Working Families Party

The Working Families Party (WFP) is the progressive party for the multiracial working class, fighting for a nation that works for the many, not the few. The Working Families Party is regular people coming together across our differences to make a better future for us all. We’re a multiracial party that fights for workers over bosses and people over the powerful. We want an America which realizes the promise – unrealized in our history – of freedom and equality for all. We believe that no matter our race, age or gender, most of us want the same things. We want to earn enough to thrive, not just survive, and leave a better future. We want healthy food and clean water, safe neighborhoods and a safe world. We want to be free.

The Working Families Party is building our own party on top of the two-party system in the United States — and it’s working. We organize outside the two parties, and then we recruit and train people-powered candidates up and down the ballot and run them to win. Sometimes we run candidates through Democratic Party primaries, and other times we run candidates on our own. We take on elections from city council to U.S. Senate — wherever there’s a path to win, and where winning will advance a people’s agenda, elevate visionary candidates, and help build the multiracial movement we need to win the America we deserve. This is not just an idea — it’s reality. For more than two decades, we have been recruiting, training, and electing transformational leaders across the country. We’ve then organized with them to win major victories for working families — like higher wages, a fairer criminal justice system and getting money out of politics. The wealthy and the powerful tell us what we are trying to do is impossible. They are counting on us to believe it, so that we don’t even try. But we are doing it. And together, we can do so much more and become a nation rooted in dignity, compassion and justice for all.