Dean M. Nielsen is the regional director for Progressive Majority, a national organization that recruits, trains and elects progressive champions at the state and local levels. In this position, he manages eight state programs coast-to-coast. Prior to being promoted, Dean served as Progressive Majority’s Washington State Director, where he helped elect more than 100 candidates. After four elections, he held the highest candidate win rate in the organization. Dean has worked on campaigns nationwide starting with Bill Clinton in 1992. Other notable clients include Governor Gary Locke, Solidarity Party (Poland), Gore/Lieberman, EMILY's List, NARAL, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and SEIU.

Blair Butterworth has been a Democratic political strategist and consultant in the Northwest and other Western States since 1976. Well-known clients include former US Senators Warren Magnuson and Henry Jackson; Congressmen Peter DeFasio and Jim McDermott; and Governors Dixy Lee Ray, Barbara Roberts and Gary Locke.
He is currently working for Darcy Burner. Other campaigns this year include Washington Death with Dignity and a marijuana reform project with the ACLU of Washington.

Matt Stoller is a political consultant and blogger. He has worked in liberal internet politics for five years in a variety of institutional and outsider roles, including blogging for Jon Corzine for Governor in 2005, working in communications and blog outreach for the Democratic National Convention in 2004 where he started the first blog for a national political convention, and embedded himself in the campaigns of Ned Lamont in 2006 and Donna Edwards from 2006-2008. His consulting clients have included MSNBC, Free Press, Actblue, Working Assets, the Sunlight Foundation, NDN, Miramax Books and They Work for Us.

David Goldstein is an accidental activist who stumbled into politics in 2003 with a satirical statewide initiative to officially proclaim Washington's serial anti-tax initiative sponsor, Tim Eyman, "a horse's ass." A year later, Goldstein transformed his campaign website into a local, political blog. A mix of snark, satire, muckraking and surprisingly thoughtful analysis, HorsesAss.org quickly became the most influential political blog in Washington state. Goldstein also blogs at Huffington Post, has been published in The Nation and The Stranger, and is a fill-in host on Seattle's News/Talk 710-KIRO.

Darcy Burner is running for Congress in Washington's 8th District to change the direction of our country. From a military family, she worked her way through college at Harvard and became a successful manager at Microsoft. She ran for Congress in 2006 and came close enough that the outcome of the race was unknown for a week. In 2007, she worked with with leading generals and national security experts to create A Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq, endorsed by more than 50 candidates for Congress and fifty thousand individuals. She is deeply committed to people-powered politics.