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U.S. House · OH-07 · Democratic candidate · 2026

Brian Poindexter

Democratic candidate for Ohio's 7th Congressional District

Brian Poindexter is a union ironworker, apprenticeship instructor and Brook Park council member focused on wages, health care and local manufacturing.

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DistrictOH-07
OfficeCongress
ElectionNov. 3, 2026

Policy priorities

Where Brian stands.

Campaign position

Workers and collective bargaining

  • Supports workers’ freedom to organize and negotiate better pay and benefits without intimidation

Campaign position

Affordable care and hospitals

  • Supports lower insurance and drug costs and protecting rural hospitals from closure

Campaign position

American manufacturing and jobs

  • Supports domestic manufacturing and ending tax rewards for corporations that send jobs overseas

Campaign position

Social Security and Medicare

  • Supports protecting Medicare and Social Security and requiring wealthy Americans to contribute fairly

Campaign position

Local control of data centers

  • Supports community control and requiring data centers to pay their full utility and infrastructure costs

Campaign position

Groceries and family budgets

  • Supports reducing household costs so working families can afford groceries, fuel and other necessities

Record and background

Record & experience.

  1. Since 2007

    Experience

    Union ironworker

    Works in union ironworking, including major construction projects across Northeast Ohio.

  2. 2012–2014

    Experience

    Union organizer

    Organized construction workers before returning to field work and project leadership.

  3. Since 2017

    Experience

    Brook Park council member

    Serves as an at-large member of Brook Park City Council in Cuyahoga County.

  • Experience

    Industrial worker

    Worked in machine shops, plating and powder coating before becoming a union ironworker.

  • Experience

    Commercial truck driver

    Earned a commercial driver’s license and moved households across the continental United States.

  • Experience

    Apprenticeship instructor

    Teaches new ironworkers through Iron Workers Local 17’s union apprenticeship program.

  • Accomplishment

    Completed ironworker apprenticeship

    Completed union apprenticeship training and an industrial technology degree before teaching other workers.

  • Experience

    Kitchen worker

    Worked in kitchens after high school.

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