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LABOR-BACKED COALITION LAUNCHES WORKING-CLASS EFFORT TO FLIP 35+
HOUSE SEATS IN 2026  
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Stephen Prager
July 16, 2025
Common Dreams
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_ "Working people deserve leaders who will fight for them, not grovel
at the feet of their billionaire donors," said Maurice Mitchell of the
Working Families Party, one of the groups involved in the new
coalition. _

April Verrett, president of SEIU, speaking at a rally of long-term
care workers in Los Angeles, in 2015., Photo: Los Angeles Sentinel

 

A coalition of dozens of labor groups and other progressive activist
organizations has launched a new $50 million initiative to flip the
U.S. House of Representatives in 2026 with a coalition of
working-class voters.

The political action committee, Battleground Alliance PAC, announced
Wednesday that it will seek to flip at least 35 Republican-held
districts for Democrats by mobilizing voters angry about the Trump
administration's assault on the social safety net and authoritarian
attacks on civil liberties.

The groups will target their efforts toward mobilizing voters who have
been hit the hardest by the Republican agenda.

"These are parents who will lose healthcare for their kids, families
struggling after [Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program] cuts,
seniors not being able to afford their medication, people struggling
with higher utility bills, and workers who've watched billionaires get
tax breaks while their wages stay flat," the group said Wednesday.
"They're not just participating, they're at the center of leading this
effort to take back control and make their voices heard at the ballot
box next November."

The coalition is attempting to build upon the successes
of Battleground New York [[link removed]], which
mobilized progressive voters in 2024 to flip back many seats lost to
Republicans during the previous cycle. Amid the daily outrages of
President Donald Trump's second term, they believe that success can be
replicated nationally.

"People are angry for a reason," said Stephanie Porta, campaign
manager for the Battleground Alliance. "They've seen their rights
stripped, their wages stagnate, their bills skyrocket, their
healthcare attacked—and they're done waiting. This isn't about the
usual D.C. politics. This is about the majority of Americans saying:
enough is enough."

Among the groups taking part in the alliance are the Service Employees
International Union (SEIU), Working Families Party, Planned Parenthood
Votes, Indivisible, and MoveOn.

The announcement of Battleground Alliance came on the same day that
the Congressional Progressive Caucus outlined its major priorities
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in a briefing to reporters.

"Working people in America are getting screwed by corrupt politicians
and big corporations that are driving costs up and keeping pay and
benefits down," said the caucus's chair, Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas).

Casar and his colleagues introduced four "task forces" that "go
directly at those big problems facing Americans: fighting corruption
and corporate greed in order to lower costs and win better pay and
benefits."

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The Battleground Alliance is taking a similar approach, focusing on
the material effects of the Trump agenda on working people.

"GOP members of Congress betrayed their constituents when they voted
to kick 17 million Americans off their health care," said Maurice
Mitchell, national director of the Working Families Party. "Working
people deserve leaders who will fight for them, not grovel at the feet
of their billionaire donors. We're ready to organize in districts all
across the country to kick out members of Congress who lied to their
constituents and voted for this disastrous budget."

The group is planning to pour $1 million into the most competitive
districts in the country, targeting Republicans who voted for Trump's
massive budget legislation.

Some of the Republican targets it has already singled out include Rep.
David Valadao, whose district
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California's San Joaquin Valley is majority Latino and has one of the
highest Medicaid enrollment rates in the country; and Rep. Ryan
Mackenzie, whose Allentown, Pennsylvania district
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has 25,000 people at risk of losing food stamps as a result of the
law.

"Working people are done watching politicians in Washington hand out
favors to the wealthy while our communities struggle to afford care,
housing, and food," said April Verrett, president of SEIU. "Through
2026 and beyond, we will continue to organize in places that they've
tried to ignore because that's where real change begins."

_[STEPHEN PRAGER is a staff writer for Common Dreams.]_

_Licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Feel free to
republish and share widely._

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