Philadelphia’s Third Congressional District, considered the bluest in the country, is hosting one of its most competitive races in years. What began as a field of over a dozen candidates is now down to three — and among them is Chris Rabb, an antiestablishment democratic socialist and a current member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

Rabb’s political roots run deep. His great-great-grandfather, born enslaved, founded one of the longest-running black newspapers in the country, and his mother was one of the first fundraisers for the progressive Harold Washington, the first black mayor of Chicago. Rabb has spent nearly a decade introducing anti–Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) legislation as a state rep and has pushed consistently for criminal justice reform — including ending the death penalty and abolishing mandatory life-without-parole sentences. Those positions earned him the number one ranking on the ACLU’s 2020 scorecard for Pennsylvania legislators.

In his bid for Congress, Rabb has earned endorsements from local powerhouses such as Reclaim Philadelphia and Philadelphia’s Working Families Party, as well as support from national organizations including the Sunrise Movement and Justice Democrats. He’s been endorsed by Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and Pramila Jayapal, and the Congressional Progressive Caucus — and, it bears mentioning, the socialist streamer Hasan Piker. He recently joined the Philadelphia chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and has since been endorsed by the local and national organizations.