Hi John — this is Congressman Greg Casar from Texas.
I’m a proud Democrat, and a proud longtime member of the Working Families Party. And a couple weeks ago, my colleagues in Congress elected me as the new chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
Look, John: we know the next few years will be challenging. Like you, I worry about the future of our country.
That’s why I want to take a few moments to tell you a little more about the work ahead of us. But before I do, can you help ensure our movement has the resources to fight back in 2025 by making an end-of-year contribution to the Working Families Party? The fights ahead of us will be tough. But as an organizer, I know that when we come together, there’s nothing that can stand in the way of our movement.
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These days, it’s a lot easier to get elected to Congress — and to stay here — if you’ve got billionaires and corporate megadonors on your side.
My journey has been a different one.
I am a proud native Texan and son of immigrants. For years, I worked as a labor organizer, fighting for living wages and dignity for working families. After that, I was elected to the Austin City Council, where I fought for and won victories like paid sick days and affordable housing.
And for the last two years in Congress, I’ve worked side-by-side with the Working Families Party to continue many of these same fights — always keeping working people in my district and across the country front-and-center.
Since November’s results, I’ve heard pundit after pundit talk about how the Democratic Party should focus more on issues like wages, housing, and child care that speak to pocketbook challenges working people are feeling. Well, guess what? Those are exactly the kinds of policies that the Congressional Progressive Caucus has championed — often over the opposition of more corporate elements in the Democratic Party coalition.
As for Republicans — they may have pretended to care about the concerns of working-class voters in the campaign, but we’re already seeing their true colors.
Trump is filling his cabinet with billionaire oligarchs and wealthy donors who will do his bidding. He’s promised massive tax cuts to the wealthiest donors, paid for by cuts to critical programs like Social Security and Medicare.
Make no mistake: the first agenda item for Republicans in 2025 will be giving massive kickbacks to their billionaire donors that they want the rest of us to pay for. It’s outrageous. And just like during the campaign, they’re going to try to distract us by pointing to other issues, hoping we look away while they pick our pockets.
We aren’t going to let them get away with it.
Our job is to stay true to our core values, focus on the needs of working people, and make our tent even bigger to fight back against his corrupt handouts to the billionaire class.
That’s the work that’s ahead of us — and it’s exactly the kind of work that the Working Families Party was built for.
WFP doesn’t just show up every few years with a few weeks to go before election day.
They organize year-round across the country, and they help identify, train, and elect working-class candidates that aren’t bankrolled by billionaire donors.
With billionaires and corporate megadonors flooding our political system, it’s more important than ever that working people have the infrastructure to fight back and win real governing power at every level. Can you make an end-of-year contribution to the Working Families Party to ensure they have the resources they need to fight back?
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In solidarity,
Greg Casar
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