We live-streamed Elizabeth Warren's statement today where she said she is
"thinking about all the people who turned their lives upside down to be a
part of this campaign."

[ [link removed] ]Watch here (and follow us on Facebook while you're there.)

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personal note and thank her on Twitter.)

As you have probably heard, Elizabeth Warren just announced that she is
ending her campaign for president.

We are so proud of how Elizabeth changed the substance of the 2020
election, inspired millions of Americans, and brought so many new people
into the progressive movement.

[ [link removed] ]Sign the thank-you card to Elizabeth Warren and, if you'd like, add a
personal note to her. We will personally deliver the card to her with your
signature and note in the coming days. (After you sign, we'll also help
you say thanks to her on Twitter.)

[ [link removed] ]Turn on images to see the thank-you card to Elizabeth Warren.

The card says:

"We are confident that as she figures out her next steps, she will put the
thought, care, strategy, and effectiveness into that decision making that
one would expect of the Elizabeth Warren we know and love.

We 100% know that the ripple effects of Elizabeth Warren's big ideas
campaign for president will be felt for months, years, and decades -- and
someday a little girl who pinky swore to Elizabeth that she would run for
office will be sworn into Congress and as President."

[ [link removed] ]Sign the thank-you card to Elizabeth Warren and, if you'd like, add
your own personal note of thanks. We will personally-deliver it to her.

Elizabeth Warren once told us "PCCC members were with me since the
beginning -- even before there was a beginning! Now, we have lots of work
to do together." That remains as true now as the day she said it.

Thanks for being a bold progressive.

-- The PCCC Elections Team

P.S. Elizabeth shared these remarks in a call with her campaign staff:

I want to start with the news. I want all of you to hear it first, and I
want you to hear it straight from me: Today, I’m suspending our campaign
for president.

I know how hard all of you have worked. So from the bottom of my heart,
thank you for everything you have poured into this campaign.

I know that when we set out, this was not what you ever wanted to hear. It
is not the call I ever wanted to make. But I refuse to let disappointment
blind me — or you — to what we’ve accomplished. We didn’t reach our goal,
but what we have done together — what you have done — has made a lasting
difference. It’s not the scale of the difference we wanted to make, but it
matters — and the changes will have ripples for years to come.

What we have done — and the ideas we have launched into the world, the way
we have fought this fight, the relationships we have built — will carry
through, carry through for the rest of this election, and the one after
that, and the one after that. So think about it: W

e have shown that it is possible to build a grassroots movement that is
accountable to supporters and activists and not to wealthy donors — and to
do it fast enough for a first-time candidate to build a viable campaign.
Never again can anyone say that the only way that a newcomer can get a
chance to be a plausible candidate is to take money from corporate
executives and billionaires. That’s done.

We have also shown that it is possible to inspire people with big ideas,
possible to call out what’s wrong and to lay out a path to make this
country live up to its promise.

We have also shown that race and justice — economic justice, social
justice, environmental justice, criminal justice — are not an
afterthought, but are at the heart of everything that we do.

We have shown that a woman can stand up, hold her ground, and stay true to
herself — no matter what.

We have shown that we can build plans in collaboration with the people who
are most affected. You know, just one example: Our disability plan is a
model for our country, and, even more importantly, the way we relied on
the disability communities to help us get it right will be a more
important model.

And one thing more: Campaigns take on a life and soul of their own and
they are a reflection of the people who work on them.

This campaign became something special, and it wasn’t because of me. It
was because of you. I am so proud of how you all fought this fight
alongside me: You fought it with empathy and kindness and generosity — and
of course, with enormous passion and grit.

Some of you may remember that long before I got into electoral politics, I
was asked if I would accept a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that
was weak and toothless.

And I replied that my first choice was a consumer agency that could get
real stuff done, and my second choice was no agency and lots of blood and
teeth left on the floor.

In this campaign, we have been willing to fight, and when necessary, we
left plenty of blood and teeth on the floor. And I can think of one
billionaire who has been denied the chance to buy this election.

Now, campaigns change people. And I know that you will carry the
experiences you have had here, the skills you’ve learned, the friendships
you have made, will be with you for the rest of your lives. I also want
you to know that you have changed me, and I will carry you in my heart for
the rest of my life.

So if you leave with only one thing, it must be this: Choose to fight only
righteous fights, because then when things get tough — and they will — you
will know that there is only one option ahead of you: Nevertheless, you
must persist.

You should all be so proud of what we’ve done together — what you have
done over this past year.

We built a grassroots campaign that had some of the most ambitious
organizing targets ever — and then we turned around and surpassed them.

Our staff and volunteers on the ground knocked on over 22 million doors
across the country. You made 20 million phone calls and sent more than 42
million texts to voters. That’s truly astonishing. It is.

We fundamentally changed the substance of this race.

You know a year ago, people weren’t talking about a two-cent wealth tax,
universal childcare, cancelling student loan debt for 43 million Americans
while reducing the racial wealth gap, or breaking up big tech. Or
expanding Social Security. And now they are. And because we did the work
of building broad support for all of those ideas across this country,
these changes could actually be implemented by the next president.

A year ago, people weren’t talking about corruption, and they still aren’t
talking about it enough. But we’ve moved the needle, and a hunk of our
anti-corruption plan is already embedded in a House bill that is ready to
go when we get a Democratic Senate.

We also advocated for fixing our rigged system in a way that will make it
work better for everyone — regardless of your race, or gender, or
religion, regardless of whether you’re straight or LGBTQ+. And that wasn’t
an afterthought, it was built into everything we did.

And we did all of this without selling access for money. Together, more
than 1,250,000 people gave more than $112 million dollars to support this
campaign. And we did it without selling one minute of my time to the
highest bidder. People said that would be impossible — but you did that.

And we also did it by having fun and by staying true to ourselves. We ran
from the heart. We ran on our values. We ran on treating everyone with
respect and dignity.

You know liberty green everything was key here — my personal favorites
included the liberty green boas, liberty green sneakers, liberty green
make up, liberty green hair, and liberty green glitter — liberally
applied. But it was so much more.

Four-hour selfie lines and pinky promises with little girls. And a wedding
at one of our town halls. We were joyful and positive through all of it.
We ran a campaign not to put people down, but to lift them up — and I
loved pretty much every minute of it.

So take some time to be with your friends and family, to get some sleep,
maybe to get that haircut you’ve been putting off. Do things to take care
of yourselves, gather up your energy, because I know you are coming back.
I know you — and I know that you aren’t ready to leave this fight.

You know, I used to hate goodbyes. Whenever I taught my last class or when
we moved to a new city, those final goodbyes used to wrench my heart. But
then I realized that there is no goodbye for much of what we do.

When I left one place, I took everything I’d learned before and all the
good ideas that were tucked into my brain and all the good friends that
were tucked in my heart, and I brought it all forward with me — and it
became part of what I did next. This campaign is no different. I may not
be in the race for president in 2020, but this fight — our fight — is not
over. And our place in this fight has not ended.

Because for every young person who is drowning in student debt, for every
family struggling to pay the bills on two incomes, for every mom worried
about paying for prescriptions or putting food on the table, this fight
goes on.

For every immigrant and African American and Muslim and Jewish person and
Latinx and trans woman who sees the rise in attacks on people who look or
sound or worship like them, this fight goes on.

And for every person alarmed by the speed with which climate change is
bearing down upon us, this fight goes on.

And for every American who desperately wants to see our nation healed and
some decency and honor restored to our government, this fight goes on.

And sure, the fight may take a new form, but I will be in that fight, and
I want you in this fight with me. We will persist.

One last story: When I voted yesterday at the elementary school down the
street, a mom came up to me. And she said she has two small children, and
they have a nightly ritual. After the kids have brushed teeth and read
books and gotten that last sip of water and done all the other bedtime
routines, they do one last thing before the two little ones go to sleep.
Mama leans over them and whispers, “Dream big.” And the children together
reply, “Fight hard.”

Our work continues, the fight goes on, and big dreams never die.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

[ [link removed] ]Sign the thank-you card to Elizabeth Warren and, if you'd like, add a
personal note to her. We will personally deliver the card to her with your
signature and note in the coming days. (After you sign, we'll also help
you say thanks to her on Twitter.)

 


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