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In 2026, the most credible messengers on affordability aren’t pundits. They’re small business owners living it every day.

  • Main Street Action builds and deploys a bench of small business validators, trusted voices rooted in their communities, across key battleground states and districts. These leaders make complex economic issues legible, showing how rising healthcare costs, unaffordable childcare, and corporate concentration actually hit people where they live and work.

    These validators do not just tell stories. They create permission structures. In local media, on social platforms, and in their own businesses, they make it easier for voters in contested races to hear, trust, and act on economic arguments that might otherwise get filtered out.

    We deploy this validator infrastructure where it matters most, shaping narratives in competitive districts, holding lawmakers accountable for their votes, and influencing the outcomes of the races that will decide the direction of the economy.

battlegrounds

    • WI_03 (Western Wisconsin)

    • IA_01 (SE Iowa)

    • IA_02 (NW Iowa)

    • IA_03 (Central and SW Iowa)

    • MI_10 (Detroit Suburbs)

    • VA_02 (Virginia Beach)

    • MN_02 (Northfield and South of the Twin Cities)

    • MN_01 (Rochester)

    • Iowa

    • Minnesota

    • North Carolina

  • Wisconsin Governor

  • Wisconsin State Assembly and Senate

    • AD88

    • AD54

    • AD51

    • AD61

    • AD21

    • SD17

    • SD05

They’re the most trusted constituency in America that no one’s tried to organize in earnest. They make affordability real. And they’re rooted voices with real skin in the game.

  • Cross-partisan credibility: Main Street voices land with progressives, independents and conservatives.

  • Built-in reach: They talk to hundreds of customers a week, manage venues perfect for meaningful convening and nurture relationships with local media.

  • Hardwired urgency: They’re living the policy impact—on payroll, rent, health care, and community well-being.

  • No one else brings business credibility with local authenticity.

Want to build economic power from the bottom up? Start where people already listen.

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Trump’s agenda is steamrolling working families—slashing health care, gutting economic protections, and handing power to the ultra-rich. But there’s one thing standing in the way: an organized Main Street.

If you believe in the power of homegrown organizing to protect our democracy and our economy, register to vote below—make your voice count.

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