We came in third in the primary with over 16,000 votes!
Thank you to everyone who volunteered, donated, voted for Alex, and believed in this campaign. We would have loved the opportunity to go toe-to-toe with Marilyn Strickland this November, but our work doesn’t end here.
If this campaign inspired you, stay involved. Organize in your community. Join Tacoma DSA or Olympia DSA. Keep fighting! The momentum is on our side.
In solidarity,
Team Alex Scheel for Congress
Why I’m Running
My name is Alex Scheel. After nearly a decade of anti-war and housing justice organizing in Tacoma, I quit my job in the craft beer industry to run for Congress in Washington's 10th District.
I am not a politician. I am a combat veteran and local community organizer who is no longer willing to accept a status quo that is pricing people out of our community while killing innocent civilians abroad. I’m running to unseat Marilyn Strickland because working people deserve a representative who puts people over profit.
After returning from deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, I found new purpose in organizing alongside working-class people through groups like the Democratic Socialists of America and About Face: Veterans Against the War.
That work has given meaning to my life and shown me that a better world is possible, if we build it together.
I support ending the wars and ending support for Israel's genocide.
I will fight against the policies of the New Democrat Caucus by opposing privatization of the VA and fighting for Medicare for All.
I will fight against the reign of terror imposed against our immigrant neighbors by ICE and Geo Group, and fight for better wages, job programs, and real action on climate through a federal jobs guarantee.
This is a longshot. But if you believe like I do that this district deserves better, then I invite you to join us.
Thank you for Volunteering with us!
Thank you to all our volunteers who put out yard signs, canvas, and let Washington’s 10th know about a progressive alternative to Marilyn Strickland.