John,

Brace yourselves: Gov. Ron DeSantis is running for president, and planning to announce his bid sometime soon; and it looks like it could be as soon as tonight. That's more than enough for us to take our work to the next gear.

Ron DeSantis has one mission: to run the entire country like Florida 🥴

Throughout his political career , DeSantis has made decisions and enacted policies that have only furthered his dangerous agenda and targeted hard-working Black people, vulnerable communities, and our children.


Here are a few bills that paint the picture – DeSantis is the worst nightmare for ALL of us.

• In Florida alone, there are over 2 million students who are enrolled in public schools compared to the 400 thousand in private schools, and yet the HB 1 bill (supported by DeSantis) is designed to defund Florida public schools and supply 4 BILLION to private charter schools. More school choice is good for Black families, but effectively defunding traditional public schools, a main gateway for education for so many Black children, does not increase school choice.

• With gun violence at an all-time high, DeSantis wants to lower the legal age to purchase a rifle from 21 to 18 years old with the HB 1543 bill – yes, that's completely disregarding the 131 mass shootings that have occurred just this year. In 2018, advocates fought hard to increase the legal age to 21 after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Remarkably, since it passed, there has not been another school shooting in the state of Florida. Why on earth would DeSantis want to go backwards on this issue? His priorities are corrupt, just like him.

• Black women are constantly denied resources, services, and information needed to make personal decisions regarding their reproductive health, and still, DeSantis has for the better half of this year focused on a law that bans abortions after 6 weeks of pregnancy. We don't need another presidential candidate that fails to understand that decisions regarding reproductive health care should be left up to those who are pregnant and their doctors - DeSantis, a privileged white man, knows nothing about pregnancy.

Now you can understand why we need all the support we can get. DeSantis has used the state of Florida as a playground to aggressively enact laws that will devastate Black communities – just imagine what he'll do to the rest of the country if given the opportunity.

John, we can't defeat DeSantis and his racist agenda without you. Please chip in to fuel our efforts >>>


In love and solidarity,

Black Lives Matter PAC

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