The depth chart for pro-worker, union-endorsed candidates on the ballot in November is stronger than ever. At every level of government, your votes are critical. Who stands with working people in your local, state and congressional races? Here's a small coast-to-coast sample:

Tony Evers 
Wisconsin governor's race 

Challenging a governor infamous for union busting, Evers opposes right-to-work and Wisconsin's Act 10, which drastically curtailed public workers' bargaining rights. He wants to reverse GOP damage to prevailing wage and repeal laws that deny localities their right to pass living-wage and other worker protections. Evers is a career educator and state superintendent; incumbent Gov. Scott Walker, in his first term, cut more than $1 billion in school funding.

Key goals: Infrastructure investment; Medicaid expansion; higher minimum wage; reverse attacks on voting rights; non-partisan redistricting.

Gretchen Whitmer
Michigan governor's race

As a state lawmaker, Whitmer fought for working people, forging bipartisan coalitions to expand Medicaid and raise the minimum wage, among other wins. She joined workers' protests when Gov. Rick Synder locked down the state Capitol as Republicans jammed an anti-union right-to-work bill through the legislature.

Key goals: Rebuilding Michigan's crumbling infrastructure, creating thousands of jobs; job training programs for veterans and all workers.

Lisa Brown
U.S. House race, Washington state District 5

An economist and past state lawmaker who served as Senate majority leader, Brown fought for health care and job creation initiatives benefiting working families. Running against an incumbent on End Citizens United's list of the 20 members of Congress most bankrolled by corporate PACs, Brown is relying on grassroots support and is committed to campaign finance reform and transparency.

Key goals: Quality, affordable health care; protect and strengthen Social Security and Medicare; boosting family-wage jobs through investments in infrastructure and education.

Richard Cordray
Ohio governor's race

As the first director of the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Cordray oversaw the return of nearly $12 billion to 30 million people harmed by Wall Street abuses that collapsed the economy in 2008. Earlier, fighting for working people as Ohio's attorney general, he recovered more than $2 billion for defrauded teachers and retirees.

Key goals: Medicaid expansion; a better, lower-cost state health care system; major infrastructure investment; workforce development.

Sen. Tina Smith
U.S. Senate race, Minnesota
                                                                  

A champion of unions, job training programs, paid family and medical leave, retirement security and other policies that help working families, Smith was appointed in January to fill Sen. Al Franken's seat. Previously the state's lieutenant governor, her efforts helped cut unemployment to one of the lowest rates in the country.

Key goals: Strengthening workers' freedom to join unions and bargain collectively; relieving the burden of student debt.

Stacey Abrams 
Georgia governor's race

The first woman to lead either party in the Georgia General Assembly and the first African-American to lead in the state's House of Representatives, Abrams helped register thousands of voters of color and create and retain countless jobs. She has stopped measures to raise taxes on working families and brokered compromises that led to progress on transportation, infrastructure, and education.

Key goals: Affordable housing, education, energy, health care, infrastructure, veterans.

JB Pritzker 
Illinois governor's race 

A businessman, Pritzker supports strong collective bargaining rights, wage theft enforcement, project labor agreements and other worker protections. Extreme anti-union Gov. Bruce Rauner opposes them all, and even filed the original lawsuit that led to the Supreme Court's damaging Janus v. AFSCME ruling in June. Telling the rags-to-riches story of his great-grandfather, Pritzker stresses the role social services and public schools played: "You can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you don't have any."

Key goals: Quality, affordable health care; higher minimum wage; job-creating infrastructure investments; incentives for manufacturing growth

Gil Cisneros
U.S. House race, California District 39

A health care and education advocate who's never held public office, Cisneros is vying for a seat vacated by a 25-year anti-union incumbent. He learned firsthand how working families suffer without health care when his Vietnam veteran father, ill from Agent Orange, lost his medical insurance. A lottery winner in 2010, he has plugged his winnings into scholarships and education programs.

Key goals: Raising the minimum wage; lowering middle-class taxes while cutting special interest tax breaks; strengthening Obamacare; protecting Social Security and Medicare.

Randy Bryce
U.S. House race, Wisconsin District 1

Proud union Ironworker Randy Bryce has been a pro-worker bolt of lightning on the campaign trail since deciding last year to challenge House Speaker Paul Ryan, who later announced he would not seek re-election. A cancer survivor with ailing parents, Bryce was spurred to run by Ryan's attacks on Obamacare, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

Key goals: Medicare for All; pass Butch Lewis Act to protect union pensions; fully staff OSHA; make middle-class tax cuts permanent.