Dear MoveOn member,

Yesterday, after being trounced in state after state on Super Tuesday,
Nikki Haley dropped out of the Republican presidential race. With no
opponents left, Donald Trump is now officially the presumptive nominee.

John, if you were waiting until the general election began to
get involved or if you were hoping that Trump would somehow be stopped
during the primaries, it's not going to happen. The general election has
begun, and Trump will be on the ballot in November.



There is no other option: We must do everything we can to stop him. MoveOn
is running an innovative, data-driven $32 million program to do just that,
but we can do it only with your help. Please, if you are able, take this
opportunity to get off the sidelines and start a $5 monthly
donation to MoveOn today to power and sustain our campaign to defeat Trump
and defend democracy.

[ [link removed] ]Yes, I'll chip in monthly.

[ [link removed] ]No, I'm sorry, I can't make a monthly donation.



Fascism is not a word we throw around lightly, but it is the reality we
are facing if Trump wins a second term.

It doesn't just mean right-wing extremism; instead, fascism is a
well-defined set of ideas that center on providing a dictatorial leader
with enormous power while also ...

Rejecting democracy and the rule of law.

By refusing to accept the results of the 2020 election, Trump has already
made it clear that he does not believe in our democracy.^1 He has also
promised to change government rules in ways that would allow him to
unilaterally fire thousands of government workers he deems "disloyal" and
install those who will do his bidding, the law be damned.^2

Defining one racial or religious group as superior to all others.

He has fully embraced white Christian nationalism, a political movement
that seeks to turn the United States into an extremist Christian
theocracy; has said that immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our
country"; and even echoed Adolf Hitler by referring to his political
opponents as "vermin."^3,4

Fomenting public rage by creating scapegoats and spreading conspiracy
theories and misinformation about them.

Trump has worked to convince his supporters not to trust the mainstream
media, priming them to reject the truth and accept a twisted version of
reality that he weaves for his own benefit. He has repeatedly denied
science and last week declared that he would withhold federal funding from
schools that require childhood vaccinations.^5 And, of course, he
encouraged the deadly violence during the January 6 insurrection.^6

Relying on brute strength and violence to accomplish their goals.

During the uprisings following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, Trump
reportedly believed that the protests made him look weak and asked his
Joint Chiefs of Staff to have the military "just shoot [the protestors] in
the legs or something."^7 In a second term, he has also promised to invoke
the Insurrection Act to give him the authority to mass-arrest peaceful
protestors and has vowed to send the U.S. Army into large Democratically
controlled cities to do his bidding.

Most frighteningly, when asked about the war in Gaza last week, Trump said
ominously that "you've got to finish the problem," indicating he would
support increasing attacks on Palestinians in the region.^8

Reinforcing a patriarchal power structure by stripping rights away from
women, gender-nonconforming, trans, and nonbinary people.

Donald Trump has repeatedly bragged about being responsible for
overturning Roe v. Wade by packing the Supreme Court with corrupt MAGA
loyalists, and if elected, he will sign a federal abortion ban into law.^9
He has also pledged to ban gender-affirming care for minors nationwide and
supports the MAGA book bans that are attempting to silence LGBTQ+ voices
and enforce a strict gender binary on children.^10

There is no other word to describe all of these policies than fascism.
Which is why we have to do whatever we can to stop Trump from carrying out
his plans to dismantle our democracy by denying him a second term.

MoveOn spent months doing research and working with our data scientists to
develop an ambitious electoral strategy to target the exact voters that we
need to turn out in order to win—11 million of them, to be exact. We call
them "surge voters," or voters who first became active after the 2016
election but have not voted consistently since then. According to The New
York Times, these voters have been behind nearly every win for Democrats
in the last two election cycles, which is why we have laser-focused on
them for 2024.

Unlike some other organizations, we are not indiscriminately spending
money to blast out ads and hope that a tiny fraction of viewers are
persuaded to vote. No, we are spending money only on evidence-based
tactics that we know will have the highest impact, which allows us to run
a far more effective campaign on a tighter budget.



But that budget still comes from members like you, which is why we have to
ask: Can you help stop America's march toward fascism by making
a monthly $5  gift to MoveOn's 2024 election campaign?

[ [link removed] ]Yes, I'll chip in monthly.

[ [link removed] ]No, I'm sorry, I can't make a monthly donation.



Together, we can stop Donald Trump, protect our democracy, and build a
world where everyone can thrive.

Thanks for all you do.

–Mohammad, Alexis, Kathy, Chris, and the rest of the team

Sources:

1. "Trump's drumbeat of lies about the 2020 election keeps getting louder.
Here are the facts," AP News, August 27, 2023
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2. "Trump wants to fire thousands of government workers. Liberals are
preparing to fight back if he wins," AP News, February 16, 2024
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3. "The overlap of Trumpism and Christian nationalism," The Washington
Post, February 29, 2024
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4. "Why Trump's authoritarian language about 'vermin' matters," NPR,
November 17, 2023
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5. "Trump vows to cut federal funds for schools with vaccine mandates,"
MSNBC, March 5, 2024
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6. "Read Trump's Jan. 6 Speech, A Key Part Of Impeachment Trial," NPR,
February 10, 2021
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7. "Former Pentagon chief Esper says Trump asked about shooting
protesters," NPR, May 9, 2022
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8. "Trump breaks silence on Israel's military campaign in Gaza: 'Finish
the problem,'" NBC News, March 5, 2024
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9. "Donald Trump, Who Regularly Takes Credit for Killing Roe v. Wade,
Suggests He's Open to a National Abortion Ban," Vanity Fair, March 1, 2024
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10. "Trump unveils sweeping attack on trans rights," Axios, January 31,
2023
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Want to support MoveOn's work? The MAGA movement's book bans have forced
teachers and librarians across the country to remove books from their
shelves and censor what young people can learn. MoveOn is fighting back,
including by filling a "Banned Bookmobile" with books that the far right
has banned and driving it to key cities and towns to raise the visibility
of book bans, hand out banned books for free, and bring people together to
stop censorship. To keep up the fight against book bans and the MAGA
politicians who support them, we need your help.

Will you start a monthly gift to power and sustain MoveOn's critical
work? 



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