Ben Popp
Benjamin Popp (Democratic Party) is running for election to the U.S. House to represent Pennsylvania's 6th Congressional District. He declared candidacy for the 2026 election.[source]
Popp completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Benjamin Popp was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Twin Valley High School. He earned a bachelor's degree from the West Chester University of Pennsylvania in 2020 and a graduate degree from the University of Chicago in 2022. His career experience includes working as a researcher.[1]
Elections
2026
See also: Pennsylvania's 6th Congressional District election, 2026
General election
The general election will occur on November 3, 2026.
General election for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 6
Incumbent Chrissy Houlahan, Benjamin Popp, and Marty Young are running in the general election for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 6 on November 3, 2026.
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 | Benjamin Popp (D)  | |
 | Marty Young (R) | |
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Campaign themes
2026
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Benjamin Popp completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Popp's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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My campaign does not accept any corporate contributions and is 100% people-powered.
I grew up in beautiful Chester County, where I still live, graduating from Twin Valley High School in Berks County in 2016.
In 2020, I graduated from West Chester University with a B.A. in history. At West Chester, I immersed myself in the campus and community and built a reputation as a servant leader as a member of the Student Government Association (SGA) and the Friars’ Society, a community service organization. In 2022, I graduated with an M.A. in social sciences from the University of Chicago, where I studied right-wing extremism and conspiracy theories. While at UChicago, I helped construct the first comprehensive database of January 6 insurrectionists.
Since 2021, I have worked as a researcher and intelligence analyst combating right-wing extremism and white supremacy. My portfolio of extremists includes neo-Nazi groups, anti-immigrant extremists, the Proud Boys, and Christian nationalists. Over the last few years, I have watched dangerous right-wing extremist ideologies become more normalized and accepted in mainstream politics.
I am also a musician and small business owner. As a guitar player, I regularly gig in the Philadelphia area. I also run a guitar effects pedal company with my buddy Sean.- End Oligarchy and Corporate Hegemony
For too long, our country has catered to corporate interests and allowed a tiny fraction of the most wealthy to exponentially expand their wealth and influence, abandoning the American people. This oligarchy must be dismantled by: - Creating congressional and judicial term limits and ending gifts from billionaires and corporations to all elected and unelected government officials - Abolishing congressional stock trading - Overhauling the tax system to ensure elites and corporations pay their fair share, akin to mid-century American tax rates
- Overturning Citizens United, abolishing super PACs and ending so-called “dark money” practices in politics - Medicare for All Healthcare is a basic human right, and every resident of the United States must have access to quality healthcare without compromise. The United States has the highest healthcare costs in the world, with measurably worse outcomes than other comparable nations. This broken system cannot continue. We need a system of guaranteed healthcare that prioritizes the well being of working-class Americans over the profits of insurance companies and their billionaire executives.
- Confront the Climate Crisis and Protect America's Natural Resources We are in the midst of a climate and ecological crisis, and life itself is under threat. Meanwhile, Trump and DOGE are dismantling decades of science-based environmental and public health protections to benefit corporate polluters. We must: - Reverse the Trump administration's dangerous climate policies and its attacks on America's national forests and national parks - Reach "net-zero" carbon emissions by 2050 - Rejoin the Paris Agreement
2. Justice System Reform and the Abolition of the For-Profit Prison Industry
3. Empowering the Working Class and Raising the Minimum Wage
4. Ending Corporate Hegemony, Dark Money Practices, and super PACs
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2026 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on March 15, 2025
