People power defeats Wall Street dark money

In the final weeks of our primary, Wall Street dumped millions of dollars in dark money to try and defeat this progressive movement. Let us be clear: It could have worked.

If we hadn’t been organizing from the very beginning, it might have done something. If we hadn’t been phone banking, we may have been vulnerable. If we hadn’t been supporting our neighbors with check-ins, supplies, and heartfelt conversation, those Wall Street dollars could have had an impact.

But the dark money didn’t work. That’s because no amount of money can buy a movement. No poll-tested lines, consultant-engineered attacks, or flood of negative TV ads can overcome a group of people motivated by the desire to build a better world together.

Nothing can replace that. Thanks to people like you – our volunteers, our fighters, our believers – we’ve made incredible progress on winning people on critical issues, on educating folks about challenges that affect our community, and on building a national progressive movement.

But our work is not done. We will not stop until we guarantee health care to every person, until we decarbonize our economy, until we end our system of mass incarceration and deportation, and until we finally win social, racial, economic, and environmental justice for all working people in this country.

Our success so far has been powered by small-dollar donors chipping in an average donation of $17.18 at a time. On June 30th, we’ll be facing our first FEC deadline since our movement won this primary. Can you make a monthly donation in honor of our primary win to power this progressive movement? Even $3 makes a huge difference.

This is more than a moment. It’s about who we are as people – working folks who try to hold the cause of justice at our cores. And if we work together, towards our common mission, there is nothing that we can’t do.

Pa’lante,

Team AOC

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