Justice Democrats

Justice Democrats is a federal political committee (FEC ID C00630665) that first filed on 9 January 2017 and is registered as a qualified hybrid PAC with a non-contribution account.

Stated mission

The organization states its mission as “to build people power in our country by electing a bloc of working class leaders in Congress who meet the urgency of our political moment and serve the people’s agenda — not the interests of big corporate donors.” It states plainly that “Justice Democrats do not take any corporate PAC or corporate lobbyist money.”

Method

Justice Democrats works through Democratic primaries rather than general elections: it maintains a public nomination form through which supporters put forward candidates, publishes a slate of endorsed candidates and a platform, and raises small-dollar money through ActBlue on their behalf.

Finances

The committee’s receipts have been broadly steady across cycles rather than growing:

Relevance to digital political discourse

The organization’s public nomination form is the mechanism that distinguishes it: candidate sourcing is opened to an online audience rather than conducted through party channels, and the resulting slate is then funded by small-dollar contributions solicited online.