Kshama Sawant
A former city council member known for the $15 minimum wage campaign, rent control, corporate taxation, and explicitly Marxist politics.
Summer Lee
A House member associated with labor, environmental justice, healthcare, criminal justice, and progressive economic policy.
Greg Casar
A House member known for labor rights, immigration, housing, climate, and progressive municipal policy.
Jamaal Bowman
A former House member associated with education, climate, housing, labor, and progressive foreign policy.
Julia Salazar
A state senator associated with tenant protections, criminal-justice policy, labor rights, and social housing.
Jabari Brisport
A state senator known for tenant rights, public education, criminal-justice reform, and socialist organizing.
Brandon Johnson
A mayor and former teachers-union organizer focused on public investment, policing alternatives, housing, labor, and education.
Lee Carter
A former state legislator and labor activist known for worker protections, utilities policy, and democratic-socialist organizing.
Robin Wonsley
A city council member associated with tenant rights, policing transformation, labor, and municipal public investment.
JB Pritzker
A governor associated with labor rights, abortion protections, cannabis legalization, budgets, and social spending.