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Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC

Website:

www.weareprogressives.org
Type:

Political Action Committee

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Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC is a left-of-center political action committee (PAC) that was established in September 2009. 1 The PAC’s co-chairs are U.S. Representatives Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Greg Casar (D-TX), and Maxwell Frost (D-FL).  2

The PAC funds the campaigns of the  Democratic candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives from the left-wing to radical-left “progressive” wing of the party. 3

Background

The Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC is the campaign arm of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.  4 The political action committee funds the campaigns of the most left-leaning Democratic political candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives. 3

The Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC was registered under the Federal Election Commission (FEC) in September 2009 as “a vehicle for supporting the members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and candidates who believe that, if elected, they’ll become members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus,” according to PAC board member Darcy Burner at the time. 1

After the 2018 midterm elections that saw Democrats capture the House majority, the

Congressional Progressive Caucus grew by about two dozen members to became the largest caucus in the House. According to an ActBlue advertisement accessed in November 2025, the CPC was estimated to comprise 40 percent of all House Democrats. 5  4

The CPC PAC does not challenge moderate Democratic incumbents. Instead, the CPC PAC focuses on recruiting candidates for safe seats where incumbents have retired and in swing districts held by Republicans. It works with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), the official campaign arm of the House Democratic Caucus.  4

Policy Focus

The Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC says it supports budgets that eliminate spending caps and advocates for raising revenue to spend on repairing infrastructure, public education, debt-free college, and “modernizing” energy systems by replacing conventional fuels with weather-dependent energy.  2

The Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC says it wants to keep Social Security “out of the hands of Wall Street,” and it opposes benefit garnishment.  2 In November 2021, a CPC PAC ad on Facebook claimed, “Trump cut Social Security benefits by over $3 BILLION.” In January 2022, the left-leaning PolitiFact (operated by the Poynter Institute) ranked the PAC’s ad as “False.” 6

The PAC supports raising the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 per hour over the next several years.  It also supports campaign finance regulations arguing that political campaign-related spending is not speech.  2

The PAC contends trade deals should put American workers first and have an emphasis on environmental, consumer, and human rights protections.  2

The CPA PAC advocates for a Medicare for All plan. It argues that health care is a human right, says it wants to build on what it calls the success of the Affordable Care Act, and wants to “ensure that greedy pharmaceutical and health insurance companies can’t put their profits above your health.”  2

Fundraising

In the 2024 election cycle, the CPC PAC raised $156,640 in contributions and spent $672,893 to get Democrats elected, according to Open Secrets, which tracks political campaign spending.  7

In the 2022 election cycle, the group raised brought in $271,994 and spent $1.8 million.  8

In 2020, the group brought $227,566 in contributions, with outside expenditures of $1 million.  9

The CPC PAC raised about $2 million during the 2018 cycle, during which Democrats won control of the House of Representatives, a big increase from the $298,000 it raised in the 2016 cycle. 4

Notable Endorsements

Notable recipients of endorsements from the Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC include Rep. Shontel Brown (D-OH); former Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), who lost her U.S. House seat in a redistricted primary race in 2022; former Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), who lost his 2024 re-election bid in a Democratic primary; Rep. Lateefah Simon (D-CA), Rep. Laura Friedman (D-CA) and Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ). 10

In June 2024, the Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC rescinded its endorsement of former U.S. Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY), because Jones had endorsed the primary opponent of the caucus-backed then-Rep. Jamaal Bowman. Jones endorsed Rep. George Latimer (D-NY) for Congress because of Bowman’s criticism of Israel. NBC News described the rescinding of an endorsement as “an unusual move for the Progressive Caucus, which has generally tried to adopt a big-tent approach to grow its membership and avoided adopting stringent ideological litmus tests.” 11

Leadership

The Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC co-chairs are U.S. Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Greg Casar (D-TX), and Maxwell Frost (D-FL).  2

The CPC PAC board is made up of Reps. Lateefah Simon (D-CA),

Robert Garcia (D-CA), Delia Ramirez (D-IL), Jill Tokuda (D-HI), Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Chuy Garcia (D-IL), and Jamie Raskin (D-MD).  2

As of 2025, Evan Brown was the executive director of the Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC. He was previously the deputy political director for End Citizens United, and has managed Democratic campaigns in Alaska and Connecticut.  12

References

  1. Staff. “Congressional Progressive Caucus Forms PAC.” Roll Call. September 3, 2009. Accessed November 11, 2025. https://rollcall.com/2009/09/03/congressional-progressive-caucus-forms-pac/ 
  2. Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC. Accessed November 11, 2025. https://weareprogressives.org/ 
  3. “Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC.” Datanyze. Accessed November 10, 2025. https://www.datanyze.com/companies/congressional-progressive-caucus-pac/1286976737 
  4. Barrón-López, Laura. “Progressive Caucus PAC ramps up 2020 push.” Politico. March 11, 2019. Accessed November 11, 2025. https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/11/progressive-pac-2020-david-keith-1214601 
  5. “Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC.” ActBlue. Accessed November 11, 2025. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/pccc_2018_cpc 
  6. Kertscher, Tom. “Progressive group wrong, Trump didn’t cut Social Security benefits by $3 billion.” PolitiFact. January 3, 2022. Accessed November 11, 2025. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jan/03/congressional-progressive-caucus-pac/progressive-group-wrong-trump-didnt-cut-social-sec/ 
  7. “Congressional Progressive Caucus.” Open Secrets. Accessed November 10, 2025. https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/congressional-progressive-caucus-pac/recipients?id=D000045957 
  8. “Congressional Progressive Caucus.” Open Secrets. Accessed November 10, 2025. https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/congressional-progressive-caucus-pac/summary?toprecipcycle=2024&contribcycle=2024&lobcycle=2024&outspendcycle=2024&id=D000045957&topnumcycle=2022 
  9. “Congressional Progressive Caucus.” Open Secrets. Accessed November 10, 2025. https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/congressional-progressive-caucus-pac/summary?toprecipcycle=2024&contribcycle=2024&lobcycle=2024&outspendcycle=2024&id=D000045957&topnumcycle=2020 
  10. “Endorsements by Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC.” Ballotpedia. Accessed November 11, 2025. https://ballotpedia.org/Endorsements_by_Congressional_Progressive_Caucus_PAC 
  11. Wald, Alex Seitz and Wong, Scott. “Progressive groups rescind endorsements of former Rep. Mondaire Jones.” NBC News. Accessed November 11, 2025. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/progressive-caucus-rescinds-endorsement-former-rep-mondaire-jones-rcna155754 
  12. “Evan Brown.” LinkedIn. Accessed November 11, 2025. https://www.linkedin.com/in/evanbrown193/ 
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