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Indivisibles,

Our country is facing numerous challenges -- everything from safeguarding the economy to defending bodily autonomy -- and Democrats are doing all they can to address them by working to fully implement the economy-growing provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act, by advancing the effort to cancel student loan debt, and by fighting back against right-wing extremists in court who want to further undermine abortion access.

Republicans are responding to these challenges by...impeaching Joe Biden for some reason.

Last week, Speaker McCarthy announced that the House of Representatives would be proceeding with an impeachment inquiry against President Biden based on vague claims that there are “allegations of abuse of power, obstruction and corruption.” Is there evidence of any of those things? No, but this is party of MAGA we’re talking about here. They’ve been “investigating” the president and his family for 9 months, and they have absolutely nothing to show for it -- even some of their own reports have shown that President Biden and his family have done nothing wrong.

If all of this has left your head spinning, or if you’re curious about how any of this is different from the whole lotta nothing Republicans have been doing for the last year, here’s a quick explainer:

The MAGA GOP has been “investigating” Joe Biden and his family since the start of this Congress, and has yet to uncover anything at all. In theory, impeachment inquiries are supposed to be based on evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors, like, say, calling the leader of a foreign country and trying to bribe him to dig up dirt on your political opponent, or perhaps something like inciting a deadly insurrection because you lost a presidential election. There is zero evidence that Joe Biden has committed any offense that would rise to this level.
Moreover, Speaker McCarthy is refusing to take the necessary step of opening the impeachment inquiry with a floor vote in the House, primarily because he wants to protect his caucus from having to go on the record supporting an impeachment inquiry that started out as a Marjorie Taylor Greene fever dream. Since it’s likely that this impeachment inquiry lacks any real authority, that means that there really is no difference between it and the absurd investigations that the GOP have already been pursuing. In other words, this whole “Biden impeachment” exists only as a messaging opportunity for MAGA to elevate conspiracy theories in the media.

Pursuing impeachment isn’t necessarily a surprise -- the same MAGA representatives in the House who are primarily responsible for handing Speaker McCarthy his job (like Marjorie Taylor Greene) literally ran on a promise to impeach President Biden, whether or not they could find a legitimate justification for doing so.

And guess what? They never did find a legitimate justification, but their phony impeachment push continues forward.

The MAGA impeachment mind virus has infected even vulnerable Republicans -- the group we’ve been calling the Unrepresentative 18, House Republicans who won in districts that had previously gone for Biden in the 2020 election. These vulnerable members should be doing everything they can to demonstrate to their constituents that they take their jobs seriously and are working hard to deliver for them. Instead, many of them are throwing in their lot with the extremist wing of their party to call for further nonsensical “investigations” of the president.

So why are they doing this? Because they’re still mad that Donald Trump was impeached, twice, and because Trump himself is demanding that House Republicans avenge him. Did Joe Biden do anything wrong? No. Is Trump a big crybaby? Yes. And unfortunately, the latter is all House Republicans care about.

The only way we can end this absolute clown show is to defeat the MAGA GOP up and down the ballot next year and take back control of the House. The adults are ready to get to work and solve the pressing issues we’re facing -- and it’s time that every Republican, especially the Unrepresentative 18, pay a political price for their disgusting extremism and their refusal to actually serve the American people. If you can, chip in now and help us make sure we have all the resources we need to flip these 18 seats and secure the House.

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Thank you for staying in this fight with us.

In solidarity,
Meagan Hatcher-Mays
Director of Democracy Policy, Indivisible

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