FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: Monday, November 10, 2025
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Nearly 1,200 People Sign Up to Explore a Run for Office After Senate Democrats Fold
When news broke on Sunday that a group of Senate Democrats planned to cave to Republicans and vote to pass a funding measure, hundreds of potential candidates reached out to Run for Something to explore a potential run for office.
Over 830 people signed up on Sunday night after Democrats folded, with nearly 1,200 signing up in total since then.
This surge echoes a pattern seen time and again since Trump won last November: The American people, and especially young people, are pissed off and ready for change. Since Trump was elected, nearly 75,000 people have signed up to explore a run with Run for Something — more people than the organization’s first four years combined. That includes 10,000 people who signed up in the two weeks after Zohran Mamdani won his primary and surges earlier this year after federal workers were laid off en masse, and after Schumer sided with the GOP on their spending bill.
Last week, those surges ushered in a new wave of millennial and Gen Z leaders across local and state legislative offices ready to hit the ground running. In total, 129 of Run for Something’s candidates on the ballot last won their races, including 36 red-to-blue flips. That’s a 66% win rate. Another nine candidates advanced to a runoff, and several races remain to be called.
From a former federal worker who lost her job, to a former Republican who left the party after January 6 whose community is struggling with affordability, young people are refusing to wait their turn to lead when their communities are in crisis — and they are winning.
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Run for Something (RFS) recruits and supports young progressive candidates running for state and local offices. Since its founding, RFS has helped elect over 1,600 candidates across the country, including 36 candidates in red-to-blue seats in the 2025 election cycle. Today, RFS has the largest database of any other Democratic organization, with close to 75,000 people reaching out since last November with interest in running for office.