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A List of Progressive Candidates Running In 2020

The below from the original list at BusyGhost’s Blog:

Arizona

Eva Putzova

Former Flagstaff city councilwoman and candidate for Arizona’s 1st congressional district for 2020. Challenging Tom O’Halleran (D).

Full platform on her campaign website.


California

Audrey Denney

Farmer, Educator, Nominee for California’s 1st congressional district in 2018, and Candidate for California’s 1st congressional district for 2020. Challenging Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R).

Full platform on her campaign website.

Shahid Buttar

Electronic Frontier Foundation attorney, Grassroots organizer, candidate for California’s 12th congressional district in 2018, and candidate for California’s 12th congressional district for 2020. Challenging Nancy Pelosi (D).

Full platform on his campaign website.

Julia Peacock

Public School Teacher, Nominee for California’s 42nd congressional district in 2018, Candidate for California’s 42nd congressional district for 2020. Challenging Ken Calvert (R).

Full platform on her campaign website.

Ammar Campa-Najjar

Small Business Owner, Former Federal official, Nominee for California’s 50th congressional district in 2018, Candidate for California’s 50th congressional district for 2020. Challenging Duncan D. Hunter (R).

Full platform on his campaign website.

Aeiramique Glass-Blake

Activist and Candidate for California’s 51st congressional district for 2020.

Campaign website.

Jose Caballero

Founder/Former President of the San Diego Progressive Democratic club, candidate for California’s 53rd congressional district for 2020, 2016 national delegate for Bernie Sanders, and political consultant. Challenging Susan Davis(D).

Full platform on his campaign website campaign website.


Colorado

Crisanta Duran

Candidate for Colorado’s 1st congressional district for 2020, Former member of the Colorado House of Representatives from the 5th district, Former Majority Leader of the Colorado House of Representatives, 38th Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives, and part of the Board of Advisers of Let America Vote. Challenging Diana DeGette (D).

Campaign website.


Illinois

Marie Newman

Candidate for Illinois’s 3rd congressional district in 2018, candidate for Illinois’s 3rd congressional district for 2020, businesswoman, advocate, and Founder of the “Team Up To Stop Bullying” program. Challenging Daniel Lipinski (D).

Full platform on her campaign website.

Anthony Clark

Candidate for Illinois’s 7th congressional district in 2018, candidate for Illinois’s 7th congressional district for 2020, Activist, Teacher, and Director of Suburban Unity Alliance nfp. Challenging Rep. Daniel K. Davis (D).

Full platform on his campaign website.

Betsy Dirksen Londrigan

Nominee for Illinois’s 13th congressional district in 2018 , candidate for Illinois’s 13th congressional district for 2020, former nonprofit leader, former teacher, and entrepreneur. Challenging Rep. Rodney Davis (R).

Campaign website.


Maryland

Mckayla Wilkes

Activist and candidate for Maryland’s 5th congressional district for 2020. Challenging Rep. Steny Hoyer (D).

Full platform on her campaign website.


Massachusetts

Ihssane Leckey

Candidate for Maryland’s 5th congressional district for 2020 and former Wall Street regulator. Challenging Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D).


Missouri

Cori Bush

Nurse, pastor, Candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2016, Candidate for Missouri’s 1st congressional district for 2018, and Candidate for Missouri’s 1st congressional district for 2020. Challenging Rep. Lacy Clay Jr. (D).

Full platform on her campaign website.


New York

Lauren Ashcraft

A standup comedian and candidate for New York’s 12th congressional district for 2020. Challenging Carolyn Maloney (D).

Full platform on her campaign website.

Texas

Sema Hernandez

Activist, member of Democratic Socialist of America, ambassador for the PoorPeoplesCampaign, candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2018, and candidate for the U.S. Senate for 2020.

Full platform on her campaign website.


Washington

Joshua Collins

A truck driver and candidate for Washington’s 10th congressional district for 2020. Challenging Denny Heck (D).

Full platform on his campaign website.



These names and more as the Justice Democrats are soon announcing their nominees. Same for the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) and Endorsements from the Democratic Socialists of America. It is truly Our Revolution, this political revolution, and we must fight, resist, and disobey to make this a peaceful, clean, and safe planet for our posterity. 🌹

I’m also hoping to see more candidates support Joshua Collins’ RUN Act to strengthen unions and sign the Progressive Economic Pledge for Higher Wages, Medicare For All, the Green New Deal, College For All, and Ending Corruption. You can sign the Pledge as well and ask your reps, at every level, to sign here as well!


See what candidates I’m supporting, at the end of the month!

Can’t pass this by…

Climate change has been here for a while now kids. There’s no doubt that each state and municipality has a Bo role to play. No mistake further, representatives to the federal government in Washington, D.C. have an important position to play as leaders.

New senator from Arizona’s 9th District, Kyrsten Sinema, this is your article.

This one is for that beautifully-open, open-borders, bisexual Democratic candidate that won her 2018 midterm election bid. This is for that progressive candidate Arizonans, and especially the young ones, were hoping for. The candidate I playfully refer to as Felicity Smoak, one of my greatest non-super, super-hero, fictional TV idols.

This one is for the woman that students voted for, even when they were burnt out, drowning in debt, and feeling the foreboding fear of the future. A vote made to conquer that fear. That fear which is, I’ll remind you, in part, due to how we have voted, legislated, communicated, and degradated the planet through poor stewardship, in the past and to this day.

There’s a lot of work to do and students, young people, Millennials, adults, the middle-aged, and the elderly, everyone, voted for you. They saw you as that rock. Those people that voted for you put their belief and hope in your hands assuming that those hands would go to the people’s work.

On March 26, 2019, on one of the most important votes in your career, you stepped away from those progressives that we’re leaning on you. They’ve fallen on their faces, as you may, hopefully, also feel you’ve done. They counted on you, to at the very least, vote present in the face if this sham of a vote.

You didn’t though. Here’s what you did do, from the Senate floor:

At 4:17pm, the Senate began a 15 minute roll call vote on the motion to invoke cloture [procedure to end debate and move to vote] on the motion to proceed to S.J.Res.8, recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal.”

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell

(R-KY) set up this vote in order to tie up hands in a process of debate. I saw this happen in student association government in New York.

Let me say that another way, and to be clear kids are a lot more intuitively intelligent than adults in my opinion, but again: I saw the same tactics used by children when the conversation was about student identification modification for adult transgender students.

But the vote was begun in the chamber minutes to 4:20, and this was the outcome from the 53 Republicans, 45 Democrats, and 2 Independents:

Yays: 0 – Nays: 57. Most Democrats voted “Present” in order to avoid justifying the tactic. But that leaves 2 Democrats doesn’t it?

This is where this comes back to you Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ). Yourself, Doug Jones (D-AL), Joe Manchin (D-WV), and, Independent from Maine, Angus King, voted Nay. As in, there wasn’t enough debate regarding whose job it was to be the leader on this issue. That doesn’t sound like a leader.

That’s why you were elected though, Kyrsten. People saw you as leadership material on that level. They believed in what you’ve done and what you could do. Now there’s a lot of doubt surrounding that part of you.

On Tuesday, your constituents didn’t see you step up to the plate as a leader. They saw you sit down next to McSally (R-AZ) and vote Right beside her. Meanwhile, those progressives that saw hope in you are looking to real leaders such as Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who voted “Present” with the Democrats, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), spending every chance she can get, getting that message across:

This isn’t about who takes charge on this issue. We all are responsible. We just expect more responsibility from our leadership as well, especially those of us who feel the impetus is upon us.

Those are the people that voted for you. Don’t let this become a habit, because in today’s political climate, ain’t nobody got time for that lack of leadership and gumption.

I leave you with the facts:

This one comes from the state that I most recently called home, Boulder, CO, and should dispel any issues you have with the climate debate as it appears in media coverage.

And here’s just climate news.

Plus, if you don’t already, you should read reports from the UN on the subject.

Besides, if it isn’t the federal government job, whose is it Kyrsten?

NOAA (2006)?

University of Arizona?

Solely the UN?

Your constituents have questions. And some words:

“To me, being anti-Green Deal isn’t any different than being pro-extinction of the humankind.” — Juan Mendez, March 15, 2019. AZCentral.

— To the care of Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ).