AIPAC Spent $5M in Her Race. Here's What She Built
Former IL-07 congressional candidate Anabel Mendoza returns to Breaking the Meta to launch Democracy Unbought, a Chicago group exposing dark money.
Six months after her grassroots primary run, funded entirely by individual donors with no outside money, Anabel is back with a new project. Democracy Unbought brings political education about dark money to Chicago's South and West Sides: low-turnout neighborhoods that outside spenders increasingly target.
In this interview we cover:
• Life after losing a congressional primary, and why she isn't running again right now
• How AIPAC's super PAC…
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