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Progressive climate organizer William Lawrence wins Michigan Democratic House primary

Activist who rallied around a datacenter moratorium will face incumbent Republican Tom Barrett in November

Guardian US By Dharna Noor Aug 5, 2026, 3:31 PM Captured Aug 5, 2026, 4:07 PM

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William Lawrence, a prominent environmental organizer who foregrounded his support for a datacenter moratorium, has won the Democratic primary in Michigan’s seventh congressional district in a victory for progressives.

Lawrence was a co-founder of the youth-led climate justice organization the Sunrise Movement, the group that in 2018 mainstreamed calls for a Green New Deal to battle economic injustice while rapidly phasing out planet-warming fossil fuels.

The 36-year-old defeated Bridget Brink, a former US ambassador to Ukraine and Slovakia, and Matt Maasdam, a former US Navy Seal and military aide to Barack Obama.

In the November general election, Lawrence will face off with incumbent Republican Tom Barrett.

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“Will made opposing datacenter development a core part of this campaign and it helped power him to victory all across the district, including massive margins in small towns where DC insiders didn’t expect him to compete,” Stevie O’Hanlon, Lawrence’s campaign manager, said. “In Mason, where one datacenter is being proposed, Will won with 49% of the vote in a three-way race.”
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In May, Lawrence said “datacenters put a tremendous, unprecedented and unexpected burden on the grid to increase overall demand” and that there is “no plan to do that in a clean way”.

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