John,

You’ve heard me talk about why our work at Real Justice PAC is so important. With that in mind, I’m filled with pride to share some updates about what we’ve accomplished together recently.

Let’s start with the fight against the dangerous, right-wing, billionaire-backed efforts to recall San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin.

With your amazing support, we defeated the first effort to recall Chesa back in August. With your participation, we surpassed 500,000 calls for our Stand with Chesa campaign. That’s HUGE.

We also announced a diverse coalition standing united in to defeat these recall efforts including the California Working Families Party, Bay Area Sunrise Movement, the San Francisco Democratic Party, the San Francisco Berniecrats, and more!

Back in 2019, we helped elect Chesa and since then, he’s done absolutely transformational work for the city of San Francisco. Chesa has stood up for the people of San Francisco by suing ghost gun manufacturers to get the guns off the streets. He also conspored AB 866 which would enable community based organizations with the ability to provide mental health services and compensation to victims of hate crimes.

In the face of mounting attacks by more right-wing, dark money groups intent on recalling the elections of our bold, justice champions, we also launched a DA defense fund to support our champion DAs.

In Pennsylvania, DA Larry Krasner – who we helped reelect in a LANDSLIDE – has been hard at work to bring justice to the people he represents. He helped free Arthur “Cetawayo” Johnson, who served 50 years in jail on a wrongful conviction. Larry also charged three cops for lying under oath in the case against Anthony Wright, who was ALSO wrongfully convicted.

In Texas, another DA that we helped elect – Travis County DA Jose Garza – has been doing incredible work to bring long overdue accountability to violent police officers. After his predecessor refused to press charges, Jose filed charges against Austin Police Department Officer Christopher Taylor in the murder of Dr. Mauris DeSilva.

In Missouri, St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner has been RELENTLESS in her fight to prove the innocence of Lamar Johnson by revealing evidence her predecessor had refused to release.

In Florida, State Attorney for the Ninth Judicial Circuit Court Monique Worrell introduced a policy that would prevent cops with a history of misconduct from testifying in court – an ESSENTIAL policy that would put a stop to the constant misleading testimony these kinds of cops make in cases that put people’s lives on the line.

And in Louisiana, Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams has begun to investigate HUNDREDS of cases where people were convicted by racist Jim Crow juries. He also helped free Jermaine Hudson – someone who had been thrown in jail for 22 years on the premises of a complete lie told by his accuser – but had never been listened to by the previous DA.

This is all possible because of the contributions and support from people like you, John. Together, we are changing LIVES. I know I speak for everyone at Real Justice when I say THANK YOU.

We’re hard at work defending the DAs we have in office from disingenuous attacks and busy looking at how to make an impact on some hugely important DA races in 2022.

I can’t wait to see what this team will do in the months to come.

Love and appreciate you,

Shaun

P.S. To keep this momentum going, it’s important that our work stays well-funded and well-equipped for the fights ahead. If you can, please pitch in any amount here.

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