John,

I’m writing to you today because things are tough at a critical time (again). Here’s the situation:

We had a really strong fundraising month in May that helped us catch up from months of declining fundraising. But now, our fundraising has dropped steeply yet again. This drop is not sustainable — not as we try to lift Kina Collins to victory on June 28 and expand the Squad in Congress.

We operate on a pretty tight budget, especially compared to other political organizations. It’s because we run solely on donations from grassroots supporters like you. We don’t take a cent from corporate PACs.

Our grassroots supporters have been there to support our work, John. And I’m so, so grateful for the continued support of regular everyday folks (not billionaires).

Our average donation this year is just $18.21. We’re proud of that. It means we need a lot of small-dollar donations to fuel our primaries.

You may know by now, but we started Justice Democrats after many of us worked on the Bernie 2016 campaign. We were all inspired and determined to find a way to continue the message of Bernie’s campaign through electing a new Congress that truly represented the needs of the people.

That’s when we launched Justice Democrats and supported a lot of candidates in our first election year (2018). We lost a bunch of races, but then we won one big one: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s groundbreaking victory against the 4th most powerful Democrat in the House.

We recruited and elected Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman in 2020, defeating two more powerful corporate Democrats. This year we’ve already won two races — Greg Casar in Texas and Summer Lee in Pennsylvania. Now, we need to make sure Kina wins her 6/28 primary against the Democratic establishment. We need to make sure we can build the necessary support in Congress for Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, and so much more.

That’s why I’m asking, John: can you make your first donation to Justice Democrats today?

→ Yes, I can donate today to help build the Justice Democrats bloc in Congress.

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I appreciate so, so much whatever you can give today, whether it’s $3, $27, $100 or anything at all. We will never take corporate PAC money and we will always rely on our grassroots movement.

In solidarity,

Alexandra Rojas, Executive Director
Justice Democrats