Our Strategy Is Working
Dear American Opposition:
Tonight, in Colorado's first congressional district, a twenty-nine-year-old who was pulling espresso shots a year ago defeated a fifteen-term incumbent. Diana DeGette has held that district since 1997. Melat Kiros has been alive for less time than DeGette has been in Congress.
That didn’t matter. The people of Denver chose the fighter.
This is not an isolated upset. It's a pattern, and the pattern is the point: One week ago, establishment incumbents fell in New York. Tonight, another is falling in Colorado.
Across the country, complicit and ineffective Democrats are being replaced by fighters at a scale this party hasn't seen in a generation.
That's not a coincidence. That's momentum. And that momentum has a source: For eighteen months, we told you what we were building. We said that if we put enough people in the street we'd generate a force strong enough to move the ballot itself.
We said the energy wouldn't stay in the marches—it would flow into the primaries and remake this party from the ground up.
They called it a fantasy. Tonight, it's a fact.
Understand what "complicit" means, because they'll pretend not to. It means taking corporate PAC money while calling yourself a champion of working people. It means fighting members of your own party harder than you fight the fascists in government. It means holding a safe seat for thirty years and treating it like an inheritance rather than a trust.
We told you: The people who created the crisis will never end it. Now, one seat at a time, we're ending them.
Hear this clearly, because it's the whole truth of what's happening: This is not the work of one campaign. It is not the work of American Opposition alone. It is the work of a movement—your movement—that we launched and that no one can stop.
We lit the fire. You carried it into every corner of this country. And the replacement of the establishment—which began as a promise we made to you—is now moving on its own momentum.
There are complicit incumbents in safe districts across the nation who woke up this morning certain they were untouchable.
Tonight, they'll lose some sleep over their futures. Good. Let them lie awake. The primaries are where we replace them, and the general is where we retire the regime's enablers for good.
They wanted a nation with a king. We're answering with a nation of fighters.
They don’t stand a chance.
In solidarity,
Carlos Álvarez-Aranyos
Founder, American Opposition
