“Thank you to all of our members, leaders, and volunteers who supported our work this primary, fighting to elect Black progressive power locally and statewide. While we didn’t get all the results we were looking for, there is much to celebrate. And we wouldn’t be able to celebrate without your work!”

“The results of our final round of member endorsement vote for the 2023 Primary are in! Hundreds of  Reclaim’s dues paying members have chosen to endorse an additional candidate for City Council and a slate of judges for Municipal Court. “ click to read full blog!

Reclaim’s Steering Committee recommends this first round of municipal endorsements due to the overwhelming support we’ve heard from members including through our recent member survey. We plan to interview a second round of candidates for potential endorsement in Spring of 2023.

Since DA Krasner was elected we’ve seen 25 people exonerated who would have still been in prison to this day and relieved the prison population of more than 28,000 years. We need to keep families together, high-quality educational opportunities regardless of finances or ability, and community-enriching criminal justice reform. We need our local democratic process to be respected at every level of government and the power to make our own legislation to keep our communities safe and thriving.

“Our candidates faced organized bankrolled resistance: conservative Republican donors like Jeffrey Yass colluding with the Democratic machine, anti-education interests attacking our communities and fighting to silence us. But overwhelmingly across the entire city, our movement of working people of all races in all places was not defeated.”

At stake in this election is the future of how we deal with harm in our city — will we go back to the values of racist sentencing and mass incarceration or will we continue to move boldly towards justice that works for all of us?

Reclaim Philadelphia’s Steering Committee asks that you join us in supporting our endorsed candidates for District Attorney, Court of Common Pleas, and Municipal Court this Tuesday, November 2, 2021. We’ve also detailed some recommendations for our members in races where our members haven’t endorsed and for the ballot questions.