Hi, I’m Aaron Regunberg, and I’m running for Congress here in Rhode Island’s first congressional district.

For fifteen years, I’ve been fighting to make a difference for everyday Rhode Islanders. I began my career as a community organizer in Providence, where I founded the Providence Student Union, an education justice organization that supports young people fighting for better public schools. In 2014 I was elected to the Rhode Island General Assembly, where I built coalitions that passed laws to give working people paid sick days, higher wages, prison reform, expanded harm reduction strategies, and greater access to renewable energy. Most recently, while earning my law degree, I worked with the Sierra Club and the Center for Climate Integrity supporting litigation to hold Big Oil companies accountable for their environmental crimes. 

I am also a dad. My son turned two in March, the same month the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its final warning that if we don’t start taking urgent action on the climate crisis, all of our children will be permanently locked-in to a dangerous future.

But that future hasn’t been decided yet. It’s still up for grabs.

Just like the future of our democracy. And the right of every woman to make her own healthcare decisions. And the ability of workers to build unions for a better life. And our power to stop big drug companies, big banks, big oil corporations from ripping us off.

We can win these fights, and take on the Republican extremists who are coming after our communities here in Rhode Island and across the country.

But to win a fight, we need fighters — people who can organize, and build coalitions, and make real change. We’ve had that with Congressman Cicilline, who’s been leading the charge to break up monopolies, protect queer and trans folks, defend Social Security and Medicare, and ban assault weapons. With him moving on we need to know – to really know – that our next representative will continue to champion these same progressive principles.

That’s what I’ve been doing here in Rhode Island for years. And that’s the kind of fighter I’d be in Congress, with your support.

I’m joining this race because I believe a better world is possible. But we have to fight for it. So let’s fight. For you, for our state, for our children, and for the better future that all of us deserve.