[1]Justice Democrats



John,

Last month, we launched a coalition of 20+ progressive groups united to
demand the Democratic Party reject AIPAC, but you might be wondering, who
is AIPAC anyway?

[ [link removed] ]If you already know the deal about AIPAC and want to fuel our work to
stop their dangerous influence in Washington, chip in here.

Otherwise, here’s an explainer on AIPAC and why we’re taking them on:

AIPAC stands for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a lobby
group founded in the 1950s to build bipartisan support for Israel in
Congress.

For most of AIPAC’s existence, it didn’t get involved in elections. They
didn’t need to. But following the groundbreaking elections of AOC, Rashida
Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Ayanna Pressley, Congress for the first time had
members willing to speak out for Palestinian human rights. The Democratic
base began to shift on the issue, recognizing Israel’s apartheid rule over
Palestinians.

As a result, in 2021 AIPAC formed its own PAC and Super PAC known as
United Democracy Project (UDP) that waded into Democratic primaries,
spending millions against progressive, pro-peace candidates like Summer
Lee and Ilhan Omar.

Let’s be clear: AIPAC’s campaign spending is a sign of weakness.
Unconditional support for Israel’s far-right government has been
significantly weakened, particularly among Democratic voters. AIPAC’s
tactic of last resort is to threaten to spend millions of dollars to
silence anyone who may speak out for Palestinian human rights.

[ [link removed] ]That’s why it’s so important that we have the Squad’s back. We can’t
let AIPAC’s fear tactics work. Chip in now to help us reject AIPAC and
re-elect the Squad in 2024.

So where does AIPAC’s funding come from? While they claim to be
bipartisan, AIPAC is fueled by massive donations from millionaires and
billionaires, including right-wing megadonors who’ve donated to Donald
Trump, Ron DeSantis, and Nikki Haley. The same people trying to re-elect
Trump are bankrolling AIPAC’s primaries against the Squad.

AIPAC’s dark money influence is widespread: last cycle, only 33 out of 535
members of Congress did not receive money from the group's network. Who
AIPAC targets, however, is a narrow group of candidates and elected
officials. AIPAC’s Super PAC exclusively spends against Democrats in
primaries — particularly young, Black and brown progressive champions like
the Squad. In fact, more than 85% of the money UDP (AIPAC’s Super PAC) has
spent has been against candidates of color.

Not only that, but AIPAC has ardently endorsed and contributed to 109
Republican insurrectionists who denied the 2020 election results, as well
as more than 200 anti-abortion Republican extremists. They recently
congratulated retiring Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on a job
well done for his decades of work stonewalling progress, stacking the
SCOTUS with Republicans, and pushing a far-right agenda.

All in all, AIPAC is a right-wing organization, and it’s our job to build
a movement to expose their right-wing agenda to all voters so that they
are rejected by the Democratic Party, following the same path as other
lobby groups like the NRA.

That fight starts now. AIPAC and its affiliates are going all-out to try
and take down the Squad and any other Democrat who expresses support for a
ceasefire and peace in Gaza. Last year, they announced plans to spend an
unprecedented $100 million in this year’s elections. They’ve already run
attack ads against Jamaal Bowman, Summer Lee, and Cori Bush while
hand-picking their primary opponents.

Enough is enough. It is time for the Democratic Party as a whole to do
what’s right and stand up against AIPAC’s threat to our democracy.

[ [link removed] ]We’re fighting back against AIPAC’s attacks on the Squad while pushing
for ALL Democratic candidates to reject their dark money once and for all:
will you pitch in $5 or whatever you can to support our
Reject AIPAC campaign?



[ [link removed] ]Contribute $5



We’ve defeated AIPAC and its millions of dollars of right-wing megadonor
money before — now more than ever, we need to do it again, and we need to
put an end to their interference in our Democratic elections.

In solidarity,

Justice Democrats




 




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