John, today’s Supreme Court ruling to let Trump off the hook for January 6th could usher in a dark era for our democracy – but it doesn’t have to.
That’s because anybody who needed a wake-up call about what’s at stake in 2024 just got one loud and clear. Now, in response to today’s decision, I am directing the Common Cause team to immediately scale up our plans to protect voters in 2024.
This is a dark day for our country. The Supreme Court has refused to allow states to hold Trump accountable to the law and to the U.S. Constitution. As a result, the forces behind January 6th will be newly emboldened – and we must be prepared.
But all isn’t lost. Despite Trump’s efforts to engineer doubt in our elections and stoke a violent overthrow in 2020, the People’s voice still won out. And John, Common Cause’s Protect The Vote efforts in 2020 were absolutely critical to that outcome.
We fielded tens of thousands of trained, nonpartisan volunteers at high-risk polling sites across the country. And by doing so, we helped hundreds of thousands of voters – from Arizona to Georgia to Michigan – make their voices heard.
That’s the impact you can measure – voters who, were it not for our hard-working volunteers, would have been denied their rights due to last-minute polling place closures, vote-suppressing online disinformation, or even vigilantes posted at polling places.
For me, protecting the 2020 election against those threats – and ensuring the will of the people was ultimately respected – is one of my proudest memories as a Common Causer. But John, today’s dangerous ruling means we’ll need to do it all again and go even bigger.
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This won’t be easy, but I hope we can all agree that it is nothing less than a necessity if we want to leave a democracy for the next generation.
Thank you,
Kathay Feng, Vice President of Programs
and the team at Common Cause
