John, this week we announced our End of Quarter goal to hit $75,000, and currently we are still $17,876 away.
And unfortunately we know exactly what can happen if we don’t hit that goal.
Earlier this year, we saw the city of San Francisco recall Chesa Boudin as their District Attorney after conservative mega-donors spent over $6 million to blanket the city with misleading mailers and television ads about his groundbreaking work. As hard as we fought back, we just didn't have the resources to win.
It was one of the biggest blows to our movement so far and was a moment of reflection about our fundraising efforts. We can’t help but think that if we had a strong financial foundation to spend even close to what conservative billionaires spent to rollback Chesa’s work, we could have really gone up against their machine and Chesa would still be in office today.
We can’t change the past — but we can prepare for the future. We warned people that if the recall against Chesa were successful, conservatives would use this playbook against our DAs across the country.
And now we are seeing it happen, and can’t make the same mistake in underestimating these attacks. ALL of our work over the past five years is on the line.
We know Chesa won't be the last DA to be targeted.
What we’re worried about most now is the progressive DAs they’ll go after next. It’s clear this is going to continue happening because our movement has been successful in electing DAs in big cities across the country, and we are a GIANT threat to their pro-incarceration agenda.
We can’t let this happen again. We refuse to see bold, capable, and justice-minded DAs we helped elect get attacked and have all of their life-changing work overturned.
But to do that we HAVE to be prepared to fight back against bank-rolled conservative opponents at a moment’s notice.
Together we can win these kinds of battles — no matter how much money they want to throw at us to tear us down. That starts by having the resources to throw a wrench in their plans to take out more of our DAs.
Grateful for your support,
Real Justice