John, this is a little bit longer of an email, but it’s important and I hope that you’ll stick with me through the end.

Just a few weeks ago, we launched our 2024 Candidate Recruitment efforts. We’re officially accepting nominations from folks across the country. In 2017, AOC was nominated to run by her brother and with your support, we took on the entire political establishment and powered her campaign to victory.

Now, as we approach 2023, we’ll be poring over thousands of submissions and I wanted to share some ‘behind the scenes’ information with you on this process.

Phase 1: District Prioritization

• Because we know millions of dollars from corporate interests will be spent against our recruited candidates, we must be extremely intentional and data-driven to determine what districts will be the most impactful.

Phase 2: Community Outreach

• Recruiting everyday working Americans like nurses, principals, community organizers, and union members takes a lot of work.
• Last cycle we reached out to nearly 4,000 members of various communities across the country and vetted 1,500 nominees for Congress. This deep connection to local communities is essential to finding the next Cori Bush or Jamaal Bowman.

Phase 3: Launch Campaigns

• We’re with our candidates from Day 0, preparing them with everything they need to run for Congress.
• No other organization in the progressive space recruits candidates to run for Congress and works with them from the very beginning. We’re making it possible for grassroots campaigns to even get started and we continue to build the infrastructure for future leaders to run as well.

We’ve elected some incredible leaders, shifted the Overton window, and are building the infrastructure that allows truly grassroots candidates to run, compete, win, take office, and start changing this country. And it’s all possible because of people like you chipping what you can.

Our ability to carry out these plans next year will largely depend on whether or not we reach our $75,000 end-of-year fundraising goal. We fell short of our fundraising goal last month, so it’s really important that we make up the difference.

That’s why I’m asking, John: can you make your first donation to Justice Democrats today? Your support made our wins in 2018, 2020, and 2022 possible — I hope you can chip in today to help us win even more primaries.

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

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Thank you for being a part of our movement and work.

In solidarity,

Geoff Simpson
Campaigns Director

 

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