Senate Candidate Greg Levy - “A New Kind of Politics for Ohio”

The 2026 U.S. Senate race in Ohio is more than just a typical midterm election between Democrats and Republicans. It also marks the rise of a new political movement with Greg Levy’s independent campaign to win power for Ohio’s working class. 

This race features two familiar faces of the corporate duopoly: Republican Jon Husted and Democrat Sherrod Brown. 

Both are representatives of an establishment that serves the interests of warmongers, billionaires, and Wall Street bankers. But against them stands the newcomer Greg Levy: a furniture mover, grassroots organizer, and choir director fighting to shift the political terrain of Ohio away from the billionaire-friendly politics and towards working class self-determination. 

An AI inquiry also shows he is a “veteran, musician, community organizer, and founder of the Paul Robeson Revolutionary Choir. His lived experiences with poverty, underemployment, and lack of access to essential services shape his political views.”

Compare Levy’s program to what Husted and Brown have to offer:

Jon Husted, like most Republican politicians, serves his corporate donors well. His achievements include the largest public corruption case in Ohio history (FirstEnergy bribery scandal), support for data centers, and an unwavering allegiance to the deeply unpopular Trump administration. 

Sherrod Brown presents himself as a “populist” and a friend of labor. But this image is a carefully managed fiction. In his many years in office, he offered lip-service to working class interests while failing to deliver the structural changes that would actually improve the lives of working Ohioans. He fails to support a federal jobs program, Medicare for All, an eviction moratorium, and many other pro-working class issues. He also rejects popular policies like abolishing ICE and ending weapons sales to Israel.

These politicians fail to address the high costs of living crisis, stagnant wages and widespread political discontent. Ohioans deserve better. Thankfully, there is an alternative on the ballot: Greg Levy.

Levy pledges to combat the “three social evils” named by Martin Luther King, Jr.: militarism, poverty, and racism. His program includes ending forever wars, investing in historically oppressed communities, and expanding public services through a mass jobs program.

On September 29, Levy made a campaign stop at Ohio State’s Denney Hall, telling the crowd he is affiliated with the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), and calling to abolish ICE, free Palestine, and cut the U.S. military budget by 90 percent.

“You’ll talk to your friends and they’ll be like, ‘God that sound nuts,’” he said. “What we build now is murder and terror. That is the U.S.’s primary export. That’s not crazy, but cutting the military budget and using that money to build dignified lives for Americans is crazy?” 

Levy’s bold, inspiring campaign is activating and mobilizing people the two major parties have either taken for granted or actively marginalized: disaffected Democrats and Republicans, young people radicalized by climate disaster and an economy that offers them nothing, and the many over-worked, under-paid Ohioans. Greg Levy speaks to a growing sentiment: the ruling system is not broken; it is working exactly as designed. And the only way to “fix” it, is to build a new one: a socialist system.

Ohio is ready for change. The old establishment suffers from a crisis of its own making. A new people-centered politics must fight to take its place. This will not happen overnight or be the result of one election. But it starts with working class Ohioans rejecting the “lesser-of-two-evils” logic: either supporting a Republican party that openly works against them or a Democratic party that pretends to care while serving the same corporate masters.

Levy’s campaign is the first, necessary step in building an independent political instrument that can contest for power on its own terms, absent of billionaires, corporations, or Wall Street donors. To build a better world, Ohio needs a party of the working class, by the working class, for the working class.

Matthew Charlebois is a writer and researcher based in Akron, Ohio.