Created in 2009, The Broader Representation Advocacy Team (BRAT-PAC) is a non-profit political organization and is not connected with any candidate, party, or other entity.  We are dedicated to recruiting, training, and providing financial support to African American candidates for public office at the local, state, and national levels while working with partner organizations to identify, educate, and mobilize African American voters across the country in elections where African American voters can make a difference.  

The election of President Barack H. Obama signaled a generational shift in the national political structure of the United States and BRAT-PAC will help to cultivate the pipeline of new generation progressive African American candidates around the country at all levels of government.   Our primary mission is to identify and support candidates who represent a new generation of progressive African American leadership in the public policy and legislative arena and who can bring fresh thinking, ideas, and solutions to problems that continue to limit the potential in African American communities while encouraging African American communities to remain actively engaged in the political process.