"This is BS." That's how Rachel Maddow responded to the Supreme Court's decision to shamelessly intervene to help Donald Trump win the presidency.

Dear MoveOn member,

"This is BS." That's how Rachel Maddow responded to the Supreme Court's decision to shamelessly intervene to help Donald Trump win the presidency.1

Yesterday, the court overturned the Colorado Supreme Court decision disqualifying Trump from the 2024 ballot.2

And last Wednesday, the court intervened to help Trump avoid a conviction for his attempt to overthrow American democracy.3 The Supreme Court will hear his outrageous claim of “absolute” presidential immunity from prosecution for interfering in the 2020 election.4

A federal appeals court had already ruled unanimously against Trump, calling his actions, in a strongly worded opinion "an unprecedented assault on the structure of our government."5 But now the Supreme Court's intervention could delay this most critical case until after the 2024 election—or derail the case entirely.6

That means, if he were reelected, Trump would be able to direct the Justice Department to drop the prosecution.

John, one thing is crystal clear: The Supreme Court will not save our democracy or our nation from Trump. In fact, they're openly enabling him.

That's why MoveOn has a powerful campaign to target the key voters in the battleground districts who will decide this election and defeat Trump—but our campaign is projected to cost $32 million, and as a grassroots organization, MoveOn needs your help to finance it.

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?

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John, as The New York Times recently reported, elections are "decided not only by those who cast votes but also by those who don't."7

In the past, campaigns would target "swing voters"—voters who would vote for Democrats in one election and Republicans in another.

But as our politics have become more divisive and polarized, the number of swing voters has diminished significantly.8

In their place, a different kind of voter has grown more important: one who vacillates not so much between parties or candidates but between voting and not voting.9

A "nonvoter" can transform into a voter at any time—and if most of them break in the same direction, their decision to participate can be decisive.

And here's the important part: MoveOn knows exactly how to turn out these exact voters in November.

For months, MoveOn's data science team has been crunching the numbers. And our crack data scientists have identified 11 million "surge" voters—Democratic-leaning voters who don't regularly vote—in battleground states, who will make the difference between winning and losing this November.

MoveOn will contact these voters through postcards, targeted ads, text messages, phone-banking, and more, to tell them about the terrible policies that Trump plans to implement and that we know those voters disagree with.

Then, as the election nears in the fall, we will kick our get-out-the-vote operation into high gear with our "vote tripling" program. Vote tripling is an evidence-based tactic grounded in 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.

Will you help power and sustain our game-changing election work through Election Day by donating $5 a month?

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As a MoveOn member, you know that our very democracy is on the line this year. You know we must do everything possible to stop a MAGA takeover.

And you know that MoveOn was built for this work: For more than a quarter of a century, we've been the ones pounding the pavement and doing whatever is necessary to get voters to the polls. We will succeed in November—if you join the fight right now.

Please, help us engage and motivate voters in battleground states now through November so we can turn them out on Election Day. Donate $5 a month to MoveOn.

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Thanks for all you do.

–Alexis, Oscar, Sana, Seth, and the rest of the team

Sources:

1. "Rachel Maddow Fries SCOTUS for Trump Immunity Hearing Date: 'It's BS' and 'They Don't Care That We Know It' | Video," The Wrap, February 28, 2024
https://act.moveon.org/go/187994?t=8&akid=377010%2E40999114%2EqeaY4e

2. "The Supreme Court's 'Unanimous' Trump Ballot Ruling Is Actually a 5–4 Disaster," Slate, March 4, 2024
https://act.moveon.org/go/188029?t=10&akid=377010%2E40999114%2EqeaY4e

3. "Supreme Court hands Trump a gift," The Guardian, February 29, 2024
https://act.moveon.org/go/187997?t=12&akid=377010%2E40999114%2EqeaY4e

4. Ibid.

5. "Trump has no immunity from Jan. 6 prosecution, appeals court rules," The Washington Post, February 6, 2024
https://act.moveon.org/go/187998?t=14&akid=377010%2E40999114%2EqeaY4e

6. Ibid.

7. "They Could Decide the 2024 Election. If They Vote." The New York Times Magazine, March 1, 2024
https://act.moveon.org/go/187753?t=16&akid=377010%2E40999114%2EqeaY4e

8. Ibid.

9. Ibid.

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