Dear John:

As if we don’t have enough to worry about, ALEC (the American Legislative Exchange Council) and the far Right are waging a dark money campaign to force the first constitutional convention since 1787.

Their billionaire backers’ goal is to “reverse 115 years of progressivism,” according to Mark Meckler, the Tea Party leader of Convention of States Action.

In fact, the endgame is even more drastic: to radically rewrite the U.S. Constitution to create a new Confederacy of sorts with a weak central government and sovereign states.

If they get their way, hundreds of civil rights, environmental protection, labor, and consumer protection laws would be nullified, a simple majority of states could veto any federal law they don’t like, and crucial safety net programs like Social Security and Medicare would be put on the chopping block.

The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) has dug behind the scenes to provide cutting-edge reporting and analysis on this threat, and they rely on people like you to keep their investigations going.

This year, CMD:

• Blew the whistle on ALEC’s plan to aggregate unrelated convention resolutions and use conservative courts to force Congress to call a constitutional convention;
   
• Exposed the Right’s scheme to rig the rules of a convention to give them supermajority control over what constitutional amendments get proposed by it; and
   
• Reported on the radical amendments adopted by more than 100 Republican legislators and activists acting as delegates at a mock constitutional convention this summer in Colonial Williamsburg.

In my book, Democracy in Chains, I revealed the Right’s decades-long stealth campaign to reverse-engineer America back to the days when corporations reigned supreme and rigged the legal and constitutional rules to work in their favor. And that’s exactly what they are trying to do now with their con con scheme!

I could never have connected all the dots in my research without CMD’s intrepid reporting. CMD has been ahead of the pack in alerting Americans to these threats and sounding the alarm for 30 years. That’s one of the reasons I joined CMD's Board of Directors, and that's why I’m reaching out to you now to make a tax-deductible donation to CMD today.

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It will take an informed and outraged public to put a stop to these pernicious plans, and no one is doing more than CMD to get the story out.

So on CMD's 30^th anniversary, please join me in supporting their award-winning investigations. Together, we can make a difference!

Thank you for your kindness and generosity, and I wish you all the best this holiday season.

Nancy MacLean
CMD Board Member

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