The Justice Democrats, the group behind many of the insurgent progressive Democratic challengers who pulled off shocking upsets in recent years, are putting the party’s establishment on notice, telling Salon that they intend to back primary challengers in the 2026 midterms.

In the wake of the Democrats' total collapse in the 2024 election, losing the House, the Senate and the presidency, the party has erupted into infighting between its establishment and and more populist wings.

Usamah Andrabi, a spokesman for the group, told Salon that “it’s time to clean up shop in the Democratic Party frankly” and that “progressives and the left warned” about the looming failure for Democrats “for months and years prior.”

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“Every district that is a deep blue Democratic district has no excuse to not represent the needs of working-class people,” Andrabi said. “Every district that is a deep blue seat we are looking at to see if the communities in that district are being served by people in that district.”

The group first grabbed national attention in 2018 when Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., defeated former Rep. Joe Crowley, D-N.Y., in the Democratic primary in what was then New York’s 14th District. The primary upset was viewed as a political earthquake at the time as........

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