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Funding
What type of organization is Justice Democrats?
Justice Democrats is a federal political action committee. We are required to be a PAC to accept donations and spend money toward electing federal candidates. PACs have a maximum contribution limit of $5,000 and must report all donations and expenditures. This is not a SuperPAC, but a plain old regular PAC. You can learn more about PACs at http://fec.gov. The PAC uses donation money to hire staff that recruits and trains candidates, runs all Justice Democrats social media, send e-mails to the Justice Democrats e-mail list, manage the Justice Democrats website, answer all incoming e-mails to our help desk, create videos and other design assets that are used to promote Justice Democrats policies and candidates, handle inbound and outbound press communications, and also any other work involved with promoting Justice Democrats candidates as well as Justice Democrats issues. In addition to simply promoting candidates, Justice Democrats PAC also promotes issues. For example, we worked with the National Nurses United to pressure over 45 Democrats to co-sponsor Medicare-for-all in the House, getting H.R. 676 up to 121 co-sponsors -- the most it has ever received. Justice Democrats PAC has a board consisting of Kyle Kulinski, Zack Exley and Cenk Uygur that has legal control over the entity and the executive director of Justice Democrats is Saikat Chakrabarti. None of these people take any compensation from Justice Democrats.
One of Justice Democrats' goals is to get everyday, working people into Congress. Many of these people don't have a lot of campaign experience, and so in addition to endorsing candidates, Justice Democrats can help nascent campaigns get off the ground by providing a variety of campaign services directly to campaigns. These services includes a distributed field program in which candidates can opt-in to get access to an auto-dialer for voter contact, a texting tool for event turnout, a volunteer portal, and other general help on their field program. We also help candidates with recruiting campaign managers, message training, press, creative work, and a host of other services that campaigns require. The FEC requires that we charge campaigns money for any direct campaign services we do (otherwise, the service would count as a donation to the campaign), so we do these services at-cost to us, making no profit. By creating a scalable infrastructure that candidates can use to run their campaigns, we are able to start creating a party-like infrastructure that not only endorses and fundraises for candidates, but also provides them with the tools and people necessary to run a successful campaign.
Do you have a dollar amount cap on donations from any one individual?
Yes, it is the federal limit of $5,000.
Do you accept Dark Money? Will you be disclosing all donations?
Our designation as a Federal PAC does not allow us to receive anonymous or unlimited donations. Not only are we required by law to disclose all donors, but our platform is fundamentally opposed to corporate influence in American elections and pay-to-play politics in any form.
Who are the major funders?
The American people, with an average donation of $18.
Will The Young Turks receive any percentage of Justice Democrats donations?
No, 100% of donations will be used to build and run congressional campaigns.
Where can I go to see a list of your donors?
The Federal Election Commission posts all campaign filings publicly so you will be able (after the first filing is made) to review donor information here.
https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00630665/
