This year’s primary season has unfolded under a gathering storm, John.
The Trump administration and its allies are tearing at our democracy, battering our communities, and trying to leave fear in their wake. Families are being raided. Prices keep climbing while public programs are gutted. And around the world, violence and dispossession grind on, and everywhere we look, the sky feels heavy with unrest.
Yet even in this storm, our fire burns bright. In every corner of the country, working people are organizing, refusing despair, and daring to believe in something better.
And we’re winning.
This primary season, Working Families Party candidates have scored victories from red states to blue ones, sending a clear message: that working people want leaders who actually fight for us.
Now, with fall arriving, the next chapter begins. Chip in today to keep this momentum alive — and to help elect champions to local office this November and to Congress in 2026.
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One of our most high-profile victories? Zohran Mamdani, who won outright in the primary for New York City mayor, and heads into November with a chance to make history.
But he wasn’t alone:
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In Arizona’s 7th Congressional District, we played a key role in propelling Adelita Grijalva to victory.
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In Seattle, WFP-backed mayoral candidate Katie Wilson led her primary and advanced to the November general election, while WFP candidate and challenger Dionne Foster finished 23 points ahead of the incumbent Speaker of the Seattle City Council.
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WFP also won mayoral primaries in three other cities in New York state: Sean Ryan in Buffalo, Sharon Owens in Syracuse, and Dorcey Applyrs in Albany.
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In New Jersey, WFP-backed insurgent candidate Katie Brennan won her Assembly primary against county-backed incumbents. Carolyn Rush, incumbent Alixon Collazos Gill, and Chigozie Onyema also secured wins.
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Detroit City Council candidate Denzel McCampbell edged out a sitting state representative with WFP’s support.
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WFP-endorsed Selina Barajas and Miranda Schubert doubled their opponents’ votes in Tucson City Council primaries.
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In Ohio, all five of the WFP’s endorsed candidates won their primaries: Mounir Lynch and Dr. Antoinette Miranda for the Columbus City School Board; Ajmeri Hoque for Franklin County Municipal Court; Jesse Vogel for Columbus City Council; and Fran Wilson for Akron City Council.
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WFP school board candidates also won across Oregon — even flipping a school board in rural Redmond, a district once thought out of reach.
And these are just some highlights. WFP candidates secured victories in many other states across the country as well, including special elections in Texas and California, and additional primaries in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and beyond.
But these aren’t just election results, John. They are proof that even as storm clouds gather, working people are breaking through — block by block, council seat by council seat, community by community.
That’s what WFP exists to do: to fight back against despair by bringing together working people from every corner of the country to take on billionaires, extremists, and the politics of fear. To elect champions who will carry our fight from city hall to Congress in 2026.
And this primary season’s victories are just the beginning. This November, WFP-endorsed candidates will be on the ballot in communities across the country, part of the hundreds of candidates running this year to expand our movement and build toward even bigger wins in 2026.
We’re knocking on doors where buses don’t run, showing up in school districts that are underfunded and overlooked, and casting ballots for leaders who don’t just promise change — they fight for it.
This is our chance to build on the victories we’ve won and push even further. Every contribution strengthens our movement and brings us closer to a government that works for all of us.
Will you join us? Make a contribution today — of whatever size feels right — to help WFP fight back, lift up working families, and carry this wave of hope into November and beyond.
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In solidarity,
Working Families Party
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