John,
Voting starts in our first two primaries of 2022 TODAY. Early voting is underway in Texas in our primaries to elect Jessica Cisneros in TX-28 and Greg Casar in TX-35. Every day (really every hour) matters before polls close on primary election day — March 1.
Our fight won’t stop on March 1 though, John. We have four other progressive primary challengers to elect in Pennsylvania, Illinois, New York, and Tennessee. We have to keep building so we elect our Texas JDs and Summer Lee, Kina Collins, Rana Abdelhamid, and Odessa Kelly in primaries later this year.
The Democratic Party and its establishment candidates have an entire ecosystem of campaign resources — from political technology, volunteer lists, campaign fundraising support from PACs, and big donor money. All to raise millions of dollars to elect candidates who are doing nothing to improve the lives of working people in Congress.
There are also powerful right-wing interests already spending money on Facebook ads, TV commercials, and text messages to smear the Squad. They will likely start directing their racist, xenophobic right-wing lies at our four primary challengers soon enough. We’re relying on you to help us have the funds to fight back.
We know the transformational power of a primary. In 2018, Justice Democrats helped AOC oust corporate puppet Joe Crowley. In 2020 we helped Jamaal Bowman defeat Eliot Engel, Cori Bush win against William Lacy Clay, and Marie Newman unseat anti-choice Democrat Dan Lipinski. Let’s elect even more Justice Democrats this year.
In solidarity,
Justice Democrats