Sign up for "Winning Our Region’s Voters" to be a
Fall 2024 Rust Belt Rising Leader

Don’t miss the last chance of this cycle to be a Rust Belt Rising candidate along with our region’s best leaders and campaigns.

Join Rust Belt Rising’s Fall 2024 cohort of candidates to benefit from Rising’s trainings, polling, messaging, mentoring, and network of more than 1,200 Democratic changemakers.

Our August-September 2024 Zoom sessions will allow campaigns to learn from some of the country’s best pollsters about the latest research that will improve your outreach to voters.

Rising also provides individual support to help you strengthen your authentic message and draw on campaign strategies that are working around the region.

If you are running for office, helping a campaign, or bringing new insights to your local volunteering, sign up to benefit from the most timely insights into voters this year to improve our outreach.Rising works with candidates and those assisting them at any level (local, state, or federal) in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.

Apply by August 1st. Applications accepted on a rolling basis afterward.

Joining allows you to become part of a network of some of the best leaders in this region and receive timely messaging, polling research, and examples of effective Midwest communication on any issue.

We encourage diverse candidates of all backgrounds, particularly those who have taken nontraditional paths into politics, to apply so we can support their candidate development.We aim to help participants improve their campaigns so Democrats can win up and down the ticket.

What Rising participants say: 
"Rust Belt Rising is one of the best things around. Any Midwest Democrat should be on Rust Belt Rising's trainings, which is why I continue to share them with candidates. The sessions are excellent!"
—Sarah Ferraro, Indiana Campaign Manager.