Breaking news, John:

Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani just won his race against a corporate, out-of-touch political dynasty to become the next mayor of New York City.

This is huge.

Zohran’s victory is the turning point that our progressive movement has been working toward for years within the Democratic Party: electing leaders with the moral courage to unite voters to take on Republican authoritarianism, Democratic corporatism, and billionaire greed all at once.

It proves what Justice Democrats has been saying since our founding: Democratic primaries are the battleground for the control of our party’s direction.

We can send leaders like Zohran — who share the same vision of improving everyday folks’ lives by making the wealthiest pay their fair share — to fight for us in Congress, and it starts with next year’s Democratic primaries.

Will you help us build our progressive, working-class movement and elect more Zohrans to office in 2026 by pitching in a grassroots contribution of $5 or more now?

For too long, wealthy donors and billionaire lobbies have demanded cowardice and moral vagueness from our politicians. As a result, Democratic voters have had entrenched corporate politicians like Andrew Cuomo stuffed down their throats as the only possible alternative to Republican representation.

But working-class voters are waking up to realize they are represented by a party unwilling to stand up to the biggest bullies and robber barons of our time — and they’re walking away. This is the failure of Party leadership, and it is in large part why Democrats lost so badly last November.

What party pundits and strategists should take away from Zohran’s win is that voters want leaders who have the moral clarity to stand up for their most urgent needs and are brave enough to take on the powerful billionaires, lobbies, and corporations who are standing in the way of their prosperity.

It is because Zohran took on the real estate corporations, the Israel lobby, and the billionaires robbing everyone blind that voters saw a candidate they could actually believe would fight for them — not in spite of it.

His victory builds on the wins from members of Congress like Summer Lee, AOC, Rashida Tlaib, Delia Ramirez, Ilhan Omar, and others who finally offered Democratic voters an alternative choice to the same corporate, career politicians that have ruled the Party for decades.

Zohran’s win provides a clear mandate: our party can and must embrace moral courage as a deliberate political strategy. If it does, we won’t just move the conversation — we'll realign political power itself and put it back in the hands of the people instead of the millionaires, billionaires, corporations, and lobby groups.

We cannot let this victory and momentum end in NYC, John. It must be a signal to political candidates across the country that we CAN take on the wealthiest, most well-connected, most entrenched corporate politicians and win, if they’re willing to be a voice that unites the working class against the wealthy elites.

Now is the moment to build on our work to transform the Democratic Party through Congressional primary elections nationwide. Justice Democrats has been the leading organization waging a war for the future of our party in primaries since 2017, and this cycle, we’re planning on taking on as many do-nothing, corporate Democrats as possible.

The next electoral fight is the 2026 midterms, and at a time when the Party has some of its lowest approvals ever, the only way for us to take power back from a Republican trifecta is to run candidates that people actually can believe in, see themselves in, and be inspired by. Candidates like Donavan McKinney, Angela Gonzales-Torres, Justin J. Pearson, Cori Bush, and more to come soon.

The era of Cuomo and Schumer, who have controlled Democratic politics for decades, is over. Voters want new leaders, with ideas bold enough to match the scale of their crises, and the path to electing them is in Democratic primaries across the country, where Justice Democrats is leading the charge.

But just like it took a whole movement to defeat Andrew Cuomo, it's going to take a groundswell of grassroots resources to defeat the rest of the billionaire-backed politicians in the Democratic Party. Let’s multiply this victory and keep building an unstoppable movement: chip in whatever you can today to directly fuel our work this cycle.

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Our only path to real change, in the face of a full corporate takeover of our country, is to take on the billionaire class head-on and with our full force. Thank you for anything you can do to stand alongside us in this fight.

In solidarity,

Alexandra Rojas
Executive Director