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Candidates › PA-03 race › 2025–2026
I Independent nominee for U.S. House, PA-03
Has not served in Congress
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14 priorities from mahoneyforcongress.com, in the order they are listed there. Every heading and the text under it is copied exactly, as one passage for each page it is from, and links to that place on the page; hover a source to see which passage it opens.
Too many families are working harder than ever while feeling further behind. A raise should not cost a family its healthcare. Overtime should not cost a parent childcare. A senior should not lose the home their family built. Dennis is running to connect the systems families experience every day — housing, transportation, childcare, healthcare, food access, education, and work.
Independent leadership means bringing people together around practical solutions, measuring progress honestly, and putting Philadelphia ahead of partisan performance.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · mahoneyforcongress.com
No family should become poorer because they started earning more.
Dennis will fight to:
- Phase out benefits gradually instead of abruptly
- Protect families from healthcare affordability cliffs
- Coordinate workforce and support systems
- Modernize anti-poverty programs around upward mobility
Work should always move families forward.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · mahoneyforcongress.com
A raise should not cost a family its healthcare.
Across Philadelphia, working families face a hidden tax: take a promotion, and you can lose more in benefits than you gain in pay. A parent earning one more dollar can lose childcare. A worker picking up overtime can lose Medicaid. A senior accepting a small raise can lose food assistance.
This is the benefits cliff — and it punishes the exact upward mobility our economy depends on.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · mahoneyforcongress.com/platform/end-the-benefits-cliff
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Housing policy is workforce policy.
Dennis will fight to:
- Expand affordable and attainable housing
- Preserve naturally affordable neighborhoods
- Support first-time homeownership
- Increase housing near transit and job centers
- Strengthen anti-displacement strategies
Stable housing creates stable families and a stronger economy.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · mahoneyforcongress.com
When workers can't afford to live near work, the city falls behind.
Philadelphia is home to some of the country's most resilient neighborhoods — and some of its most unaffordable rents relative to wages. Teachers, nurses, transit operators, and trades workers are being priced out of the very communities they serve.
Housing isn't a separate problem. It's the load-bearing wall of every other policy: workforce, education, public safety, family stability.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · mahoneyforcongress.com/platform/housing-is-economic-infrastructure
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A person's ZIP code should not determine their future.
Dennis will fight to:
- Expanded transit connectivity
- Digital access and broadband affordability
- Workforce training and apprenticeships
- Neighborhood opportunity hubs
- Investments connecting residents to growing industries
Opportunity only matters if people can actually reach it.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · mahoneyforcongress.com
Expand transit connectivity, broadband affordability, workforce training and apprenticeships, and neighborhood opportunity hubs.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · mahoneyforcongress.com/promises
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Strong families build strong cities.
Dennis will fight to:
- Restore and expand the Child Tax Credit
- Protect food assistance and school meals
- Increase childcare affordability
- Expand community-based healthcare access
- Strengthen utility affordability programs
No family should have to navigate a crisis alone.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · mahoneyforcongress.com
Restore and expand the Child Tax Credit. Protect food assistance and school meals. Increase childcare affordability and expand community-based healthcare access.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · mahoneyforcongress.com/promises
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Economic mobility must lead to ownership.
Dennis will fight to:
- Tangled title reform
- Home repair access
- Neighborhood small-business growth
- Pathways to homeownership
- Investment in churches, nonprofits, and community institutions
Strong neighborhoods are built when families pass opportunity to the next generation.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · mahoneyforcongress.com
Tangled-title reform, home-repair access, pathways to homeownership, and investment in neighborhood small businesses and community institutions.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · mahoneyforcongress.com/promises
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A family that rents can be pushed out by a market shift. A family that owns can pass down stability across generations. For too long, Philadelphia's wealth-building ladders have been broken — by predatory lending, by tangled titles, by neighborhood disinvestment.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · mahoneyforcongress.com/platform/build-generational-wealth
Pass federal tangled-title reform so families can claim the homes their elders left them. Fund home-repair grants so legacy homeowners can stay. Invest in neighborhood small-business growth, especially Black- and immigrant-owned. Strengthen the institutions — churches, CDCs, credit unions — that anchor wealth in place.
Dennis will fight to:
- Tangled title reform
- Home repair access
- Neighborhood small-business growth
- Pathways to homeownership
- Investment in churches, nonprofits, and community institutions
Strong neighborhoods are built when families pass opportunity to the next generation.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · mahoneyforcongress.com/platform/build-generational-wealth
Modernize the Community Reinvestment Act to drive private capital into the neighborhoods that need it. Pair with refundable homeowner tax credits and SBA expansion for legacy small businesses.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · mahoneyforcongress.com/platform/build-generational-wealth
A job training program in Center City means nothing to a worker in West Philadelphia if the bus runs once an hour. A college application portal is useless without reliable broadband at home.
ZIP code shouldn't decide whether opportunity is a real option.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · mahoneyforcongress.com/platform/connect-every-neighborhood
Push federal investment in SEPTA reliability and frequency on the routes that move working people. Make broadband a universal-service utility with affordability protections. Expand registered apprenticeships in the trades, healthcare, and advanced manufacturing.
Stand up neighborhood opportunity hubs — physical places where workforce, education, childcare, and benefits navigation happen in one trip.
Dennis will fight to:
- Expanded transit connectivity
- Digital access and broadband affordability
- Workforce training and apprenticeships
- Neighborhood opportunity hubs
- Investments connecting residents to growing industries
Opportunity only matters if people can actually reach it.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · mahoneyforcongress.com/platform/connect-every-neighborhood
Federal transit, broadband, and apprenticeship programs already exist. The work is making them flow to the neighborhoods that need them most — and demanding accountability for outcomes, not just spending.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · mahoneyforcongress.com/platform/connect-every-neighborhood
Dennis will fight for federal legislation that smooths the transition from public benefits to economic independence — phasing benefits out gradually as income rises, not yanking them away the moment a family crosses an arbitrary line.
He will work with city and state partners to coordinate workforce programs, childcare subsidies, healthcare access, and housing assistance so a single life is treated as a single system — not five disconnected forms.
Dennis will fight to:
- Phase out benefits gradually instead of abruptly
- Protect families from healthcare affordability cliffs
- Coordinate workforce and support systems
- Modernize anti-poverty programs around upward mobility
Work should always move families forward.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · mahoneyforcongress.com/platform/end-the-benefits-cliff
Heading as listed on mahoneyforcongress.com/platform/end-the-benefits-cliff ↗ (opens mahoneyforcongress.com/platform/end-the-benefits-cliff at this heading) · “End the Benefits Cliff” on mahoneyforcongress.com ↗ (opens mahoneyforcongress.com at this heading)
Expand federal investment in workforce housing near transit and job centers. Protect naturally affordable neighborhoods from speculative displacement. Make first-time homeownership reachable through down-payment assistance, tangled-title reform, and credit pathways.
Direct federal HUD and Treasury programs to reward cities that build — not those that block.
Dennis will fight to:
- Expand affordable and attainable housing
- Preserve naturally affordable neighborhoods
- Support first-time homeownership
- Increase housing near transit and job centers
- Strengthen anti-displacement strategies
Stable housing creates stable families and a stronger economy.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · mahoneyforcongress.com/platform/housing-is-economic-infrastructure
Heading as listed on mahoneyforcongress.com/platform/housing-is-economic-infrastructure ↗ (opens mahoneyforcongress.com/platform/housing-is-economic-infrastructure at this heading) · “Housing Is Economic Infrastructure” on mahoneyforcongress.com ↗ (opens mahoneyforcongress.com at this heading)
Family stability is one of the strongest predictors of long-term economic mobility. Yet too many federal policies treat families as line items rather than the foundation of a flourishing country.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · mahoneyforcongress.com/platform/strengthen-families
Restore and expand the Child Tax Credit. Protect SNAP, WIC, and school meals from cuts. Make childcare affordable through a combined federal-state structure. Expand community-based healthcare access. Strengthen utility affordability programs so no family chooses between heat and groceries.
Dennis will fight to:
- Restore and expand the Child Tax Credit
- Protect food assistance and school meals
- Increase childcare affordability
- Expand community-based healthcare access
- Strengthen utility affordability programs
No family should have to navigate a crisis alone.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · mahoneyforcongress.com/platform/strengthen-families
Public investments in early childhood, child nutrition, and family stability are among the highest-return categories of federal spending. The campaign will publish specific cost-and-return analyses, with their sources, as each proposal is finalized.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · mahoneyforcongress.com/platform/strengthen-families
FEC filings, Apr 1, 2026 to Sep 30, 2026 · Official FEC bulk data · committee C00949255
71¢ of every dollar raised has been spent across 2 reports ($26.6K of $37.4K). Cash on hand went from $8.3K on Jun 30, 2026 to $2.6K on Sep 30, 2026.
| Report | Raised in the period | Spent in the period | Cash on hand at its close |
|---|---|---|---|
| JULY QUARTERLY 2026 through Jun 30, 2026 | $10,800 | $2,548 | $8,252 |
| OCTOBER QUARTERLY 2026 through Sep 30, 2026 | $26,585 | $24,020 | $2,565 |
Each report’s own period, as filed with the FEC; a report filed again counts once, as its latest copy.
A donor who gave several times appears once. The 12 largest donors by total given are listed. In all, 23 itemized contributions were filed this cycle, totaling $27.6K.
1 endorser listed on Dennis Mahoney’s own campaign site.
This is the campaign's claim, checked by an editor against its page; the endorsers have not confirmed it to us. Each name opens the campaign’s page with that name highlighted.
The Forward Party announced its endorsement of Dennis Mahoney's independent campaign for Congress in PA-03.
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Total reported receipts $37,385
Every dollar the committee reported receiving this cycle, split by the source the FEC filing attributes it to. Open a source marked + to see who gave. FEC filings through Sep 30, 2026.
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28% of the money placed by state came from inside Pennsylvania: $7.7K of $27.6K.
| Name | Amount |
|---|---|
| 4 contributions · 34% | $9,500 |
| 12 contributions · 28% | $7,701 |
| 1 contribution · 13% | $3,500 |
| 1 contribution · 13% | $3,500 |
| 1 contribution · 3.6% | $1,000 |
| 1 contribution · 3.6% | $1,000 |
| 1 contribution · 2.1% | $583 |
| 1 contribution · 1.8% | $500 |
By the state each donor wrote on the filing, across 9 states and territories. Donors who have given $200 or less this cycle are not itemized, so they cannot be placed on a map. The FEC’s grouping also counts joint-fundraising memo lines, so these rows can add up to more than the itemized total.
| Employer as filed | Amount |
|---|---|
| 1 contribution · 100% of ranked | $1,000 |
A further $26,584 came from donors whose answer names no employer (N/A, blank), so it is not ranked. Itemized gifts over $200, grouped by the words donors filed: not an industry classification, and a gift from an employee is not a gift from the employer. The FEC’s grouping also counts joint-fundraising memo lines, so these rows can add up to more than the itemized total.
| Occupation as filed | Amount |
|---|---|
| 1 contribution · 100% of ranked | $1,000 |
A further $26,584 came from donors whose answer names no occupation (N/A, blank), so it is not ranked. Itemized gifts over $200, grouped by the words donors filed: not an industry classification, and a gift from an employee is not a gift from the employer. The FEC’s grouping also counts joint-fundraising memo lines, so these rows can add up to more than the itemized total.
Money groups spent on their own, not through a campaign. Each ad is filed against the candidate it names, so money attacking an opponent shows on the opponent’s row. Open a candidate to see who spent it.
Total itemized disbursements $26,165
Every itemized payment the committee reported this cycle, sorted by what it said each one was for. The categories are ours; the wording they are matched against is the committee’s own. Open a category to read the filed descriptions and who was paid. FEC filings through Sep 30, 2026.
All 27 itemized payments filed this cycle. Spending below the itemization threshold is not filed line by line.
| Name | Amount |
|---|---|
| 20 payments · 65% of all spending | $17,217 |
| 2 payments · 19% of all spending | $4,933 |
| 1 payment · 9.6% of all spending | $2,548 |
| 1 payment · 1.9% of all spending | $515 |
| 1 payment · 1.8% of all spending | $474 |
| 1 payment · 1% of all spending | $254 |
| 1 payment · 0.8% of all spending | $224 |
The people, firms and committees paid the most, across every kind of payment. Each share is of everything the committee reported spending this cycle, not only the itemized payments above. A payee that is itself a committee links to its own profile.