[1]Justice Democrats



John,

We’ll be honest, this isn’t the email we hoped to send you.

After being pummeled with $20 million from right-wing outside spending,
Rep. Jamaal Bowman has lost his primary election in NY-16. This was the
most expensive House primary in U.S. electoral history, with Republican
megadonors using AIPAC’s Super PAC to spend over $17 million against our
progressive incumbent.

Despite this disappointing news, Jamaal remains one of the most
transformational leaders of our generation. He has become a political
force who, alongside the rest of the Squad, has changed the trajectory of
American politics and the urgency we expect from our elected leaders.

We recruited Jamaal to run for Congress in 2020 because his life’s work
has been deeply rooted in serving his community — as a loving father,
husband, and community leader serving children and working families as a
principal and leading advocate for public education in NYC for over 15
years.

Jamaal was an underdog from the beginning, with our progressive movement
always facing an uphill battle. From the moment Justice Democrats
candidates are recruited to run, they are up against decades of
establishment infrastructure and multi-million dollar war chests fueled by
right-wing millionaires and billionaires.

The work of Justice Democrats is to break down the barriers that exist for
people like Jamaal Bowman to run for Congress. Through your contributions,
we have:

* Worked directly with Jamaal’s campaign to help them knock on 170,000
doors and make over 1,000,000 phone calls to voters this calendar
year;
* Raised the campaign over $200,000 directly from all of you on our
email list;
* Spent more than $1,300,000 on the independent expenditure side, making
us the largest outside group spender supporting Jamaal;
* Poured hundreds of staff hours into the campaign, stepping into key
management and communications roles when gaps existed, and closely
coordinating with and supporting Jamaal’s campaign staff.

Jamaal’s historic victory over 30+ year AIPAC darling Rep. Eliot Engel and
his courage on many key issues, especially on Israel’s genocide, made him
a top target.

Jamaal and our movement were such a threat to right-wing power, to GOP
megadonors, and to AIPAC’s influence in Congress that they had to spend
$15 million to defeat us. This demonstrates the power of our people-funded
movement, the strength that any single progressive with the moral clarity
to stand up to far-right interests has, and just how on defense AIPAC
really is.

For AIPAC — the single largest spender in American politics including the
presidency to date — this race is so much bigger than re-electing a
Congressman. It is part of their final attempts to stop a rising tide of a
new generation of voters and leaders who refuse to stay silent in the face
of injustice at home or abroad.

AIPAC knows the future is not on their side, so they have no choice but to
overwhelm, confuse, and depress voters with a flood of dark money to
generate support for their candidates. That’s exactly why they pledged to
spend an unprecedented $100 million to unseat the Squad this year.

The sheer quantity of spending against our progressive champions proves to
us that our mission is not only a just and popular one that represents the
interests of the majority, but it is such a threat to the existing power
structures that they will spend more money than they ever have in their
history to try to silence us. It is up to us as a progressive movement,
and as a Democratic Party as a whole, to stand up and change this system
that sacrifices regular people for megadonors.

Win or lose, we know that primaries leave their mark on history and we
will never go back to a world where it is a given that members of Congress
will sell out our most marginalized communities and back down to corporate
interests. We will never go back to a world where all of Congress stays
silent as tens of thousands of people are murdered. Our members
relentlessly stand for a more just world for all people, even when it
threatens their own careers and well-being — as Jamaal selflessly did.

Now that this critical primary fight is over, we know AIPAC is shifting
gears and setting its sights on the next one: Rep. Cori Bush’s competitive
Democratic primary on August 6 in Missouri’s 1st district. We cannot give
in to hopelessness or cynicism — we must fight back, NOW.

[ [link removed] ]We need the grassroots resources to help protect Cori from AIPAC and
other right-wing attacks. Will you make a $5 contribution
right now to help us re-elect her and the rest of the Squad this year?



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Jamaal Bowman is not a warning, but a model for what every progressive
should aspire to be: uncompromisingly dedicated to the interests of their
constituents and unwilling to compromise on our core values for political
expediency.

Let’s come together in this difficult moment and do what it takes to stop
AIPAC from unseating another one of our progressive champions this summer.

In solidarity,

Alexandra Rojas
Executive Director




 




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