Progressives plan wave of Democratic primary challenges ahead of 2026 midterm elections
Source: Salon
Published January 14, 2025 5:45AM (EST)
As a power struggle engulfs the Democratic Party, a leading progressive organization, the Justice Democrats, announced a new candidate recruitment campaign targeting both open seats and incumbents and deep-blue congressional districts.
In a statement Tuesday, Alexander Rojas, the group's executive director, said that the organization is launching a campaign to recruit working-class Americans to run for office.
“To be the party of the working class, we need more working class leaders in power," he said. “Leaders like the elected Justice Democrats in Congress have shown us another way of doing politics is possible and represent the promise of uniting our fractured nation into a multiracial democracy where everyone thrives and no one is left behind."
The Justice Democrats launched during President-elect Donald Trump’s first term in 2017 and initially garnered attention for helping to elect members of the “Squad,” like Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., and Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., in the 2018 midterms. Indeed, the group emerged as an antagonist of entrenched centrist Democratic leadership by primarying members like former Rep. Joe Crowley, the then-chair of the House Democratic Caucus, in the Bronx district now represented by Ocasio-Cortez.
Read more: https://www.salon.com/2025/01/14/progressives-plan-wave-of-democratic-primary-challenges-ahead-of-2026-midterm/
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