John,

We are more than halfway through 2025 and saying that it has been a difficult year to be a Democrat is an understatement.

The last six months have made the first Trump administration look like child's play. We’ve seen greencard holders deported to El Salvadorian torture prisons, the arrest of elected officials by ICE, the launch of a surveillance database to keep tabs on its opposition, and so so much more.

Coming off the heels of our devastating defeat in 2024 and new escalations from MAGA everyday, it's been easy to grow apathetic and assume this is it and that we’ll never get our country back. However within the past month the tide has begun to turn:

The Senate is likely to pass Trump's "big beautiful bill" this week which will strip medicaid away from millions. This is a deeply unpopular move amongst independent and even Republican voters, and pollsters are now projecting a massive whiplash in the 2026 midterms against the Republicans who pushed these cuts.

On top of this, last week, we saw the earth shattering victory against all odds by Zohran Mamdani in the NYC mayoral election against right-wing Democrat Andrew Cuomo who was funded by the same billionaires who elected Trump.

Zohran won because his candidacy offered fire and brimstone resistance to MAGA. Whereas with Cuomo voters saw that while he might rhetorically resist Trump, in substance he would do nothing to prevent Trump from steam rolling over NYC.

This new generation of aggressively anti-Trump Democrat is birthing the rise of a tea-party movement within the Democratic party. The tea party famously hamstrung Obama’s two terms making it nearly impossible for him to get anything done in the House. They effectively roadblocked Obama’s agenda by offering steep consequences to any Republican colleague who broke with their agenda of complete opposition.

So not only is there rapidly growing anti-Republican sentiment over medicare cuts that could tilt the House back to Democrats, there is also a movement within the Democratic party to elect leaders who will obstruct and roll back Trump’s agenda and punish any colleague who breaks with that mission. This is how we take back power and keep it.

No Dem Left Behind is at the forefront of our party regaining the initiative. Today is our fundraising deadline and we need to finish as strong as possible so that we can keep building momentum throughout the summer. Can we count on you to chip $50, $25, or even $5 to help us close out as strong as possible?