Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) has named Saikat Chakrabarti as her Chief of Staff. Before joining Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign, Chakrabarti served as Co-Founder and Executive Director of Justice Democrats – a PAC that doesn’t accept corporate donations. They joined with Brand New Congress, a PAC also co-founded by Chakrabarti, and set out to create a left-wing populist movement starting with the 2018 midterms. Together, they aimed to recruit 400 candidates by asking people to nominate individuals from their own communities – party affiliation didn’t matter; candidates had to want health care for all, a living wage, and to want money not to rule all in politics.
They woke up