Jack, during a campaign stop over the weekend, Trump vowed to remain in the race for the highest office in the land even if he is convicted.

We need to take Trump at his word here. Remember when the infamous Access Hollywood tape surfaced? In that tape, Trump said (this quote still fills me with anger and makes me sick): "I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. ... Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything." He said he would stay in the race then, and he did—and he won the Electoral College vote and the presidency.

Trump is the frontrunner for the Republican nomination by pretty hefty margins. We have to face the reality that there is nothing we can do to dissuade his rabid followers from voting for him.

However, the general election is a different story. Just as we did in 2020, we can turn out enough voters to beat him at the ballot box. And it's not just Trump, we need to defeat his cronies and enablers at every level of government, in every corner of the country.

This is the time in the election cycle that we need to start building our own structure to support Democrats running for office, up and down the ballot in every corner of the country. Instead, we are focused on our own grassroots fundraising—our largest source of funding—so we can pay our bills. Can you support Daily Kos and our work with a donation of $5?

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There is so much on the line in the upcoming election: Control of the Senate, winning back the House (which just got easier thanks to a surprising pro-democracy ruling from the right-wing Supreme Court), defeating Trump again, and winning numerous state offices, too. We have to win in order to ensure our rights and freedoms, and protect our democracy.

In 2020, we recruited over 111,000 volunteers from our community of grassroots activists to help turn out the vote using innovative tools and a wide variety of proven get out the vote methods. We also raised over $14 million for candidates and progressive community groups to help register, educate and turnout voters. If we want to stop a Republican fascist takeover, we need to do better than we did in 2020.

Unfortunately, financially speaking, the last five months have been hard for Daily Kos. We have seen two out of three of our revenue sources continually miss their projections. So instead of fundraising for future candidates and grassroots organizations that mobilize voters in their communities, we have had to pour our energy into making sure that we, as an organization, can make our own ends meet.

Please. I cannot go through another four years of a Trump presidency. Can you, Jack? That's why I am writing to you today, Jack: Can you support Daily Kos and our work with a donation of $5?

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