Justice Democrat Summer Lee won her primary against the political establishment on Tuesday night in PA-12! It’s a huge victory and our second primary win of the year. Now, I want to tell you what this means for our movement.
It was hard to start this work and it’s been hard to sustain it. But what keeps us going is your support and our major upset victories. After Bernie’s 2016 presidential campaign, a bunch of us got together and decided to work towards electing progressives that shared Bernie’s vision to the U.S. House. If we changed politics in Congress, we could deliver important wins for the people.
Our first major win came after we recruited Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to run for Congress in NY-14 against one of the most powerful Democrats in the House. We were outspent but our message, our strategy, and our organizing won.
We wondered if we could replicate what we did and elect more progressives in 2020, while also ensuring the Squad was re-elected. We recruited and helped elect Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman, and re-elected every member of the Squad.
But could we keep this work up? Fundraising is always difficult, especially when we’re 100% grassroots funded going up against the unlimited corporate money of the political establishment.
Even with a budget a fraction of the size of most other political organizations, we kept going. And we’ve kept winning. We won a primary backing Greg Casar in TX-35 earlier this year. And Tuesday night, we stood with our 2022 recruit as she declared victory in Pittsburgh. Summer Lee overcame millions in Super PAC spending to win the Democratic nomination for PA-12.
The mission of Justice Democrats is to recruit and run progressive candidates often from working-class backgrounds. Candidates from these backgrounds have fewer resources to hire expensive staff who can get their campaigns going. JD helps fill some of those gaps. And with Summer, our team of staff and volunteers helped Summer strategize, organize, and out-campaign the corporate lawyer and corporate Super PACs in this race.
It’s amazing what we can do as a movement working together against millions of dollars spent attacking us — millions of dollars from Wall Street, Big Oil, Big Pharma, health insurance CEOs, and union busters. We do it with donations of $5, $27, and $100 at a time from regular people who want to see Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, and student debt cancellation in our country.
We have another primary on Tuesday, when Jessica Cisneros takes on the only anti-abortion Democrat in the House, Henry Cuellar. Cuellar is a conservative Democrat who consistently votes against abortion rights, labor rights, and action to address climate change. Yet, he still has the backing of Nancy Pelosi and high-ranking Democrats in the House.
It’s another race where we’re up against corporate Super PACs and the Democratic establishment, and we need your help to make sure Jessica defeats Cuellar.
Can you step up today and help Justice Democrats win more primaries against corporate Democrats?
I know we can do amazing things together, because we’ve done amazing things together. I’m grateful to be in this fight with you. Let’s keep up our momentum.
In solidarity,
Alexandra Rojas, Executive Director
Justice Democrats
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