Sophie Hurwitz

Sophie Hurwitz

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NEW for @MotherJones: AIPAC and crypto lobbyists swung the 2024 elections. In a new push, @justicedems say they plan to change that pattern in 2026–by recruiting as many working-class candidates as possible.

The Democratic establishment, Andrabi declared, “is a failure.” So Justice Democrats is gearing up, he said, to recruit a new round of progressive candidates to run against incumbent Democrats. “They brought us another Trump administration and a trifecta of Republican leadership in Washington,” Andrabi continued. “We need to be clear that from the start of this Congress, this is not what Congress should look like two years from now.” 349 House members and senators—or 65 percent of Congress—received funding from AIPAC. The largest portions of that cash went to candidates who defended the state of Israel as loudly as possible. The Democrats who took down Bush and Bowman—Wesley Bell and George Latimer, respectively—received several million dollars each from AIPAC. In total, AIPAC spent over $45 million across party lines. Crypto lobbying groups spent tens of millions. It is becoming increasingly normal to spend millions upon millions of dollars on winning a single congressional term—which makes running for office ever more inaccessible for those without cash on hand.