We are disappointed in the outcomes of the DNC Winter Meeting this morning. From failing to reinstate the ban on corporate lobbyist donations to electing Tom Perez as DNC Chair, the party has failed to hear our concerns. This morning the Democratic Party faced a choice — to reassure the establishment and their corporate donors, or to engage and empower the people they’ve alienated — and they made their choice clear.

At the DNC Winter Meeting, the Democratic Party establishment rejected the opportunity to stand with the grassroots and follow the leadership of the millions of voters joining the resistance to Trump. ​Our message is simple: The Democratic Party cannot continue to choose the entrenched views of the establishment over the demands of the grassroots and expect the base to simply fall in line with an agenda designed by consultants and billionaire donors.

The Democratic Party is severely divided. But the divide is not simply left versus right — it’s top versus bottom. ​The Democratic Party establishment continues to side with billionaire donors and consultants, rather than with working-class people and the grassroots. The Party leadership continues to side with the usual suspects who failed to stop Trump, instead of the millennials leading our movements today. We will continue our fight both inside and outside the Democratic Party for the fundamental rights and dignities that all people of this country need and deserve.

The offer of the Deputy Chair position to Keith Ellison is a clear sign that the Party’s establishment sees the millennial-led progressive insurgency as a growing threat. But it does nothing to change the fact that today’s outcome means Democrats are still unwilling to break with corporate donors and be the unapologetically progressive Party of the People that America needs.

We are the people organizing, marching, canvassing, and phone-banking to create a democracy for all.​ We believe our support should be earned. That’s why we will continue to demand a Democratic Party that can actually be a vehicle for resisting Donald Trump and solving the crises in our country today. We renew our demand for new leadership in the Democratic Party from the local to national level. While the Democratic Party establishment continues to waver and equivocate on how to firmly oppose Trump, we will keep fighting for our country, our communities, and for working-class people whose lives are on the line.

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Sincerely,

Erika Andiola, Political Director, Our Revolution; Dreamer

Nelini Stamp, Working Families Party

Waleed Shahid, #AllofUs

Caleb-Michael Files, Millennials for Revolution; former Digital Director, NextGen Climate North Carolina

Collin Rees, SustainUS & #AllofUs

Maria Langholz, Climate Activist

Yong Jung Cho, #AllofUs

Moumita Ahmed, Co-Founder, Millennials for Revolution; The People for Bernie Sanders

Kai Newkirk, Co-Founder / Mission Director, Democracy Spring

Sean Estelle, Power Shift Network

Charlie Jiang, #AllofUs & 350 DC

Amirah Sequeira, Legislative Advocate, National Nurses United

Dante Barry, Executive Director, Million Hoodies Movement for Justice

Claire Sandberg, former Bernie 2016 Digital Organizing Director; former MoveOn Member Mobilization Director

Sam Ghazey, Knock Every Door; former Bernie 2016 National Organizer; former NextGen Climate

Carli Stevenson, former DNC Platform Committee Member, Indiana

Alison Redford, Member, Democratic Party

Laura Bandara, Volunteer, Action Utah / Salt Lake Indivisible

Ghazal Rahmanpanah, Co-Founder, Now We Rise

Anthony Torres, #AllofUs & SustainUS

Rosie O’Brien, #AllofUs & Real Food Challenge

Kyle Amsler, Interim National Coordinating Committee Member, Democracy Spring

Andrea Perez, Board Member, People’s Progressive Caucus of Miami Dade; Democracy Spring Regional Coordinator

Desiree Kane, National Engagement Director, The People for Bernie Sanders; The Indian Problem

Candice Fortin, Board Member, The Kite Project at Rikers; Democracy Spring &#VoteProChoice

Matthew Creasey, Member, Democratic Party

Ian Schiffer, National Director, Young Progressives Demanding Action

David Robin, Co-Founder, Millennials for Revolution

Rebecca Krasky, Core Member, Fossil Free Macalester

Bob Bland, Co-Chair, Women’s March on Washington

Joe Dinkin, National Communications Director, Working Families Party

Kyle Machado, Director of Organizing, Our Revolution; former Bernie 2016

Sam Miller McDonald, Managing Editor, ActivistLab.org; University of Oxford

Eli Shepherd, Divest Grinnell Organizer, Grinnell College Student Action

Morgan A. Johnson, Co-Founder, Young Progressives Demanding Action

Zachary Jones, Vice President, 350 Stevens Point

Ethan Fox, Digital Organizer, Millennials for Revolution

Justin Jacoby Smith, Digital Organizer, Democracy

Nikhil Goyal, Author & Public Education Activist

My-Linh Vo, Millennials for Revolution

Adam Hasz, Cambridge Advocacy Coordinator, Fossil Free MIT; MIT Democrats

Zackary Reinhardt, Leadership Council, Michigan for Revolution; Millennials for Revolution

Sara Anderson, Independent

Nick Guthman, former President, American University College Democrats

Halee Kirkwood, Volunteer, Boneshaker Books

Elana Levin, Co-Founder, Organizing 2.0; Jewish People of the 17th New York State Senate District against Trump

Jon Mermelstein, Binghamton Progressives

Avery Raines, SustainUS & #AllofUs

Jake Soiffer, California Trade Justice Coalition

Courtney Jines, Organizer, The Future Is Feminist; Filmmaker

Adam Wilkes, Volunteer, Citizen Action of New York – Southern Tier

Pamela Linares, Volunteer, Alianzas

Hayden Higgins, DC Divest

Rosalie Yelen, Volunteer Organizer, Long Island Activists; MoveOn & Action Together Long Island

Kenneth Shelton Jr., Community Organizer, Black Lives Matter of Greater New York

Aurora Adachi-Winter, Organizer & Activist

Kevin Chavus, Executive Board Member, SEIU Local 26; Our Revolution — Twin Cities

Jody Lee, Volunteer, NYPVAN; Working Families Party

Charlie Furman, People’s Climate Movement

Mark Olivares, Organizer & Activist

Natalie Hoidal, Asylum Center Garden Coordinator, Red Cross

Maxwell Love, former President, U.S. Student Association; Our Wisconsin Revolution

Skeeter Ezell, Member, Democratic Party

Ricardo Williams, Lead Organizer, Orlando for Revolution; Orange County Democratic Party

Ray Uyeda, former Field Organizer, Hillary For America

Quinn Dunlea, Teaching Assistant, American University Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department; AU Resist

Bailey Grebbin, Board Member, Vermont Student Power Network

Aurin Chowdhury, Co-Founder & Event Coordinator, Women for Political Change

Yaz Najeebi, Executive Director, Vermont Student Power Network; Power Shift Network

Sarah Fadem, Energy Independence Campaign Director, Vermont Student Power Network; Our Climate & Energy Independent Vermont

Trey Bowman, Operations Director, Vermont Student Power Network

Zack Mezera, Executive Director, Providence Student Union

Kaitlyn Lafferty, Green Party

Allison Bohr, Independent

Alina Tomeh, Organizer & Activist

Kyle de Beausset, Citizen Orange

Lindsay Meiman, U.S. Communications Coordinator, 350.org & 350 Action

Elana Sulakshana, Columbia Divest for Climate Justice

Jean Thomas, Executive Board Member, Washington State Progressive Caucus

Ben Goloff, SustainUS

Aaron Johnson-Ortiz, Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha; Artist

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