Quincy Institute

Increasingly Americans want:

-A US arms embargo on Israel
-A diplomatic end to the war in Ukraine
-To stop enriching the military industrial complex at Americans’ expense
-To maintain peaceful relations with China

It’s time for Washington to listen to Americans, not hawks

Unlike most other think tanks in Washington, we take exactly $0 from weapons contractors, foreign governments, or the US government.

That keeps our work independent, and focused squarely on Americans' interests.

And this year was another banner year for us:
-@tparsi gave 500+ interviews to help find a way out of the Iran war
-@tori_bateman secured 37 meetings and events with Members of Congress
-2,000+ congressional candidates got our campaign guides
-@RStatecraft hit a million views a month
-Our podcast Always at War skyrocketed: averaging over 13,000 views per episode on YouTube

Learn more. Read our annual report: quincyinst-2.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/upl…

We know who won on Tuesday.

But American's also chose a loser: AIPAC.

$55 MILLION of the $84M AIPAC's network spent on midterm races went to candidates who lost.

It turns out Americans can't be bought.

We talked to @KelleyBVlahos and @connor_echols about the election, Americans voting on foreign policy, and the future of Washington: youtube.com/watch?v=AAS_mU…

Yesterday, Americans made one thing abundantly clear: we're sick of needless war.

Americans want a government:
- that doesn't promise billions to fund genocide.
- that doesn't start expensive wars of aggression.
- that doesn't starve countries for thinking differently.
- that doesn't drop bombs on boats without cause.
- that doesn't kidnap presidents in the name of oil.

More than anything, Americans are sick of the cost. The cost at the pump. The cost of groceries. The cost of everything going up while we pay for wars that make us no safer, no healthier, no happier.

It's time for restraint. It's time for a foreign policy that serves the American people.

This fall, the Quincy Institute traveled across the country to talk to Americans about the Iran war: why it happened, what it’s costing them, and how to end it.

What we heard, over and over again, was anger and frustration: with this needless war, with its high costs at home, with a foreign policy class that never puts Americans’ interests first.

Yesterday, Americans rejected the Iran war, loud and clear, at the ballot box.

Policymakers on the right and left should be scrambling to address Americans’ calls for a better foreign policy. The path forward is clear: America needs to practice restraint. Our approach to the world should be determined by what we need to do to keep Americans safe, not by which weapons the military-industrial complex wants Congress to buy, or which wars the Israel lobby wants the White House to wage.

Check out our conversation in Austin with @joekent16jan19, @scotthortonshow, @DanMcKnight30, @AdamNoahWho, and @KelleyBVlahos about our fateful errors in Iran, and what it will take to build a genuinely different foreign policy in Washington
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