MoveOn is proud to endorse Cori Bush for Missouri’s 1st Congressional District!

Leadership and Experience

With a career forged on the frontlines of community care and civil rights activism, Cori Bush has dedicated her life to fighting for regular people. Raised in St. Louis, Cori worked for years as a registered nurse, a pastor, and a mental health coordinator. When the Ferguson uprisings erupted in 2014 following the police killing of Michael Brown, Cori ran toward the crisis. She spent over 400 days on the streets providing trauma care, food, and medical assistance, becoming a foundational leader in the national movement for Black Lives.

Driven by the realization that systemic change requires a pen in the hands of everyday citizens, Cori brought her activist energy to politics. In 2020, she made history as the first Black woman and first nurse elected to represent Missouri in Congress. During her time in office, she established a reputation as a fierce, unyielding “people’s champion,” famously leading a multi-day sleep-in on the U.S. Capitol steps that pressured the administration to extend the federal eviction moratorium, saving millions of families from losing their homes. She is running to return to Congress to continue building an independent, grassroots movement that takes on corporate greed and delivers real results for St. Louis.

How she’ll help your community:

• Housing as a Fundamental Right: Drawing on her lived experience surviving eviction and being unhoused with her two children, Cori will fight to end street homelessness, implement federal rent caps, and dramatically expand federal support for permanent affordable housing.

• Lowering the Cost of Living: Cori knows what it’s like to live paycheck to paycheck. She is fighting to rein in corporate price gouging on daily necessities, lowering costs for groceries, utility bills, health insurance, and rent so families can thrive rather than just survive.

• Investments in Public Health: As a nurse, Cori approaches public safety through the lens of community wellness. She advocates for federal funding to eradicate environmental hazards like lead poisoning and to establish robust community-centered mental health first responders.

• Dignity for Working Families: A lifelong advocate for labor and a former minimum-wage worker, Cori will continue to push for a federal living wage, protect workers’ rights to organize, and expand essential social safety nets like SNAP, WIC, and Social Security.

Her position on key issues

• Healthcare for All: Cori is a staunch supporter of Medicare for All, championing a single-payer healthcare system to ensure that life-changing medical care is treated as a human right, free from corporate insurance profit-seeking.

• Bridges, Not Bombs: Grounded in a foreign policy centered on international human rights and peacemaking, Cori has led federal resolutions calling for global ceasefires and opposes using hard-earned taxpayer dollars to fund endless foreign wars and human rights violations.

• Ending Corporate Influence: Cori refuses to let corporate PACs, billionaires, or far-right donors buy representation in Congress. Her campaign is 100% people-powered, relying strictly on grassroots organizing and small-dollar individual contributions.

• Defending Reproductive Freedom: Cori is a courageous defender of bodily autonomy and reproductive justice.She has openly shared her personal experiences to break the silence around reproductive care and actively sponsors legislation to protect abortion access nationwide.

To learn more about Cori, visit her website: https://www.coribush.org/