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Friend,

Let me ask you something honestly.

How often lately have you turned off the news because it just feels overwhelming?

Every day it’s something new.
Another abuse of power.
Another headline that makes this country feel more unrecognizable.
Another reminder that the rules no longer apply equally.

We are watching our Constitution trampled in real time.
Checks and balances ignored.
Accountability stripped away.
Truth buried under money, influence, and political convenience.

And now, with the release of the Epstein files, many people are being forced to confront something deeply uncomfortable.

A lot of Americans who were dismissed for questioning power were right.

Not because they were chasing conspiracies.
But because when wealth and power concentrate, secrecy, corruption, and abuse follow.

That realization is exhausting.
It makes people angry.
It makes people want to tune out.

You’re not crazy for feeling this way.

At the same time, millions of families are barely holding on.

Groceries cost more. Rent costs more. Healthcare costs more.
Paychecks do not stretch. Savings disappear.
Parents skip meals so their kids do not have to.
People work harder than ever and still fall further behind.

This is not a personal failure.
It is a systemic one.

And here is the hard truth too many people in Washington refuse to face.

Democratic Party leadership is out of touch with where most Americans actually are.
Out of touch with working people.
Out of touch with independents.
Out of touch even with their own base.

Instead, we get candidates pulling in millions of dollars from wealthy donors, hiring DC pipeline consultants, and surrounding themselves with people who have never had to worry about rent, groceries, or medical bills.

When everything revolves around money, reality disappears.

That is why you get fundraising emails every single day, sometimes multiple times a day, treating you like a personal ATM instead of a human being.

And then they wonder why people feel alienated.
Why turnout drops.
Why voters stop believing anything will ever change.

We cannot keep doing things the same way and expect different results.

That is why I am running for Congress differently.

I am a manufacturing engineer.
A working dad.
Someone who knows the pressure of trying to hold it all together in an economy that no longer works for the people who keep it running.

I am not building a campaign fueled by corporate cash or wealthy donor pipelines.
I am choosing a fully grassroots approach.

People giving whatever they can afford.
A massive volunteer-powered movement.
Neighbors talking to neighbors.
Real conversations, not consultant-tested talking points.

Because this country does not change when powerful people grow a conscience.
It changes when ordinary people decide they have had enough.

Hope does not mean pretending everything is fine.
Hope means choosing to fight for something better anyway.

If you are able, I am asking you to chip in today.

Your contribution helps us pay and feed staff, reach voters by door and mail, film our next ad, open a small campaign HQ, and build the grassroots army it takes to actually win.

This campaign exists because people like you refuse to accept that this is as good as it gets.

We are not powerless.
We are not alone.
And it is time to do politics differently.



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Let us show that a grassroots movement built on honesty, lived experience and working-class values can rise above fear, division and the politics of the powerful.

John Padora
Working Dad • Fighter • Engineer
Candidate for Congress in CO 04 

 

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