting influence of Big Money in politics. If you hate the hold that wealthy special interests have over the American government and political system, then elect people to office who do not take their money—thereby cutting puppet strings, one by one. (Also see anti-corruption legislation that could be proposed, one day.)
The 2024 List of Noncorporate Progressive Candidates is different from my previous lists. NO Republican candidates are reviewed or included this time. That is because, for now, the GOP is governed by Trumpian far-right extremists and poses a real fascist threat to our nation.
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Progressive Presidential Candidates
Cornel West - Green
Marianne Williamson - Democrat
California Progressive Candidates
Katie Porter - US Senate, Democrat
Ro Khanna - US House, CA-17, Democrat, incumbent
Chris Richardson - US House, CA-07, Green
Sean Dougherty - US House, CA-19, Green
Maebe A. Girl - US House, CA-30, Democrat
David Kim - US House, CA-34, Democrat
Aditya Pai - US House, CA-45, Democrat
District of Columbia Progressive Candidates & Initiatives
Help put Ranked Choice Voting on the 2024 District of Columbia ballot. Support the District of Columbia Ranked Choice Voting campaign.
Georgia Progressive Candidates
Nicholas Brookins - US House, GA-01, Green
Shelly Abraham - US House, GA-06, Democrat
Tambrei Cash - US House, GA-14, Democrat
Illinois Progressive Candidates
Kina Collins - US House, IL-07, Democrat
Qasim Rashid - US House, IL-11, Democrat
Iowa Progressive Candidates
Ryan Melton - US House, IA-04, Democrat
Maryland Progressive Candidates
Tekesha Martinez - US House, MD-06, Democrat
Michigan Progressive Candidates
Hill Harper - US Senate, Democrat
Clyde Shabazz - US House, MI-06, Green
Brian Jaye - US House, MI-10, Democrat, former Member of Congress
Rashida Tlaib - US House, MI-12, Democrat, incumbent
Minnesota Progressive Candidates
Ilhan Omar - US House, MN-05, Democrat, incumbent
Nevada Progressive Candidates & Initiatives
Help put Ranked Choice Voting on the 2024 Nevada ballot. Support the Nevada Ranked Choice Voting campaign. (Nevada voters already approved RCV in 2022, but the initiative must be approved two election cycles in a row.)
New Jersey Progressive Candidates
Christina Khalil - US Senate, Green
New York Progressive Candidates
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - US House, NY-14, Democrat, incumbent
Jamaal Bowman - US House, NY-16, Democrat, incumbent
Mondaire Jones - US House, NY-17, Democrat, former Member of Congress
Ohio Progressive Candidates
Michael Harbaugh - US House, OH-10, Independent
Oregon Progressive Candidates & Initiatives
Jamie McLeod-Skinner - US House, OR-05, Democrat
Help put Ranked Choice Voting on the 2024 Oregon ballot. Support the Oregon Ranked Choice Voting campaign.
Pennsylvania Progressive Candidates
Dave Baker - US House, PA-11, Democrat
Rhode Island Progressive Candidates
Aaron Regunberg - US House, RI-01, Democrat
Texas Progressive Candidates
Raja Chaudhry - US House, TX-32, Democrat
Chris Panayiotou - US House, TX-32, Democrat
Washington Progressive Candidates
Jason Call - US House, WA-02, Green
Wisconsin Progressive Candidates
Elsa Duranceau - US House, WI-07, Democrat
2024 Progressive Policies
Here is a “word cloud” of progressive platform policies. It combines all the progressive policies that are supported by individual noncorporate candidates running for national office in 2024.
Feel free to download the word cloud image. Use it. Share it. Together, we create progress.
Stay tuned. This is just the beginning (August, 2023).
Listed candidates are vetted in the following ways:
A statement on a candidate’s campaign website that declares they reject corporate contributions.
A social media or email reply that confirms the candidate rejects corporate contributions.
A review of an incumbent candidate’s past fundraising on OpenSecrets.
Candidates who accept campaign contributions from AIPAC and/or its United Democracy Project Super PAC are rejected from the list. AIPAC aims to block progressive candidates.