U.S. House
Maine Democrats
Browse candidates for U.S. House:
Chellie Pingree | CD1
Chellie Pingree has spent her life doing what Mainers do: working hard, solving problems, and giving back to her community.
After moving to Maine as a teenager, Chellie built her life on the offshore island of North Haven, where she raised three children, worked as an organic farmer, and started successful small businesses. She knows firsthand the challenges of making payroll, creating jobs, and keeping a small business going in a rural community. In 1981, she started North Island Yarn, which grew to employ local workers on the island. Later, she helped launch Nebo Lodge and played a key role in bringing Turner Farm back into production, strengthening North Haven’s local food economy.
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Chellie never set out to be a politician. She started by serving her neighbors in the roles that needed filling, including as the town tax assessor and chair of the local school board. In 1992, she won an upset victory for a Maine State Senate seat in a predominantly Republican district and went on to serve four terms, eventually becoming Senate Majority Leader. There, she earned a reputation as a fearless advocate for working families, affordable health care, small businesses, education, and Maine’s environment.
In 2008, Chellie was elected to Congress to represent Maine’s First District. In Washington, she has built a record of delivering real results for Maine people. Serving on the Appropriations Committee, she has fought to strengthen local communities, support veterans, expand access to health care, and stand up for farmers, fishermen, and working families.
Through it all, Chellie has stayed grounded in the values she learned on North Haven: work hard, be accountable to your neighbors, and use common sense to get things done.
Joe Baldacci | CD2
Joe Baldacci has spent his career serving the people of Maine and fighting for the community he calls home. Born and raised in Bangor, Maine, Joe grew up working in his family’s restaurant, Momma Baldacci’s, alongside his seven siblings.
Joe was elected to the Bangor City Council 4 times, serving 2 terms as Mayor. On the City Council, Joe focused on economic development and protecting essential services such as school funding, public health, law enforcement, and infrastructure from 8 years of devastating cuts by the LePage Administration. He has always stood up for working families and made sure government delivers real results for the people it serves—not the ultra-wealthy or special interests.
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Joe was first elected to the State Senate in 2020, and was reelected by wide margins in 2022 and 2024 to represent the towns of Bangor and Hermon. In the State Senate, Joe has:
Focused on seniors and healthcare, restoring Medicare subsidies and earning a Legislator of the Year award by the Maine Council on Aging.
Fought for teachers, students, and public schools, earning a 100% rating from the Maine Education Association.
Worked to protect women’s health care and reproductive health, securing a $6 million increase for Maine’s family planning services while earning a 100% rating from Planned Parenthood.
Led the charge on legislation to lower property taxes and keep Mainers in their homes.
Now, Joe is running for Congress to ensure that we have a leader who has our back. Joe has gone toe-to-toe with Paul LePage before– and won. He will fight to protect Social Security and Medicare, lower costs, expand access to affordable healthcare, keep rural hospitals open, and protect a woman’s right to choose.
In addition to his public service, Joe maintains an extensive general law practice. A lifelong Mainer, he lives in Bangor with his wife. They have two adult daughters and remain deeply rooted in the community they’ve spent decades working to improve
Matt Dunlap | CD2
Matt Dunlap is running for Maine’s 2nd Congressional District because we deserve a representative who will stand up to Trump, take on the billionaire class, and fight for working families.
Matt was born and raised on a farm near Bar Harbor, and he’s never forgotten where he came from. As State Auditor, he works to improve the efficiency of state government, eliminate waste, and prevent fraud. Previously, Matt served as Maine’s Secretary of State. During Trump’s first term, he was appointed to what was supposed to be a bipartisan “election integrity” commission — but when it became clear the panel was just a front for a fraudulent power grab, Matt took Trump to court, won, and forced the commission to be dissolved.
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In Congress, Matt will fight to make billionaires and big corporations pay their fair share, strengthen Social Security, and Medicare For All. He’ll stand up to ICE raids tearing apart Maine communities and fight for universal childcare and affordable housing. Matt is running to take on the powerful interests that have rigged our economy against working class Mainers — because it’s time Washington worked for us, not Wall Street.
Matt is a founding board member of the Maine Youth Fish and Game Association, the former executive director of the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine, and assistant to the treasurer of his local Episcopal Church. He and his wife, Michelle Dunphy, live in Old Town and have one daughter. He is a proud graduate of the University of Maine.
Paige Loud | CD2
Paige is a candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in Maine’s 2nd District (ME-02). She has built her career as a social worker, supporting people in hospice care, adults with intellectual disabilities, and neighbors facing housing shortages, food insecurity, and barriers to health care.
From kitchen tables to the State Capitol, she has worked to address systems that fail working families. She brings firsthand experience of rural challenges to her campaign for Congress.
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A citizen of the Cherokee Nation, Paige’s upbringing in a tiny, impoverished community sparked her passion for service. She has a deep understanding of the issues hurting rural Maine and how policy failures translate into real suffering, which drives her commitment to developing policies that center on people, not politics. Before moving to Maine to attend the University of Maine first as an undergraduate, and now as a graduate student, Paige was a resident of Oklahoma. Paige has fallen in love with the people and traditions of Maine, above all, its sense of community and the care neighbors have for one another. As Congresswoman, Paige is committed to embodying the tenacity, resilience, and compassion that make living in Maine the way life should be.
Paige currently lives in Old Town with her husband, Aaron, and their three pets.
Jordan Wood | CD2
Jordan Wood is a former Capitol Hill Chief of Staff and pro-democracy advocate. He grew up in Lewiston and Gardiner and is raising his family in Auburn. The son of a teacher and a pastor, Jordan’s family lived mostly paycheck to paycheck. He attended Lewiston and Gardiner public schools, started working at 16 in construction at $10 an hour, and could only afford college through need-based student loans.
Jordan has spent his career leading the fight against Donald Trump. Barricaded in the Capitol during the January 6th Insurrection, Jordan recognized the threat of Trump’s election-denial movement and co-founded the bipartisan organization democracyFIRST to combat Trump’s attacks on our constitution and the rule of law. Under Jordan’s leadership, they successfully defeated dozens of election deniers around the country who had direct oversight on future elections.
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As Vice President of End Citizens United, Jordan spearheaded the No Corporate PAC Pledge. Because of that work, 20% of Democrats in Congress now refuse corporate PAC money, up from just 1%. As Chief of Staff to Congresswoman Katie Porter, he helped take on Wall Street banks and powerful financial interests by passing new laws to protect consumers.
In Congress, Jordan will fight to rein in Wall Street and Big Pharma, stop Trump’s lawless ICE agents from terrorizing Maine, pass Medicare for All so every Mainer has access to healthcare, and protect Social Security benefits. He will work to cap childcare costs at $10 a day, crack down on hedge funds buying up single-family homes, and support the Ultra-Millionaire Tax to fund investments in working families. He’ll enact sweeping campaign finance reform, ban congressional stock trading, protect abortion rights, and reject all corporate donations.