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The Connecticut Working Families Party (CT WFP) describes itself as “an independent progressive political organization fighting to reduce inequality.”

It seeks to “abolish inequalities grounded in hierarchies of race, patriarchy, and wealth to raise standards for working families and achieve an economy that works for everyone, not just the wealthy and well-connected.”

The language is sweeping.

Eighty-two endorsements signal a bid to pull the state’s already left-leaning government even further left—on taxes, housing, schools, and the size of the state.

Nationally, WFP members voted in April 2026 to adopt the “Working Families Guarantee.” The list is short and expensive: guaranteed healthcare for all, a federal jobs program steered into union jobs, guaranteed low-cost childcare, 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave, and lower rents, mortgages, and utility costs. The party says the bill should be paid by "taxing the rich" and chasing “big money” out of politics. That means more wealth taxes, more public programs, and less room for private alternatives.

CT WFP’s 2026 legislative slate was built around public school defense and a hard line against charters and “privatization.” State Director Sarah Ganong has framed the fight as educators versus a “charter school lobby” trying to turn education into a “profit center.” The party’s own polling of Democratic primary voters found opposition to expanding school choice and to spending public dollars on charters. Choice is treated as a threat.

The rest of the platform includes more state money for housing, more pressure on landlords, more hostility to ICE, and a preference for raising taxes on high earners and corporations.

Connecticut already ranks near the top nationally in taxes, housing costs, and education spending per pupil. Satisfaction with K-12 public schools is falling nationwide. WFP’s answer is not more options for parents. It is more public money, more union jobs, and fewer exits from the system it controls.

Here is the complete list of CT WFP endorsements:

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