John,

Justice Democrat Rep. Summer Lee talked about the state of the Democratic Party and how the left can build power against the corporate machine with Hasan Piker for more than two hours on his livestream in Washington, DC. this week.

The two covered a lot of ground, including how Summer defeated AIPAC in order to win her congressional seat for the first time in 2022. When asked how she broke through their noise, Summer said:

“I’ve always been very fortunate to have people who support me… My first election, AIPAC came at us. That was the first election that AIPAC even existed as a PAC. We were 27 points up. They came in the last 3 weeks [spending] $1 million a week. But we had friends. Justice Democrats, they came in from the beginning.”

Summer is right. Thanks to people like you all over the country pitching in $5 or $10 here and there, we generated grassroots resources to help her take on AIPAC and its super PAC (United Democracy Project) and win — despite being massively outspent.

Summer and Hasan also made this important point: When AIPAC dumps money into opposing a progressive candidate running for Congress, they never talk about Israel, because they know they wouldn’t win if they did.

AIPAC and its corporate donors don’t want anyone threatening the billions of dollars in taxpayer funding that the Israeli military gets to commit genocide and maintain its apartheid state.

That’s why they tried stopping Summer, why they broke records spending $30 million against Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush, and why they’re going to use their war chest again to try and halt our progressive movement in 2026.

We can’t let them succeed. Just like in previous elections, we need to build a groundswell of grassroots support to protect progressive incumbents like Summer while expanding our bloc by winning Democratic primaries against out-of-touch, corporate Democrats.

But we can’t do it without you, John. Please, pitch in $5 or whatever you can afford to split a donation between Summer Lee and Justice Dems to fuel our fight against AIPAC and the corporate elite in 2026!

Contribute $5

In solidarity,

Justice Democrats