John,

As the end of the year and our fundraising deadline rapidly approach, I’m reflecting on 2023 and what it meant for Justice Democrats. This is a long email, but I hope you’ll take a moment to read it and chip in to support our critical work ahead in 2024.

2023 was a tough year in a multitude of ways.

Due to a massive fundraising slow-down, Justice Democrats found itself in a dire financial situation earlier this year, which led to our incredibly difficult decision to lay off nine of our twenty members of staff in July.

As an organization, we were certainly at a crossroads. But we reached out for help from this grassroots movement, and people like you helped us regain our footing by chipping in whatever you could. We’ll never forget that.

Then, the horrible events beginning on October 7th took place in Israel and Palestine, which set off months of violence and abhorrent human rights abuses in Gaza. Israel’s right-wing government and military have simultaneously bombed and starved millions of Palestinians, and are very openly conducting ethnic cleansing and genocide before our very eyes. More than 20,000 Palestinian lives have been taken, mostly women and children, and millions more have been driven out of their homes and communities with nowhere safe to go.

In light of this devastating violence and loss of life, our Squad of progressives in Congress had the moral clarity and courage to be the first to call for a ceasefire and release of all Israeli and Palestinian hostages — and they were attacked for it.

Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian American member of Congress, was formally censured in the House by her colleagues on both sides of the aisle, simply for speaking up for Palestinians’ basic human rights. Cori Bush, Ilhan Omar, Jamaal Bowman, Summer Lee, and others were verbally attacked and ridiculed for their pro-peace stance, and AIPAC wasted no time in launching attack ads against them and recruiting moderate candidates to challenge them in the 2024 primaries as punishment.

But over these last few months, you stood by Justice Democrats and the Squad, answering our calls for help and contributing what you could to fuel our crucial work to fight back against our right-wing, corporate, and establishment opponents.

The ceasefire movement has since grown stronger day by day, with the majority of public opinion in support of a permanent ceasefire and hundreds of thousands of people all over the world organizing protests and marches to demand peace.

That is the power of this young, diverse, working-class movement we’ve built together, and it’s exactly why we need to give it our all to keep it alive in 2024 and beyond.

AIPAC has over $100,000,000 from millionaire and billionaire mega-donors and right-wing Trump supporters who will spend anything to maintain the status quo. Justice Democrats has you.

As we prepare for the tough primary fights ahead in 2024, we’re counting on grassroots supporters like you to fuel our critical work to re-elect our Squad incumbents and expand our bloc of bold progressives in Congress — and time is running out.

Please, if you can afford to, make a donation of $3 or any amount right now to help us reach our $75,000 end-of-year goal by midnight tomorrow and power Justice Democrats into the new year.

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I can’t thank you enough for your support and solidarity during this difficult year. 2024 will no doubt be challenging, but together, we can and must overcome.

Deeply grateful,

Alexandra Rojas
Executive Director

 

Do not worry if you cannot afford to make a contribution — we understand that this is a difficult time. There are other ways to make an impact in support of peace and equality in Israel and Palestine: please urge your member of Congress to support a ceasefire through Adalah Justice Project’s petition or by calling them using Jewish Voice for Peace’s dialer here. Your voice matters in this critical moment.