if direct “contributions” from AIPAC were still considered ok since it’s just a “regular” donation.

PACs are “dark money”.

Some kinds are worse than others, but AIPAC is “American Israel PAC”.

It was literally created because it’s predecessor was finally forced to register as a foreign agent. Bso the first people it donated to, was everyone on the committee that decides who has to register as a foreign agent.

But the reason this ain’t just flipping a light switch, is the DNC can say “no PACs” but they can’t legally prevent a PAC from spending money… By definition a PAC can not coordinate with a campaign.

That’s what happened with Kat and Bliss. Neither are pro-Israel, both had spoken out.

But AIPAC was more afraid of Kat than Bliss, so they bought ads for Bliss even tho he was publicly condemning Israel. literally no one can prevent anyone from running a campaign ad.

So the DNC could take the easy win for the press and just say they banned it, but theyre trying to find a way to actually fix it, not just get the credit for saying they will.

Last I heard they were talking about requiring a candidate who got a PAC ad, to pay that much to the state party from their own campaign funds.

But the obvious problem with that, is AIPAc or someone can dump expensive and purposefully ineffective ads to bankrupt a campaign.

Like, we need to change the actual laws, and to do that we need to gain seats, not just Ds but progressives willing to fix shit.

We’re making progress, it’s just the absolute worst time for people to be giving up on the party. No matter what happens, we need people voting in Dem primaries.