March 2026 Primary
Federal
Kevin Ryan is a Chicagoland native, war veteran, and proud union member. A Marine infantry officer with eleven years of combined active and reserve service, his overseas military service includes leading Marines on operational deployments to Afghanistan and Africa, advising allied forces in Eastern Europe, and developing contingency plans to counter additional Russian aggression. In addition, Kevin served his community for four years as a full-time public-school teacher in Chicago where he continues to serve today as a substitute.
Kevin earned a bachelor’s degree from The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and master’s degrees in international security from Georgetown and in diplomacy from Oxford. He worked in international relations, including as a civilian analyst at NATO Parliamentary, an international affairs officer at the Pentagon, and as an international policy analyst for the Treasury Department, when the pressing problems faced by the Democratic Party compelled him to enter the political arena.
www.runwithkev.com
Matt Conroy is a Brooklyn-raised advocate for working people, shaped by the
loss of his father in the September 11th attacks and the strength of a
single mother raising four kids. With experience across finance, real
estate, tech, and manufacturing, Matt has seen how deeply our economic
system fails the people who keep it running. Now living in Lincoln Park,
Chicago, he’s running for Congress to fight for economic justice, dignity,
and a government that works for all of us—not just the wealthy and
well-connected.
www.mattconroyforcongress.com
www.joey4congress.com
Morgan Coghill isn’t a career politician. He’s a working-class fighter, a small business owner, and a relentless advocate for justice. He grew up on food stamps and free lunch programs. He worked long shifts, endured thankless bosses, and built a future. Driving nights for rideshare, he met America’s real backbone: plumbers, nurses, teachers, veterans, and single parents fighting to stay afloat while politicians look the other way.
Morgan lived in Russia as Putin rose to power and saw how corruption and propaganda can destroy a free society. In Ukraine he saw people risk everything for free and fair elections. Those moments taught him that democracy isn’t a talking point. It’s a responsibility. People deserve a representative who fights for them, not for corporate donors. Brad Schneider has spent years cashing checks from AIPAC, Big Pharma, and defense contractors, voting to protect their profits while working families fall farther behind. Morgan calls it selling out the people who trusted you to lead.
www.coghillforcongress.com
Dylan Blaha is a pro peace US Army veteran and former cancer research scientist running for US Congress in IL-13 to get big money out of politics and fight for the working class. He is a grassroots candidate who intends to use his seat in Congress to fight oligarchy, end endless wars, and eliminate wealth inequality in America.
www.dylanforillinois.comCounty
Christopher Espinoza didn’t come to public service through ambition, but through survival. He’s experienced homelessness in DuPage County, being one crisis away from losing everything and relying on government services to eat and stay housed.
The son of an immigrant from Mexico and a first-generation college graduate with a degree in Public Policy from UIC. Christopher understands government from both sides of the counter. He works for the Office of the Illinois Senate President and has served as a District 99 school board member for the last five years, overseeing multi-million dollar budgets, staff contracts, and policy decisions that affect real families. He knows how government works on paper, and how it feels when it fails in practice.
“I am here for the people who are struggling quietly, who are dismissed as statistics, and who deserve a government that treats them like human beings,” Christopher says. “Government should work for the people who need it most because one day, that could be any of us.”
www.espinozafordupage.comAdditional endorsements may be added later.