DREAM FORWARD BEGINS HERE
Meet Elijah Dixon
Elijah’s story begins where many policy conversations end: in the lived experience of the community.
I’m Elijah Dixon, and I’m running for Congress because waiting for the system to fix itself has become a luxury working families can no longer afford.
As a young adult, I came of age amid housing insecurity, economic precarity, and the constant pressure of displacement that defines life for so many working-class people. I began organizing not out of theory, but necessity — responding to the very real conditions facing families who were being pushed out, priced out, and left behind. Those same conditions eventually pushed me toward entrepreneurship, not as an aspiration, but as a means of survival.
My politics were shaped by instability — not ideology.
Entrepreneurship was never about chasing opportunity. It was about refusing to accept a life defined by precarious wages and instability. My life’s trajectory — and my politics — were forged by those conditions.
After years of grassroots organizing, I went on to work in the community development finance sector, managing programs designed to expand access to capital, stabilize neighborhoods, and help working families build income and long-term wealth. That work deepened my understanding of how policy, finance, and power intersect — and it also exposed the limits of incremental reform.
What I learned is this: the challenges we face aren’t abstract. They show up in overdue rent notices, in parents juggling multiple jobs, in small businesses struggling to survive, and in communities doing everything they can with far too little support. We don’t need more slogans. We need leadership that understands how systems actually work — and who they’re failing.
At its core, this campaign is about dignity. People are working harder than ever and still falling behind. That isn’t a personal failure — it’s a systemic one. Government should exist to protect people from instability, not normalize it.
Becoming a father made the urgency unmistakable. When you’re responsible for a child’s future, waiting stops being an option. You begin to see clearly what’s at stake — and who bears the cost of inaction.
That’s why my campaign is centered on reducing economic precarity and expanding collective security: healthcare as infrastructure, universal childcare, paid family leave, housing policies that prevent displacement and speculation, and climate-forward investments that create stable, well-paying jobs.
This campaign isn’t a referendum on any one person or party. It’s a test of our ideals — whether we believe families deserve stability, work should be rewarded with dignity, and our children should have a fair shot at the future, no matter their ZIP code.
I’m running because I believe those ideals are worth fighting for — and because waiting is no longer an option.