Ellis Campaign Plan Seeks $50,000 in 100 Days and Broad Green Party Expansion Across Maryland

A newly unveiled strategy by Green Party gubernatorial candidate Andy Ellis is calling on Maryland residents to join a 500-day grassroots campaign that promises to challenge the state’s entrenched two-party political system. The initiative, anchored by an immediate $50,000 fundraising goal and a long-term push to secure 100,000 votes, aims to build what Ellis calls “a real multiparty democracy” across all 24 counties of Maryland.

Released on June 21, the plan marks the transition of Ellis’s campaign into its next phase, laying out a detailed roadmap that blends grassroots organizing, candidate recruitment, and public policy promotion with an emphasis on community engagement. Over the next 100 days, the campaign seeks to grow its volunteer base, expand its visibility, and develop operational infrastructure through hiring staff, launching digital tools, and distributing campaign materials. The $50,000 goal is positioned as essential to gaining early momentum, securing debate inclusion, and accessing public financing—critical factors in what the campaign describes as a tightly constrained political environment.

The campaign’s broader 500-day strategy focuses on four phases: awareness-building through events and media outreach; intensive voter contact starting summer 2026; a full get-out-the-vote effort in the final weeks; and post-election organizing to support ongoing political efforts. Organizers intend to train volunteers, host house parties, and develop tech infrastructure to support not just the gubernatorial race but also down-ballot Green Party candidates statewide. The plan includes launching a Green Candidate Toolkit, expanding the party’s base, and maintaining a continuous presence through rallies and protests advocating for climate justice, reparations, and immigrant rights.

The campaign’s policy agenda spans six core pillars, including reparations, universal healthcare, housing as a human right, and a publicly owned green energy transition. It also advocates for sweeping democratic reforms like ballot initiative access and ranked-choice voting. By building a strong infrastructure of regional organizing hubs and a permanent network of trained volunteers and candidates, Ellis’s campaign seeks to outlast the 2026 election and lay the groundwork for long-term political change in Maryland.

Article by multiple contributors, based upon information from a press release issued by the Andy Ellis for Governor campaign

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