John,
We just found out a police Super PAC is spending $255,000 against the Squad. The right-wing and Democratic establishment will do everything they can to get Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley out of Congress. We’re more than a year away from the Squad’s primaries and the spending against them will only go up.
The “Honoring American Law Enforcement” Super PAC is sending text messages to people explicitly opposing each Squad member.
The fringe “pro-police” organization behind it touts lobbying for the “National Police Officers Bill of Rights” at a time when law enforcement is committing untold acts of violence, violating civil rights, and terrorizing communities. We need transformative racial justice laws and investments in our communities, not over-policing and protections for police officers who commit acts of abuse and brutality. And because Justice Democrats are the loudest voices in Congress advocating for ending qualified immunity, ending police corruption, and transforming our justice system, the Super PAC money is dropping to try to defeat us.
No one in power wants the Squad to succeed — from Wall Street to war hawks, establishment Democrats to right-wing fanatics, and health insurance companies to Big Oil. A lot of money will be invested against us leading up to the 2022 primaries and we must do everything we can to keep our strongest advocates in Congress.
AOC, Ilhan, and Rashida all faced tough primary challenges last year from opponents supported by big money and the political establishment. This $255,000 text campaign against them is the very start of the onslaught of spending, attack ads, lies, and smears we’ll have to combat to keep the Squad in Congress in 2022.
We’ve shown what we can do on a much smaller budget than the Democratic establishment. We do it with organizing, a lean, fierce operation, and grassroots donations from folks like you. If we’re going to protect the Squad and build on what they’ve been doing in Washington, we need to show up for them today.
In solidarity,
Justice Democrats
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