The latest decision by the Supreme Court is an outrageous gift to Donald Trump and a knife in the heart of our democracy.

A federal appeals court had already issued a unanimous and scathing decision denying Trump's ridiculous claim of "absolute immunity" for his crimes, and all the Supreme Court had to do was to not take the case, allowing special counsel Jack Smith's case to move forward.¹

At least, that's what an ethical Supreme Court would have done—but we're talking about a court with Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito on it. And the court needed just four votes to take the case. So instead, the court waited two weeks to announce its decision and then delayed oral arguments until seven weeks from now.²

While it is likely that the court did this to help Trump by attempting to delay his trial until after the election, we cannot dismiss the possibility that the MAGA-controlled court could find in his favor, proclaiming that a president could assassinate political rivals without consequences. Truly.

The bottom line is that Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court likely has succeeded in locking down Smith's case against Trump until after voters go to the polls this November. As Rachel Maddow said, "It's BS."³

John, the Supreme Court isn't going to save us from Donald Trump. Special counsel Jack Smith isn't going to save us, either. We are going to have to save ourselves.

We are going to have to stand up for our democracy by mobilizing a wave of millions of people to the polls. And that isn't going to be easy, because as a recent New York Times analysis showed, this election is going to be decided by turning out "surge" voters—those who voted in 2016 but are leaning toward staying home this time.⁴ This is what MoveOn was made for, and what we've been able to do better than anyone else in our 25-year history. Whether we can do it this time depends on what our members do right now.

We've kicked off our $32 million plan to reach the millions of voters we need to surge to the polls. Will you join our fight and donate $5 a month to help save our democracy from the corrupt Supreme Court and Donald Trump?

In case there is any question that this decision was tailor-made for Trump's election, the Supreme Court had the opportunity to decide this exact issue last year, but they refused.⁵

Instead, the Supreme Court gave Trump exactly what he wanted: the ability to use his absurd immunity claim as a ploy to delay his trial until after the election.⁶

An ethical Supreme Court would have forced Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from Trump's issues long ago, as his wife is deeply mired in the January 6 case.⁷ But as we know, we aren't dealing with an ethical Supreme Court.

That's why we can't rely on the Supreme Court to do what's right about Trump in this moment. We have to make sure the result of this election is so clear that the Supreme Court doesn't have the opportunity to interfere again in November, either.

We are motivated by our outrage, John. Put your outrage to work with MoveOn by donating $5 a month to power and sustain our work from now through Election Day.

The airwaves are flooded right now with election ads, but most studies show that these ads don't really move the needle at all on voter choices and turnout at the polls.⁸

If we're going to soundly defeat Trump, we need to lean hard into our vote tripling, a tactic MoveOn pioneered at scale in 2020.

Vote tripling is based on relational organizing—the idea that people are much more likely to listen to their friends and social networks than anonymous ads and outreach. Relational organizing has been proven to be the absolute best way, by orders of magnitude, to not only inform people but turn them into likely voters who will show up on Election Day.⁹

MoveOn has taken relational organizing and super-powered it by providing, at scale, an easy way to reach out to friends and family, talk to them about the issues they care about the most, and help them make a plan to get to the polls. Not only did MoveOn's vote tripling result in 50,000 unlikely voters casting a ballot in 2020 in key states and districts, it's been proven to be as much as five times more effective than other methods!

So here's the plan: Our analytics team has already identified the 11 million surge voters in key states who might not go to the polls without motivation and encouragement. Now we're activating our political experts and seasoned organizers to begin the outreach—helping educate these voters who are less likely to be following politics and the news about all that is at stake—through postcards sent by volunteers, targeted ads, texts and phone-banking, and more, about the terrible policies that Trump plans to implement and we know those voters disagree with. Then we will kick off vote tripling and get them to the polls!

John, it's decision time. It's going to be Trump on that ballot, and our legal system isn't going to stop him. We have to stop him ourselves, and we need you with us.

Please, help us engage and motivate voters in battleground states from now through November so we can turn them out on Election Day. Donate $5 a month to power and sustain this democracy-saving work.

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