FIGHT TRUMP THE OLIGARCHS - AT THE BALLOT BOX!
Things can feel pretty dark at the moment, but we’re building progressive power to fight Trump and the Oligarchs.
We’re halfway through the Democratic primaries, and Our Revolution has endorsed hundreds of candidates at all levels of government and made over 3.5 MILLION voter contacts!
To stop the worst of the Trump regime, we need to win back the House and Senate in November — but first we need to get the best and boldest candidates on the ballot.
ILHAN OMAR HEADLINES OUR REVOLUTION TOWN HALL
This week, over 50,000 activists tuned in to our LIVE National Organize to Win Town Hall featuring Rep. Ilhan Omar and six of our top progressive candidates.
Ilhan commended the courage of those protesting ICE in Newark, NJ — and said her fellow Minnesotans are still traumatized by the ICE raids that killed two people last winter.
"We went through what we did so no other American city would have to experience that level of terror,” Ilhan said. She told us she stays positive, inspired by the grassroots: "We can give in to fear, despair, and hate—or we can choose love, hope, and courage."
WALA BLEGAY VS. BIG MONEY
Wala Blegay, our candidate for Congress in Maryland’s 5th - the seat held for decades by retiring Rep. Steny Hoyer - denounced the millions that AIPAC, crypto, and AI special interests are pouring into the race for her opponent - a data center lobbyist backed by Hoyer’s establishment machine.
Unlike her opponent, Wala signed Our Revolution's People's Pledge to reject corporate PAC money. To counter the flood of big spending, Our Revolution’s field team is making over 50,000 voter contacts by making calls and knocking on doors!
WHY TRUMP MEGADONORS FEAR ALEX BORES
As a member of the NY State Assembly, Alex Bores led the fight to pass the RAISE Act, the strongest AI regulation in the country.
This put him directly in the crosshairs of Big Tech. Top Trump megadonors, including Marc Andreessen, are spending upwards of $10 million to defeat Alex’s bid to win the primary in NY’s 12th Congressional District which covers Manhattan.
“If they win, they go to every member of Congress and say, ‘Don't you dare regulate AI or we'll make sure you lose your seat,’” Alex Bores told our town hall audience Monday.
“Right now, the decisions about AI are being made by five billionaires instead of the American people,” Bores said. “We the people decide how AI is regulated. But that’s so terrifying to these oligarchs, they started a super PAC to try to make an example of me.”
The primary is on June 23rd, and Our Revolution organizers are making over 145,000 voter contacts by calls, texts, and postcards to get Alex over the finish line.
HOW WE BEAT MIKE LAWLER IN NY
Effie Phillips-Staley, a Tarrytown trustee and candidate for Congress in NY-17, made the case on our call that Democrats don't need to move right to win competitive districts like hers, which is represented by GOP Rep. Mike Lawler.
To flip this critical seat, she argued that Democrats should focus on affordability and economic security.
“When we speak about economic populism, we are speaking to the broadest audience possible,” she said, pointing to housing costs, childcare expenses, healthcare, and stagnant wages as the issues voters raise most often.
Our Revolution’s organizing team is helping Effie get out her message by making over 50,000 voter contacts in the primary!
YUH-LINE NIOU: HOW PROGRESSIVES ARE WINNING
“Even when it feels like we're losing, we've kept winning,” Yuh-Line Niou said on the call. “We elected AOC and stunned the political establishment. Zohran Mamdani stepped up, and again we did what everyone said we couldn’t do: We Won.”
Yuh-Line helped lead efforts to tax the rich and expand tenant protections in the NY Assembly. Now running for State Senate in District 27 in lower Manhattan, she said too many Democratic leaders have lost the political courage to take on billionaires and address the affordability crisis.
Despite being outspent, she knows the path to victory. “We won't be outworked or out-organized.” The Our Revolution organizing team is pitching in to help - we’re on our way to making over 35,000 voter contacts before the June 23rd primary!
Check out our other progressive New York endorsements on our website, including Claire Valdez and Darializa Chevalier who are running for Congress with the backing of Zohran Mamdani.
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THE UTAH PROGRESSIVE FIGHTING DATA CENTERS
Nate Blouin joined our town hall to discuss his campaign for Congress in Utah's 1st District and his fight against the massive data center proposed near the Great Salt Lake. Election Day is coming up quickly on June 23rd.
Endorsed by Bernie, Blouin argued the push for the data center is “at the heart of everything that is wrong with our politics.”
“It is about corruption, environmental degradation, and how bad things happen when we don't shine a light on them,” he said. "People feel left behind, and we need to stand up and fight.”
CALIFORNIA PRIMARY: RESULTS INCOMING
We’re still waiting for results from California’s big election on Tuesday, but as more ballots drop, Tom Steyer is rising in the count for Governor — though he still trails establishment favorite Xavier Becerra and Trump-backed Steve Hilton for the top two spots.
Meanwhile, Jane Kim - a former Bernie campaign veteran - won her primary for state Insurance Commissioner, an office overseeing a $3.3 trillion industry.
She’s proposing bold reforms, including a public single-payer disaster insurance program that would pool premiums publicly and invest in community resilience instead of corporate profits.
Aisha Wahab, our candidate for Congress in CA-14, also won on Tuesday, and now heads to the special election on June 16th to serve the remainder of the term left by disgraced Rep. Eric Swalwell.
Randy Villegas, a Bernie-endorsed organizer in California’s Central Valley, made it through the primary in CA-22 and will now face off against GOP incumbent David Valadao in this critical flippable seat. Watch Randy speak to Our Rev members here!
Mai Vang, a bold progressive Sacramento City Councillor, successfully advanced in her primary in CA-07 and will go head to head against 20-year Democratic incumbent Doris Matsui.
And of course progressive Reps. Ro Khanna and Lateefah Simon won their primaries and are heading to November — with our movement at their backs.
BIG PROGRESSIVE WINS IN NJ & PA
Tuesday's primary elections delivered important wins for the progressive movement outside of California as well.
In New Jersey, community organizer Analilia Mejia and Dr. Adam Hamawy — a trauma surgeon, Army veteran, and public health champion — both advanced after running on people-powered politics over corporate influence.
And, in Montana, Sam Forstag, a smokejumper and union leader, will be the Democratic nominee for Montana’s 1st Congressional District. He did not shrink when taking on corporate landlords, big money or the billionaire class — and he won!
In the Pennsylvania primaries in May, Our Revolution-backed candidates Chris Rabb (PA-03) and Bob Brooks (PA-07) scored major victories.
A 20-year firefighter and union leader, Brooks won by running as a working-class champion focused on affordable healthcare, union jobs, and taking on corporate power — and Rabb's victory in Philadelphia showed the growing strength of bold progressive ideas and people-powered organizing over establishment politics.
WATCH A SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM CHRIS RABB TO THE OUR REVOLUTION FAMILY
As Our Revolution's Executive Director Joseph Geevarghese told the Associated Press, Rabb's win should send a clear message that Democratic voters "want transformational change.”
Donate now to power our grassroots organizing to help these progressives beat MAGA in November.
UPCOMING JUNE PRIMARIES
Now, we get ready for primary elections in June. Election Days are fast approaching and our organizers are busy getting out the vote to get our allies over the finish line.
In Maine, we’re facing off against establishment Democrats who are openly trying to take down Bernie’s 2016 state co-chair Matt Dunlap in the race for Congress in ME-2. Our organizers’ goal is to make over 35,000 calls for Matt ahead of Election Day THIS TUESDAY, June 9th.
And we’re out there organizing for Troy Jackson, a union leader who’s spent decades on the picket line, now running for Governor to finally put working people ahead of big business.
In Colorado, Election Day is June 30th, and we’re backing Melat Kiros against a nearly 30-year establishment incumbent in one of America’s most progressive congressional districts.
Julie Gonzales, a lifelong organizer, is taking on another member of the establishment in the Senate primary, running on a record of lifting up immigrants and workers. See our other Colorado endorsements here.
And in D.C., Election Day is June 16th, and Janeese Lewis George is taking on the establishment for the mayor’s seat where she can fight back against Trump in the nation’s capital.
Our Revolution was by her side when she ran for city council with a vision for true affordability, and won. Now, she’s pledging public-run groceries, universal childcare – and we’re right there with her.
OUR MISSION
Our Revolution is focused on building grassroots power to Fight Trump & the Oligarchs with our 3 Point Strategy:
- Fight Trump’s Oligarch Agenda - from Capitol Hill to City Halls
- Elect Anti-Oligarch Champions up and down the ballot
- Get Oligarch Money out of Politics and uplift the grassroots
We’re halfway through the Democratic primaries, and we hope you’ll join us to make calls to turn out progressive voters to elect these amazing candidates! This is how we build power from the bottom up.
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