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Emilia is focused on growing the local economy and making life more affordable. She has introduced an Affordability Agenda to tackle the cost-of-living crisis and has pushed for legislation like the Lower Your Taxes Act and a bill to eliminate taxes on overtime work so workers can keep more of their hard-earned money.

Next fall, Representative Sykes will fight to keep her seat in one of the country’s most competitive races, and creating a gun safety majority in the House will depend on her reelection. It’s imperative that voters mobilize like never before to flip control of the chamber and send committed champions like Representative Emilia Sykes back to Congress.

Representative Emilia Sykes of Akron has spent her career fighting for working families, first in the Ohio House, where she rose to Minority Leader and battled attacks on public education and voting rights, and since 2023 in Congress, where she has championed public schools, affordable health care, and good jobs. A public health expert with degrees in law and public health, Sykes is defending one of the nation’s most competitive districts, and educator turnout will decide it.

Incumbent

Second-term Rep. Emilia Sykes from northeast Ohio is a friend of the U.S.-Israel relationship.

Rep. Emilia Sykes represents a competitive district in the Akron area, and with Ohio set to be one of the biggest battleground states in 2026, ensuring she has the ability to run a strong campaign helps anchor the party's statewide organizing.

“We’ve endorsed this bipartisan coalition of candidates because they’ve proven they’re willing to take on Corporate America and advocate on behalf of our members in Congress,” said Pat Darrow, President of the Ohio Conference of Teamsters. “We don’t care about party affiliation — we care about whether our elected officials will empower workers and create middle-class union jobs. The majority of voters throughout our state feel the same way.” Every incumbent candidate endorsed by the Ohio Conference of Teamsters voted for the Faster Labor Contracts Act in June. The Teamsters-backed bill which would become the strongest labor law in decades, streamlining the bargaining process for newly organized workers to secure their first union contract. “The FLCA is a make-or-break issue for our endorsement, and this slate of candidates is committed to getting it across the finish line,” Darrow said. “We look forward to helping elect them in November.”