Harris,
Like Alexandra announced this morning, Justice Democrats has officially launched our 2026 Candidate Recruitment Campaign!
As Campaigns Director at Justice Democrats, my job is to oversee our whole operation for candidates, from recruitment, to launching campaigns, to seeing them through Election Day.
You may be wondering what candidate recruitment means specifically at Justice Democrats. We'll be looking at congressional districts across the country to determine which out-of-touch corporate incumbents we'll challenge with working-class candidates in the 2026 primary elections, and we're asking everyday people to nominate community leaders they trust to run for office.
Justice Democrats recruited Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in 2017 after her brother nominated her to run a primary campaign against the long-time corporate Democrat who was then representing NY-14. Our candidate recruitment efforts and the progressive members of Congress that follow have the power to dramatically change and transform the Democratic Party from the ground up.
Candidate recruitment takes serious resources, and money has always been the #1 thing holding us back as an organization because we refuse to take a cent from corporate PACs.
This last year, we faced an unprecedented amount of spending from AIPAC and its super PACs, which successfully ousted Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman using tens of millions of dollars from corporate and billionaire GOP donors. I won't lie, those losses hurt.
I also believe this last year showed us that we must double down on our mission to elect leaders who will fight for human rights and freedom for Palestinians, Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, and the most pressing needs facing everyday people nationwide.
The unprecedented spending we face is a sign of our strength. As the working class built power in the halls of Congress with the support of groups like JD, it was inevitable that corporate and special interests would respond. Those interests want us to give up. It is more important than ever that we fight back and continue to build.
Congressional races are becoming more expensive than ever before and there's no surprising the establishment anymore. Corporate Democrats and their billionaire backers know we exist and know we're doing everything we can to defeat them.
With your support, we've taken on the Democratic establishment and won crucial House races since 2018. But now, we need a groundswell of support to recruit and elect a new slate of working-class champions over the next two years to strengthen our bloc and root out the Party's corporate corruption in 2026.
I'm ready to get to work to find and recruit the next slate of progressive champions who'll fight for us, and I hope you'll join me in this critical work.
Thank you so much for everything,
Geoff Simpson
Campaigns Director
Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.
JusticeDemocrats.com
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Lancaster PA 17603
Email us: us@justicedemocrats.com
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