Jordan Wood, a progressive Democratic candidate running to unseat Republican U.S. Senator Susan Collins, last week boasted that his campaign has raised $1 million in just under two months and earned endorsements from several local and state politicians.
Wood, 35, a former congressional staffer from Lewiston who spent about a decade working in politics in Washington, D.C., launched his campaign for the 2025 Senate race in April. He currently lives in Bristol with his husband, a specialist in online political fundraising.
On Thursday, June 12, Wood announced on social media that his campaign had raised $1 million in contributions in the seven weeks since he entered the race.
According to his post to X, the contributions came from 46,000 donations across 30,000 donors from all 16 Maine counties, with an average donation amount of $22.
“I’m so humbled by the outpouring of grassroots support we’ve received since I launched my campaign against Susan Collins,” Wood wrote. “I’ll never take a dime from corporate PACs or lobbyists because special interests have enough folks in the Senate fighting for them—I’ll fight for Maine.”
Wood previously worked in D.C. as vice president of End Citizens United, a political action committee that seeks to reverse the eponymous 2010 Supreme Court decision which deregulated limits on independent political contributions by corporations, unions and individuals, under the basis that such spending is considered protected speech under the First Amendment.
On his social media, Wood describes himself as a “pro-democracy & anti-corruption reformer.” He is a co-founder of democracyFIRST, a “cross-partisan” group whose mission is to “defeat authoritarianism and restore the political consensus for the central pro-democracy principles underpinning our electoral process.”
Last week, Wood also announced a slate of endorsements from a slew of local and state politicians from Maine, including from current State Reps. Rafael Macias (D-Topsham) and Lydia Crafts (D-Newcastle), city councilors and school board members from Portland, Lewiston, Gardiner and Bristol Township, and former vice chair of the Maine Democratic Party Julian Rogers.
“I know what it’s like to grow up paycheck-to-paycheck, to have student loans, and what it feels like to accidentally overdraft your bank account. The status quo isn’t working for Maine families, which is why I’m running for Senate to take on the establishment and fix our broken system,” Wood said on Thursday. “I’m honored to have the support of these leaders in my campaign against Susan Collins.”
While Wood seemed to reminisce in his statement about living paycheck-to-paycheck, his $3 million dollar waterfront house in Bristol, pictured above, suggests that his fortunes have improved — despite no evident work in the private sector. Likely his progressive political fundraising husband put up the deposit and guarantees mortgage payments for that.
Wood is one of three Democrats that have entered the 2026 U.S. Senate election in Maine, alongside Natasha Alcala and Andrea LaFlamme.
On the Republican side, Daniel Smeriglio, a former security guard and conservative activist, as well as entrepreneur Carmen Calabrese have filed as primary challengers to Collins.
Phillip Rench, a former senior engineer, is running for Collins’ seat as an independent.
