MoveOn's campaign to disqualify Donald Trump from the ballot is gaining steam. There's been a growing drumbeat of headlines in recent weeks like this one in Tuesday's Washington Post: "Could the 14th Amendment keep Trump off the ballot in 2024?"¹

And in The New York Times: "Conservative Case Emerges to Disqualify Trump for Role on Jan. 6."² In the Atlantic: "The Constitution Prohibits Trump From Ever Being President Again."³ In Politico: "The sleeper legal fight that could define 2024: Is Trump even eligible to run?"⁴

And, in state papers, such as Maine's Portland Press Herald: "Maine officials evaluating whether Trump can appear on ballot."⁵ In New Hampshire's Concord Monitor: "N.H. Attorney General will consider Trump's eligibility to run again."⁶ And in Ohio's Toledo Blade: "Constitution's insurrection clause may block Trump from 2024 ballots."⁷

Even legal scholars at the Federalist Society, the group that orchestrated the far-right takeover of our courts, concluded after a two-year study: "Donald Trump cannot be president—cannot run for president, cannot become president, cannot hold office—unless two-thirds of Congress decides to grant him amnesty for his conduct on Jan. 6."⁸

The Constitution's 14th Amendment bars people from holding office if they took an oath to support the Constitution and have later "engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."⁹

That's why MoveOn launched a campaign last spring to convince state election officials to disqualify Trump from the ballot, and our hard work is starting to pay off in the media and in state after state. We were among the earliest groups to push this demand—and now it's gaining steam. But, as a grassroots organization, our resources come from you, our members, and we need to raise the resources to sustain and ramp up the campaign as the election approaches.

Can you chip in $5 a month to help us do whatever it takes to disqualify Trump from the 2024 ballot?

Even just a few months ago, very few leaders were willing to consider calling for disqualification under the 14th Amendment. Now, that tune is changing—and Trump's series of indictments create even more of an opportunity.

Fortunately, MoveOn members and our allies have already been laying the groundwork for the demand he be disqualified—and more and more leading voices are amplifying this call.

California Representative Adam Schiff, the lawyer and constitutional scholar who led Trump's first impeachment, said Sunday on MSNBC, "By the clear terms of the 14th Amendment, [Trump] should be disqualified from holding office."¹⁰

In New Hampshire, which has long been one of the first states to cast ballots in the presidential primary, Bryant Messner, a Republican whom Trump endorsed for U.S. Senate in 2020, asked the state's attorney general to determine whether Trump qualifies for the ballot.¹¹

And in a radio interview last week, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said "there are valid legal arguments being made" for keeping Trump off the ballot and that it's something she is discussing with other secretaries of state, including those in presidential battlegrounds.¹²

Disqualifying Trump from state ballots is going to be one of the biggest political battles of the 2024 race, and Trump knows it. That's why he lashed out on Monday on his social media platform "Truth Social" that using the 14th Amendment to disqualify him is "just another 'trick' being used by the Radical Left Communists, Marxists, and Fascists, to again steal an Election."¹³

John, we have to come together to demand that state officials uphold the Constitution and disqualify Trump from the ballot, but it's going to take a massive effort. That's why MoveOn ran a powerful ad during the first Republican presidential debate calling on Trump to be disqualified and why we're organizing state by state. Already, nearly 400,000 people have signed our petition to disqualify Trump. But we've just gotten started, and we need your help to fuel our work to disqualify Trump from the ballot and protect U.S. democracy.

Are you in, John? Will you help keep Trump off the 2024 ballot? Chip in $5 a month to power and sustain this democracy-saving work.

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