Lessons learned

 

It’s been a few days since the Manhattan DA’s race, and we wanted to take a second to unpack some of what we learned.

But first, we wanted to THANK YOU.

It’s true that Tahanie Aboushi didn’t win her election. But she ran a fearless campaign. One that was powered by thousands of grassroots donors from all over the country. We’re so grateful for all that you did to support her.

We also learned that our opposition is, unfortunately, still as strong as ever. Well-funded police unions and right-wing groups came back with a vengeance and nearly succeeded in placing a Wall Street billionaire into office.

It’s crystal clear that we need to double down on our organizing work in order to elect change-makers to office (and defend them from right wing attacks once they get there).

Please pitch in another donation today before our critical upcoming end-of-quarter deadline so we can continue to do the difficult but necessary work of electing transformational District Attorneys around the country.

What we see time and time again is that in places where Real Justice candidates won, it’s because they (and YOU) were able to out-organize and out-campaign their opponents. And as a result, can now use their new positions to shut down police violence in communities around the country.

But in the places where our candidates lost, the key difference maker was that they were HEAVILY outspent.

That’s what makes these fundraising deadlines so critical: it allows us to devote tons of our own organizing time and power to help candidates compete with massive police unions and super PACs.

Our work isn’t possible unless we’re fully-resourced and well-funded. That’s why we need you to pitch in before our end-of-quarter deadline on June 30th. It could spell the difference between winning and losing for future DA candidates.

Thanks for everything,

The Real Justice team

Pol. Adv. Paid for by Real Justice PAC, realjusticepac.org

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