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Working People Belong in the Halls of Power

We're the Blue Collar Brigade — a coalition of working-class candidates joining forces to bring real voices to Congress and take back the majority. We've spent our lives punching a clock, standing on picket lines, and fighting for the people who keep this country running.

This Is What Working-Class Leadership Looks Like

Not career politicians. Not corporate insiders. Just working people who know your struggles because they've lived them — and are ready to fight for you in Congress.
Kaela Berg (MN-2)
A flight attendant and union organizer who's spent her career fighting for livable wages and good health care, Kaela has worked up to three jobs at a time and knows firsthand what it means to live without health insurance and stretch a grocery budget. She took that working-class fight to the Minnesota State House and now wants to bring it to Washington.
Bob Brooks (PA-7)
A career firefighter and president of the Pennsylvania Professional Firefighters Association, Bob has spent his life running toward danger to protect his community. He's a union leader who understands that the people doing the hardest jobs deserve a real voice in Congress.
Sam Forstag (MT-1)
A smokejumper who spent eight years fighting wildfires across the West, Sam paid his own way through college working multiple jobs and served as vice president of his union local. He's running to win back working people who feel both parties have left them behind.
Brian Poindexter (OH-7)
A union ironworker with Local 17 in Cleveland and an apprenticeship instructor, Brian started working at age 15 in a machine shop and worked his way up walking beams on Cleveland skyscrapers. As a Brook Park city councilman, he's lived and breathed working-class values his whole life.
Randy Villegas (CA-22)
Randy grew up working at his family's auto shop in Bakersfield — the same shop he co-owns today — and became the first in his family to graduate college. Now a professor and school board trustee, he's running to put Central Valley working families ahead of corporate donors.

Workers, Not Insiders

Every one of us has earned a living with our hands and our labor. Less than 3% of Congress comes from the working class. We're here to change that.

Stronger Together

In the labor movement, we learn that we win when we stand together. By joining forces, we're building the people-powered movement it takes to win.

Nothing About Us, Without Us

Working people are too often shut out of the rooms where decisions about our lives get made. We're running to put ourselves in those rooms.

A Congress That Answers to Working Families

While Washington is dominated by billionaires and the ultra-wealthy, working families are doing everything right and still struggling to get ahead. The Blue Collar Brigade is running to flip that script — to build a government that works for the people who actually keep this country running.
Lower costs for working families
Social Security and Medicare defended, not cut
Stronger protections for workers' rights
Housing and health care people can actually afford

DC Doesn't Look Like Us...Yet

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Share of Congress that comes from the working class

Districts we're fighting to win this November

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Candidates who've spent their lives doing the work

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June 23, 2026

Our Priority Is the People Who Keep This Country Running

A coalition built by labor leaders, for working families. When times get tough, working people stand up — and there's no one better to fight for working people than the workers themselves.
Built by union leaders and frontline workers
Leveling a playing field rigged for billionaire donors

One Donation. Five Fighters.

When you give to the Blue Collar Brigade, your contribution is split five ways — an equal share to each of our working-class candidates. One donation puts a firefighter, an ironworker, a flight attendant, a smokejumper, and a teacher on equal footing against the corporate cash flooding these races.

Working People Belong in the Halls of Power