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Missouri Endorsements 2024

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Missouri slate endorsement

In Missouri Our Revolution has an amazing slate of progressives that includes Crystal Quade for Governor to seats in the State House and St. Louis Committee — and, of course, Congresswoman Cori Bush!

We’ve been proud to help grow progressive power in the state, including a progressive governing majority in St. Louis with Our Revolution Board Member Megan Green leading the Board of Aldermen.

Thanks to progressive voters like you and the hard work of local progressive leaders and organizers, cities like St. Louis have delivered real changetaking on big developers, growing labor power, and starting a universal basic income pilot program.

Now, we’ve got to protect and expand the gains we’ve made — and that starts with voting for this inspiring slate of candidates and re-electing one of our most formidable partners in Congress.

Cori Bush has been a fearless champion for peace, racial justice, and working people. After she introduced a ceasefire resolution, Big Money started pouring into the primary in a brazen effort to unseat her.

But, the progressive movement is rallying behind Cori to make sure we keep her voice in Congress, where she is fighting every day to deliver for us — she helped pass $100 million for renewable energy and has brought more than $2 billion back to Missouri’s 1st District.

“If we want a brighter future for our country and our world, we need to make change that people can feel,” Cori told us. “We build power by getting more of us in there who are willing to put our minds, our bodies and our reputations on the line to deliver equity and justice for our communities.”

It’s time for a progressive Governor that serves the people of Missouri! We hope you’ll join Our Revolution to help elect Crystal Quade — a leader in the State House on some of Missouri’s most important fights to restore our abortion rights, stand up to corporate special interests, and stop China and Russia from buying up farmland and squeezing out local farmers.

Crystal understands our struggles. She grew up on a gravel road in rural Missouri and was the first person in her family to graduate from high school, and became the Democratic Leader of the Missouri House of Reps.

Now, she’s running for Governor to take on extremists like Jay Ashcroft, who will ban abortion and give more tax breaks to the wealthiest and most privileged families like the ones they grew up in.

Our Revolution is proudly backing Ben Murray for State Rep in District 80! Ben has worked hard on behalf of progressive candidates and causes in Missouri for over 20 years (including Jason Kander and Our Rev Board Member Megan Green!).

As a Legislative Assistant in the State House, Ben has helped craft legislation and serve the needs of constituents. He enjoys comics and is a part owner of Apotheosis Comics on South Grand!

Ben is determined to make a difference on gun reform, environment, worker rights, LGBTQ+ racial justice, and so much more — including fixing the broken Missouri Legislature! The current majority is unable to pass even broadly popular measures, and Ben will work to give citizens a direct voice by protecting the Initiative Petition Process.

And we’re endorsing Bill Stephens for Missouri State House to bring people-focused representation to District 81.

A pro-choice rights ally and LGBTQ+ rights activist, Bill sponsored and passed resolutions for LGBTQ+ recognition and reproductive healthcare safety 12th Ward Alderman for the City of St. Louis.

He grew up the son of a union steelworker and learned the value of public service from his grandfather and the firefighter community. “I’m running for State Rep because I understand what our community faces. I understand struggle and the painful emotions that come with it. In short, I understand because I am the people I represent.”

For House District 78, we are excited to endorse Marty Murray for State Rep! Marty has been an educator and organizer for social issues, from raising the minimum wage to reproductive rights and criminal justice reform.

In August 2016, Marty beat a 23-year incumbent for the 7th ward Democratic Committeeman seat. In the State House, he will prioritize the expansion of Medicaid and believes “healthcare is a human right in our society.”

Marty is committed to winning campaign finance reform and reversing Missouri’s cruel abortion ban. He will champion affordable housing initiatives and seeks to address the root causes of homelessness. And with a focus on restorative justice, Marty will sponsor legislation that remove barriers to employment for individuals with criminal records.

For St. Louis Sheriff, Our Revolution is proudly backing Alfred Montgomery! Alfred has worked closely with youth and on poverty initiatives and now he’s running for sheriff to build a community that thrives on trust, transparency, and unity.

Alfred knows that the root of crime in St. Louis is high poverty and trauma. He plans to create a re-entry program to help exited offenders with training and employment goals to prevent them from becoming repeated offenders.

And last but not least! Our Revolution supports Mike Gras for St. Louis Committeeman in Ward 9.

Mike is a lawyer and former member of the St. Louis Board of Aldermen, who will be a champion for democracy, housing, reproductive rights, and top notch education for every child in the city.

We have much more good work to do in Missouri! Be sure to check your registration, request a ballot or find your in person early voting site here, and remind your friends and family to get out to vote.

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Our Revolution Endorses AOC

By Progressive Champions

Our Revolution is once again endorsing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for re-election to Congress in NY-14!

AOC continues to be a powerful voice for our progressive priorities from ending student debt to Medicare for All to the Green New Deal. 

She has been an outspoken advocate for a Ceasefire and Peace in Gaza. Right wing and corporate money pouring into the race, it’s critical that our grassroots movement do everything we can to keep her in office!

Victory for Summer Lee!

By Progressive Champions

Congrats to U.S. Rep. Summer Lee! Summer is the first pro-Ceasefire member of Congress to face a serious big money-powered challenger this election cycle — and she just won her primary by a landslide with the grassroots at her back!

Summer Lee’s overwhelming victory on Tuesday shows that we CAN stand up for Peace in Gaza and defeat the Big Money attacks that come our way.  

Our Revolution is proud to stand with Summer, and we’re READY to take on the same forces to re-elect Jamaal Bowman, Ilhan Omar, Pramila Jayapal, Cori Bush, and all of our Peace champions in Congress!

Help Our Revolution fund our phone bank and texting force to elect more great progressives like this across the country in 2024!

2024 Defending Progressive Power

By Progressive Champions

Defend Progressive Power

Our movement worked hard to elect the largest Congressional Progressive Caucus in history. Now, we must defend these seats against rightwing lobbyists like AIPAC, set to spend $100 million trying to unseat some of our strongest voices for Peace in Congress.

That’s why Our Revolution is proud to re-endorse US Reps. Pramila Jayapal (WA-7), Rashida Tlaib (MI-12), Delia Ramirez (IL-3), Ayanna Pressley (MA-7), Jamaal Bowman (NY-16), Summer Lee (PA-12), Ilhan Omar (MN-05), and Cori Bush (MO-1) in 2024!

Holding these seats will be critical to our inside-outside strategy for change. These progressive leaders have been champions, not only for Peace in Gaza, but for climate, housing, immigration, racial justice and more. 

Together, we have more work to do! Chip in to our 2024 Progressive Power Fund to help us out-organize big money and re-elect our top progressive allies in Congress. 

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Bernie Sanders Endorses Susheela Jayapal

By Progressive Champions

Sen. Bernie Sanders has joined us in endorsing Susheela Jayapal for Congress because she is a powerful voice for abortion rights, Medicare for All, peace, democracy, wages, housing, climate, and more.

Now, Sen. Jeff Merkley has spoken out against the dark money pouring into Oregon’s 3rd District:  “I strongly condemn the dark money campaign underway to smear Susheela Jayapal and any other dark money campaigns that are underway or planned,” he said.

More than $3 million is being spent on attack ads against Susheela and to prop up her opponent, Portland Mercury reported, but she has people power at her back. Susheela and her sister, Pramila Jayapal, were joined by the grassroots to knock more than 2,000 doors last weekend alone.

“Democratic voters here have made it very clear they don’t want AIPAC and MAGA money interfering in their primaries,” Andrea Cervone, Jayapal’s campaign manager, said.

Read the full story by The Intercept on how AIPAC money is targeting Susheela Jayapal in this critical congressional race here.

Susheela is an AIPAC target, just like Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Jamaal Bowman, and Pramila, because she has spoken out for the human rights of Palestinians — and stands against corporate power. 

Like Bernie said this week: “The billionaires who fund these SuperPACs are not only concerned about protecting Israel’s right to do whatever it wants, but also about protecting corporate interests.”

“And you have a lot of wonderful members of the House of Representatives, who have stood up for the working class, have taken on corporate interests, and have also expressed their deep concern with what Israel is doing in Gaza,” Bernie continued. “What you’re seeing, and this is the corruption of the American political system.”

He rightly points out that these are some of the best people in Congress, adding: “I’m going to do my best to protect them and defend them.” We here at Our Revolution completely agree, and will be working overtime to protect elected progressives under attack.

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Reject AIPAC Coalition Battling $100M Aimed at Progressives

By Homepage, Progressive Champions, Take Action

AIPAC plans to spend $100 MILLION to try to unseat pro-Peace progressives this election year — and it’s already getting started with Congresswoman Summer Lee’s primary for re-election less than one month out.

Our Revolution is partnering with more than a dozen organizations nationwide as part of a new Reject AIPAC coalition to fight back. Voters must know AIPAC is as toxic as the NRA.

AIPAC and its GOP megadonors have no place spending millions in Democratic primaries & lobbying against Palestinian lives. Join our movement!

Our Revolution Chair Larry Cohen has signed on with Jewish Americans Opposing AIPAC with a mission to “support candidates who are opposed by AIPAC and who are advocates for peace and a new, just US policy toward Israel/Palestine,” The Nation reports.

Support our work with a $10 one-time gift or $5 monthly donation and get your “Reject AIPAC” sticker to spread solidarity in the fight against this toxic right-wing lobbying group!

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Susheela Jayapal for Congress

By Progressive Champions

Our Revolution is proud to endorse Susheela Jayapal for Congress in Oregon’s 3rd Congressional District, and we Bernie Sanders has joined us in supporting her in this race!

Susheela, a mother of two, has been an outspoken champion for reproductive rights, education, and economic justice.

Prior to entering elected office, she was a dedicated community advocate and volunteer, serving on numerous local boards, including Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette, Metropolitan Family Service, and All Hands Raised; and as an advocate with CASA for Children among others.

Susheela most recently served as the Multnomah County Commissioner, where she has been a fierce advocate for her work supporting survivors of domestic violence and sex trafficking as well as finding real solutions to the homelessness crisis.

Creating more affordable housing, long term rent assistance, behavioral health services, standing with workers to fight for a living wage and has increased support for immigrant and refugee communities.

In Congress, Susheela will continue to be a strong progressive voice, fighting for the health and safety of our community, championing abortion rights, taking on big polluters and fighting climate change, and standing up to election deniers to defend our democracy.

Thanks to the work of Our Revolution members and our progressive movement, we now have the largest Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) in history!

Endorsing Susheela Jayapal and helping to get her elected in Oregon’s 3rd Congressional District is an opportunity to make our progressive voting bloc in the U.S. House even stronger.

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What’s next for Team Lee

By Progressive Champions

Barbara Lee didn’t get across the finish line, but our work for her Senate campaign was not in vain.  Every vote for Barbara was a vote for the Peace Candidate in this race. 

Our supporters and volunteers reached out with approximately 2 MILLION voter contacts, and we were joined along the way by Ro Khanna, Pramilia Jayapal, Rashida Tlaib, Cori Bush and other progressive leaders to lift up Barbara and our issue priorities for Peace, healthcare for all, environmental justice, housing, and much more.

We accomplished a lot in face of big money headwinds and the party machine backing Adam Schiff. It’s unfortunate that Schiff used his plentiful resources to elevate two-time Trump voter and Republican opponent Steve Garvey — a strategy that may have backfired now that the two are neck-and-neck for the general election in November.

“Despite being heavily outspent by my opponents, our values never wavered,” Barbara said. “In every step of this campaign, we never backed down from our progressive vision, and worked relentlessly to build a coalition that represents communities that too often are not afforded a seat at the table.”

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Getting Out the Vote in California

By Homepage, Progressive Champions

This week, Our Revolution kicked off the start of early voting in California by hosting a LIVE virtual GOTV event with U.S. Reps. Barbara Lee, Ro Khanna, and Ayanna Pressley, and congressional candidate Lateefah Simon!

Ballots are arriving in mailboxes, and we’re mobilizing to get out the vote on behalf of powerful progressive slates across the state with candidates for Congress, critical state and local offices, and Democratic committee seats to help transform the party.

We’ve endorsed a total of 95 progressive candidates in California, and we’re activating our grassroots army to power our massive GOTV operation – from calling and texting to knocking doors.

Our Revolution organizers and volunteers have already made 1 million voter contacts into California. Help us reach our goal of making another 1 million before voting ends on March 5th.

Barbara Lee told us Monday how much love she is feeling from the progressive movement in this final stretch of her campaign for Senate.

“We got the highest vote in the convention because of all of you, and we’re going to take the top two on March 5th because of this multiracial, multigenerational coalition,” she said.

“In the Senate, I’m going to take on the challenge of forging peace,” Barbara stated. She was the first to call for a ceasefire in this race because she understands the humanitarian catastrophe taking place in Gaza.

“Peace, poverty, climate, making billionaires pay their fair share — these are the progressive issues that need a bigger megaphone in the U.S. Senate,” she said. 

She reminded voters that they’ll need to vote for her twice: once to serve the remainder of the term left by the late Dianne Feinstein, and once to serve the full 6-year term beginning in 2025. (Yes, this is legal and correct!)

Our Revolution is also proud to join Barbara Lee in endorsing Lateefah Simon to succeed her as the Congresswoman from District 12.

Lateefah is a veteran organizer and nationally recognized advocate for civil rights and social justice. Having lost her husband, she’s committed to single-payer healthcare for all.

She is also a strong advocate for reducing military spending, putting peace first, and lifting up priorities of housing, reproductive justice, and more. 

As Barbara said, “Lateefah is from the community and for the community.”

“From her work supporting young women and trans youth to fighting to make public transit more affordable, she is a fierce advocate and proven leader,” Barbara continued. “It’s my honor to pass the blue baton to Lateefah.”

Lateefah told us Monday that during her 30 years of organizing, Barbara Lee has been a close mentor and she’s honored to follow in her footsteps.

“Congresswoman Barbara Lee’s legacy and decades of service to the people of our district are incomparable,” said Lateefah. “She has been a voice for moral clarity in Congress and boldly represented the progressive values of this district.”

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U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna, who is chairing Barbara’s campaign, spoke to us Monday about the dire need for her strong antiwar voice in the Senate.

“Barbara Lee would make a difference on Day 1 to get equal human rights for Palestinians and make sure we don’t get into another war in the Middle East,” Ro said.

“She is a true fighter for transformative change — for racial justice and reproductive rights, for Medicare for All and housing policy and a living wage,” he continued.

Ro said there are still around 30% of voters still undecided in California about the Senate race. “I know that she can win this campaign. If we’re active, if we’re mobilized, she can be in the top two, and that difference is going to be all of us.”

U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley was celebrating her birthday when she joined our GOTV Call Monday night to root on her mentor Barbara Lee.

Last time Ayanna was on our call was in September, when she announced her endorsement for Barbara Lee for Senate alongside fellow progressive Congress members like Cori Bush, Pramila Jayapal, Rashida Tlaib, Mark Pocan, and others. 

There’s a reason not only the grassroots but progressive leadership are all in for Barbara Lee:

“Barbara is the OG. She gets things done. She has courage and the strength of her convictions,” Ayanna said. “I’m so grateful for her example. She’s an icon, a mentor… she has blazed a trail! The whole country would benefit from a Senator Barbara Lee.”

Fatima Iqbal-Zubair serves as the Progressive Caucus Chair for the California Democratic Party – the largest progressive caucus in the country.

She knows the importance of mobilizing progressives – not just to vote, but to get active in getting candidates like Barbara across the finish line. 

“We need folks making calls, knocking on doors — that’s how we win, people power,” Fatima said. “Barbara came in first at the CA Democratic Convention because progressive delegates organized.”

“I support Barbara Lee for Senate because she is a true progressive who has always stood with the most marginalized,” she said. “We need progressives to turn out and work for Barbara and all the way down ballot as well.”

Organized people can beat organized money, and these races are going to come down to our grassroots power. Pitch in today to fuel our GOTV operation in 2024.

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Contra Costa County Progressive Power Slate

By Progressive Champions

Our Revolution is building progressive power in Contra Costa County and statewide in California! That’s why we’ve endorsed Barbara Lee for U.S. Senate, and are working to elect an exciting slate of progressives across Contra Costa County. 

In addition to electing progressive champions to the California Assembly and building a progressive majority on Contra Costa City Council, we want to transform the California Democratic Party from the inside out with many endorsements of progressive champions running for seats on the Democratic Party of Contra Costa County Central Committee!

Elected Offices

Jovanka Beckles

for CA Senate District 7

Marisol Rubio

for CA Senate District 9

Monica Wilson

for CA Assembly District 15

Democratic Party of Contra Costa County Central Committee

Cameron Sasai

(District 1)

Jamin Pursell

(District 1)

Devin T. Murphy

(District 1)

Marisol Rubio

(District 2)

Alexandria Marisol Rubio-Talavera

(District 2)

Leslie Baxter

(District 4)

Michelle Simone

(District 4)

Ena Silva

(District 4)

Laura Patch

(District 4)

What's at Stake

Winning this slate of seats is essential in protecting working people of the district. These progressives are working together to win a majority on the County Central Committee, which will ensure endorsement of the best candidates and adoption of better policy positions.

How to Vote

Vote By Mail – Ballots will begin arriving by mail around Feb 5th. To be counted, ballots must be dropped off at drop boxes no later than 8 pm on March 5th or sent via U.S. mail and postmarked no later than March 5th.

Vote Early In Person – Begins Feb 24th at Vote Centers.

Election Day – The last day to return your ballots or vote in person. All Vote Center locations are open on Election Day March 5th from 7am to 8pm.

More information about voting is available here.

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