Nearly 90% of Congressional races are won by the candidate who spends more money. It’s a tough reality, John, but it’s what we’re up against.

We’ve won races with less money, though, like when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez beat a high-ranking corporate Democrat back in 2018. But it’s really hard to do, and that’s one of the reasons AOC’s victory shocked the political establishment to the core.

AOC’s opponent in 2018 spent at least 5 times more than she did on the primary election. But AOC won because she was what NY-14 needed, had a strong campaign, and a strong message. We helped her build that campaign, John.

As we build power and see the impact of the Squad in Congress, we’ve been able to close the spending gap. Then, more challenges came our way. The political establishment started spending millions through corporate super PACs to smear our candidates. Centrist and right-wing groups, big corporations and Wall Street, Big Oil and Big Tech, all started flooding money into our races to keep corporate Democrats in office.

We continue to shock the political establishment because of our grassroots support. We do our best to match the unlimited resources of the political establishment with donations of $3, $18.21 (our average donation this year), $27 or more from folks like you. We rely on your support 100% because we don’t and we won’t take a cent from corporate PACs.

And we use your donations strategically, John. We build campaigns to win, help our candidates hire staff, set up field organizing operations, support media strategies, and so much more.

It takes a lot of money to win our primaries and transform the Democratic Party, especially when our opponents are bankrolled by Wall Street and the Democratic establishment.

Can you make your first $3 contribution to elect more Justice Democrats and transform the Democratic Party? We set a critical goal to raise $10,000 by tomorrow at 11:59 p.m. to get our fundraising back on track.

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