About the Progressive Voters Guide

The American Federation of Teachers is a union of professionals that champions fairness; democracy; economic opportunity; and high-quality public education, healthcare and public services for our students, their families and our communities. We are committed to advancing these principles through community engagement, organizing, collective bargaining and political activism, and especially through the work our members do.

Our mission: to support and advocate for just policies that strengthen our pluralistic democracy and protect human rights at home and abroad.

We are an organization whose mission is to strengthen the voice of the Michigan Latinx community through leadership development, participatory democracy, and legislative advocacy aimed to create growth and investment opportunities across the state. Guided by our collective values, we promote solidarity and support with our community for a future where we can all thrive.

To protect our environment, health, economic well-being and community quality of life. Clean Water Action organizes strong grassroots groups and coalitions, and campaigns to elect environmental candidates and to solve environmental and community problems.

Detroit Action seeks to be a union for Black and Brown Michiganders to build and defend our communities. Our mission is to build the power of individuals and families to challenge the root cause of poverty, advance justice, and promote human development through neighborhood-driven community organizing and civic engagement. We believe in creating a just world where everyone has housing, healthcare, quality education, and a liveable environment.

Equality Michigan Action Network is a non-partisan political advocacy voice for Michigan's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) community. They have been Michigan's premiere political advocacy organization serving the LGBTQ+ community for over 25 years. Equality Michigan Action Network engages, educates, and moves political leaders and voters to take action on the issues that matter most to LGBTQ+ Michiganders. They provide policy expertise, political acumen, and broad-based relationships across the political spectrum to propel our mission: To achieve full equality and respect for all Michigan residents regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.

The mission of the AFL-CIO is to improve the lives of working families -- to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our nation. To accomplish this mission, we will build and change the American labor movement.

The mission of the Michigan Association for Justice is to promote a fair and effective justice system. We aim to support the work of attorneys in their efforts to ensure that any person who is injured by the misconduct or negligence of others can obtain justice in Michigan’s courtrooms, even when taking on the most powerful interests. 

The mission of the MEA is to ensure that the education of our students and the working environments of our members are of the highest quality.

LCV works to turn environmental values into national, state and local priorities. LCV, in collaboration with our state LCV partners, advocates for sound environmental laws and policies, holds elected officials accountable for their votes and actions, and elects pro-environment candidates who will champion our priority issues

Michigan United Action is a broad, statewide coalition working to reform our broken immigration system, protect our environment, and end mass incarceration. We develop the leadership of our members to eradicate the root causes of racial and economic justice.

SEIU Michigan represents nearly 30,000 public and private sector workers across Michigan. We believe in the power of joining together on the job to win higher wages and benefits while fighting for a more just society and an economy that works for all of us, not just corporations and the wealthy.

Our mission is to: (1) Explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth; (2) Practice and promote the responsible use of the earth’s ecosystems and resources; (3) Educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment; and (4) Use all lawful means to carry out these objectives.

The mission of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Michigan is to protect and enchance the ability of affiliates to deliver reproductive health care services by affecting policy makers through through electoral and non-electoral activities. The goals of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Michigan are to: 1) Educate communities about the status of reproductive rights and health. 2) Educate communities about the impact of public policy and conservative decision makers on the status of reproductive health and rights. 3) Drive action and hold decision makers accountable on women's health and rights. 4) Mobilize voters around the election. 5) Build long-term power through the meaningful engagment of supporters and allies.

Today, certain politicians and their greedy lobbyists hurt us all by handing kickbacks to the rich, defunding our schools, blocking free, universal health care, destroying our environment, and threatening seniors with cuts to Medicare and Social Security. They try to divide us from each other at work and in our communities because they know we’ll all flourish when we go all in for all of us. By joining together, we can rewrite the rules, and make Michigan a place where everyone thrives and leads full, satisfying lives. We foster stable, long-lasting alliances across urban, suburban, and rural communities that is explicitly multi-racial with a racial justice lens. We facilitate space for relationships, dialogue, and shared strategies across diverse communities. It’s critical that this work is not solely focused on elections.