Founded in 2024 and federally registered, the Labor Party has members in 46 to 48 states and a phased plan for full ballot access by the 2032 presidential election. Funded entirely by members because a party that takes pharma money cannot fight pharma.
The Labor Party is an independent political party founded in the United States in 2024. It accepts zero corporate donations, is building toward full 50-state ballot access by the 2032 presidential election, and has a single core purpose: making sure that jobs pay enough to live on, housing is something ordinary Americans can actually afford, and the politicians in Washington answer to you instead of the people who fund their campaigns.
For decades, wages have stayed flat while the cost of everything else went up. Rent in most cities now eats more than half of what an average worker takes home, and a routine ER visit can run thousands of dollars even with insurance. Both parties keep promising to fix it while taking millions from the exact corporations driving those costs up. Pharmaceutical companies, real estate developers, and Wall Street banks have donated to Democrats and Republicans alike, and both parties have delivered for them.
The Labor Party was built around a simple premise: a party that takes their money cannot fight them. So we don't take it.
Refusing corporate money is the structural reason we can do things the other parties can't. When a pharmaceutical company hasn't written a check to any of our candidates, we can actually push to lower your drug prices. When real estate developers haven't funded our campaigns, we can actually push to lower your rent. Independence is how we fight, and lower costs and higher wages are what we're fighting for.
The platform starts from what people actually pay and what people actually earn. The cost of housing, healthcare, childcare, and groceries has outrun what most jobs pay, and the gap keeps widening. That gap drives everything we do.
We fight for higher wages, affordable housing, healthcare you can actually use, and an economy where a full-time job is enough to build a life on. We believe the government should work for the people paying taxes into it, not for corporations hiring lobbyists to write their own rules.
We also believe that everyday Americans across party lines want the same basic things: a paycheck that covers the bills, a home they can afford, a doctor they can see. Republicans and Democrats both treat those concerns as someone else's problem because the donor class that funds them benefits from the status quo. We don't take that money, so we can actually fight for them.
If you've looked us up and found references to a 1996 "Labor Party" or a group called the American Party of Labor, those are separate organizations. The 1996 Labor Party was a different effort that dissolved by 2007. The American Party of Labor is a Marxist-Leninist organization with no connection to us.
The Labor Party referenced in these pages was founded in 2024, is federally registered, and adopted its national charter in January 2025. We are the only active, nationally organized independent party in the United States built specifically around economic issues, with zero corporate funding and a structure designed to run candidates at every level of government.
We're building. That's the honest answer.
The party has members in 46 to 48 states and a national leadership structure detailed enough that most political parties three times our age don't have anything like it. What we don't have yet is ballot access, and we're not going to pretend otherwise.
Ballot access in America is a bureaucratic obstacle course. State laws governing third parties were written by the two parties that benefit from keeping competition out. Getting on the ballot requires thousands of petition signatures, legal filings, registration fees, and deadlines that shift by state. It takes time and resources to do it right.
We're doing it right.
Phase 1, underway in 2026, focuses on filing for party registration in the states where our core leadership is based. Phase 2, targeting 2027 and 2028, expands east of the Mississippi. Phase 3 covers the remaining states. Our goal is full 50-state ballot access by the 2032 presidential election.
We'd rather take the time to build a real infrastructure than rush onto a handful of ballots with nothing behind it. A party that can't support its candidates, train them, and fund their races isn't actually giving anyone a real choice. That's what we're building toward.
The party is governed by a National Executive Committee with representatives from three bodies: elected party members, the congressional caucus, and the Labor Inclusion Organization, which guarantees one-third representation for organized labor in every committee at every level. That last part is written into the charter.
At every level below national, the same structure repeats. State chapters, metro chapters, and county chapters each have their own executive committees with the same three-faction representation. The people most affected by economic policy have a guaranteed voice in every decision the party makes.
If what you've read here sounds like what you've been looking for, the next step is simple. Sign up at members.votelabor.org. From there you can join the party, find local chapters, register for events, and make a donation if you want to support the build. If you have questions first, reach us at contact@votelabor.org.
The Labor Party is a party in formation. But it's being built by people who know what they're doing and understand what it takes. Come help build it.
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