Silver Spring Progressive Action exists to tip tight elections for a more just, equitable and compassionate country. It’s our lane – so much that it’s in our logo. We are focused solely on elections because we believe that having the right people in the right positions makes it easier to bring about lasting progressive change. We engage in a range of actions, depending on what candidates need and where our energies and abilities lie, including voter registration, letter writing, phonebanking, canvassing, deep canvassing, fundraising, and social media.

In 2026, we will use all of our tools to:
- Win Democratic control of the US House
- Maintain all Dem-held Senate seats and flip two additional seats
- Increase the number of states with Democratic governors, Secretaries of State, and Attorneys General
- Maintain control of all Dem-led legislatures and expand beyond that
- Develop and implement new approaches to reach & persuade voters more effectively
- Where the opportunity presents itself, build the Democratic bench by building strength in state legislatures, electing future progressive champs
- Defending voting rights and access

In 2025, we helped win the Wisconsin Supreme Court election thereby maintaining the liberal majority, helped flip the Virginia governorship and expanded the Democratic majority in the Virginia House of Delegates, and developed new approaches to reach and persuade voters more effectively, along with a new training program to increase volunteer effectiveness. We did this via phonebanking (60K calls, including a new auto-dialer program), letter-writing (29K letters, including a new candidate-specific turnout/persuasion template with an RCT to evaluate it), canvassing (43K doors, including a deep canvassing program) and raising $140,000 (for candidates, democracy defense, and new media).