John, this email will probably be a bit longer than others you receive today, but it’s really important and I hope you’ll read the entire message.

Justice Democrats was started by just a handful of Bernie 2016 staffers and super volunteers. We had just worked on this inspiring campaign for president. Bernie put a progressive agenda front and center for millions of people for the first time — myself included.

In 2018, when Justice Democrats recruited AOC to run, she was working as a bartender — she even worked as a bartender for many months while running for office. Sometimes, that’s what it takes when you’re a working-class candidate.

We helped AOC manage her team, run her organizing program, and make everything we could of our small budget. Then, she won. We toppled one of the most powerful corporate Democrats and elected the youngest woman ever to serve in Congress in his place.

Money has always been one of the biggest things holding us back from doing more. It’s the one thing that our establishment opponents have a seemingly endless supply of and that we’re always working hard to raise just a fraction of what they can raise.

We don’t take a dime from corporate PACs, so we rely on supporters like you to power our work.

Thank you so much for joining our movement and supporting our work to recruit and elect more working-class champions like AOC, Cori Bush, and Summer Lee. It means so much that you’re with us.

→ Will you take the next step to support our work by making a contribution to help us reach our $95,000 end-of-month fundraising goal? Every single donation will make a real difference and I wouldn’t be asking if it wasn’t important.

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I know we can do amazing things together. I’m grateful to be in this fight with you, thank you again.

In solidarity,

Alexandra Rojas
Executive Director

 

 

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