Creator CongressCreator Congress
That's us. A creator-led network with a Code of Conduct, campaign briefs and paid opportunities from partner orgs.
How to plug in: You're probably already in. Invite a creator you trust.
Start here
- Get paid for political or advocacy contentCreator networks & agencies →
- Get trained and work on races near youState creator programs →
- Find reporting to explain, or pitch a storyIndependent & creator-led news →
- Sharpen how you talk about the issuesNarrative & culture strategy →
- Fight disinformation or cover techMedia accountability, tech & information integrity →
Before you take paid work, ask:
- Who's funding this, and can I disclose it?Disclosure laws vary by state and platform. The Creator Congress Code of Conduct asks you to share who pays you somewhere public, and to follow the rules wherever you post.
- Do I keep editorial control?The best programs give you a brief, not a script.
- How and when do I get paid?Get the rate, the deliverables and the payment date in writing.
Get paid
Creator networks & agencies
These groups match creators with campaigns, causes and paid opportunities.
People First
One of the largest influencer communities in social impact, with 22,000+ verified creators matched to campaigns, nonprofits and advocacy groups.
How to plug in: Join the creator community, get the Influencer Impact: Creator Edition newsletter, and work toward Creator Studio, its curated membership tier.
Social Currant
Connects mission-driven orgs with creators on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, and handles contracts, payments and tax forms. Strong on local and state campaigns.
How to plug in: A good route into paid campaign work, whoever you know. Sign up through its site.
Vocal Media
A mission-driven media company that connects social change movements with internet culture through influencer campaigns.
How to plug in: Check its site and job board for creator and campaign roles.
Chorus no site listed
A nonprofit founded by strategist Stuart Perelmuter and creator Brian Tyler Cohen to connect progressive creators with lawmakers and build funding for independent progressive voices online. It's the nonprofit arm of Good Influence, an influencer agency.
How to plug in: Access to briefings with elected officials. Ask about disclosure terms first.
Double Tap Democracy no site listed
Runs paid creator programs for statewide races, including the 2025 Virginia and New Jersey governor's races. It brings in creators from all niches and eases them into political content.
How to plug in: A fit if you don't usually post about politics but want to start.
Gen-Z for Change
A youth-led coalition of creators using TikTok and other platforms for progressive advocacy and civic education.
How to plug in: Join a creator coalition of your peers.
Digital Ground Game
A national, community-driven nonprofit doing evidence-based political action, from online mobilization to canvassing.
How to plug in: An active Discord and a Creator Corner.
American Accountability Network
A consortium of creators, organizers and influencers that shapes political narratives and recruits field volunteers. Supports Democratic and progressive candidates.
How to plug in: A peer network of political creators.
Just Win
A team of creators founded by Qasim Rashid, using storytelling and relational messaging on economic justice, climate and democracy.
How to plug in: Creator-to-creator collaboration.
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Go local
State creator programs
State cohorts are the fastest way to get trained, briefed and often paid for local content, on the races and issues where a few thousand votes decide things.
Iowa Creator CorpsIowa
Trains Iowa creators to make fact-based, pro-democracy content for local audiences.
How to plug in: Apply for a future cohort on the site.
MainFrameMaine
A creator and amplifier network on affordability and everyday life in Maine.
How to plug in: Content that moves people to participate, without partisan framing.
Engage MichiganMichigan
Communications, media and research support for grassroots groups in BIPOC, low-income and rural communities.
How to plug in: Home of Michigan's creator collaborative on local issues.
Groundwork InstituteMinnesota
Political education and organizing training, including a creator cohort that grows creators' existing platforms.
How to plug in: Training plus paid activations.
Unrig New Hampshire no site listedNew Hampshire
A pilot with values-aligned creators reaching Granite Staters on Instagram and TikTok.
How to plug in: Creators speak in their own voice. Partners, not ad placements.
Influence NCNorth Carolina
A nonpartisan nonprofit informing young people about state and local government and voting.
How to plug in: A paid, year-round program open to any NC-based creator.
Red Wine & BlueOhio
“A sisterhood of diverse communities” standing up to extremism, with local groups and online events.
How to plug in: A great fit if your audience is suburban women and moms.
One PennsylvaniaPennsylvania
Statewide organizing with briefings and paid post opportunities on voting, election protection and the economy.
How to plug in: The most developed state creator program in the network.
All In WisconsinWisconsin
A communications org building a narrative foundation for racial justice, with messaging guides and toolkits.
How to plug in: Creator briefs and trainings.
Y'all VoteThe South
Founded by three Southern creators to share plain-language information on state and local elections.
How to plug in: Sign up on the site and join hundreds of creators.
Onyx ImpactGA, VA, LA +
Strengthens Black communities by countering harmful online information. It made We All We Got, a “Digital Green Book.”
How to plug in: Fact-checked tools for your audience and comments.
ProgressNow28 states
A progressive communications network with state affiliates.
How to plug in: Find your state affiliate for local rapid response.
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Find the story
Independent & creator-led news
Reporting to build explainers on, plus newsrooms that take tips, pitches and contributors.
More Perfect Union
A nonprofit journalism and advocacy org that builds power for working people.
How to plug in: Send tips and story ideas from your audience.
Courier Newsroom
A network of local digital newsrooms covering state and community news.
How to plug in: Shareable local reporting and election-season creator activations.
NowMedia
NowThis combined with Accelerate Change's publishers (PushBlack, Pulso, ParentsTogether), reaching 190M+ people a month.
How to plug in: Huge reach to audiences political media misses.
Watering Hole Media
Video-first social and podcast content that counters disinformation with culturally relevant, honest material.
How to plug in: A distributed model that brings creators in to produce content.
MeidasTouch
A creator-founded progressive news network on YouTube, podcasts and social.
How to plug in: Proof creator-led news can scale. Follow and collaborate.
Crooked Media
The progressive podcast and media company behind Pod Save America.
How to plug in: Crooked's Vote Save America mobilizes listeners around elections.
Zeteo
Mehdi Hasan's independent, subscriber-funded news and opinion outlet.
How to plug in: A model for going independent on Substack-style platforms.
Capital B
A nonprofit newsroom for Black communities, with national and local coverage.
How to plug in: Reporting to cite and amplify.
The 19th
A nonprofit newsroom covering gender, politics and policy.
How to plug in: Explainers on policy that hits women and LGBTQ+ people.
Bolts
Covers the local races and offices, like DAs, sheriffs and courts, that shape criminal justice and democracy.
How to plug in: Down-ballot explainers you can stitch.
Votebeat
Nonpartisan reporting on how elections are run.
How to plug in: Accurate facts for election protection content.
The Barbed Wire
“Texas News with Teeth”: investigations, perspectives and its Queer Texas section.
How to plug in: Check its contributors page.
City Bureau Documenters
Trains and pays community members to document local public meetings.
How to plug in: Get paid to cover city council and school board meetings in many cities.
Her Campus
A college media network with student writers and creators nationwide.
How to plug in: A channel for campus and student audiences.
Civics Made Easy (PBS)
A public media series explaining how government works.
How to plug in: Trusted, nonpartisan explainers to cite.
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Sharpen the message
Narrative & culture strategy
Research, messaging guidance and culture-change shops that help you talk about the issues in ways that land.
Pop Culture Collaborative
A philanthropic resource that funds and connects people using pop culture to shift narratives about people of color, immigrants, refugees, Muslims and Indigenous people.
How to plug in: Fellowships, gatherings and research on culture change.
The Opportunity Agenda
A social justice communications lab with public opinion research and messaging guides.
How to plug in: Free message guides on immigration, race, economy and more.
Harmony Labs
Researches media audiences and how narratives spread across platforms.
How to plug in: Data on what your audience is actually watching.
Define American
A culture change org that uses storytelling to shift how America sees immigrants.
How to plug in: Resources and consulting for immigration storytelling.
Color Of Change
A racial justice organization with major work on media, Hollywood and tech accountability.
How to plug in: Campaigns to amplify and creator partnerships.
Way to Rise
A nonpartisan fund and strategy center for multiracial democracy in the South and Southwest, investing in leaders, data and narrative.
How to plug in: Concert pop-ups and short-form social around early voting.
Center for Nonviolent Conflict Research
Research and education on how nonviolent movements win, including The Hum podcast.
How to plug in: Strategy for organizing around new fights like data centers and AI.
ADDITION
Reaches working-class people, trains organizers and uses storytelling to challenge narratives that write off people and places.
How to plug in: A fit for rural and working-class audiences.
Public Democracy America
Uses digital tools with partners on affordability, ethical AI and veteran poll worker recruitment.
How to plug in: Concrete asks, like poll worker sign-ups.
Kairos Fellowship
Digital campaigns and trainings on using the internet to build power for racial and economic justice.
How to plug in: Level up your digital organizing skills.
HARNESS
Brings artists and changemakers together in curated spaces for collaboration and shared learning.
How to plug in: Community with artists working on social change.
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Fight the noise
Media accountability, tech & information integrity
Watchdogs, researchers and campaigns working on disinformation, platforms and AI.
Free Press
Fights for media and tech policy that serves the public, from local news funding to platform accountability. Not the Bari Weiss Free Press.
How to plug in: Campaigns and explainers on who controls the media.
Media Matters for America
Monitors and corrects misinformation in conservative media.
How to plug in: Fast research to cite in rapid response.
MediaJustice
Fights for racial, economic and gender justice in a digital age.
How to plug in: Organizing on surveillance, broadband access and tech harms.
News Literacy Project
Nonpartisan education to help people tell credible information from misinformation.
How to plug in: Free tools like RumorGuard for debunk content.
Center for Countering Digital Hate
Researches online hate and disinformation and pushes platforms to act.
How to plug in: Research on what spreads and why.
Irreplaceable
A new advocacy org pushing for AI regulation and giving everyday people a say in how AI is used.
How to plug in: Sign the “Freeze AI Now” petition and follow its student organizing.
Guardrails Alliance
A political campaign group opposing AI industry money in elections and backing AI safeguards.
How to plug in: Sourced research on who funds AI politics.
The AI Pact
A five-plank candidate pledge on AI from the Political Integrity Project.
How to plug in: Check whether your candidates have signed.
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Sources. Descriptions come from each org's public website, linked above, and from:
- Inside the Democrats' struggle to win over content creators (User Mag)
- How campaigns are adapting to the creator economy (Campaigns & Elections)
- Meet Social Currant (Higher Ground Labs)
- Building the infrastructure behind the political creator economy (People First)
- Vocal Media listing (Civic Tech Field Guide)
- NowThis combines with Accelerate Change portfolio to become NowMedia (Adweek)
- Southern content creators unite to create 'bottom up' voter education (Upworthy)
- Onyx Impact unveils platform to combat digital deception (NNPA)