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WAR: DCCC Freezes Out ‘Progressive’ Campaign Consultants, So They’ve Started Their Own ‘Blacklist’

Emily Zanotti

The campaign consultants behind Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) meteoric rise to national prominence want to extend their “progressive primary” crusade to every Democratic House race in the country, but the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is standing in their way.

But Justice Democrats, the controversial operation behind Ocasio-Cortez’s win — the same group that has now been hit with several FEC complaints over how it mixed its money with Cortez’s campaign coffers — is fighting back and threatening to declare open war within the Democratic party if they aren’t allowed to take on existing moderate candidates.

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