John,
With the 2024 Democratic National Convention underway in Chicago this week, we haven’t forgotten that right-wing megadonor-funded lobby group AIPAC successfully infiltrated our Democratic primaries with $25 million and unseated two progressive incumbents this summer: Reps. Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush.
This pro-Israel lobby group bankrolled by the same millionaire and billionaire donors who support Donald Trump should not have been able to buy these elections and oust two of the only young, Black, working-class, progressive leaders we have in Congress.
AIPAC doesn’t just threaten our progressive movement: it threatens the Party and our democracy in and of itself.
That’s why Justice Democrats is uniting with a coalition of progressive organizations to call on the Democratic National Committee to finally reject endorsements and outside spending from AIPAC once and for all.
AIPAC and their allies are spending millions of dollars to defeat champions of the popular progressive agenda that voters demand and that help Democrats win, like Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, reproductive justice, transformative immigration and democracy reform, a lasting ceasefire, hostage deal, and halt on all weapons funding to the Israeli military’s assault on Palestinians in Gaza.
It will be significantly more difficult for Democrats to defeat Trump in November as long as the Party continues to allow GOP-backed PACs and corporate lobbies to have sway over Democratic politics.
In solidarity,
Justice Democrats