Election Day is Every Tuesday: May 4-10, 2026
With the VRA ruling, these elections are more important now than ever!
Election time! This coming week, the biggest election, in my opinion, is making sure we hold MI SD 35, because if we don’t the Senate will be tied.
Otherwise, on Tues we got a local race in CA, FL, and SC. IN and OH primaries. MI has a couple recalls. MT has several district elections including school district trustees. And on Sat, we got some local elections in DE and MA.
PLEASE vote. No matter how small or incosequential your election may seem, I PROMISE your vote can have such an impact.
I’ve included early voting as well, so even if you don’t live in those states, you might already be able to vote in YOUR next election.
I hope this guide helps!
Before we start, I just want to let you know that this guide will be getting more targeted. I am working with Sway and if you sign up to my voting group, I can know EXACTLY where my audience is based, so I will shift my focus to elections specifically where my group members live. If you want me to target your elections, sign up!
One last thing, this guide is long, as they usually are, so make sure you open the full newsletter, the email will cut off.
Okay, let’s go!
We begin with early voting: AZ, primaries in GA, ID, LA (yes there are still races with or without US congress!), NE, OH (through Sun), OR, SD, and WV. There’s also MI for this week through Sun and the MN 5/12 special. VOTE EARLY IF YOU CAN
May 5
California
Murietta
De Luz Community Services District
Florida
Voter Registration Deadline: 29 days before Election Day
Polk County
Commissioner
Seat 2
Lekia Johnson
Horace West
Indiana
Voter Registration Deadline: 29 days before Election Day
Democratic Primary
US Representative
1st District Candidate Guide
Frank Mrvan
LaVetta Sparks-Wade
2nd District Candidate Guide
Jamee Decio
Shaun Maeyens
4th District Candidate Guide
Drew Cox
Roger Day
Darin Griesey
Thomas Hall, Jr
Joe MacKey
Jayden McCash
Paul McPherson
John Whetstone
5th District Candidate Guide
Steven Avit
J.D. Ford
Jackson Franklin
Phil Goss
Dylan McKenna
Tara Nelson
Deborah Pickett
William Amyx
Nicholas Baker
David Boyd
Cynthia Wirth
Andre Carson
Denise Hatch
George Hornedo
Destiny Wells
Mary Allen
Mario Foradori
Christopher Rector
Tabitha Zeigler
James Graham
Brad Meyer
Tim Peck
Keil Roark
State Senator
Chloe Andis
Julie McGill
Joseph Kazlas
Kirsten Root
Natasha Baker
Marlena Edmondson
District 25
Tamie Dixon-Tatum
Todd Shelton
David Greene, Sr
Demetrice Hicks
Kristina Moorhead
Kevin Short
Andrew Dezelan
Kerry Forestal
Lasima Packett
Catherine Torzewski
Sam Glynn
Allissa Impink
Clif Marsiglio
State Representative
District 13
Brenna Geswein
Edward Moyer, Jr
District 20
Alicia Firanek
Laura Liskey
District 29
Coumba Kebe
Devon Wellington
District 36
Nouhad Melki,II
Kim Townsend
District 37
Lauren Cole
Joel Levi
District 48
Carl Stutsman
Emily Yaw
District 49
Monica Garbaciak
Susan Lawson
Michelle Milne
Michelle Sears
Eric Reingardt
District 61
Matt Pierce incumbent
Lilliana Young
District 63
Tiffanie Arthur
Anthony Bolen
Adam Mann
District 70
Sarah Blessing
Jerry Finn
District 72
Cory Cochran
Michele Henry
District 81
Chad Clevidence
Sharon Wight
District 94
Cherrish Pryor incumbent
Andre Sisk Sr.
John Bartlett
Keith Graves
Tyrrell Quest
District 97 Candidate Guide
Justin Moed
Sarah Shydale
Michigan
Voter Registration Deadline: Election Day by 8:00 pm
State Senate (MUST HOLD to prevent tie)
District 35
Chedrick Greene DEMOCRAT Priorities: tax relief and expanded credits for workers and parents, universal pre-K, lower healthcare, housing, and prescription drug costs, and stronger consumer protections; creating better-paying jobs through investments in education, job training, unions, and domestic manufacturing, while supporting small businesses and economic development; defending voting rights and civil liberties, protecting abortion access and reproductive healthcare, and improving public safety through funding for law enforcement, mental health services, and violence prevention programs
Jason Tunney REPUBLICAN
St. Clair County
Columbus
Kimberly Ketzel recall
Tuscola County
Elmwood
Brinkman, Lauri, and Brown recall
Montana
Voter Registration Deadline: Noon, the day before Election Day
Cascade County
Gallatin County
Belgrade School District No 44
Trustee (2)
Ron Barnett
Lila Beard
Marie Boster
Stephen Mueller
Bozeman Elementary District 7
Trustee (2)
Kevin Black
Greg Neil
Patrick Zimny
Big Sky K-12 District 72
Trustee (1)
Matthew Dodd
Jonathan Gans
Gallatin Gateway Elementary District 35
Trustee (2)
Lucas Hancox
Brian Nickolay
Erica Parrish
Central Valley Fire District
(serves Belgrade, River Rock, Valley Center, Four Corners, Springhill, Reece Creek, and Dry Creek communities.)
Trustee (2)
Joel Fassbinder
Nathan Goodman
Ron Murray
Big Sky Hospital/Wellness District
(Gallitan and Madison Counties)
Trustee (3)
Marilyn Flint
Katie Grice
Laura Seyfang
Sally Stillwill
Big Sky Resort Tax District
(Gallitan and Madison Counties)
Director (2)
Laynee Jones
Michelle Kendziorski
Taylor Kissell
Monforton Elementary District 27
Trustee (1)
Julie Loessberg
Russell Wells
Three Forks School District J24
Trustee (2)
Robert Buchholz
Aaron Lattimore
Nathan Miller
Amanda Tebay
West Yellowstone K-12 District 69
Trustee (2)
Alma Clark
Jennifer Reinsch
Estela Salinas
Craig Tureman
Yessika Vega
Hebgen Basin Hospital District
Trustee (3)
Kevin Cannon
Leroy Christensen
Carrie Egging
Kenny Jones
Julie Painter
Lewis & Clark County
Missoula County
Seeley Lake Sewer District (3)
Troy Spence
Cheri Thompson
Gary Chilicott
Nathaniel Nap
Ohio
Voter Registration Deadline: 30 days before Election Day
Democratic Primary
Secretary of State
Allison Russo Priorities: defending voting rights, opposing barriers such as restrictions on mail-in voting, and promoting clear, unbiased ballot language so voters can easily understand issues; expanding healthcare access, supporting workers’ rights, and maintaining strong public services like education and safety, while advocating for a government that serves everyday people rather than special interests
Bryan Hambley Priorities: ending gerrymandering by shifting redistricting power from politicians to citizens or independent commissions, and ensuring ballot language is clear and unbiased so voters can make informed decisions; supporting and investing in election workers to maintain secure elections, and opposing corporate or special-interest influence over electoral processes; improving public outcomes—advocating for better access to healthcare, strong public education, and infrastructure
Attorney General
Elliot Forhan Priorities: enforcing the law equally for all people, particularly targeting corruption and the influence of wealth in politics; prosecuting corporate wrongdoing and wealthy tax evasion, reducing money in politics, and holding powerful interests accountable.; using the attorney general’s office to challenge illegal or unconstitutional actions—particularly at the federal level—framing his campaign around fairness, accountability, and restoring trust in government institutions
John Kulewicz Priorities: protecting families’ interests, public safety, and fairness in the legal system; standing up to powerful interests that do not serve Ohioans, advocating for practical solutions to challenges facing working families
US Senate
Ron Kincaid Priorities: improving economic security, expanding affordable healthcare, and restoring practical, people-centered governance; proposals like an “American Dividend Plan” to share the gains of automation with workers, creating a public healthcare option while protecting choice, and defending reproductive rights; strengthening unions, addressing housing affordability, investing in clean energy and climate jobs, improving education, and pursuing immigration reform
Sherrod Brown Priorities: supporting working families, strengthening the middle class, and holding powerful interests accountable; raising wages, investing in American manufacturing and infrastructure, and supporting small businesses to create jobs; protecting and expanding Social Security and healthcare access, defending reproductive rights, and advancing civil rights protections, and criminal justice reforms such as banning chokeholds and addressing racial disparities, while promoting fair elections and government transparency
US Representative
District 1
Damon Lynch IV Priorities: protecting reproductive rights, implementing criminal justice reforms such as ending mass incarceration and expanding reentry programs, and investing in veterans’ services; taxing extreme wealth, raising wages, strengthening unions, and supporting small businesses, alongside major investments in public education and student debt relief; transitioning to clean energy, expanding universal healthcare (including Medicare for All and mental health services), increasing affordable housing, enacting gun safety measures, and pursuing campaign finance reform to eliminate corporate and dark money in politics
Greg Landsman Priorities: reducing healthcare and prescription drug costs, protecting the Affordable Care Act, and capping expenses like insulin; increasing public school funding, improving teacher pay, and expanding career and technical education opportunities. Landsman advocates for clean air and water protections, holding polluters accountable, and investing in jobs and infrastructure; gun safety measures such as universal background checks and assault weapon bans, supports reproductive rights, and promotes a foreign policy that includes aid to allies like Ukraine and Israel while pursuing long-term peace efforts
District 3
Joe Gerard Priorities: making housing and healthcare more affordable—such as increasing housing supply and offering lower-cost health coverage without raising taxes—while promoting broader economic relief for working people.
Joyce Beatty Priorities: expanding economic opportunity, protecting civil rights, and strengthening public investment; affordable housing and homeownership access, improved and affordable healthcare, and robust funding for education from early childhood through college; job creation and a strong economy, climate action, and infrastructure investment, while advocating for the protection of Social Security, Medicare, and veterans’ services; advancing voting rights and equality, with a focus on reducing discrimination and ensuring broader access to democratic participation
District 5
Brian Shaver Priorities: supports personal autonomy in healthcare decisions, including reproductive and gender-affirming care, while also backing Second Amendment rights; supporting farmers, strengthening the food supply, and expanding affordable housing in rural areas; adequately funding education and staffing federal agencies with qualified professionals, as well as lowering the cost of essentials like medications; fair and humane immigration system and greater oversight of federal power, alongside concerns about protecting farmland from foreign ownership
Daniel Burket Priorities: lowering costs for working families, supporting small businesses, and promoting fiscal responsibility; removing tariffs that burden small businesses, protecting agriculture as a vital industry, and expanding solar energy in ways that reduce costs without harming farmland; government reform—such as banning stock trading by members of Congress—establishing healthcare as a universal right, and creating a more consistent, fair, and streamlined immigration system
Martin Heberling Priorities: working-class, pro-labor agenda centered on strengthening public education, expanding access to healthcare, and creating stable, high-paying jobs; increased federal investment in schools and vocational training—particularly for emerging green industries—alongside a “healthcare for all” approach; focuses on economic dignity through union-supported employment and stronger job benefits, reflecting a broader goal of improving long-term stability and opportunity for families while aligning workforce development with future-oriented industries.
Scott Tabor Priorities: strengthening public education, protecting Medicare, and ensuring fair wages for skilled workers; supports transparent and impartial redistricting to improve representation, along with policies that uphold prevailing wages and job stability for local workers; restoring government accountability and constitutional principles—advocating for limits on government overreach, stronger responsiveness to constituents, and policies that address affordability and economic challenges facing everyday families
District 6
Adrian Vitus Priorities: people over profits” by addressing economic inequality, lowering costs, and raising wages; stronger support of local businesses, higher taxes on the wealthy, and expanded public investment in healthcare, education, childcare, housing, and Social Security; anti-corruption reform—such as removing money from politics, banning stock trading by elected officials, and increasing voter participation—alongside regulating corporate and technological power; reducing military spending and ending prolonged foreign conflicts, while promoting social equity through policies supporting workers, farmers, women’s rights, immigrants, and veterans
Brent Hanni Priorities: personal autonomy in healthcare decisions, including reproductive and gender-affirming care, while also backing Second Amendment rights; supporting farmers, strengthening the food supply, and expanding affordable rural housing, alongside adequately funding education and staffing federal agencies with qualified professionals; lowering the cost of essentials like medications, promoting fair and humane immigration policies, and enacting government reforms such as term limits and stricter campaign finance rules, with an overall focus on limiting undue influence and keeping government accountable to constituents
Charlie DiPalma
Malcolm Ritchie Priorities: protecting democracy, supporting working families, and promoting fairness and accountability in government; defending the Constitution and rule of law, advocating for economic stability and safety for workers, and ensuring marginalized communities are heard and respected.
Sean Connolly Priorities: support small businesses, strengthen unions, ensure a living wage, affordable and accessible healthcare, strong schools for strong communities, invest in classrooms and teachers
District 7
Ann Marie Donegan Priorities: lowering prescription costs, protecting Medicare and Social Security, opposing trade policies that hurt Ohio farmers, manufacturers, and small business owners, enforcing laws in ways that are consistent with the Constitution
Brian Poindexter Priorities: improve the economy and the cost of living, protecting the right to organize, supporting unions, improving healthcare, require companies to invest in America
Ed FitzGerald Priorities: aggressive anti-trust policies to restore more competitive private market, protect Social Security and Medicare, standing up for non-union workers while protecting the right to organize for fair wages and safe working conditions; Medicare for All, supporting veteran hiring, healthcare, housing and job opportunities; investing in American industry, investing in NASA Glenn; addressing the housing crisis with mortgage assistance for first time buyers, banning large corporations and private equity firms from buying up homes, and increasing the supply of homes; defending democracy by strengthening the democratic process and our institutions.
John Butchko Priorities: drug reform including decriminalization of personal possession, protecting and enforcing voting rights, making DC the 51st state, strengthening the US postal service, criminal justice reform, protecting civil rights, supporting arts and culture, ending poverty, implementing universal and affordable quality healthcare,
Keith Mundy
Laura Rodriguez-Carbone
Michael Eisner
Scott Schultz
District 8
Madaris Grant
Vanessa Enoch
District 10
David Esrati
Jan Kinner
Janice Beckett
Kristina Knickerbocker
Manuel Foggie
Tony Pombo
District 11
Ardelia Holmes
Sean Freeman
Shontel Brown
District 12
Daniel Crawford
Jason Reynard
Jerrad Christian
District 14
Bill O’Neill
Carl Setzer
Maria Eva Jukic
District 15
Adam C. Miller
Don Leonard
State Senator
District 21
Delores Gray Ford
Kent Smith
District 25
Bill DeMora
Jesse Baker
State Representative
District 1
Christopher Robbins
Dontavius Jarrells
District 2
Charity King
Michael D. Cole
District 7
Michaela Burriss
Ukeme Awakessien Jeter
Zach Rossfeld
District 18
Davida Russell
Gabe Crenshaw
Peter Hoffman
Samuel Grube
District 19
Cheryl Perez
Dionna M. Gore
Nicole Sigurdson
District 20
Charlotte Perkins
Eugene Miller
Lauren R. Welch
Michael “Mike” Seals
District 26
Ashley Bryant Bailey
Tom Brinkman
District 35
Molly Schneider
Samantha Salamon
District 37
Phil Crippen
Tom Herner
District 39
Daquan Neal
Mark Campbell
Mike Stevens
District 49
Brit Steiner
Krista L. Allison
District 50
Brian Sommers
Rylan Zachary Finzer
District 51
Amanda Sue Fontana
Angie Pekarek
District 52
Graig Bansek
Mike Baker
District 53
Dan Nutt
Matt Lundy
District 58
Basia Adamczak
Heather Fronk
District 60
Eli Wenzel
Shelby Kimball
District 85
John Newlin
Pamela J. Grogean
Victoria Maddox
Adams County
Barberton
Brown County
Champaign County
Clark County
Clermont County
Columbus City
Cuyahoga Falls County
Defiance County
Fulton County
Gallia County
Guernsey County
Hudson City
Licking County
Logan County
Lorain County
Lucas County
Mercer County
Miami County
Morgan County
Morrow County
Muskingum County
Perry County
Portage County
Scioto County
Richland County
Vinton County
Washington County
South Carolina
Voter Registration Deadline: 30 days before Election Day
Windsor County
Ernst Jonasson
Julie Cline
Town Board
Kenneth Symsack
Jarrod Muse
Jenkinsville County
Jenkinsville
City Council
Cheryl Crumblin
Clayrann Small
York County
Town Council
Bobby Hawkins
Gregory Holmes
Stephen Widener
Sat May 9
Delaware
Voter Registration Deadline: 4th Saturday before Election Day
Sussex County
Lewes
Councilperson (2)
Joe Elder
Kevin Keane
Timothy Ritzert
Massachusetts
Voter Registration Deadline: 10 Days before Election Day
Norfolk County
Brookline
School Board
John VanScoyoc incumbent Priorities: managing Brookline’s budget sustainably by offering voters choices on tax overrides and restraining spending growth, protecting essential services; supporting projects like Chestnut Hill West for needed commercial revenue while addressing neighborhood concerns; evaluating town assets and costs before major expenditures
Anthony Buono Priorities: expanding the town’s tax base by encouraging business development and transit-oriented housing that generates net revenue, arguing this can avoid both major tax overrides and deep service cuts; emphasizing “rigorous analysis rather than ideology,”; turning existing plans—like the housing and comprehensive plans—into actionable policy, while maintaining strong oversight of spending and debt; practical investments in infrastructure and roadway safety, support for local businesses, and strengthening services for seniors, all framed around long-term financial sustainability and pragmatic consensus-building
Amanda Zimmerman Priorities: climate change, safe streets, revenue and housing
I really hope this guide was helpful
Remember, your vote is your voice and that voice is your superpower!