Hi Friends,

We've just released our new report: Bad Blues 2026.

In it we detail the outrages committed by six Democrats in the House who deserve to be primaried by progressive challengers. One of them is Joe Morelle of New York's twenty-fifth district. We've pasted his profile into this email below, which you should feel free to share.

You can read the full report here.

Congressman Joe Morelle is a member of the corporate-allied New Democrat Coalition. He has acted with most Republicans and against most Democrats nine times when Democrats could have prevailed had they all voted together, eight times by voting with the Republicans and once by not voting.

Morelle has taken in more than $500,000 in his career from groups promoting the agenda of the Israeli government, including AIPAC. Thus far in the current election cycle, he has taken in $1,312,762 from all sources, with AIPAC his top organizational funder, and the top industries paying his way being finance, insurance, and real estate.

Morelle has supported shipping weapons to Israel during the civilian slaughter in Gaza. In 2021, he signed an AIPAC-organized letter to then-Secretary of State Antony Blinken attempting to impede restoration of an Iran nuclear deal. The absence of a deal has led to Trump’s war, but Morelle has been unclear on whether he would support more billions in war spending.

In 2025, Morelle was one of 46 Democrats who voted for the Laken Riley Act that empowered Homeland Security to detain people accused of any crime, even shoplifting. In 2020, he voted to reauthorize warrantless government surveillance powers.

Despite declaring on his campaign website that "universal access to health care is a fundamental human right," Morelle has not cosponsored Medicare for All legislation. In a 2019 congressional hearing, Morelle raised "concerns" about "disruptions in the marketplace," and the taxes and costs associated with transitioning to Medicare for All.

While questioning the costs of Medicare for All, and failing to cosponsor the Green New Deal resolution, Morelle has routinely voted in favor of big military spending increases and against amendments to cut the Pentagon budget even by a mere 10%.

Morelle claims to support impeaching Trump, but says he needs to wait for the Democratic "leadership" to agree first.

A dramatically more inspiring candidate is longtime progressive activist Robin Wilt, who is running against Morelle in the primary.

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