Our progressive movement is under attack

After Jamaal Bowman’s defeat, the far-right is setting their sights on the rest of the Squad. Can you give today to help Ayanna fight back?

I spent last week in New York, campaigning for my movement brother Jamaal Bowman as he faced a Westchester County executive in the most expensive House primary race ever. I visited faith houses, festivals, and small businesses, speaking to people about why his voice is sorely needed in Congress.

Even in the 97-degree heat, hundreds of volunteers were out knocking doors, calling voters, and getting out the vote for our pro-peace, pro-humanity, pro-justice candidate.

Republican-funded super PACs reportedly poured over $20 million into Jamaal’s race to make an example out of him. At one point, my team was at a restaurant greeting voters and we saw eight attack ads in the span of 30 minutes. No one works that hard to unseat someone whose ideas aren’t widely popular. Jamaal is a husband, a father, an educator, and an effective legislator who leads with love and always centers the people. His perspective will be missed in Congress next term, and it is a collective loss for our caucus and country. But while I am dismayed that we are losing his voice in Congress, we are not defeated.

This race showed that our progressive movement is under attack now more than ever. In fact, my old colleague George Santos had this message for me this week when I showed some love for my movement brother:

Our pro-peace, pro-humanity movement is being targeted, and we need to be prepared for what's to come. Tomorrow is our end-of-quarter fundraising deadline, and the best way you can show up for our progressive, people-powered movement is by making a gift of $20 to shore up our defenses against dark money groups who want to silence the will of the people..

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Listen, when you speak truth to power, power fights back. And I won’t let the fear of outside spending keep me quiet. But we need to demonstrate a surge of grassroots support to show that the state of this movement is strong. And we’re not going anywhere.

Determined as ever,

Ayanna