A FIGHTER FOR MAINE
Meet Jordan
A reformer who works for all of Maine, not corporations and lobbyists.
Born and raised in Lewiston
Jordan is the son of a teacher and pastor, and grew up in a family who struggled to make ends meet
Chief of Staff to Congresswoman Katie Porter
Stood up to powerful Wall Street CEOs to protect consumers from predatory corporations
Executive Director of democracyFIRST
Founded an organization dedicated to defeating election deniers in the wake of January 6th
Vice President of End Citizens United
Spearheaded the No Corporate PAC Pledge to get big money out of politics
Jordan's Story
Jordan is running for the Congress because America is in crisis. Donald Trump and his Republican allies in Congress are subverting our Constitution and turning our government into a tool for the wealthy at the expense of regular Mainers. Jordan has dedicated his career to fighting political corruption and confronting Donald Trump’s assault on American Democracy and the Rule of Law.
Jordan is the son of a teacher and a pastor. He grew up in Lewiston and Gardiner and attended public schools. His family lived mostly paycheck to paycheck and struggled to make ends meet. Unable to afford childcare, Jordan’s mother left her job to raise Jordan and his twin brother. After Jordan’s father’s job stopped paying for healthcare, Jordan’s mother made the difficult decision to reenter the workforce so the family could see a doctor when they needed to. Jordan worked his way through high school and college – his first job was in construction making $10 an hour. He was only able to afford college due to need-based student loans.Â
TAKing ON CORPORATE POwer
Understanding from an early age that our families struggle because of big corporations’ grip on Washington, Jordan dedicated his career to taking on corruption. After graduating college, Jordan moved to Washington, D.C. to begin a career taking on the establishment and battling corruption.
Jordan served as Vice President of End Citizens United (ECU)–an organization dedicated to getting big money out of politics. At ECU, Jordan took on special interest groups and stood up to leaders and candidates, including in his own party.
Despite strong opposition from party leaders, Jordan spearheaded the No Corporate PAC Pledge, a national effort to get members of Congress and candidates to disavow corporate PAC money as campaign contributions. Because of that work, today, 20% of Democrats in Congress refuse corporate PAC donations — up from just 1% when Jordan started.
unrigging our political system
Jordan went on to serve as Chief of Staff to Congresswoman Katie Porter, helping her take on powerful Wall Street banks and financial interests. He was in the Capitol on January 6th, barricaded in his office with the Congresswoman, when violent insurrectionists stormed the capitol.
Seeing first-hand the damage Trump caused to America and our democracy and the potential for it to happen again, Jordan co-founded democracyFIRST, a bipartisan organization dedicated to combating growing threats to the free and fair administration and certification of our elections. They successfully defeated dozens of election deniers who had oversight over elections.
Jordan and his husband, Jake, moved home to Maine, where today, they are raising their daughter, Ella.
Jordan’s first priority in Congress will be to enact sweeping campaign finance reform to stamp out big money’s influence. This has been the fight of his entire career — because repairing our broken democracy is the only way we can finally address the cost of living crisis in Maine. As your Congressman, Jordan will fight to cap childcare costs at $10/day, pass universal healthcare, and crack down on hedge funds buying up single-family homes so Maine families can actually afford to live here. He’ll support the Ultra-Millionaire Tax – making people with a net worth of $50 million+ pay their fair share – to fund these investments in working families. He will stand up to Trump’s attacks on the rule of law, ban congressional stock trading, protect abortion rights, and reject all corporate donations.
At a time when Washington needs leaders who are willing to take on bullies, stop corruption, and protect our democracy, Jordan Wood will be a Congressman who stands up for Maine families like his–and yours.