[ [link removed] ]Leaders We Deserve

Before we all (hopefully) log off for the holiday, I wanted to take a
moment to say:

THANK YOU, John.

When we launched Leaders We Deserve back in 2023, it was a leap of faith.
We launched this organization with little more than the $5 I gave to our
ActBlue right before we launched just to test that it was working. Turning
a dream into reality is never easy, but this was certainly a risk. Usually
when a major political organization is launched, it has hundreds of
thousands, if not millions, of dollars already secured. We didn’t. But
because you all believed in this dream, we now exist to elect young people
across the country and give our generation something it has rarely had…
hope. Hope that one day our government won’t be controlled by the same
special interests it’s supposed to protect the American people from. Hope
that our generation will take power and not just be younger versions of
the many corrupt and ineffective leaders we have there now. Hope that’s
made possible by you.

We knew there were young people across this country ready to lead, and we
believed that if we gave them the tools, the mentorship, and the support
they deserved, they could change everything. They could upend the status
quo.

We weren’t wrong. But the only reason this organization has grown into
what it is today — the wins, headlines, candidates we’ve backed — is
because of you.

Your belief in this mission is the reason I get to dedicate my life to
electing the next generation of progressive leaders. That’s not something
I take for granted. Not just because of what you have enabled us to do,
but because of the hope you are helping to give to our generation through
candidates we helped elect, like Molly Cook in Texas or Zohran Mamdani in
New York City. I believe it is that hope that will bring our country to a
better day, because in order to fix something, you have to believe it is
fixable in the first place. With candidates like Molly and Zohran, we tell
our generation that while they know our politics is broken, at least there
are a growing number of young people who represent us, not special
interests, and are fighting to fix the broken system.

So wherever you are this week, whether you’re spending time with family,
chosen family, or just catching a moment of rest, I hope you know how
thankful I am to be in this fight with you. You remind me every day that
there are people out there who believe we can do better. Who believe we
must do better. Together we will.

With gratitude today and every day,

David


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