It's a national emergency

I am absolutely FURIOUS. Furious and terrified for our country’s future. Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans ended Donald Trump’s impeachment trial without holding him accountable for his crimes.¹ 

For the last three years, Americans have witnessed one outrage after another perpetrated by Trump and his administration. Kids detained in cages. Muslims banned, while neo-Nazis are welcomed with open arms. Environmental protections systematically destroyed.

Senate Republicans did nothing to stop any of these things. And now, in their latest show of blind loyalty to Trump—and in spite of overwhelming evidence of his guilt—they voted to hear from no witnesses, examine no documents, and end Trump's impeachment trial. It's a total GOP cover-up.

Not only did they cover up Trump's criminal conspiracy, but, by doing so, they have given him the green light to do anything he wants. They have sent Trump a clear message that he is above the law.

If the GOP won't stop Trump, we—the voters—will stop him ... and his Republican accomplices. We must fight back all we've got. The very future of our democracy depends on it. We need to throw Trump and his Republican enablers out of office in November.

Just imagine for a moment what four more years of Trump could mean to our democracy and country. If the election goes the wrong way, it could mean the end of American democracy as we know it.

The MoveOn team briefed me on MoveOn's 2020 elections program, and I truly believe it will be a critical part of what we need to do to respond to this crisis for our democracy. And because the moment demands it, it will be the biggest, boldest election program in MoveOn's 22-year history.

No organization in America has a better track record of success in developing cutting-edge strategies to get out the vote and win elections than MoveOn. But MoveOn can't do its work without our support.

Will you start a monthly donation of $5, or whatever you can, to power MoveOn's work to defeat Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, Cory Gardner, Martha McSally, Susan Collins, Joni Ernst, and every other Senate Republican who enabled this outrage?

Make no mistake: Trump really could get a second term.

The worst-case scenario, which after today is even more likely, is this: Trump gets a second term in November by lying to voters and with the use of voter suppression and intimidation, carving out a narrow Electoral College victory despite losing the popular vote by an even larger margin than he had in 2016.

Keep in mind that many polls show that Trump has an edge in the Electoral College even without the cheating we all know is par for the course for him and the Republican Party's ugly voter suppression tactics.

One recent poll showed Trump favored to win re-election by 49-43%.² Trump has a big money advantage, too. He began this year with $102.7 million in the bank.³ 

And The New York Times warns that Trump's digital advantage with sophisticated social media tools "is freaking out Democratic strategists."⁴

As Democratic candidates are having to battle it out in New Hampshire and beyond, Trump knows exactly where to focus: Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida, North Carolina, and Arizona—the states which will tip the Electoral College. In every one of these states, polling shows a statistical tie—or even an advantage—for Trump.⁵

As one of the most innovative digital organizations in the country, MoveOn is working to develop new ways to counter Trump's digital and early cash advantages. And MoveOn's fighting for every Senate seat, too. The Democratic nominee won't be able to start on this crucial work until after the nomination. But MoveOn's getting a head start now, and they need your support.

Please join me and start a monthly donation of $5, or whatever you can afford, now.

The Trump campaign and its dark-money network are running false and misleading Facebook advertisements, with no roadblocks whatsoever from Facebook and its lie-friendly ad policy.

But MoveOn is working to take down disinformation networks and make sure that Trump and the GOP won't get away with their lies.

At least 17 million voters were purged from the voter rolls between 2016 and 2018.⁶ And in 2020, even more purges are coming.

But MoveOn has years of experience fighting against voter suppression—and working to ensure that voters are inspired, so that when they go to vote, they refuse to be turned away.

In Michigan, where the 2016 presidential contest came down to roughly 10,000 votes, it's plausible to say that voters who stayed home were the ones who decided the election.⁷

But in 2020, MoveOn will work to inspire more than 7 million "high-potential" voters—young voters, voters of color, people with lower incomes, and new Americans who DID NOT vote in 2016.

These 7 million Americans have been most affected by decades of a broken political system, economic inequality, and laws designed to make it harder to vote. At the same time, high-potential voters tend to be more progressive than most voters. They are more likely to support a higher minimum wage, a federal jobs guarantee, higher taxes to pay for government services, and other progressive priorities.

The bottom line? In 2020, MoveOn has to run its most ambitious elections program ever. And if just 360,000 people (and remember, MoveOn has millions of members) chip in $5 a month, we'll fully fund MoveOn’s $20 million program! Imagine that! Are you ready to chip in?

Click here to start your monthly donation now.

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Thanks for all you do.

–Robert Reich

Sources:

1. "Impeachment Live Updates: Senate Acquits Trump, Ending Historic Trial," The New York Times, February 5, 2020
https://act.moveon.org/go/116666?t=8&akid=256485%2E3735812%2EZnwrzT

2. "Trump begins reelection year more competitive against Democrats than he was three months ago, Post-ABC poll finds," The Washington Post, January 27, 2020
https://act.moveon.org/go/116179?t=10&akid=256485%2E3735812%2EZnwrzT

3. "Bloomberg and Trump Buy Super Bowl Ads at $10 Million Each," The New York Times, January 7, 2020
https://act.moveon.org/go/116182?t=12&akid=256485%2E3735812%2EZnwrzT

4. "Trump's Digital Advantage Is Freaking Out Democratic Strategists," The New York Times, January 29, 2020
https://act.moveon.org/go/116171?t=14&akid=256485%2E3735812%2EZnwrzT

5. "One Year From Election, Trump Trails Biden but Leads Warren in Battlegrounds," The New York Times, November 4, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/113142?t=16&akid=256485%2E3735812%2EZnwrzT

6. "Voter Purge Rates Remain High, Analysis Finds," Brennan Center for Justice, August 1, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/116391?t=18&akid=256485%2E3735812%2EZnwrzT

7. "Michigan Results," The New York Times, August 1, 2017
https://act.moveon.org/go/116392?t=20&akid=256485%2E3735812%2EZnwrzT

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