John,
Just a few weeks ago, Zohran Mamdani shocked the political establishment — not just in New York City, but across the country.
He defeated a former governor backed by corporate donors and billionaires, and won his Democratic primary for Mayor with a bold platform rooted in working-class values like free public transit, rent freezes, and taxing the rich to invest in care and community.
This may have been a political earthquake. But it wasn’t a fluke. It was the result of working people coming together across their city to demand more from their government — and then organizing to win it.
Right now we’re throwing down in local races across the country with a chance to elect more WFP champions to local office, and we need your help to keep the momentum going.
Some primaries are coming up next week in Seattle and Detroit, and our candidates are ready to flip the script on politics-as-usual. They’re renters, transit-riders, neighborhood caretakers, and lifelong fighters grounded in their communities — not beholden to powerful interests. Donate now to this slate of WFP champions and help power the next wave of wins for working families in next week’s primaries.
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In Seattle, we’re backing three champions for City Council who know what it’s like to struggle — and who never gave up:
🌟 Alexis Mercedes Rinck
Alexis was raised by her grandparents after her teenage parents faced instability, incarceration, and homelessness. She’s been through it — and she knows the difference it makes when communities invest in their young people.
She worked restaurant jobs to pay her way through college, then became a fierce advocate for reproductive rights, climate justice, and corporate accountability. Today, she’s a renter, a transit rider, and a policy expert focused on building a city where everyone can thrive, not just survive.
🌟Dionne Foster
Dionne started working two jobs in high school to help her single mom — a veteran and public school teacher — make ends meet. She waited tables while putting herself through college and earned a master’s in social work.
She knows firsthand how hard families are working just to survive. And she’s used every role she’s held — in nonprofits, philanthropy, and government — to fight for better housing, stronger labor protections, and a real safety net.
She’s a mom, a home gardener, and a local food bank volunteer. A proud WNBA fan. And the kind of leader who wants to move past divisive politics and focus on what really matters: making life better for working people.
🌟Katie Wilson
Katie Wilson moved to Seattle in 2004 and worked every job under the sun — barista, boatyard laborer, apartment manager — just to get by. Then she started organizing.
As co-founder of the Transit Riders Union, she’s spent over a decade winning real change: higher wages, stronger renter protections, and more affordable housing.
Now she’s running for mayor on a bold platform: housing for all, world-class public transit, and real solutions to homelessness. She’s a mom, a bus rider, and a coalition-builder ready to deliver for working people.
In Detroit, we’re behind two candidates for City Council who’ve stayed rooted in their communities — and who refuse to give up on building a better city for working people:
🌟Gabriela Santiago-Romero
An immigrant, organizer, and proven leader, Gabriela has already done what other politicians promised for decades but never delivered. In her first term on City Council, she secured $1 million to make streets and sidewalks safer in Detroit’s most neglected neighborhoods and helped Detroiters become homeowners through the Down Payment Assistance program.
She doesn’t take corporate PAC money. She governs with transparency. And she’s focused on real results — because that’s what her community deserves.
🌟Denzel Anton McCampbell
Denzel is a lifelong Detroiter raised on the city’s east side. His parents taught him to show up, speak out, and fight for others — and he’s done just that for over a decade. He’s fought for voting rights, clean water, racial justice, public safety, and campaign finance reform. He served as a charter commissioner, rewriting Detroit’s constitution to center equity, and worked as a communications director to Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib.
Now he’s running to bring that same relentless commitment to working people to the City Council — so city services actually work, developers don’t call the shots, and residents finally get the representation they deserve.
These are the leaders we need right now, John. Not just in Seattle. Not just in Detroit. Everywhere.
Across the country, working families are facing rising costs, housing insecurity, broken transit systems, and political leadership that’s more interested in protecting the status quo than transforming it.
That’s why the Working Families Party is organizing to elect a new generation of leaders — people like Gabriela, Denzel, Alexis, and Dionne — who carry the fight for us.
But building this movement takes all of us.
Local elections set the tone for entire states — and the country. If we want real change, we have to fight for it, city by city. Donate now to help elect these bold, working-class champions — and help us build power nationwide.
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We don’t have billionaires. We don’t take corporate cash. But we do have people. Lots of them. And when we come together, when we organize, support each other, and vote: we win.
We saw it in New York. Now let’s do it again — and again — and again.
In solidarity,
Team WFP
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