George Whitesides represents California’s 27th District and is running for reelection. He served as Chief of Staff for NASA during the Obama administration, where he led reform efforts that helped enable current U.S. space leadership and received the agency’s Distinguished Service. He then served as the first CEO of Virgin Galactic, growing the company into a global aerospace firm over a decade. He has also co-founded Megafire Action, the first organization dedicated to solving the nation’s megafire crisis, and co-chaired the Antelope Valley COVID-19 Task Force, for which he received NASA’s Exceptional Public Achievement Medal.

Bill Keating represents Massachusetts’ Ninth District and is running for re-election. Born and raised in Norwood, he learned the value of service from his father, a police officer and veterans agent. He worked his way through Boston College as a letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service before earning his law degree from Suffolk University while serving in the Massachusetts Legislature. In Congress, he serves on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the House Armed Services Committee, and is currently Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, Energy, and the Environment.

Jill Tokuda represents Hawaii’s Second Congressional District and is running for reelection. She earned her degree in International Relations from George Washington University before serving in the Hawaii State Senate from 2006 to 2018, chairing the Ways and Means Committee and managing the state’s $14 billion budget. She also co-directed CyberHawaii, served as External Affairs Director at the Nisei Veterans Memorial Center, and helped manage the distribution of more than $21 billion in federal COVID-19 relief funds for Hawaii. In Congress, she serves on the House Agriculture and Armed Services Committees and the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.

Adam Hamawy demonstrates a consistent commitment to the rule of law, supports nonpartisan oversight and accountability of the Executive Branch, exhibits a substantive understanding of the national security challenges facing the country, and upholds the democratic norms and ethical standards of public service that the organization’s criteria require.

Luke Bronin is running for Congress in Connecticut’s First District. A Rhodes Scholar, he served as a Navy intelligence officer and deployed to Afghanistan with the U.S. military’s anti-corruption task force, then served in the Obama Treasury Department, helping create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and later as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes. Before becoming mayor of Hartford, he served as General Counsel to Governor Dannel Malloy, where he helped enact Connecticut’s gun safety laws and supported green energy initiatives.

Gabe Amo represents Rhode Island’s First Congressional District, first elected in 2023. He worked in the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs under President Obama, served as Director of Public Engagement and Community Affairs for Governor Gina Raimondo, and returned to the White House as Deputy Director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and Special Assistant to President Biden. In Congress, Amo serves on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, including its Subcommittees on Europe and East Asia and the Pacific, and several other committees and sub committees.

Tim Kennedy represents New York’s Twenty-Sixth Congressional District and is running for reelection. Tim previously served in the New York State Senate, where he represented communities across Erie County and Western New York. In Congress, Kennedy has focused on strengthening the economy, supporting American manufacturing and infrastructure, expanding access to affordable health care, and protecting Social Security and Medicare. He also serves on the House Committee on Homeland Security, where he is Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Emergency Management and Technology and a member of the Subcommittee on Transportation and Maritime Security, along with a seat on the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs.

Chrissy Houlahan represents Pennsylvania’s Sixth Congressional District and is running for reelection. As a third-generation military veteran and the daughter of a Holocaust survivor who served as a naval officer, she served as a Captain in the U.S. Air Force Reserve. In 2018, she made history as the first woman elected to represent Pennsylvania’s 6th District and the first Democrat since the Civil War, and she now serves on the House Armed Services Committee and the House Select Committee on Intelligence.

Joe Courtney represents Connecticut’s Second District and is running for re-election. A lifelong Connecticut resident, he earned his law degree from the University of Connecticut School of Law and worked as a public defender and town attorney in Vernon before serving as a state representative, where he chaired the Public Health and Human Services Committees. He was first elected to Congress in 2006, and eventually gained a seat on the House Armed Services Committee. He now chairs the Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, which oversees all submarine and ship construction programs.

Seth Magaziner represents Rhode Island’s Second Congressional District and is running for reelection. He began his career as a public school teacher before serving eight years as Rhode Island’s General Treasurer. He was elected to Congress in 2022, where he has focused on lowering costs, defending democracy, and fighting government corruption, including introducing legislation to ban members of Congress from trading stocks. He serves on the House Homeland Security Committee, where he works on cybersecurity, and combating extremism. He also serves on the House Natural Resources Committee, focused on protecting Rhode Island’s coastline and fisheries.

Gregory Stanton represents Arizona’s Fourth Congressional District and is running for reelection. As mayor of Phoenix, he helped lead the city’s growth and recovery, investing in transit, infrastructure, higher education, and the bioscience and trade sectors. In Congress, Stanton serves on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, and is Ranking Member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management, where he has led oversight of FEMA’s disaster response.

Maggie Goodlander is running for Congress in New Hampshire’s Second District. She began her career as a foreign policy advisor in the U.S. Senate, where she helped write landmark sanctions legislation, and served as an intelligence officer in the Navy Reserve for over a decade. After law school and a clerkship on the U.S. Supreme Court, she returned to New Hampshire to teach constitutional law at UNH and Dartmouth, later serving as counsel in the first impeachment of President Trump. Most recently, she served as a senior advisor at the White House, leading President Biden’s Unity Agenda on the opioid epidemic, mental health, Big Tech accountability, veterans, and cancer research.

Eugene Vindman is running for Virginia’s 7th Congressional District. Raised in Brooklyn, he enrolled in ROTC at Cornell and was commissioned as an Army infantry officer, going on to a 25-year military career as a paratrooper, infantry officer, and JAG Corps attorney, including service as a battlefield advisor on the law of war to the U.S. Forces-Iraq and General Lloyd Austin. He later joined the National Security Council as a Legal Advisor and became its Senior Ethics Official in the White House. In 2019, after his twin brother Alexander reported President Trump’s call with Ukraine’s president up the chain of command, Eugene helped report it as well.

Elaine Luria is running for Congress in Virginia’s Second District. She joined the Navy at 17 and spent 20 years as a nuclear-trained Surface Warfare Officer who served on destroyers, cruisers, and aircraft carriers in the Middle East and Western Pacific. She retired as a Commander in 2017 after commanding a 400-sailor unit that supported the U.S. Marine Corps. She represented Virginia’s Second District in Congress from 2018 to 2023, where she helped pass the PACT Act, secured three cost-of-living increases for veterans, and delivered historic investments in shipbuilding for Hampton Roads.

Bale Dalton is running for Congress in Florida’s 7th District. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy, going on to serve 24 years in the Navy and Navy Reserve, including 13 years on active duty with deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan, the Horn of Africa, and the Pacific. As a Navy helicopter pilot, he flew medical evacuation missions in Kuwait, delivered relief after Hurricane Katrina, supported special operations in Iraq and Africa, and directed combat air support in Afghanistan. He later worked at the State Department and for Senator Bill Nelson in Congress, returned to active duty as commanding officer of the Navy’s special operations support squadron, and went on to serve as NASA’s Chief of Staff, managing 16,500 employees.

Richard Ojeda is running for Congress in North Carolina. He spent 24 years in the U.S. Army, serving tours in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Haiti, including fifteen years stationed at Fort Bragg, where his daughter was born and his family put down roots. After retiring from the military, he moved to West Virginia to be near his aging parents, taught JROTC at a local high school, and was elected to the State Senate, where he passed medical cannabis legislation and stood with teachers during the statewide strike.

James Martin is running for Congress in Florida’s 21st District. A fourth-generation Floridian, he earned an appointment to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, graduated with honors in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, and spent nearly ten years in the Coast Guard serving on four ships and commanding two cutters in Fort Pierce, Florida. His last active-duty assignment was Chief of Staff for National Security Affairs and Executive Secretary of the Office of the Vice President at the White House from 2022 to 2025, where he served both Vice President Harris and Vice President Vance. He now holds a commission as a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve.

Tony Kozycki is running for Congress in Georgia’s Seventh District. Raised in LaGrange, Georgia, he attended the United States Naval Academy on a nomination from Senator Saxby Chambliss. He became a Naval Aviator flying the F/A-18 Super Hornet, completing three combat deployments and working closely with allied forces in complex, high-stakes environments. After returning home, he continued his service as an attorney fighting for Georgia families. “I’ve led when the stakes were real, when people were counting on you to get it right,” Tony says. “That kind of responsibility stays with you, and it’s exactly what’s missing in Washington.”

Shawn Harris is running for Congress in Georgia’s 14th District. He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps after high school and rose to the rank of Sergeant, later earning his B.A. in Agribusiness from Tuskegee University, where he met his wife Karla. He deployed as an infantry commander in Afghanistan after 9/11, later led a team into Liberia during the 2014 Ebola outbreak, and retired as a Brigadier General after 40 years of military service. As the 2024 nominee, Shawn built a coalition of Democrats, Independents, and Republicans and earned more votes than any Democrat in GA-14 in over a decade.

Ray Bilger is running for Congress in Pennsylvania’s 15th District. Born in Bellefonte and raised in Pleasant Gap, he grew up with working-class values instilled by his father, a factory worker, machinist, and veteran, and his mother, who raised three children. He entered the Air Force in 1986 as an Airborne Cryptologic Linguist, serving in Desert Shield and Desert Storm over a 35-year career as a security officer and intelligence analyst for the Air Force, National Security Agency, and State Department. He most recently served as NSA Technical Director for Cyber Analysis from 2015 to 2017.