Goals

We believe many political organizations fail because they spread resources too thinly across too many races without making meaningful investments capable of changing outcomes. We will prioritize concentrated spending in carefully selected races where additional resources can materially increase the probability of victory and ultimately expand progressive governing power.

Across Illinois and nationally, progressive candidates tend to perform strongest in densely populated districts with established organizing infrastructure. However, Illinois’ heavily gerrymandered legislative and municipal maps often create geographically sprawling districts where progressive campaigns struggle to establish sufficient ground operations and communication networks. Our organization seeks to fill this gap by directing independent expenditures and operational support into races where outside spending can have an outsized electoral effect. This cycle in dense and non dense districts, we saw progressives lose because of a lack of outside support compared to their moderate opponents propped up by outside groups. We believe targeted investments in ad and ground support can lead to significant progressive victories in races that are otherwise under-resourced.

Our focus is not simply on electing isolated progressive officials. Our goal is to build governing majorities capable of implementing policy and exercising real political power.

We will target:

• U.S. House races in Illinois
• Illinois State Senate races
• Illinois House races
• Municipal mayoral races
• Strategic city council races connected to broader governing coalitions

We will prioritize:

• D+10 Districts where moderates are out of touch with their constituents

We are interested in districts where:

• Democratic partisan advantage is substantial
• Progressive turnout potential is high but underdeveloped
• Existing incumbents do not reflect the ideological composition of the district electorate