Our Mission

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NO TO AIPAC is a proposal to expand the current organizing work into a broader, national coalition deidcated to reclaiming democratic integrity within the U.S. political system. This initiative builds upon existing efforts to confront the disproportionate influence of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and its dark-money network in shaping U.S. elections and policy. By aligning progressive, faith-based, labor, youth, and veteran movements under one coordinated campaign, NO TO AIPAC seeks to transform widespread voter frustration into collective political power. The xpansion of this campaign is both a moral and strategic imperative–one rooted in the growing recognition that democracy itself is at stake when foreign policy and domestic representation are dictated by billionaire donors and unaccountable lobbies.

The goal of this expansion is to consolidate the emerging consensus across the Democratic base that unconditional military support for Israel and corporate-funded electoral manipulation are incompatible with the values of justice, accountability, and representative democracy. Over 70 percent of Democratic voters now oppose U.S. complicity in Israel's ongoing assault on Gaza and believe the party must distance itself from war profiteers and dark-money influence. NO TO AIPAC is designed to channel this energy into a structured, national campaign that unites voters, organizers, and elected officials around a single message: Reclaim Our Democracy.

The vision of NO TO AIPAC is expansive yet focused. It calls for a mass, intersectional movement that re-centers democratic participation, advances justice-based policy, and builds broad alliances across generational and ideological lines. This coalition seeks to ensure that Democratic primaries reflect the will of Democratic voters rather than Republican megadonors and foreign lobbying interests. By building relationships among young voters, communities of color, faith-based groups, labor unions, veterans, and LGBTQ+ organizations, the campaign aims to create a durable infrastructure of accountability and civic engagement.

Strategically, the expansion will proceed along four integrated fronts. First, coalition-building: extending outreach beyond progressive organizations to include labor federations, civil rights networks, and interfaith partners who share a commitment to democratic reform. Second, the pledge: developing clear commitments for candidates and elected officials at federal, state, and local levels to reject AIPAC contributions and affirm a foreign policy grounded in human rights and restraint. Third, mass mobilization: creating a national voter education initiative that exposes AIPAC's role in funneling Republican money into Democratic races and mobilizes communities in key primary state. Fourth, narrative intervention: reframing opposition to AIPAC as part of the broader struggle to reclaim democracy from corporate and dark-money control, positioning the campaign alongside parallel efforts for economic and racial justice.

Polling data underscores the timeliness of this effort. Surveys from Data for Progress, Brookings, Quinnipiac, and Gallup throughout 2025 demonstrate that between 75 and 84 percent of Democratic voters supports a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and opposite additional U.S. military aid to Israel. These findings reveal a base that has moved well ahead of party leadership on questions of war, peace, and moral accountability. This dissonance between voters and institutional power provides the opening for NO TO AIPAC to redefine what Democratic legitimacy looks like in the twenty-first century.

Potential coalition members include organizations that have already played vital roles in this ecosystem, such as Reject AIPAC, AIPAC Tracker, AIPAC Out, Organize for Peace, and J Street. They are joined by national allies like Justice Democrats, the Working Families Party, Jewish Voice for Peace Action, IfNotNow, the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights Action, Sunrice Movement, Common Defense, the Democratic Socialists of America, Our Revolution, and the Center for Popular Democracy Action. Additional outreach is underway to labor unions (SEIU, UAW, AFT, National Nurses United, UNITE HERE), civil rights groups (NAACP, Color of Change, Black Voters Matter), faith-based networks (Sojourners, Muslim Advocates, T'ruah, Faith in Action), veterans' organizations (VoteVets, About Face: Veterans Against the War, Veterans for Peace), and youth-led movemements (Students for Justice in Palestine, March of Our Lives, Young Democratic Socialists of America, United We Dream). Each of these organizations represents a constituency that is already aligned with the campaign's democratic, anti-war, and anti-corruption principles.

This convergence is not accidental but emergent. Across the political spectrum of the Democratic base, there is growing awareness that AIPAC's financial strategy undermines not only Palestinian rights but the very structure of representative governance in the United States. The unchecked flow of dark money into primaries, couples with bipartisan silence around war crimes, has exposed a legitimacy crisis within the party itself. NO TO AIPAC offers a coordinated framework for addressing this crisis–not through partisanship, but through collective accountability and grassroots power.

Timing is critical. With the 2026 election cycle approaching, the next twelve months offer an unparalleled opportunity to expand and formalize the coalition. Immediate next steps include convening a NO TO AIPAC National Assembly of existing partners and prospective allies, finalizing a public launch strategy for the renewed pledge, and investing in digital and organizing infrastructure that can sustain nationwide action. These efforts will be complemented by a targeted narrative campaign to reinforce public understanding of AIPAC's bipartisan influence and its incompatability with democratic governance.

The expansion of NO TO AIPAC is not merely a tactical escalation–it is an ethical necessity. In an era defined by surveillance, militarization, and political capture, reclaiming democracy requires confronting the financial architectures that sustain inequality and war. By transforming outrage into organization, and visibility into political leverage, this campaign can help shift the moral and strategic center of the Democratic Party toward transparency, justice, and accountability.

NO TO AIPAC is, at its core, an invitation–to voters, organizers, and elected officials–to participate in the collective project of democratic renewal. It affirms that the struggle for justice abroad is inseparable from the struggle for democracy at home. Through coalition-building, political education, and sustained mobilization, NO TO AIPAC can serve as both a moral stance and a practical stategy to reclaim our democracy from dark money and entrenched power.