FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sept. 10, 2026
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Zo Tobi • Director of Communications, Movement Voter PAC
press@movement.vote
WASHINGTON – Movement Voter PAC (MVP), the political action committee affiliate of Movement Voter Project, is investing $1 million in Democratic-aligned organizing groups today — the first tranche of a $50 million commitment through 2028 to reform the Democratic Party. This investment comes with the release of “Beyond the Autopsy,” an 8-point reform agenda with strategies sourced from over 100 interviews with operatives, donors, and leaders from across the Democratic coalition, from the DSA to the DNC. This original research is accompanied by new polling from Data for Progress showing voters remain distrustful of Democrats and support proposed changes to party practices. MVP, which dubs itself a “mutual fund for political giving,” has already put $21 million into the 2026 midterms to help Democrats with up and down the ballot.
“After 2024, we started floating the idea with donors and organizers that we should launch a gigantic conversation on how we fix the Democratic Party,” said Billy Wimsatt, MVP’s founder and executive director. “I wanted to get everyone involved: insiders, outsiders, rank and file. One year later, I’m seeing this report as a first step toward a multi-year campaign to create a mandate for sweeping reform.”
Too often, Wimsatt writes, “the Democratic Party feels like a technocratic, top-down, money-driven racket instead of a people-powered, mission-driven vehicle to improve our country.” Now, MVP, which has already moved $21 million this cycle to over 150 year-round organizing groups to help Democrats win the midterms, is aiming to enlist donors, organizers, and party insiders alike to change that.
The Funding
Among the groups receiving the initial $1 million round of funding for reform efforts:
- Battleground Alliance, a coalition organizing to flip the House and hold it long term.
- More Perfect Union Action, which pairs digital storytelling with campaigns to build working-class power.
- Down Home North Carolina, which organizes poor and working-class communities in the state's small towns and rural areas.
- Fair Representation in Redistricting Action, which fights for fair, equitable electoral maps.
“The good news is that so many of the answers are right in front of us, waiting to be funded at scale,” said Kristee Paschall, MVP's national director of civic engagement. “Backing groups like these, now and through 2028, is how we get the Democratic Party that our country desperately needs right now.”
The Polling
To corroborate the insights in its Beyond the Autopsy report, MVP commissioned Data for Progress to survey Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters on the ideas presented. That polling finds just 45% of voters trust the Democratic Party. Other key findings:
- Voters across party identification say billionaires have too much political influence by a margin of 43 points, while working-class Americans have too little influence by a margin of 51 points.
- Democratic-leaning voters expect the DNC to be biased toward corporate PAC- and billionaire-funded candidates in the 2028 primary, by a margin of 13 points.
- The poll finds strong support for anti-corruption reforms in the Democratic Party, including barring consultants from holding DNC contracts while also working for super PACs in Democratic primaries, and cracking down on fundraising scams.
- There is broad enthusiasm for generational change, with 76% favoring mandatory retirement ages for party leaders and officials.
Read the full report at movement.vote/autopsy.
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Movement Voter PAC, the political affiliate of Movement Voter Project, operates like a mutual fund for political giving — raising money from donors and channeling it toward organizing groups that build power and win elections. Learn more at movement.vote.
