[1]Real Justice

John, we’ve faced
some vicious attacks from our well-funded opponents in the past 2 years.

From multi-million dollar efforts to smear campaigns to recalls,
impeachments, and suspensions, our movement to elect pro-civil rights DAs
has been up against some serious opposition. 

And while we succeeded in growing our movement in 2022, we know that 2023
won’t be an easy year because our opponents will work even harder to stop
our momentum.



[ [link removed] ]Before we recap some of our hardest fought battles with you, can you
ensure that we have the resources to be ready for any and all attacks in
the new year against our District Attorneys and all of their life-saving
work by making a donation today?

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In Los Angeles, there have been TWO attempts to recall Los Angeles DA
George Gascón. Both attempts have failed to make the ballot and were
bankrolled with over $1 million from GOP mega-donors.

Supporters of the second recall are challenging the decision in court, and
a judge is allowing them to review the signatures in an attempt to get the
recall on the ballot.

In Virginia, conservatives have launched TWO recall attempts against
Fairfax DA Steve Descano and ONE against Arlington and Falls Church DA
Parisa Deghani-Tafti. 

Just like in California, these efforts were bankrolled by conservative
mega-donors and are based on the flawed idea that because Steve and Parisa
work to address the root causes of crime instead of simply relying on the
failed policies of mass incarceration, they are somehow “soft on crime.”

Luckily, these efforts didn’t make the ballot, but with Steve and Parisa
facing re-election in 2023, we know that conservatives are going to go ALL
IN to defeat them so we need to defend these bold champions.

In Florida, Governor DeSantis suspended State Attorney Warren in Tampa for
signing a letter stating that he wouldn’t use his prosecutorial discretion
to focus on prosecuting women for having abortions.

In a document, DeSantis’ team literally said that one of the benefits of
the suspension is “a leftist prosecutor is removed from a position of
power.” Now, Warren is currently challenging the suspension in court.

In New York, Republicans are trying to pass a constitutional amendment to
establish public recall elections for District Attorneys. 

And of course in San Francisco, conservative mega-donors spent over $6
million to successfully recall DA Chesa Boudin. One of the leaders of the
recall who was paid six figures by a nonprofit linked the recall, Brooke
Jenkins, was then appointed as DA. This has been one of our toughest
losses for Real Justice.

Jenkins has worked to undo Chesa’s work by signaling to directly impacted
families that she won’t prosecute police for misconduct, restarting the
failed war-on-drugs by sending drug users to jail, expanding widespread
surveillance that allows police to access doorbell cameras, charging kids
as adults, and increasing mass incarceration.

All of this to say that we are serious when we say that we are up against
powerful special interests and big opposition — and if we don’t respond
swiftly and powerfully, it can really set back our movement like what we
saw in SF.  

[ [link removed] ]That’s why we need to be prepared to defend our District Attorneys and
FIGHT BACK at a moment’s notice. If you are able, can you make sure we are
in a good place to do just that by making sure we hit our End of Year goal
with a gift right now?

Thank you SO much,

Real Justice


 
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