Chico, CA — Today Our Revolution, the national grassroots organization founded by Senator Bernie Sanders, announced its endorsement of Audrey Denney for Congress in California’s First Congressional District, throwing its support behind Denney’s people-powered campaign to challenge corporate influence and fight for working families in Northern California.
The endorsement signals that one of the nation’s leading grassroots progressive organizations sees this race as a critical opportunity to elect a leader committed to shifting power away from billionaires, corporations, and political insiders and back to the people.
“We’re proudly endorsing Audrey Denney for Congress,” said Joseph Geevarghese, Executive Director at Our Revolution. “Audrey is running a people-powered campaign that rejects corporate PAC money and stands up for working families, family farmers, healthcare, and a healthy environment. It’s time rural communities had a champion in Washington.”
Denney has pledged to reject corporate PAC money and run a grassroots campaign focused on lowering costs for working families, protecting democracy, finally passing Medicare for All, and standing up to the billionaire and corporate interests increasingly shaping American politics.
“This race is about the difference between politicians who serve corporate power and insiders, and leaders who are willing to stand up and champion working people,” said Audrey Denney. “Senator Bernie Sanders has shown what it looks like to tell the truth about oligarchy in America and fight for working families. That’s the kind of leadership our communities deserve in Washington.”
Our Revolution’s endorsement brings national grassroots momentum to Denney’s campaign as voters across Northern California organize to elect a representative committed to challenging corporate power and restoring accountability in government.
Denney said the growing coalition behind her campaign reflects a simple truth voters across the district are feeling.
“People are tired of watching politics serve the powerful while working families struggle to get ahead,” Denney said. “This movement is about taking our democracy back, and making sure government works for the people who actually keep our communities running.”
Audrey Denney (D) is an educator and nonprofit leader running for Congress to represent California’s First District. Rooted in Northern California, Audrey has spent her career fighting for working families, rural communities, and food security at home and abroad. She bartended to pay for college at Chico State, then began a career as a teacher before moving into nonprofit leadership focused on community resilience and food access. Audrey refuses corporate PAC money and believes politics should be about service, integrity, and people, not partisanship. With fair maps and growing grassroots momentum in a district that is poised to flip red-to-blue, she’s running to finally deliver the real representation Northern California families deserve. Learn more at www.AudreyforCongress.com.