This is a dark time. We are hurting and furious. Our leaders have failed our children. They’re little kids. We’re killing our kids.

This country is in a state of perpetual mourning. We are still reeling from the news about the looming overturning of Roe. We just watched in horror as people were gunned down buying groceries in Buffalo. And now a massacre in Ulvade, taking the lives of little ones and their teachers.

Our country is so traumatized by its own violence, it’s disorienting, numbing...I don’t even know what the right word is.

In my own life, I know there is no greater injustice than the loss of a young person. None. It’s the absolute worst thing that can happen.

The lack of courage and competency within the halls of congress is killing our kids in masses. It is beyond comprehension. We know the majority of the blame for inaction falls on the GOP. We also know there are Democrats who need to be ousted who are a part of the problem.

Barrier To Entry PAC is about throwing out the old ways of doing things and demanding better. Now is the time to call out and call on people to be better.

The level of intensity should be: pound your fist on the table, embarrass your friends, and almost get kicked out of the bar…. We should have that level of determination and entitlement when it comes to building enough consensus and power to muscle through critical legislation.

Young people are done with inaction. We follow our own compass at Barrier To Entry PAC. We have to. We aren’t afraid to take bold risks when others— people with more resources than we have— choose to sit on the sidelines.

We also know an opportunity to win when we see one. That’s why we worked so hard in Oregon's 5th Congressional district to defeat entrenched incumbent representative, Kurt Schrader. It is all but confirmed that he lost to a progressive challenger we backed— this matters. He is one of the bad ones who needs to go.

This happened because you all stepped up when you heard the call. We aren’t just complaining about how dark the world is. We are acting. And we are winning. We are showing the people who laughed at us that we are serious about our mission. Kurt Schrader has been in elected office for 25 years. You helped us build a megaphone so big, it took out someone who has single handedly prevented medicare from being able to negotiate prescription drug costs. You did that.

Whether its guns, abortion, or healthcare, when we fail to take bold action, the impact it has on peoples' lives is enormous. Poor and non-white communities especially bear the burden of violent and unjust systems— this cannot be forgotten or understated.

So yeah. This is what Barrier To Entry PAC is about. We are about standing up to the people holding us back and saying fuck you, quit hurting our neighbors, our kids, our teachers, we aren’t doing this with you people anymore. We are done with your student loans. We are done with this housing crisis. We are done with inaction on climate change.

It is abundantly clear that we won’t move the needle to the left by being polite, and the litmus test here no longer boils down to party affiliation. It's action vs. obstruction. It’s time to tap into reality and weed out the people who refuse to serve the will of the people and take action.

The kids are not okay right now. Young adults are not okay right now. None of us are okay right now. We must take care of ourselves as we move through this- we are getting better at that- but we cannot give up and succumb to inaction. That is not going to work.

We are here. Angry and determined. And creative and we are resilient. We are organized and we are tough and we build community in times of hardship and that is what it is going to take. I can say that about my generation and younger generations.

If you’re reading this, a person of any age, gender, race, nationality, you name it— you are not alone. We read your names and we write to you like real people we know, because you are. We see you're retired, you're teachers, you're social workers, you sell insurance, you're a caregiver. We see the cities you live in, sprinkled all over the country. We see how many thousands of you keep opening these emails. If you’re on this list, you are a part of our Barrier To Entry community and we want you to know that you are valued and you keep us going on really, really hard days.

We all have to link arms for these kiddos and hold on tight.

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