Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Can we send you a free sticker?

Putting one of these stickers on your car, bike, or laptop is an easy way to help show public support for the young people steering this movement and to ramp up pressure on corporations and business leaders to cut ties with the NRA and take real action to stop gun violence.

Dear MoveOn member,

Something amazing is happening. In the wake of the horrific tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, students from the school and their allies across the country have stood up to demand change—and people are listening. For the first time in decades, we are seeing real movement toward stopping the NRA and curbing gun violence. From boardrooms to state governments and Congress, these young people, including young people who have been organizing against gun violence for years in communities everywhere, are succeeding in forcing conversations and change.

We are in awe of their work, and we want to show our support. That's why we just printed a bunch of "I Stand With Students" stickers—and we're giving them away for FREE until we run out of stock.

Just click here or on the image below to get your free sticker!

In the two weeks since the Parkland massacre, the action from student leaders and others across the country has forced over 20 companies (and counting) to cut ties with the NRA, led the Florida governor to propose new gun control measures opposed by the NRA, pushed national retailers like Walmart to change their gun sale policies, and encouraged thousands of students across the nation to join in on walkouts and marches to demand reform.

Putting one of these stickers on your car, bike, or laptop is an easy way to help show public support for the young people steering this movement and to ramp up pressure on corporations and business leaders to cut ties with the NRA and take real action to stop gun violence.

Order yours now, for FREE, no strings attached—until we run out!

You'll also have the option of ordering a 10-pack, 20-pack, or 50-pack to distribute to your friends and family.

Thanks for all you do.

–Michael, Kelly, David, Anne, and the rest of the team

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Tuesday, February 27, 2018

The NRA just got some really bad news

Since Thursday, more than 20 companies have dumped the NRA, but there are three dozen more that still have direct financial relationships with the organization—which means that we have to keep building on the #BoycottTheNRA momentum.

Dear MoveOn member,

Since Thursday, more than 25 companies have dumped the NRA, but there are three dozen more that still have direct financial relationships with the organization—which means that we have to keep building on the #BoycottTheNRA momentum.1

Will you chip in $3 now to help keep the pressure on?

Yes, I'm in. I'll chip in right now to help stand up to the NRA and confront the epidemic of gun violence in America.

First National Bank was the first company to announce that it would stop doing business with the NRA, after students and others from coast to coast, including countless MoveOn members inspired by the extraordinary truth-telling and courage of the Parkland survivors, took to social media and their phones to pressure the company. MoveOn members alone made 4,450 phone calls in less than 24 hours to pressure First National Bank. In making its announcement, the company, which is the largest privately owned bank in the country and had a co-branded Visa credit card with the NRA, explained, "Customer feedback has caused us to review our relationship with the NRA."2

The list of companies that have since cut ties with the NRA include major airlines, hotels, car companies, insurers, and security companies, including MetLife, United Airlines, and Hertz.3

All the corporations abandoning the NRA isn't just a public relations embarrassment for the gun lobby. It goes to the heart of their ability to recruit and retain members, and it's why the NRA lashed out at its former corporate partners this weekend, accusing them of "political and civic cowardice."4

Right on the organization's own website, the #2 reason why they say people should join the NRA is for member discounts on every purchase.5 So much for that.

But we can't lose this momentum. We need to keep the heat on and force FedEx, Amazon, Apple, Google, and more than 30 other companies to stop propping up the NRA.

Click here to chip in $3—or whatever you can afford—now to stand up to the NRA and confront the epidemic of gun violence in America.

Before the Parkland massacre, the NRA was already completely out of step with Americans and with the majority of gun owners in its rejection of commonsense limits on guns and even research on gun violence.6 And now support for stricter gun laws "has spiked to the highest level since 1993," according to a major new CNN poll.7 The poll concludes that the Parkland shooting "has shifted public opinion on gun laws in a way other recent mass shootings have not."8

As the backlash against the NRA grows, we're even starting to see some Republican governors and members of Congress coming out in favor of everything from an assault weapons ban to universal background checks to raising the age limit on gun purchases, despite the NRA's fervent opposition to those policies.9

MoveOn members have a history of confronting the NRA with grassroots activism—and winning. In 2015, after the massacre in Oregon, we organized tens of thousands of "gun owners for gun control" and brought a group of these gun owners to Washington, D.C. to meet with the president and lawmakers. Several of these MoveOn members were then on stage with President Obama several months later when he signed his most significant executive action against gun violence. After the Las Vegas massacre, we helped pressure the Democratic Party to officially reject funds from gun manufacturers and their lobbyists. And after the violence in Virginia, we endorsed a slate of candidates who supported sensible gun laws—and who beat NRA-backed candidates up and down the ballot.

MoveOn is committed to doing whatever it takes to take down the NRA, so we can get weapons of war out of our schools and off of our streets and keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people. With your support, we'll increase pressure on companies that still have financial ties to the NRA. And we'll boost organizing for the student-led marches and walkouts in March and April by recruiting MoveOn's millions of members and using MoveOn's social media megaphone to promote the events in Washington, D.C., and in communities across the country. Will you help out by chipping in now?

Yes, I'm in. I'll chip in now to help stand up to the NRA and confront the epidemic of gun violence in America.

–Michael, Emma, Justin, Seth, and the rest of the team

Sources:

1. "Companies - Drain the NRA," Drain the NRA, last accessed February 27, 2018
 
2. "NRA-branded Visa card dropped by First National Bank of Omaha," USA Today, February 22, 2018
 
3. "These Companies Are Done With the NRA," Mother Jones, February 24, 2018
 
4. "NRA calls companies' Florida shooting boycott 'political and civic cowardice,'" The Guardian, February 24, 2018
 
5. "5 Reasons You (and Your Friends) Should Join the NRA Today," NRA, May 4, 2016
 
6. "New Poll: Gun Owners See the NRA as Out of Touch," Giffords PAC, April 25, 2017
 
7. "CNN Poll: Seven in 10 favor tighter gun laws in wake of Parkland shooting," CNN, February 25, 2018
 
8. Ibid.
 
9. "The Daily 202: Trump is driving a surge in public support for stricter gun laws since Florida," The Washington PostFebruary 26, 2018

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Monday, February 26, 2018

FedEx

Sign and share the petition demanding that FedEx stop its immoral business alliance with the National Rifle Association (NRA).

Tell FedEx: End NRA partnership

Stop the immoral business alliance with the National Rifle Association (NRA). Join other corporations in putting the NRA on notice that it's time for a change.

Dear fellow MoveOn member,

FedEx, along with other corporations, has partnership agreements with the NRA to provide service discounts to its members. This acts as a sign-up incentive for new subscribers. The NRA currently claims to have over 5 million members who currently pay $40 annually for that status.1

The NRA has lobbied lawmakers consistently and successfully against any meaningful restrictions on the sale of military-style assault weapons to civilians. They have put gun industry profits above people and principle. The millions of dollars they funnel into the campaigns of lawmakers to protect their interests ensure that commonsense gun legislation remains elusive.

It's time the NRA is put on notice that the time for change is here. They should not be given credibility through alliances with corporations such as FedEx.

Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to your friends.

Thanks!

–Michael Martin

Source:

1. "Why Are People Boycotting FedEx? This NRA Protest Is Sweeping Across Twitter," Bustle, February 25, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/34275?t=17&akid=199957%2E10220574%2EC03mew

A note from the MoveOn team: MoveOn members are launching and running hundreds of campaigns to take on gun violence in America—from pushing companies such as FedEx to drop the NRA to students and teachers calling on their state legislatures to take action. You can start your own petition here.

Want to support our work? The MoveOn community will work every moment, day by day and year by year, to resist Trump's agenda, contain the damage, defeat hate with love, and begin the process of swinging the nation's pendulum back toward sanity, decency, and the kind of future that we must never give up on. And to do it we need your ongoing support, now more than ever. Will you stand with us?

Yes, I'll chip in $5 a month.

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

Sunday, February 25, 2018

Have a petition idea for New York?

Petitions are powerful. Start a petition today to make your voice heard.

Dear New York MoveOn member,

With the 2018 elections close ahead, progressives have the opportunity to make our voices heard and build support for some of the most important issues facing our country. But in order to make a difference in the fights bubbling up in nationwide, we're counting on a MoveOn member in New York to take the lead.

That's where you come in.

By using MoveOn's user-friendly petition tools, you can create your very own petition to your governor, state elected officials, or candidates on whatever issues you're most concerned about. Will you start a petition right now on an issue that you're passionate about that affects New York?

Click here to create your petition to New York lawmakers or candidates.

We'll be here to support you, from helping build support for your petition by connecting you to other MoveOn members to reimbursing you for printing costs to deliver your petition in person—one of the best ways to get your message heard and make an impact.

But don't wait—we need to start building support now to create change at the state level and make these issues front and center.

Click here to create your petition asking New York lawmakers or candidates to support the issue you're most passionate about.

Thanks for all you do.

–Maria, Robert, Ben W., Corinne, and the rest of the team

Want to support our work? The MoveOn community will work every moment, day by day and year by year, to resist Trump's agenda, contain the damage, defeat hate with love, and begin the process of swinging the nation's pendulum back toward sanity, decency, and the kind of future that we must never give up on. And to do it we need your ongoing support, now more than ever. Will you stand with us?

Yes, I'll chip in $5 a month.

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

The ground is shifting under the NRA

Major companies have begun to sever ties with the NRA en masse, including First National Bank of Omaha, which is the nation's largest privately held bank; car rental companies Enterprise, Alamo, National, Hertz, Avis, and Budget; cybersecurity company Symantec; insurers MetLife and Chubb; Delta Airlines; and more.

Dear MoveOn member,

The past 11 days have altered America's broken politics on guns. The students who survived the Parkland massacre have pierced America's conscience with their moral certitude and fierce determination.

The question now is whether we can make this moment a turning point, when public outrage over the epidemic of gun violence in America gains real ground over the money and power of the NRA and gun lobby.

Young people in communities around the country are leading the way—just as they've done in every breakthrough social movement in our history. We simply must seize this moment and do more to stand with them.

The time is now. Will you chip in $3 now to help out?

Yes, I'll chip in now to help stand up to the NRA and end the epidemic of gun violence in America.

Something new is happening. Thanks in significant part to the courageous and spirited leadership of young people from Anchorage to Washington, D.C., and everywhere in between, the national media hasn't moved on—and the NRA is on its heels.

Major companies have begun to sever ties with the NRA en masse, including First National Bank of Omaha, which is the nation's largest privately held bank; car rental companies Enterprise, Alamo, National, Hertz, Avis, and Budget; cybersecurity company Symantec; insurers MetLife and Chubb; Delta Airlines; and more.1

The NRA seems to understand that the dynamic has shifted. Their strategy is usually to stay quiet after a massacre like Parkland and wait until the spotlight swings away. This time, under intense pressure, the organization and its allies are lashing out. In a speech on Thursday, NRA chief Wayne LaPierre warned of a "socialist wave" that threatens "to make all of us less free." He told the audience, "you should be anxious and you should be frightened" of the wave rising against the NRA and its puppets in Congress.2

We cannot let this moment slip away and allow the politics of guns in America to return to the status quo.

Click here now to chip in $3—or whatever you can afford—to help stand up to the NRA and end the epidemic of gun violence in America.

With your help, we will

  • boost organizing for the student-led marches and walkouts in March and April by recruiting MoveOn's millions of members and using MoveOn's social media megaphone to promote the events in Washington, D.C., and in communities across the country, and supporting as needed in other ways;
  • help ensure that millions of people hear what these young people are asking of all of us by amplifying videos of their speeches and interviews to our millions of social media followers;
  • bring together millions of MoveOn members to break the stranglehold of the NRA by generating thousands of calls and tweets to companies with ties to the NRA and to the NRA puppets in Congress, supporting rallies and events, and coordinating with other groups leading this work; and
  • produce videos and digital ads highlighting the hypocrisy of the NRA and their GOP enablers.

In the past week and a half, students have shown unbelievable courage and guts far beyond their years. We cannot fail them now. Together, we can end the NRA's stranglehold on our elected officials and make our schools, work places, movie theaters, homes, and streets safer. Will you join in?

Yes, I'm in. I'll chip in $3 now to help stand up to the NRA and end the epidemic of gun violence in America.

Thanks for all you do.

–Anna, Robert, Ann, David, and the rest of the team

Sources:

1. "These Companies Are Done With the NRA," Mother Jones, February 24, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/34248?t=5&akid=199837%2E10220574%2E4S1Jdo

2. "NRA goes on the offensive after Parkland shooting, assailing media and calling for more armed school security," The Washington Post, February 22, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/34249?t=7&akid=199837%2E10220574%2E4S1Jdo

Want to support our work? The MoveOn community will work every moment, day by day and year by year, to resist Trump's agenda, contain the damage, defeat hate with love, and begin the process of swinging the nation's pendulum back toward sanity, decency, and the kind of future that we must never give up on. And to do it we need your support, now more than ever. Will you stand with us?

Click here to chip in $3, or whatever you can afford.

Saturday, February 24, 2018

Re: Ban assault weapons

Sign the petition to support a ban on assault weapons and large capacity magazines.

Hi Eddie—On Wednesday, I marched with scores of Florida students in Tallahassee to demand lawmakers in Florida take action to keep our schools safe from guns like the one used in Parkland. 

Because of the hope, clarity, and tenacity of these students, momentum to end to gun violence is now rising across the nation.

Please join more than 200,000 people who already signed my petition to ban military-style assault weapons and large-capacity magazines in civilian society. Your signature will be delivered.

Click here to sign in seconds using Facebook Messenger.

After Messenger opens up, just click "Get Started."

If you don't use Facebook Messenger, click here to sign on the web.

–Andy Pelosi, The Campaign to Keep Guns off Campus


Dear MoveOn member,

On February 14, another mass shooting took place in a school leaving 17 people dead and many others severely injured. It was the 18th school shooting in 2018, and it's only February.1,2

The shooter used an AR-15, a military-style assault weapon with large capacity magazines. This type of weapon was also used in previous mass shootings, including Aurora, Newtown, San Bernardino, Sutherland Springs, and Las Vegas.3

We do not want to hear our state and federal officials offering their thoughts and prayers for this latest tragedy—we want action now!

Sign the petition to ban military-style assault weapons and large capacity magazines in civilian society. They are designed to kill and injure large numbers of people in a short period of time.

Click here to sign in seconds using Facebook Messenger.

After Messenger opens up, just click "Get Started."

If you don't use Facebook Messenger, click here to sign on the web.

Our schools must be havens for learning where students can feel safe and not have to worry about being gunned down in their own classrooms or on the playground. Military-style assault weapons are weapons of war and have no place in our communities.

If you don't use Facebook Messenger, click here to sign on the web.

We cannot allow the daily carnage in our country to be the new normal.

Tell Trump, Congress, and Florida legislators to act now to ban military-style assault weapons and large capacity magazines.

Click here to add your name to this petition—then click "Get Started"—and, after you sign, pass it along to your friends.

Thanks!

—Andy Pelosi, The Campaign to Keep Guns off Campus

Sources:

1. "Death Toll Is at 17 and Could Rise in Shooting," The New York Times, February 14, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/33970?t=21&akid=199739%2E10220574%2Ebbv2WL

2. "There have already been 18 school shootings in the US this year: Everytown," ABC News, February 14, 2018
http://act.moveon.org/go/33971?t=23&akid=199739%2E10220574%2Ebbv2WL

3. "Why the AR-15 keeps appearing at America's deadliest mass shootings," CNBC, February 15, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/33972?t=25&akid=199739%2E10220574%2Ebbv2WL

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Friday, February 23, 2018

A fight for the soul of the Democratic Party

We have got to stand together to support candidates like this. If we're ever going to get a party that rewards courage over cash, we need to step up to support a candidate who is willing to do the impossible: stand up to billionaires and win.

Dear MoveOn member,

I've spent more than a decade fighting to end the influence of big money in politics, and I need to tell you about an election on March 20 that, simply put, is a fight for the soul and future of the Democratic Party.

The race is for governor of Illinois. It pits Daniel Biss, a math professor turned community organizer who fought to stop the Iraq War and since has championed working families as a state legislator, against hedge fund billionaire and Hyatt Hotel fortune heir J.B. Pritzker.

Biss has strong grassroots support, but Pritzker has loads of cash—and has already spent $56 million of his own money, more than Donald Trump spent to win the Republican nomination for president.1,2

Biss has surged from behind in recent weeks, and the latest polls show Biss within striking distance of the Democratic nomination.3 If we come together now in this final stretch, we can put Biss over the top on March 20.

Every grassroots donation to Biss's campaign in the next week will be matched—up to $150 per gift and $100,000 total—so your contribution will go twice as far. Will you join me and chip in $3—or whatever you can afford—right now?

Yes, I'm in! I'll chip in now to help progressive Daniel Biss become the next governor of Illinois.

Biss is running on a bold vision to fix the political and economic systems in Illinois by putting working-class values and families first, not the billionaires and big corporations.4

He's proudly supporting Medicare for All universal health care, tuition-free public universities, fixing the broken criminal justice system, and making sure the wealthy pay their fair share.5 He has the track record in the state legislature to back it up.

And most important to me is that Daniel is a reformer and has made ending the corruption of big money in our politics the critical focus of his fight.

Pritzker is a Democrat who has a number of progressive policy positions, and he's clearly preferable to the disastrous GOP incumbent governor—but there's a stark choice in this closely watched primary about what kind of Democrat will carry the party's mantle in the Trump era.

Pritzker comes from one of the richest families in America, which once co-owned a Chicago hotel with Donald Trump.6 He won't release his full tax returns.7 He's been caught on FBI tapes negotiating with jailed former Governor Rod Blagojevich.8 And while he touts clean energy in his platform for governor, he's personally invested in ExxonMobil and the firm behind the Dakota Access Pipeline.9

Will you chip in right now to help Biss's campaign get across the finish line and show that people power can beat big money and the machine? Click here to donate $3 now, and your contribution will be matched.

Whoever wins the Democratic nomination on March 20 will be favored to win the general election against the incumbent Republican Governor Bruce Rauner, who is deeply unpopular in one of the bluest states in the country.10

I've been a supporter of Biss from the start—not because I was certain he would win, but because I was certain he was right. In December, I had the chance to stand on a stage with him in Chicago and watch him wow an incredibly excited audience.

But even more impressive to me then was what I saw later that evening. I attended a dinner with Biss and about 30 people from Chicago. For three hours, I watched as Biss described in the most informed and detailed way possible exactly what he would do if he were governor. He has a deep understanding of policy; a principled, visionary, progressive agenda; and is running a small-donor-funded, grassroots campaign to beat a billionaire.

This man is an inspiration—and someone who actually knows how to govern.

We have got to stand together to support candidates like this. If we're ever going to get a party that rewards courage over cash, we need to step up to support a candidate who is willing to do the impossible: stand up to billionaires and win.

We need to do this not just because Illinois deserves a governor who will fix democracy in Illinois. We need to do it because that will send a message to Democrats and Republicans everywhere—that we are tired of Big Money dominating politics. What we want are leaders who will fix our democracy, so we can finally get a government that represents us.

Please help in this fight by standing with Daniel Biss. Every dollar matters right now, and your contribution will be matched. The primary is less than one month away, and Daniel needs to get his message out. Will you chip in $3 now to Daniel's campaign?

Yes, I'm in! I'll chip in now to help Daniel Biss become the next governor of Illinois.

Thanks for all you do.

–Lawrence Lessig

Sources:

1. "Can Progressives Flip the Script in Illinois?" U.S. News & World Report, February 7, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/34158?t=6&akid=199670%2E10220574%2ElfrPch

2. "Can middle-class candidate Daniel Biss defeat millionaires in Illinois?" Daily Herald, February 16, 2018
http://act.moveon.org/go/34165?t=8&akid=199670%2E10220574%2ElfrPch

3. "Illinois Democratic candidate for governor: Daniel Biss," Chicago Sun-Times, February 2, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/34157?t=10&akid=199670%2E10220574%2ElfrPch

4. Ibid.

5. "The Issues," Biss Wallace for Illinois, last accessed February 21, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/34166?t=12&akid=199670%2E10220574%2ElfrPch

6. "Can Progressives Flip the Script in Illinois?" U.S. News & World Report, February 7, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/34158?t=14&akid=199670%2E10220574%2ElfrPch

7. Ibid.

8. Ibid.

9. Ibid.

10. "America's Most and Least Popular Governors," Morning Consult, February 1, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/34167?t=16&akid=199670%2E10220574%2ElfrPch

Lawrence Lessig is a professor at Harvard Law School and a long-time activist working to get big money out of politics.

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Tuesday, February 20, 2018

The NRA has met its match

At a rally in Parkland, Florida, over the weekend, Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school student Emma Gonzalez had this message to share: "To the politicians who sit in their gilded House and Senate seats funded by the NRA telling us nothing could have ever been done to prevent this: We call BS!"

Dear MoveOn member,

At a rally in Parkland, Florida, over the weekend, Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school student Emma Gonzalez had this message to share: "To the politicians who sit in their gilded House and Senate seats funded by the NRA telling us nothing could have ever been done to prevent this: We call BS!"1

Brave students are leading the way, and it is up to us to follow them.

Click here to chip in $3 to help MoveOn raise $100,000 to organize in support of student-led efforts to end gun violence.

The students in Parkland are not just calling BS, they are turning their grief into action. Less than a week after 17 of their classmates and teachers were murdered in the hallways of their school, these students have made their demands very clear: They want to kick out members of Congress who take money from the NRA, make the NRA so toxic that no one else takes money from them in the future, and ban the assault weapons that have caused so much carnage in schools, nightclubs, concerts, and movie theaters across the country.2

Let's follow their lead and make sure we're mobilizing our resources for this fight. With your help, we will:

  • boost organizing for the student-led marches and walkouts in March and April by recruiting MoveOn's millions of members and using MoveOn's social media megaphone to help promote student-led events in Washington, D.C., and in communities across the country, and supporting as needed in other ways;
  • help ensure that millions of people hear what these young people are asking of all of us by amplifying videos of their speeches and interviews to our millions of social media followers;
  • keep campaigning to curb the power of the NRA all the way through this year's election by shining a spotlight on the politicians who are doing the NRA's bidding in Washington, D.C., and in states across the country, just as we helped do in the Virginia elections last year; and
  • look for ways to support youth leaders in future actions. The Parkland students have reminded all of us that young people will lead the way on this work. We will look for ways to support these and other student organizers as they plan and announce their next steps to fight for their lives against the gun lobby, and as students around the country identify specific needs.  

Click here to chip in $3 now to help rally behind student efforts to stop the epidemic of gun violence in our nation.

Thanks for all you do.

–Anna, Ilya, Anne, Manny, and the rest of the team

Sources:

1. "Florida student Emma Gonzalez to lawmakers and gun advocates: 'We call BS,'" CNN, February 17, 2018
 
2. "Mission Statement," March for Our Lives, accessed February 20, 2018

Want to support our work? The MoveOn community will work every moment, day by day and year by year, to resist Trump's agenda, contain the damage, defeat hate with love, and begin the process of swinging the nation's pendulum back toward sanity, decency, and the kind of future that we must never give up on. And to do it we need your support, now more than ever. Will you stand with us?

Click here to chip in $3, or whatever you can afford.


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Monday, February 19, 2018

A major rebuke to Donald Trump

I'm writing to tell you about one of the most inspiring candidates running anywhere in the country in 2018. Her name is Stacey Abrams. Stacey is running for governor of Georgia, and when she wins, she'll be the first Black woman ever to be a governor in America. The first ever.

Dear MoveOn member,

I'm writing to tell you about one of the most inspiring candidates running anywhere in the country in 2018. Her name is Stacey Abrams.

Stacey is running for governor of Georgia, and when she wins, she'll be the first Black woman ever to be a governor in America. The first ever.

Stacey is a passionate, progressive leader who will be a tireless advocate for the people of Georgia and a much-needed voice in our national conversation.

She has spent her life standing up to injustice and fighting to make life better for everyone around her. And now it is our turn to do the same for her. Will you chip in now to support Stacey's campaign for governor?

Yes, I'm in! I'll chip in $3 to help Stacey Abrams win.

Stacey was the minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives, which made her the first woman to lead a party in the state's legislature and the first Black person to lead a party in the Georgia House. She founded the New Georgia Project, which registered more than 200,000 voters of color between 2014 and 2016 and is on track to register an earthshaking 800,000 by 2024. And she runs a small business that helps other small businesses grow.

When MoveOn asked its members in Georgia whether to endorse in the governor's race, 82.5% said to support Stacey, and it is easy to see why.

She is an inspiration, and I am honored to stand with her.

And here's the thing: Shifting demographics, engaged Black voters, and Donald Trump's unpopularity make this a race Stacey can win—with our help.

So much is on the line in terms of our direction as a country, Eddie. Will you chip in $3—or whatever you can afford—to help out?

Click here now to donate to help Stacey Abrams become the next governor of Georgia.

I feel this in my heart: Stacey is the embodiment of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy.

As Dr. King said, it's not just the vitriolic words and violent actions of bad people that are responsible for where we are as a country. It's also the appalling silence and inaction of good people.

For Stacey to ascend to where our country needs her to be, we must wake up the conscience of good people. Because the opposite of justice isn't injustice; it's inaction and silence.

We need right now to create momentum—and that starts with you, Eddie.

Click here right now to chip in $3 to Stacey's campaign for governor.

Thanks for all you do.

–Senator Cory Booker

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Sunday, February 18, 2018

Hit the streets: Protect the Trump-Russia investigation (Event near you!)

MoveOn members and our allies are turning out in force during the congressional recess to make sure members of Congress and local media know that Americans are determined to protect our democracy.

YOU'RE INVITED!
"Expose the #CoverUpCaucus" Event
 
  
 
Where: Peter King's Office  (in Massapequa Park)
When: Thursday, February 22, 4:00 PM
What:

 Action to expose Trump's cover-up caucus and protect the Trump-Russia investigation!


Donald Trump is leading our country into authoritarianism, and he's doing everything he can to stop the investigation into his team's ties to Russia. But he's not acting alone. Trump can't obstruct the investigation without cover from his enablers in Congress, the #CoverUpCaucus.

That's why, throughout next week's congressional recess, MoveOn members and our allies will ask our members of Congress: Do you protect the Constitution, or do you protect Donald Trump? We will gather in support of the Trump-Russia criminal investigation, ask our members of Congress to call out or quit the #CoverUpCaucus, and make the demand: "Hands off the investigation—No President Is Above the Law."

Will you turn out this week to defend our democracy?
 
  
A person holding a sign! YES, I'LL BE THERE! People holding signs!
By choosing to attend this event, you are committing to participate nonviolently and in accordance with the law, to work to de-escalate confrontations with others, and to obey the orders of authorized event marshals and of law enforcement. You also acknowledge that you are solely responsible for any injury or damage to your person or property resulting from or occurring during this event and that you release all event sponsors and organizers (and their officers, directors, employees, and agents) from any liability for that injury or damage.

Want to support our work? The MoveOn community will work every moment, day by day and year by year, to resist Trump's agenda, contain the damage, defeat hate with love, and begin the process of swinging the nation's pendulum back toward sanity, decency, and the kind of future that we must never give up on. And to do it we need your ongoing support, now more than ever. Will you stand with us?

Yes, I'll chip in $5 a month.

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Saturday, February 17, 2018

The National Rifle Association

Sign and share my petition demanding politicians reject funding and campaign support from the National Rifle Association.

Dear fellow MoveOn member,

I am a teacher and practice "lockdown" drills now on what to do in the event of a school shooting. I should not have to make my students imagine a deranged gunman hunting them through the hallways of their place of learning and community.

Every time a tragedy such as Parkland occurs, we wring our hands, debate online, then forget about it, fail to take action, and it happens all over again while too many politicians are lining their pockets with tainted money from an evil organization that cares more about profits from gun and ammunition sales than it does about the lives of innocent men, women, and children.

That's why I started a petition demanding that politicians reject funding and campaign support from the National Rifle Association (NRA). Click here to sign and share my petition.

Stop taking money from the NRA.

After the Sandy Hook massacre of first graders and their teachers, more than 400 people have been shot in more than 200 school shootings.1

This doesn't even count churches, concerts, and other public spaces where people who have had too easy access to weapons specifically designed to kill people en masse have used them.

Politicians who take NRA money are complicit in gun violence. It's time that all politicians reject the NRA.

Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to your friends.

Thanks.

—Jody Hill

Source: 

1. "After Sandy Hook, More Than 400 People Have Been Shotin Over 200 School Shooting," The New York Times, February 15, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/33992?t=17&akid=199083%2E10220574%2EF9Xxjr

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Yes, I'll chip in $5 a month.

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Friday, February 16, 2018

Add your name: Ban assault weapons

Sign the petition to support a ban on assault weapons and large capacity magazines.

Dear MoveOn member,

Yesterday, another mass shooting took place in a school leaving 17 people dead and many others severely injured. It was the 18th school shooting in 2018, and it's only February.1,2

The shooter used an AR-15, a military-style assault weapon with large capacity magazines. This type of weapon was also used in previous mass shootings, including Aurora, Newtown, San Bernardino, Sutherland Springs, and Las Vegas.3

We do not want to hear our state and federal officials offering their thoughts and prayers for this latest tragedy—we want action now!

Sign the petition to ban military-style assault weapons and large capacity magazines in civilian society. They are designed to kill and injure large numbers of people in a short period of time.

Our schools must be havens for learning where students can feel safe and not have to worry about being gunned down in their own classrooms or on the playground. Military-style assault weapons are weapons of war and have no place in our communities.

We cannot allow the daily carnage in our country to be the new normal.

Tell Trump, Congress, and Florida legislators to act now to ban military-style assault weapons and large capacity magazines.

Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to your friends.

Thanks!

—Andy Pelosi, The Campaign to Keep Guns off Campus

Sources:

1. "Death Toll Is at 17 and Could Rise in Shooting," The New York Times, February 14, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/33970?t=17&akid=198998%2E10220574%2EGCwb59

2. "There have already been 18 school shootings in the US this year: Everytown," ABC News, February 14, 2018
http://act.moveon.org/go/33971?t=19&akid=198998%2E10220574%2EGCwb59

3. "Why the AR-15 keeps appearing at America's deadliest mass shootings," CNBC, February 15, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/33972?t=21&akid=198998%2E10220574%2EGCwb59

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Thursday, February 15, 2018

Expose the "Cover-Up Caucus"!

RSVP to an event to defend the Trump-Russia investigation.

Click here to RSVP for the Presidents Day congressional recess event near you to protect our democracy from Trump and the GOP Cover-Up Caucus!

Dear Eddie,

This is getting scary—the number three at the Department of Justice quit last week, opening the position that would oversee special counsel Robert Mueller if Donald Trump fires Mueller's current supervisor, Rod Rosenstein.1

We've got to step up our defense of the investigation and push back against the threats to our democracy from Trump and his GOP enablers. That's why MoveOn and our allies are hosting actions around the country from February 17-25 during the Presidents Day congressional recess aimed at exposing the Republican Cover-Up Caucus.

Fortunately, there's a #CoverUpCaucus event near you!

Can we count on you to attend? Click here to RSVP to the event.

It seems that Donald Trump is leading us further from democracy and closer to authoritarianism every day. The departure of the third in command at the DOJ, former Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand, increases concerns that Trump could put a loyalist in charge of overseeing Robert Mueller's investigation by cherry-picking her replacement and firing the current supervisor, Rod Rosenstein (which, as recently mentioned, would trigger the Nobody Is Above the Law network of rapid-response protests). This development feels like a continuation of the slow-motion version of Richard Nixon's "Saturday Night Massacre" happening in the administration, where individuals near the investigation are leaving or being forced out by Trump.

And of course Trump's refusal to release the memo drafted by Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee who reject the credibility of the "Nunes memo" shows just how one-sided Trump's supposed effort to root out bias in the investigation really is.2 

Our Nobody Is Above the Law network has succeeded wildly in setting up more than 800 national events with more than 225,000 participants ready to spring into action if Trump fires the people leading the independent investigation. But we need to do more than react to a firing—we want to prevent one!

Click here to attend the event in your area and help expose Trump's "Cover-Up Caucus," who are weakening our democracy and helping Trump.

Amidst all this craziness, we cannot give up hope. One silver lining of the abuse Trump is inflicting upon our democracy is that it makes the lines clearer than ever between those lawmakers serving the Constitution and all of us and those serving Donald Trump and themselves. Together we can help force them to make their position clear: Will they continue the cover-up, or will they help us get to the truth?

Thanks for all you do. 

–David, Gabby, Lisa, Milan, and the rest of the team

P.S. If you can't attend the event but want to do your part to help out, can you chip in a few bucks to support these events and our rapid-response work to defend the investigation? Your contributions will go directly to the costs of pushing back against the #CoverUpCaucus, such as printing signs for rallies in key areas, sending thousands of text messages asking MoveOn members near events to attend, and much more!

P.P.S. Even as we continue to campaign on other issues, our hearts break for the families in Florida following the fatal shooting and for everyone who has had to confront gun violence. Add your name to the petition calling for a ban on military-style assault weapons and large capacity magazines—the deadly weapons used in Parkland, Las Vegas, Sutherland Springs, Aurora, San Bernadino, Newtown, and so many other massacres.

Sources: 

1. "The Official Next in Line to Oversee the Russia Investigation Just Stepped Down," Mother Jones, February 9, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/33582?t=7&akid=198872%2E10220574%2EOO0lP2

2. "Trump Won't Declassify Democratic Rebuttal to Nunes," The Atlantic, February 9, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/33583?t=9&akid=198872%2E10220574%2EOO0lP2


Blood on their hands

Columbine. Virginia Tech. Sandy Hook. And now Parkland. They all used to be schools. Now they are sites of massacres. The grief I feel for the students, teachers, and families of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, is only matched by the rage of knowing that yesterday's tragedy was the eighteenth school shooting in the United States this year alone. And it's only February.

Dear MoveOn member,

Columbine. Virginia Tech. Sandy Hook. And now Parkland.

They all used to be schools. Now they are sites of massacres.

The grief I feel for the students, teachers, and families of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, is only matched by the rage of knowing that yesterday's tragedy was the 18th school shooting in the United States this year.1 And it's only February.

This does not happen anywhere else in the world. Only here. And while Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers again send out their "thoughts and prayers," I know that, as always, they will fall in line with the NRA and refuse to take any action that will make this stop.

Enough is enough.

We must fight back against the NRA by kicking the elected officials in its pocket out of office this November. Click here to chip in $3 to this urgent fight.

At least 17 people lost their lives yesterday. Kids. High school students with their entire lives ahead of them. Stolen from their families and the world by a lone gunman with an AR-15.

Just like the 26 people in a church in Texas. The 58 people at a concert in Las Vegas. The 49 people at a nightclub in Orlando. The 20 first graders and six teachers at an elementary school in Newtown. Tragedies so frequent that we can't even name them all.

The arc of our national response to each of these horrors—the grieving, anger, and "thoughts and prayers"—is by now terribly familiar. As is the absolute refusal by Republicans to enact any gun control legislation in the aftermath of these tragedies.

And that's even though a vast majority of Americans want more sensible laws to prevent gun violence, such as the 91% of Americans—and 74% of NRA members—who support legislation requiring universal background checks for gun purchases.2 And the 80% of Americans who want to see assault weapons taken out of the hands of civilians.3

Even after the Las Vegas massacre, when Republican members of Congress proposed a limited reform—banning bump stocks—the legislation went nowhere. Instead, the first gun-related legislation Congress considered after that act of mass gun violence was a bill to increase guns on our streets, at concerts, and near schools.4

Practically the only people that do not support any form of legislation to stop gun violence are the employees of the NRA and the Republican politicians who they own.

This tiny group of people are holding the rest of our lives hostage. The blood is on their hands.

Let's show them what a powerful opposition can do. Chip in $3 now to help us fight against the stranglehold of the NRA and inaction of Republican politicians.

MoveOn members have successfully confronted the NRA before:

  • After the 2015 campus shooting in Oregon, a group of gun-owning MoveOn members stood up to demand stricter gun laws. Among these 30,000 gun owners, a group of 12 came to Washington, D.C., and met with President Obama's team, and then several of these MoveOn members stood with President Obama when he signed executive actions to curb gun violence in 2016—demonstrating that we can make progress when we stand together.
  • After the massacre in Las Vegas, MoveOn members declared we would stand up to the NRA's mythic power in Virginia elections—then just weeks away. (Virginia is where the NRA is headquartered.) We threw ourselves into that get-out-the-vote effort along with so many others. Democrats, including progressive Democrats, prevailed in an election outcome that showed that Republicans and, yes, even the NRA, can be beaten.
  • And we've continued to elevate the voices of champions—from gun-owner Mark Carman whose honest, self-produced, rapid-response videos have been seen many millions of times, to former representative Gabby Giffords, to Sen. Chris Murphy, who led a filibuster on the Senate floor to demand action on gun violence. We've spread their messages with videos and social media posts that have reached tens of millions of people.

Click here to chip in $3 now to our all-in fight to stop the NRA and their enablers in Congress.

When we're the only nation that witnesses this particular type of horror with such frequency, we can't claim there's no way to tackle this problem.

It is not too soon to talk about how to stop this from happening again. It is not too soon to talk about holding elected officials accountable. It is not too soon to mobilize.

But it's too late if we don't act right now.

Please, click here now to chip in $3—or whatever you can afford.

Thanks for all you do.

–Anna, Kelly, Robert, Ben, and the rest of the team

Sources:

1. "The Florida School Shooting was the 18th School Shooting of the Year. And it's Only February," Time, February 14, 2018 

2. "Polling on Background Checks/Gun Shows/Private Sales," Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, last accessed February 14, 2018
http://act.moveon.org/go/33892?t=8&akid=198916%2E10220574%2EdZyT1R

3. "Poll: Majorities Of Both Parties Favor Increased Gun Restrictions," NPR, October 13, 2017
https://act.moveon.org/go/33895?t=10&akid=198916%2E10220574%2EdZyT1R

4. "Three Weeks After Las Vegas, Legislation to Ban Bump Stocks Has Stalled Out in Congress" The Daily Beast, October 23, 2017
https://act.moveon.org/go/33894?t=12&akid=198916%2E10220574%2EdZyT1R

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Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Me again!

It would be easy to dismiss the past year as chaos, partisanship, or politics. But it's bigger than that. This administration isn't just targeting the laws that protect us—they are targeting the very idea that we are all worthy of protection. For them, dignity isn't something you're born with, but something you measure by your net worth, your celebrity, your headlines, your crowd size.

Dear MoveOn member,

As I said in my speech in response to Trump's first State of the Union address, we all have that nagging, sinking feeling—no matter your political affiliation—that what is happening in our country is not right.

We see an economy that makes corporate profits climb but fails to give workers their fair share of the reward.

A government that struggles to keep itself open.

Russia knee-deep in our democracy.

An all-out war on environmental protection and complete denial of climate change.

A Justice Department rolling back civil and voting rights by the day.

Hatred and supremacy proudly marching in our streets.

Bullets tearing through our classrooms, concerts, and congregations.

A government hell-bent on making American life a zero-sum game, where for one of us to succeed, another must lose.

But we know the truth: that the strongest, richest nation on Earth should leave no one behind.

If we want to undo the damage Trump is doing to our country, then we must end Republican control of Congress in November. So I am reaching out and asking you today to do something very important:

Please rush a $3 donation to MoveOn’s groundbreaking, grassroots mobilization campaign to end Republican control of Congress this November. For us to win big in November, the work must begin today.

Yes, I’m in! I’ll chip in right now to end Republican control of Congress this November.

It would be easy to dismiss the past year as chaos, partisanship, or politics. But it's bigger than that.

This administration isn't just targeting the laws that protect us—they are targeting the very idea that we are all worthy of protection.

For them, dignity isn’t something you're born with, but something you measure by your net worth, your celebrity, your headlines, your crowd size.

Not to mention the gender of your spouse. The country of your birth. The color of your skin. The God of your prayers.

Their record is a rebuke of our highest American ideal: the belief that we are all worthy, we are all equal, and we all count—in the eyes of our law and our leaders, our God, and our government.

Instead, this administration is callously appraising our worthiness and determining who makes the cut and who can safely be bargained away without political consequences.

It's on all of us to show them the consequences of their actions. Please, click here right now to chip in $3 to MoveOn, and together we can send an unmistakable message to Trump by ending Republican control of Congress.

So often in the past year, we've been told it's us against them. Coal miners vs. single moms. Rural communities or inner cities. The coast or the heartland.

As if the mechanic in Pittsburgh and the teacher in Tulsa and the daycare worker in Birmingham are somehow bitter rivals, rather than mutual casualties of a system forcefully rigged for those at the top.

As if the parent who lies awake terrified that their transgender son will be beaten and bullied at school is any more or less legitimate than the parent whose heart is shattered by a daughter in the grips of the opioid addiction.

What we must do in this year and in the years to come is fight for everyone—because America is not a zero-sum game that picks winners and losers. We will choose to build a better country that is more fair, more equitable, where everyone in our nation has a chance to succeed because their government fights for them.

This November, let's show the Trump administration who we are as a country. We can end Republican control of Congress if we give it our all starting now, so please click here now to chip in $3—or whatever you can afford—to give MoveOn the resources to get their bold and innovative plan off the ground as soon as possible.

Our nation is strong and resilient, and in November, we’re going to score a resounding victory for justice, equality, and a system of government that works for all of us.

Thank you.

–Joe Kennedy III

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Thursday, February 8, 2018

Trump's poll numbers are on the rise

The votes are in: MoveOn members have voted 91% to 9% for MoveOn to run the biggest midterm elections program in our history, so today we are taking a big leap and launching the program. And this decision comes not a moment too soon, because the past week has brought a spate of troubling headlines from the nation's top election experts.

Dear MoveOn member,

The votes are in: MoveOn members have voted 91% to 9% for MoveOn to run the biggest midterm elections program in our history, so today we are taking a big leap and launching the program.

And this decision comes not a moment too soon, because the past week has brought a spate of troubling headlines from the nation's top election experts, such as "What Happened to the Democratic Wave?" and "The Last Two Weeks of Polls Have Been Great for Republicans. Do They Signal a Shift?"1,2

The New York Times put it this way: "Last month it seemed that Democrats might ride a giant tsunami to control of the House and Senate. Now, some are wondering whether there’s a Democratic wave at all."3

If we needed evidence that winning big in November is not a foregone conclusion, we have it. So we are getting to work right now systematically putting the pieces in place to win in November.

But launching a campaign of this size is a huge leap of faith, because we haven't yet raised even a fraction of the resources needed to run the program. Our funding comes from you, our members. So to pull off this $15 million campaign, we're counting on you. Will you chip in now?

Yes, I'm in! I'll chip in $3 now to help do what it takes to win big at the ballot boxes this November.

So what's behind headlines like these today from CNN and The Washington Post: "Republicans are suddenly more optimistic about the midterms" and "Improving poll numbers give Republicans hope that the midterms might not be so bad"?4,5

Polls are swinging toward Republicans. Donald Trump's approval rating is the highest it's been in nearly a year.6 And the Democrats' large advantage on the "generic ballot"—polls that ask people which party they would support in upcoming congressional elections—has evaporated to only a small lead.7

Here's our best understanding of what's happening: Corporate America has teamed up with Republicans in Congress and their billionaire donors to boost public opinion on the new tax law, touting and shining attention on companies announcing meager, one-time bonuses for some workers rather than the multibillion-dollar windfalls showered on the top 1%. And it's working.

Public opinion of the new tax law is shifting, even though the reality is that the vast majority of tax giveaways benefit billionaires and big corporations. And a majority of voters now say they approve of how Trump is handling the economy—and that Trump, not President Obama, is primarily responsible for the economy's health.8

That's why the road to winning in November begins now. Together, we're launching our largest midterm campaign ever, a $15 million effort to end Republican control of the House, win key Senate races, support 100 strong, diverse, progressive candidates for state and local office, and mobilize voters in every corner of the country. And we can't wait until November to fund this ambitious program.

Click here now to chip in $3—or whatever you can afford—to help fund this critical grassroots elections program.

We've resisted mightily this past year. Sometimes we've even succeeded against all odds.

And now it's time to electoralize the Resistance. November is coming. Let's resist—and win.

Thanks for all you do.

–Ilya, Stephen, Maria, Marie, and the rest of the team

P.S. Here's our elections plan in a nutshell:

  • We'll work to support 100 candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives to end Republican control of Congress—so we can expand the map, support a slate of progressive challengers, hold incumbent Republicans accountable for their votes, and put an end to attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, give handouts to massive corporations, and continue countless attacks on our communities.
  • We'll endorse progressive candidates in key Senate races and support 100 diverse, dynamic, fierce down-ballot candidates to build up progressive power at the state and local level around the country.
  • We'll build on the grassroots organizing tactics and technology that we developed and tested in 2017—tactics in the areas of recruitment, training, voter persuasion, mobilization, organizing, social media, mobile tools, tech, analytics, and video. For example, last year with our partners, we led a series of Ready to Resist mass mobilizing calls that regularly engaged tens of thousands of activists, and we also organized a Resistance Summer training program that supported 1,000 MoveOn members across the country as they developed powerful organizing skills. We will mobilize these members and train even more to lead this year.
  • We'll run a campaign that stands shoulder to shoulder with the communities most impacted by GOP attacks and policies—including Muslims, immigrants, LGBTQ folks, and people of color. These communities have been consistently used as scapegoats to mobilize Republican voters during elections. We will push back on candidates of either party who throw vulnerable communities under the bus to win elections, and we'll elevate candidates who authentically channel the voices of the diverse American electorate.
  • We'll scale our innovative social media persuasion testing and delivery technology that proved effective at persuading and turning out thousands of voters in both Virginia and Alabama last year. MoveOn's tech and mobile teams developed a new peer-to-peer messaging platform, Spoke, that has already been responsible for mobilizing 60,000 grassroots actions. We will put all of these tools to work in service of our electoral objectives in 2018.
  • We'll fund this work with hundreds of thousands of small-dollar contributions from MoveOn members in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories. And, if necessary, we will launch a Super PAC to enable us to collect more resources to maximize the power of MoveOn members. (The Super Pac would be time-limited, we'd disclose the names of donors giving over $200 publicly to the FEC, and we'd shut it down after the close of the election.)

It's a big, ambitious plan, but it will be possible only with your support, Eddie. Will you chip in now?

Yes, I'll chip in $3 to end Republican control of the House, win key Senate races, support 100 exceptional, diverse, progressive candidates for state and local office, and mobilize voters in every corner of the country.

Sources:

1. "What Happened To The Democratic Wave?" FiveThirtyEight, February 1, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/33484?t=5&akid=198536%2E10220574%2Eq24M7Y

2. "The Last Two Weeks of Polls Have Been Great for Republicans. Do They Signal a Shift?" The New York Times, February 2, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/33485?t=7&akid=198536%2E10220574%2Eq24M7Y

3. Ibid.

4. "Republicans are suddenly more optimistic about the midterms," CNN, February 8, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/33486?t=9&akid=198536%2E10220574%2Eq24M7Y

5. "Improving poll numbers give Republicans hope that the midterms might not be so bad," The Washington Post, February 8, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/33487?t=11&akid=198536%2E10220574%2Eq24M7Y

6. "Trump's Approval Rating Is the Highest It's Been in Nearly a Year, Poll Finds," Time, February 3, 2018
http://act.moveon.org/go/33488?t=13&akid=198536%2E10220574%2Eq24M7Y

7. "Are Democrats Winning The Race For Congress?" FiveThirtyEight, last accessed February 8, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/33104?t=15&akid=198536%2E10220574%2Eq24M7Y

8. "Republicans are suddenly more optimistic about the midterms," CNN, February 8, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/33486?t=17&akid=198536%2E10220574%2Eq24M7Y

Want to support our work? The MoveOn community will work every moment, day by day and year by year, to resist Trump's agenda, contain the damage, defeat hate with love, and begin the process of swinging the nation's pendulum back toward sanity, decency, and the kind of future that we must never give up on. And to do it we need your support, now more than ever. Will you stand with us?

Click here to chip in $3, or whatever you can afford.


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