Voting booths are pictured at a polling station in the Summit Christian Fellowship in Big Bear, California on Nov. 8, 2016. | Bill Wechter/AFP/Getty Images 'Run for Something' backs dozens of progressive candidates

Run for Something, the organizing and empowerment group urging young progressives to run for local office, added 37 more endorsements on Tuesday, bringing its total to 121 backed candidates for the 2017 and 2018 election cycles.

While other groups have focused on getting Democratic candidates ready for statewide runs or House races, Run for Something works with candidates, many of them first-timers, for state legislatures on down. Some of the endorsed candidates in the latest round are running for county clerk and library committee seats.


A hopeful running for San Diego County Assessor/Recorder/Clerk got the nod, as did one for Ohio’s Clyde-Green Springs School Board.

The group touted its endorsees as "first- and second-time millennial candidates for office who are rebuilding the Democratic Party from the ground up."

“They aren't complacent with the status quo and they're not waiting for someone to tap them on the shoulder to run,” said Run for Something co-founder Amanda Litman. “Instead, they're changing their lives to get in the fight, and in the process, they're changing their communities for the better.”

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The candidates are nearly half women, and half people of color.

Endorsed candidates get access to a network of volunteer campaign veterans to train and advise them on their runs, as well as the attention of other progressive groups who have started using the Run for Something stamp of approval as a key indicator of their own support.



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