They should state their un-endorsement explicitly and explain their reasons for it
By Roberta Millstein
As I documented in a past article, Eric Jones is not a progressive. Now it seems that Our Revolution, which Wikipedia calls “an American progressive political action organization founded as a continuation of Senator Bernie Sanders’s 2016 presidential campaign,” has finally figured out the same thing. Having previously endorsed Eric Jones in his run to unseat Mike Thompson in CA-04, Our Revolution seems to have quietly withdrawn that endorsement.
I want to be clear: this is not a critique of Our Revolution. I consider myself to be a progressive and I generally support their mission. I contributed to Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaigns, voted for him twice, displayed the swag. But organizations can make mistakes. So it is no surprise to me that they would withdraw their endorsement once that they had the complete picture of who Jones is.
Readers of the series I wrote during the primary should be familiar with all of the following: Jones is a former partner of the AI/crypto/high tech investing venture capitalist firm, Dragoneer Investment Group, and he still has a financial interest in it. Not only did he dump millions of his own money into the campaign, but his former billionaire Dragoneer colleagues and other high tech executives have also dumped in millions of dollars in direct donations and, to skirt campaign limits, a Super PAC that has thus far only contributed to Jones (with, we have recently learned, some “red boxed” communications on Jones’s website). That’s a boatload of money for a congressional race, all closely tied to AI, crypto, and other high tech ventures. The money gives every reason to think that Jones would fight against regulating the AI industry and environmentally-damaging data centers that AI and crypto rely on (that’s a whole topic in itself — more on that in a future article).
Jones’s campaign is opposed to central planks of Our Revolution. Our Revolution wants to defund oligarchy. They are concerned about crypto money buying elections — AI money too. They want to stop destructive data centers. Even Fox News has noticed the discrepancy. So why did they endorse him in the first place? I don’t know, but here is some of the “paper trail” showing the endorsement and then the apparent withdrawal of the endorsement.
I believe the endorsement first appeared on March 7, 2026; that page is still up on the Our Revolution website. It mistakenly touts things like his “people-powered campaign” and his goal of “getting corporate money out of politics” — as we have seen, anything but! For a while, they had him listed on their “Our Champions” page, as this page on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine shows, but he is no longer listed there; the Internet Archive shows that his name was removed from that page sometime before July 7. There was a profile page for Jones on Our Revolution’s website, but that is also gone, with the page now (Aug 5) returning a “404: Page Not Found” error:
For some reason, the announcements of his endorsement on Facebook and Instagram have yet to be removed, but hopefully that is just an oversight.
Our Revolution is now doing the right thing. I call on them to finish the job: announce publicly that they have withdrawn their endorsement of Eric Jones and to explain why they feel they can no longer endorse him — or why, as I believe, their endorsement was mistaken in the first place.
Thanks to Judy Tipple for the inspiration to write this article, as well as some of the receipts. See her article explaining why Jones is wrong for CA-04 and why Thompson is the better candidate at https://open.substack.com/pub/rosietheboomer/p/wrong-seat-wrong-moment-part-ii?r=49vih&utm_medium=ios
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