John, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has $36.1 million. Yes, $36.1 million to spend to elect corporate Democrats.
The DCCC recruits corporate Democrats and protects establishment incumbents while taking money from Wall Street and corporate PACs. All that money goes toward stopping progressive legislation like Medicare for All and a Green New Deal. It holds our country back from the transformative change we desperately need.
Justice Democrats doesn’t take a cent of money from corporate PACs because we’re fighting for the people, NOT corporate profits. That’s because we’re recruiting and running working-class progressive primary challengers to challenge the status quo.
We need a Democratic Party that fights for its voters, not corporate donors. Justice Democrats does the hard work of recruiting, training, fundraising, and organizing with bold, progressive candidates.
On one side of this intra-party ideas battle, you have the DCCC, which raises huge sums of money to support establishment candidates that keep the Democratic Party status quo alive.
Then there’s our side. We’re building a solid base of progressives in Congress fighting for Medicare for All, climate justice, lifting folks out of poverty, canceling student debt — and we’re doing it with an incredibly low budget. But the reality is we could be doing more if we had more resources to go against the DCCC.
In solidarity,
Justice Democrats
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