Midterm elections - Washington State
U.S. Representative, Congressional District 6.
Emily Randall (D)
Incumbent [Endorsed by CCD, OCA; Recommended by IS Election Task Force (ETF)]
First woman, first person of color, and first queer Latina to represent the district.; previously WA State Senator (2019–2024). Platform: Climate/clean energy, middle-class cost relief, voting rights, ACA/Medicaid expansion, education access, abortion rights. Record: Secured funding for military families and Kitsap Transit; introduced bipartisan ANCHOR Act and an anti-fraud bill (advanced 38–2); introduced a War Powers Resolution on Iran; shifted from strong pro-Israel to "pro-Israel, pro-peace," backing Palestinian human rights measures.
Teresa Fox (R)
Fox, a Bremerton-based occupational safety professional and emergency manager, frames herself as "not a career politician" prioritizing common-sense leadership. Her platform centers on fiscal restraint, naval readiness/worker funding, rural police staffing, Title IX protections, rural healthcare access, and term limits, with focus on maritime, timber, military, and small-business communities. However, her campaign social media reflects harder-edged national GOP messaging: labeling Democrats as "Communists" or "Socialists," calling Indivisible communist-run, posting anti-homeless content (including suggesting links to child sex trafficking), and attacking Emily Randall directly.
Leon Lawson ("Trump Republican")
Lawson appears to be running out of grievance rather than genuine desire to serve, with a long history of litigation and public agitation. His platform centers on "government overreach" and DCYF reform/restructuring . Citing "broad coherence of government" as his qualification, a high school-educated former used-car dealership executive, he's run unsuccessfully for Governor (2020, 2024) and U.S. Senate (2022). He was fired after ~5 weeks as a probationary DCYF Juvenile Rehabilitation Officer, after posting MAGA content on his campaign page. Endorsed by Mason County Republicans and MAGA Washington.
Brian P. O'Gorman (I)
O'Gorman, 16-year military veteran (disability discharge) has no corporate donations but appears genuinely motivated by issues he cares about. Platform: partisanship reform (building an independent congressional caucus), securing federal funding for county hospitals/universal healthcare access, opposing civil asset forfeiture and qualified immunity, and addressing wealth-based inequities in practical rights. He opposes a constitutional convention, distrusting how it might be used. His social media is low-key — mostly pro-gun/military posts alongside a Pride celebration post, suggesting a blended ideological profile.
Macy Jones (No Party Preference)
Jones represents the progressive-left, grassroots. Her platform includes universal healthcare, living wages, UBI, climate action, abolishing ICE, ADA modernization, housing for all, 3-day weekends, and ending the "genocide" in Gaza/Lebanon. A longtime community activist:Jewish Voice for Peace, Local Peace Economy, and Washington for Peace and Justice, she volunteers regularly at a food bank supporting housing, food, and healthcare needs.
Washington State, Legislative District 24. Representative, Position 1.
Adam Bernbaum (D),
Incumbent [Endorsed by CCD, OCA; Recommended by IS Election Task Force (ETF)]
Bernbaum, a first-term incumbent Democrat seeking reelection whose record shows him actively legislating rather than just voting present. Sponsored/ negotiated bipartisan bills on housing supply, mortgage escrow reform, wildfire insurance, childcare capacity, and permitting reform, several already been signed into law. Holds substantive committee post as Transportation Vice Chair. His endorsement base (labor unions, Planned Parenthood, environmental groups) reflect a conventional progressive coalition.
Eric. W. Pratt (R)
Pratt, a first-time Republican candidate for 24th LD, Position 1, local, born-and-raised Quilcene/Port Townsend, blue-collar background — construction work, roughly 20 years managing national sports-field-installation teams. No prior public office experience. Actively testifying against Democrat-backed bills in Olympia. Former Republican; platform rhetoric is more libertarian than typical GOP messaging: heavy emphasis on personal liberty, minimal government, property rights, with no mention of abortion, guns, or other standard culture-war planks — good in rural PNW districts. One notable donor, Jesse Proudman, Pres./CTO of the Seattle AI startup Venice.ai.
Ted Bowen (I)
Bowen, a Port Angeles security professional (22 years in healthcare/corrections/tribal security, published in Security Magazine), he's driven by Christian faith and street ministry work — not a pastor role. His mother was a Lower Elwha tribal member. Platform: church-community partnerships for homelessness, addiction, and social services; harm-reduction oversight; school safety funding. His emphasis on reducing tax burdens, skepticism toward government-funded harm-reduction spending, and preference for faith/community solutions over expanded government programs suggest a general lean toward fiscally conservative positions.
Aiden I.R. Hamilton (R)
Hamilton, a 18-year-old first-time Republican candidate, frames his candidacy on losing two years of in-person schooling during COVID, claiming it gives him a perspective no sitting legislator has. Platform: housing affordability, pandemic-related learning loss in schools, opposing tax increases. Closely tied to the Charlie Kirk/Turning Point USA youth movement (photographed in a Kirk tribute shirt), sits on the Youth Advisory Committee of Culture Crossroads USA, a conservative youth organization whose board includes two Turning Point USA alumni, one of whom founded TPUSA's chapter at CWU. Backed by the Clallam County Republican Party and retired local officials, including Jodi Wilke, former chair, Save Our Sequim, that fought the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe's Healing Clinic.
Washington State, Legislative District 24. Representative, Position 2.
[No CCD Endorsements or ETF Recommendations Until after August 4, 2026 Primary]
Bradley Nemo Callaway (D / DSA)
A first-time candidate, Callaway is running an explicitly Democratic Socialist campaign. Age 30, nonbinary, a Port Angeles transplant from Port Townsend who works as a soccer referee/assignor and part-time phlebotomist, and serves as chapter secretary for North Olympic DSA. Platform: universal childcare and healthcare (WA Health Trust), a state-operated housing developer, a proportional/unicameral legislature via Single Transferable Vote, a ban on private election funding, and a state constitutional convention. Endorsed by North Olympic DSA, Whole Washington, Fair Vote WA, No Hate in WA State, and state Rep. Shaun Scott plus four fellow LD candidates. Scores strongest of the five candidates against the local Key Issues Survey (6/7 primary concerns addressed).
Patrick DePoe (D)
An enrolled Makah Tribe member with six years on Makah Tribal Council (vice-chairman) and current Executive Director of the Association of Washington Tribes; formerly Director of Tribal Relations at WA DNR. He previously ran statewide for Public Lands Commissioner in 2024, placing third (14.1%) as the highest-finishing Democrat. If elected, he'd be the only tribal member in the WA Legislature. Platform centers on rural healthcare access (concerned about Olympic Medical Center viability), education funding, natural resource management, and progressive tax reform (supports the millionaire's tax, opposes the 2026 estate tax cut). His WSLC endorsement is independently confirmed via NPI Cascadia Advocate reporting.
Mark Hodgson (D)
A Navy veteran (Special Warfare Combat Crewman), 20-year law enforcement/corrections officer, and sitting Port Angeles City Councilmember. He most recently served in the WSP Executive Protection Unit protecting Governors Inslee and Ferguson, with an official Olympia workstation from October 2021 through January 2026. Platform emphasizes public safety, affordable housing, and rural economic development — but leaves several issues (LGBTQ+ rights, reproductive rights, environmental protection, climate) unstated. Scores weakest of the field against the local Key Issues Survey (3/7 addressed). Endorsed by Gov. Bob Ferguson and WACOPS (the latter confirmed via an actual PDC contribution, not just an endorsement claim).
Kaylee Kuehn (D)
[Endorsed by OCA] A Sequim native with four generations of family in the district, a former teacher across four school systems, and a former legislative session aide; she's currently a registered lobbyist for the Association of Western Pulp & Paper Workers. Platform is a moderate-progressive mix: incremental housing affordability and permitting reform, education funding and smaller class sizes, pro-choice, and pro-law-enforcement-with-accountability — she does not call for defunding police, explicitly positioning herself against the more DSA-aligned Callaway. Her WSLC endorsement (given jointly with DePoe) is independently confirmed via NPI Cascadia Advocate's reporting on the union's COPE convention. Scores tied-strongest against the local Key Issues Survey (6/7 addressed).
Marcia Kelbon (Independent, formerly Republican)
A Quilcene Fire Commissioner since 2022 and a chemical engineer/patent attorney/former biopharma executive who ran unsuccessfully as the GOP nominee for State Senate in 2024, losing to Mike Chapman. She resigned her position as Vice Chair of the Jefferson County Republicans to run unaffiliated this cycle, telling a reporter the current partisan climate is “damaging and destructive” on both sides. Platform centers on loosening Growth Management Act restrictions to allow smaller/cheaper housing lots, a treatment-or-incarceration framing on homelessness, and accountability-focused state spending. Scores tied-weakest against the local Key Issues Survey (3/7 addressed) alongside Hodgson, with healthcare, water, and climate all essentially unaddressed in her platform.
Supreme Court Positions (Nonpartisan)
Position 1
Colleen Melody
(incumbent) [Endorsed by CCD, OCA; Recommended by IS Election Task Force (ETF)]
Melody has served on the Washington Supreme Court since January 2026, appointed by Gov. Bob Ferguson. Before that, she spent 11 years running the Civil Rights Division of the state Attorney General’s Office, where she co-led a multistate lawsuit protecting access to abortion medication and challenged the federal Muslim travel ban, transgender military ban, and efforts to end DACA and birthright citizenship. Leans: Progressive / Democrat-aligned.
Laura Christensen Colberg
Christensen Colberg has practiced family law for 30 years and served 18 years as a part-time court commissioner in Snohomish County. Her campaign argues no sitting justice has family-law experience, and she says she’s committed to the text of the constitution "not to an ideology," while also describing the current court as "generally liberal" and positioning herself as a different perspective on it. Leans: Right-of-center, though not formally aligned.
Scott Edwards
Edwards is a tax attorney and law professor who has litigated against both Washington’s capital gains tax and Seattle’s city income tax. He teaches state and local tax law at the University of Washington and is active in local community and faith organizations. Identifies as a Republican.
Position 3
David Stevens
Stevens is a Mason County Superior Court judge and former county prosecutor. He describes himself as a "textualist," admires U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, and Samuel Alito, has criticized the state court’s capital gains tax ruling and its recent decisions on public defense and juvenile warrants as examples of "judicial overreach," and says the court lacks "diversity of thought." Recommended by WA State Republican Party.
Jaime Hawk
[Endorsed by CCD; Recommended by IS Election Task Force (ETF)]
Jaime Hawk serves on the King County Superior Court and previously spent seven years as a federal public defender before becoming the ACLU of Washington’s Legal Strategy Director for Smart Justice, where she worked on sentencing reform and voting rights for incarcerated people. Identifies as a Democrat. Endorsed by Gov. Ferguson, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, State Sen. Mike Chapman, and many more.
Mike Diaz
[Endorsed by CCD, OCA; Recommended by IS Election Task Force (ETF)]
Diaz is a Washington Court of Appeals judge, appointed by Gov. Jay Inslee in 2022, and spent a decade as a federal prosecutor where he helped found the Seattle DOJ’s Civil Rights Program. He has authored over 200 appellate opinions. Identifies as a Democrat but generally viewed as more "moderate" than "progressive" among legal observers.
Position 5
Theo Angelis
(incumbent) [Endorsed by CCD, OCA; Recommended by IS Election Task Force (ETF)]
Angelis has served on the Washington Supreme Court since April 2026, appointed by Gov. Ferguson. Before that, he spent 26 years in private practice at K&L Gates, doing appellate and IP litigation while also representing children denied legal counsel, wrongfully detained veterans, refugees, and people experiencing homelessness on a pro bono basis. He identifies as a Democrat; endorsed by Gov. Ferguson, former Gov. Gregoire, and several sitting justices.
Dave Larson
Larson is a Federal Way Municipal Court judge who was asked to take the bench in 2008 to help fix a troubled local court system, after previously serving as Federal Way School Board president. He describes his judicial philosophy as protecting individual rights and upholding the state and federal constitutions "as written." He carries the Washington GOP’s official recommendation, alongside David Stevens in Position 3. Leans: Conservative
Sharonda Amamilo
Amamilo is a Thurston County Superior Court judge with 12 years as a public defender and over 25 years in U.S. Army military intelligence. Her caseload includes child welfare, felony criminal cases, and complex civil litigation. Endorsed by Snohomish County Democrats, the Washington State Democratic Latino Caucus, the state Labor Council, sitting/former justices Helen Whitener and Mary Yu. She identifies as a Democrat.
Greg Miller
Miller is an appellate attorney at a Seattle firm who represents physicians and physician groups, and has also served as a part-time judge in Seattle Municipal Court. Public information is limited so far. Identifies as a Republican supporter.
Position 7
Debra Stephens
(incumbent, Chief Justice) [Endorsed by CCD, OCA; Recommended by IS Election Task Force (ETF)]
Stephens has served on the Washington Supreme Court since 2008, appointed by Gov. Christine Gregoire, and became Chief Justice in 2025. A Gonzaga-educated attorney, she previously served on the Washington Court of Appeals. She joined the 2018 ruling striking down the death penalty and wrote separately in State v. Blake (2021), favoring narrower statutory grounds. Ballotpedia rated her a "Mild Democrat." Leans: Progressive / Democrat-aligned
Todd Bloom
Bloom is a tax attorney and former Navy officer with two decades of experience in financial planning and "Big Four" accounting (Deloitte, PwC). He sits on the Washington State Bar Association’s Board of Governors.
He has previously run for Congress twice as a Republican (2016 and 2022) and ran for this same Supreme Court seat once before, in 2024. Leans: Conservative / Republican
Karim Merchant
Merchant is a King County criminal defense attorney with nearly two decades of experience and 300+ trials, running his own practice focused on serious felony cases and constitutional rights defense. His website emphasizes fighting "government overreach" and protecting clients’ rights in the criminal justice system.
Leans: Unclear
David Shelvey
Shelvey is a solo-practice family law, estate planning, and tax attorney who also works seasonally as a tax preparer. This is his second run for this seat (2024). No endorsements, no reported campaign fundraising
Leans: Unclear — insufficient information
For more insight into the Supreme Court races, see Indivisible Sequim article, Nine Seats, Five Up - Why the 2026 Washington Supreme Court Races are Worth Your Attention