Top Competitive Races

About

Democrats have a chance to take back power in Washington on November 3rd.

The races highlighted here are very close – and winnable. You can still make an impact: please give whatever you can and/or volunteer to help get these candidates across the line.

‘Top Competitive Races’ is an independent project created by me, Dave Margulius. It is not paid for, operated by, or authorized by any candidate, candidate’s committee, political party, or political action committee (PAC).

This site does not collect, process, or hold any campaign contributions. All ‘Donate’ links direct users directly to third-party platforms (such as Oath and ActBlue) authorized by the respective campaigns. The site does not store financial details, payment card information, or personal data.

Candidate profiles and related information are provided for educational and informational purposes only. While the site strives to keep information current, users should verify details, voting information, and platform stances directly on official campaign websites or relevant state election portals.

Thanks for anything you can do to get involved in this election and support these candidates.

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Race ratings and forecasts

Ratings are shown exactly as each source publishes them, with the date of each source's latest update.

Fundraising

  • Cash on hand and money raised: campaign filings with the Federal Election Commission, via the OpenFEC API, refreshed daily, for House campaigns. Governor and secretary of state races are state-level and are not covered by the FEC.

District and state data

  • Partisan lean: the Cook Partisan Voting Index (Cook Political Report), via Wikipedia's 2026 House ratings table
  • Race and ethnicity: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, by district and by state (including Native American share where it's shown)
  • 2024 House results: Wikipedia's 2024 House election pages for each state
  • Past governor and secretary of state results, and presidential results by state: Wikipedia's election pages for each state
  • District descriptions: written by DMWorksheet from U.S. Census place data and, for redrawn districts, the official 2025–26 maps from the California Statewide Database, the Florida Senate, NC OneMap, the State of Ohio GIS and the Texas Legislative Council

Donations

  • Donate links go directly to each campaign's own ActBlue (or other official) donation page, or to Oath, which passes contributions on to the campaigns.

Volunteering

  • Upcoming volunteer events: each campaign's public event listings on Mobilize, refreshed daily

Maps

News and videos

  • News: recent articles from established national and local outlets, found via Google News, refreshed daily
  • Videos: debates, interviews, forums and news segments on YouTube, played with YouTube's privacy-enhanced embed

Candidates and districts

  • Nominees: Decision Desk HQ, checked against FiftyPlusOne, Split Ticket and Wikipedia's 2026 governor and secretary of state election pages
  • Current members of Congress: the @unitedstates congress-legislators project; current governors and secretaries of state: official state government websites
  • Candidates' campaign websites
  • Wikipedia

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