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Dear MoveOn member,

Nearly two years after the COVID-19 pandemic turned all of our lives upside down, we are finally beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel—thanks to the availability of safe, effective vaccines.

Nearly 196 million Americans are now fully vaccinated, and in the two weeks since vaccines became available for children under 12, nearly 3 million kids have received their first dose—an enormous relief for parents and a chance for kids to join the rest of us and do their part to protect their communities.1,2

It’s critical to continue to spread the word that vaccination is the best way we can protect ourselves as well as our friends and family. That’s why MoveOn wants to offer you a unique way to spread the message, share your values, and protect your vaccination card all at once!

MoveOn has just produced a big batch of these vaccine card holders with the message “Pro-Science, Pro-Health, Pro-Vaccine,” and we’re giving them away for free while supplies last! Click here or on the image below to order yours now!

Although vaccination numbers are continuing to tick up, the United States is still averaging more than 1,000 deaths per day from COVID-19, driven almost entirely by infections among unvaccinated individuals.3

Much of the hesitancy from unvaccinated people is coming from rampant misinformation about COVID and vaccines that is spreading online and, crucially, by Republican politicians themselves.

Far-right Texas Governor Greg Abbott has taken the lead, banning many mask and vaccine mandates recommended by public health officials and throwing his support to anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists—human cost be damned.4

Make no mistake, Abbott’s decision is a political one: He hopes that he can win his election in 2022 by riling up the Republican base and weaponizing public health advice, using the same playbook that gave Republicans victories in Virginia earlier this month.5

MoveOn is doing everything in its power to fight back, including preparing to run an enormous campaign to defeat COVID conspiracy-peddling Republicans up and down the ballot during next year’s midterm elections.

We’ll be rolling out our plans in the coming weeks, but if you want to get involved right now—and protect your vaccine card from damage at the same time!—you can order one of our free “Pro-Science, Pro-Health, Pro-Vaccine” vaccine card holders to help spread the word and fight back against right-wing misinformation!

Click here to order your vaccine card holder now. Hurry! This product is only available while supplies last!

Thanks for all you do.

–Kelly, Arvin, Vickie, Chris, and the rest of the team

Sources:

1. “See How Vaccinations Are Going in Your County and State,” The New York Times, November 18, 2021
https://act.moveon.org/go/153312?t=5&akid=311107%2E41905833%2EjUL9ee

2. “2.6 million children under 12 have received their first vaccine dose, White House says,” The Washington Post, November 18, 2021
https://act.moveon.org/go/159613?t=7&akid=311107%2E41905833%2EjUL9ee

3. “Coronavirus in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count,” The New York Times, accessed November 19, 2021
https://act.moveon.org/go/159614?t=9&akid=311107%2E41905833%2EjUL9ee

4. “Texas Gov. Greg Abbott bans any COVID-19 vaccine mandates — including for private employers,” The Texas Tribune, October 11, 2021
https://act.moveon.org/go/159615?t=11&akid=311107%2E41905833%2EjUL9ee

5. Ibid.

Want to support MoveOn’s work? The GOP is launching an all-out campaign to take down the Democratic majority in Congress and reinstall Mitch McConnell as Senate majority leader in 2022. To defeat the GOP, MoveOn is going all-in with TV ads, a nationwide grassroots organizing campaign, and more.

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Dear MoveOn member,

In bombshell news, the congressional committee investigating the January 6 insurrection has obtained a 38-page plan—circulated inside the Trump White House on January 5—for Trump to declare a “National Security Emergency,” invalidate electronic voting in all states, and seize ballots in an effort to install himself for a second, illegal term.1

Thanks to safeguards in our electoral process that Trump allies are aggressively dismantling, Trump’s coup failed. We might not be so lucky next time.

Right now, Trump and his allies are methodically enacting a plan to place some of Trump’s most ardent supporters in key offices, including secretaries of state, tasked with overseeing elections at the state level. In most states, secretaries of state oversee the counting of the votes, have the power to certify—or decertify—election results, and declare the winners and losers of elections.

As The Atlantic reports, “If Trump’s plot succeeds, the ballots cast by American voters will not decide the presidency in 2024. Thousands of votes will be thrown away, or millions, to produce the required effect. The winner will be declared the loser. The loser will be certified president-elect.”2

That’s right, the voters will not decide the outcome of the 2024 election. It may have been outlandish before Trump, but it’s a sober analysis today.

Once described as “apolitical,” secretaries of state may now be the most crucial officials standing between democracy and authoritarianism.3

Which is why MoveOn is doing something we’ve never done in our 23-year history: We’re launching a powerful, multimillion-dollar effort to defeat Trump-backed secretaries of state across the country and elect individuals who will count every vote and ensure fair elections.

But we can do this only with your support. Will you start a $5 monthly donation today to launch and sustain our new campaign to defeat Trump-backed secretaries of state and stop a Trump coup?

Yes, I’ll chip in monthly.

No, I’m sorry, I can’t make a monthly donation.

xxxxx before this year, Trump had never once endorsed any candidate for secretary of state.

It’s no coincidence that as he masterminds a plot to steal the presidency in 2024, Trump has already endorsed several secretary of state candidates in key states—and these candidates are nothing short of terrifying.4

Indeed, several Republican candidates for secretary of state deny that Biden won the 2020 election.5

But the lies don’t stop there.

In Georgia, U.S. Representative Jody Hice, Trump’s pick to be secretary of state, voted to overturn the results of Georgia’s election and proudly proclaimed the January 6 insurrection to be “our 1776 moment.”6

And a number of other Republican secretary of state candidates say that once in office, they would fight to restrict voting by mail.7 This comes on top of Republican lawmakers’ efforts to make it harder for Democratic-leaning voters, including people of color and low-income people, to cast ballots.

The esteemed journalist Barton Gellman writes, “The prospect of this democratic collapse is not remote. People with the motive to make it happen are manufacturing the means. Given the opportunity, they will act. They are acting already.”8

Who will protect democracy? It will be us, the American people.

Will you chip in $5 a month to take down Trump’s plot to install his lackeys as elections officials and to safeguard our constitutional democracy?

Yes, I’ll chip in monthly.

No, I’m sorry, I can’t make a monthly donation.

Thanks for all you do.

–Chris, Brieanna, Gabi, Sandra, and the rest of the team

Sources:

1. “Nothing is more important than Team Trump’s January PowerPoint urging a full-blown coup,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 12, 2021
https://act.moveon.org/go/159803?t=6&akid=312857%2E41905833%2EdGEWcz

2. “Trump’s next coup has already begun,” The Atlantic, December 6, 2021
https://act.moveon.org/go/159804?t=8&akid=312857%2E41905833%2EdGEWcz

3. “Secretary of State races become fundraising cash magnet,” Axios, December 14, 2021
https://act.moveon.org/go/159805?t=10&akid=312857%2E41905833%2EdGEWcz

4. Ibid.

5. “How Trump-backed secretary of state candidates would change elections in the United States,” The Washington Post, December 1, 2021
https://act.moveon.org/go/159806?t=12&akid=312857%2E41905833%2EdGEWcz

6. “Trump endorses challenger to Ga. Secretary of State Raffensperger,” NBC News, March 22, 2021
https://act.moveon.org/go/159807?t=14&akid=312857%2E41905833%2EdGEWcz

7. “How Trump-backed secretary of state candidates would change elections in the United States,” The Washington Post, December 1, 2021
https://act.moveon.org/go/159806?t=16&akid=312857%2E41905833%2EdGEWcz

8. “Trump’s next coup has already begun,” The Atlantic, December 6, 2021
https://act.moveon.org/go/159804?t=18&akid=312857%2E41905833%2EdGEWcz

Will you chip in to power our effort to defeat McConnell and the GOP in 2022?

Yes, I’ll chip in $5 a month.

No, I’m sorry, I can’t make a monthly donation.

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Dear MoveOn member,

My name is Robert Fox, and this is the last email I’ll ever send you.

For eight years, I’ve had the pleasure of working at MoveOn as the chief financial officer, managing our budget and making decisions about what campaigns we are able to fund.

Together, we’ve raised hundreds of millions of dollars to elect progressives up and down the ballot, powered a blue wave in Congress in 2018, defeated Trump in 2020, and so much more.

As I reflect on my time at MoveOn, I need to be honest with you about a few things.

First, this job is hard. Unlike most political groups, we’re proud we don’t take a dime of corporate cash. I never spent my time wining and dining the billionaire fat cats. Instead, MoveOn is powered by small-dollar grassroots donations from members like you.

In the political world, where Big Money reigns supreme, funding our work through grassroots donations is a rare, powerful, and courageous act.

But it has its challenges. The truth is that it’s far easier to get one or two huge checks from billionaire funders every year—but we refuse to be beholden to a handful of ultra-wealthy donors.

Instead, we work hard every single day to explain to our members the work we’re doing, why it’s important, and to ask you to contribute whatever you can to help power our efforts.

Second, our fundraising has taken a dip this year. The pandemic has taken a toll on families across the country. People have lost loved ones, been let go from their jobs, and seen their hours cut. Thousands of small businesses were forced to close.

And many supporters have felt less urgency around political giving now that a Democrat is in the Oval Office.

Luckily, we’ve stewarded our resources responsibly, and we’ve been able to weather this year’s downturn in fundraising. I felt this was the right time to pass the torch: We’re in a strong financial position, and we’ve selected an extraordinary individual as our next CFO (I can’t wait till you learn who they are!).

In order to fully fund our work in 2022 and run the hard-hitting, innovative grassroots campaigns MoveOn is famous for, we are going to need your help.

If you are in a financial position to do so, will you start a $5 monthly donation today to power our efforts to defeat the GOP in 2022?

Yes, I’ll chip in monthly.

No, I’m sorry, I can’t make a monthly donation.

The people who work at MoveOn are some of the finest professionals in the political world.

I’ve seen our organizers work late nights and early mornings to plan massive nationwide protests demanding Trump stop separating families of color at the border and demanding racial justice.

And I’ve watched with awe as our political team pulled off the impossible—like helping flip Arizona and Georgia blue in 2020.

But the individuals I want to thank most are people like you: our members. MoveOn exists because—every single day—members like you start and sign petitions, attend protests, call Congress, organize your own communities, and donate money to power our campaigns.

That’s what makes MoveOn not only a progressive powerhouse but a force for good in the world.

It’s been the honor of a lifetime to serve as MoveOn’s CFO. And I look forward to working alongside you as a MoveOn member.

This is the last time I’ll ever ask: Will you invest $5 a month in MoveOn to keep us strong in 2022 and power our work to defeat the GOP?

Yes, I’ll chip in monthly.

No, I’m sorry, I can’t make a monthly donation.

Thanks for all you’ve done—and all you will do.

–Robert Fox
Want to support MoveOn’s work? The GOP is launching an all-out campaign to take down the Democratic majority in Congress and reinstall Mitch McConnell as Senate majority leader in 2022. To defeat the GOP, MoveOn is going all-in with TV ads, a nationwide grassroots organizing campaign, and more.

Will you chip in to power our effort to defeat McConnell and the GOP in 2022?

Yes, I’ll chip in $5 a month.

No, I’m sorry, I can’t make a monthly donation.

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They are short of funds !!!!! My plan is working.
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Dear MoveOn member,

My name is Cheryl Zando, and I am MoveOn’s new chief operating officer. This is the first time I’ve ever been asked to send an email to all MoveOn members, and unfortunately I don’t have good news to share.

As COO, it’s my job to oversee MoveOn’s budgets, and after reviewing the books for the first quarter of 2022, I’m worried. We’re significantly below our fundraising projections at this point, and if we don’t catch up fast, we’ll have to consider scaling back our campaign plans for the year.

This couldn’t be happening at a worse time.

November’s midterm elections are fast approaching, and dozens of Donald Trump Big Lie conspiracy theorists are running for key state-level offices where they will have the power to throw out votes and refuse to certify election results. If Trump’s cronies win, they will finish what Donald Trump started on January 6 by installing him in the White House in 2024.

That’s why, when our elections team proposed a multimillion-dollar effort to defeat Trump-backed secretaries of state—something we’d never done in our history—I enthusiastically gave it the green light … assuming that we’d meet our fundraising benchmarks as the year went on.

This is where the rubber hits the road. If we’re going to continue with this ambitious plan to defend our elections, we need our members to step up. Will you chip in $5 a month to make sure we have the funding to implement our full midterm election plan without cutting back?

Yes, I’ll chip in monthly.

No, I’m sorry, I can’t make a monthly donation.

At last count, at least 163 Republicans who have embraced Trump’s Big Lie of a stolen election are running for statewide positions that would give them authority over the administration of elections, from governor to secretary of state.1

We’re talking about candidates like Tina Peters, who is running for secretary of state in Colorado after being indicted for tampering with voting machines in 2020 and leaking election information to right-wing conspiracy theorists to fuel Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the election.2 Luckily, her legal troubles are likely to keep her from being able to continue as a candidate, but there are so many other candidates like her.

In Arizona, Trump’s candidate is Mark Finchem, who attended the January 6 insurrection and is a self-described member of the Oath Keepers, the white supremacist group that helped organize the deadly Capitol attack.3

In Georgia, Trump endorsed Jody Hice, a member of Congress who attempted to stop the certification of Georgia’s election after Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger refused Trump’s demand to “find 11,780 votes.”4

If these people are in charge of counting votes and determining the outcomes of our elections, then American democracy is over. We cannot let that happen—but unless we close this urgent fundraising gap, we may have no choice but to scale back our plans.

We are currently in the testing phase of innovative new voter engagement and turnout strategies that build on the hugely successful work we did in 2020 to ensure that young voters, voters of color, and those who voted for the first time in 2018 and 2020 turn out again. But if we don’t have the funds, we won’t be able to deploy those new strategies widely.

Can you chip in $5 a month to defend our democracy and stop these Trump lackeys from taking over our elections?

Yes, I’ll chip in monthly.

No, I’m sorry, I can’t make a monthly donation.

After the 2010 midterm elections, when President Obama was in the White House and Democrats lost big, Republicans were able to use their majorities in Congress and in the states to gerrymander voting maps and pass voter suppression laws to further tip elections in their favor.5 Then, they were able to block tens of millions of Americans from getting health care and shovel trillions in tax cuts to their super-rich friends.

We’re still living with the fallout today. If Democrats hadn’t lost the midterm elections in 2010 and 2014, Mitch McConnell wouldn’t have been able to steal a Supreme Court seat and ram through the far-right majority we have now. Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, and Neal Gorsuch wouldn’t be on the Supreme Court, and Roe v. Wade wouldn’t be on the chopping block.

Now, the stakes are even higher. Republicans are no longer just trying to rig elections with voter suppression and gerrymandering. Now, they’re aiming to finish what Trump started on January 6 and gain the power to simply toss out any election result they don’t like.

I’m so proud of the work our team is doing. But for our campaign to be firing on all cylinders on Election Day, we need to be building that operation right now. There’s no wiggle room in this plan, and as a people-funded nonprofit, we rely on your donations to power our work.

Please don’t make us scale back these plans. Chip in $5 a month to make sure we can fully fund our multimillion-dollar campaign to stop Trump and his allies from taking over our elections.

Yes, I’ll chip in monthly.

No, I’m sorry, I can’t make a monthly donation.

Thanks for all you do.

–Cheryl Zando, Chief Operating Officer

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Dear MoveOn member,

In an interview on conservative radio last week, Donald Trump issued a breathtaking threat if he is indicted for stealing classified documents from the White House. He said, “I think you’d have problems in this country the likes of which perhaps we’ve never seen before. I don’t think the people of the United States would stand for it.”1

His rhetoric is eerily similar to his rallying calls in the lead-up to the January 6 white supremacist insurrection.

Lindsey Graham was even more explicit, saying that if Trump is prosecuted for his crimes, there would be “riots in the street.”2

Trump and his cronies know exactly what they’re doing. They know that they are putting out a call to the same white supremacist militias that perpetrated the violence on January 6, telling them to be prepared to do it again should the Justice Department—rightfully—charge Trump for any of his myriad crimes.

The GOP has made it clear: They believe that their side is above the law, and they are willing to advocate for violence if they are held accountable for their crimes.

And yet, they are a hair’s breadth away from taking control of the House, Senate, and expanding their grip on governors’ offices and statehouses around the country. We cannot let that happen.

That’s why MoveOn is running the largest midterm election program in our 23-year history, investing millions of dollars into the exact races that will decide control of Congress and will stop MAGA extremists from holding an iron grip over state governments. Will you help power this critical work by chipping in $3 a week? (MoveOn will bill your weekly donation to your credit card once a month starting today and will contact you shortly after the election to see if you want to modify or cancel your weekly donation.)

Count me in.

No, I’m sorry, I can’t chip in weekly.

You, we know that you are getting inundated with asks for money right now, so we want to make sure you know why MoveOn is the right place to donate in this midterm fight.

We have the reach to make a difference. There are MoveOn members in every single congressional district in the country, which means that unlike many other organizations, we are able to mobilize and reach voters across the United States, helping to increase turnout precisely where it is needed most.
Every decision MoveOn makes is backed by data. In 2022, MoveOn is laser-focused on turning out what we are calling “surge voters,” or those who voted for the first time in 2018 and 2020. To make sure we are as effective as we can be, our analytics teams are using highly detailed message testing to identify exactly which messages and specific ads will best engage the specific audiences we need to win.
MoveOn has targeted our work to be the most impactful. Instead of blanketing our work equally across every race, MoveOn has spent months identifying the specific candidates for Senate, House, governor, and secretary of state who will be on the front lines of defending our congressional majorities and stopping a MAGA extremist takeover in the states. By focusing all of our work on these races, we can have an even larger impact.
With our bodily autonomy, right to vote, health care, and future of our planet—just to name a few—at risk this election, we need your support more than ever. Can you chip in $3 a week to keep this work going, Keith? (MoveOn will bill your weekly donation to your credit card once a month starting today and will contact you shortly after the election to see if you want to modify or cancel your weekly donation.)

Count me in.

No, I’m sorry, I can’t chip in weekly.

You, the Republican Party has turned into one giant shield whose only goal is to protect Donald Trump from the consequences of his actions.

They voted against his impeachment even when there was abundant evidence that he attempted to bribe the Ukrainian government to provide dirt on his political opponents.

They attempted to overthrow a free and fair election after Trump threw a hissy fit when he lost.

They voted against impeaching him—again—after he incited a riot that took the lives of at least five people on January 6, 2021.

And they are falling all over each other to pretend that he did nothing wrong by keeping highly classified documents in the basement of his beach house—even after they spent years vilifying Hillary Clinton for just the possibility that she had classified information on a private email server (she didn’t).

This party has left sanity behind in order to support the dictatorial whims of Donald Trump, and we cannot let them hold the power to write laws, set agendas, and have control over our lives.

Will you help us run full speed ahead through Election Day by chipping in $3 a week? (MoveOn will bill your weekly donation to your credit card once a month starting today and will contact you shortly after the election to see if you want to modify or cancel your weekly donation.)

Count me in.

No, I’m sorry, I can’t chip in weekly.

Thanks for all you do.

–Chris, Vickie, Eric, Amy, and the rest of the team

Sources:

1. “Trump warns of ‘problems’ like ‘we’ve never seen’ if he’s indicted,” Politico, September 15, 2022
https://act.moveon.org/go/168020?t=8&akid=332790%2E41905833%2E8ryFq4

2. Ibid.

Want to support MoveOn’s work? Donald Trump and his allies are methodically enacting a plan to place some of Trump’s most ardent supporters in key election offices that oversee vote counting, have the power to certify—or decertify—election results, and declare election winners and losers. We’ve launched a powerful, multimillion-dollar campaign to stop Trump. But we need your help to power our effort.

Will you chip in $3 a week to power our work to stop Trump’s coup?

Count me in.

No, I’m sorry, I can’t chip in weekly.

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