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PFAW Member,

Did you see our message?

Republicans can’t seem to help themselves from weaponizing this public
health crisis to advance their own self interest and cement their grip on
power. And they’re getting help from right-wing judges – including the
far-right majority on the U.S. Supreme Court!

Yesterday, the Wisconsin GOP – with the help of the right-wing majority on
the Supreme Court – forced Wisconsin voters to choose between risking
their health and the health of others and exercising their right to vote
... during the pandemic ... with the number of polling places drastically
reduced so, for instance, voters in Milwaukee, who usually have nearly 200
polling places, would have to crowd into FIVE.

YOUR help is needed immediately to stand up for voting rights and hold
Republicans accountable for their shocking pandemic power grab, in
Wisconsin and across the country.

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PFAW Member,

I don’t know if you’ve been watching what has been playing out in the
critical 2020 battleground state of Wisconsin over the past several days…
Despite the entire state being under a “stay at home” order and the
Democratic governor trying in various ways to push back Election Day and
extend absentee voting, Wisconsin WILL hold in-person voting today, with
its citizens forced to risk their health, or even lives, to exercise their
right to vote.

And the final word on this shameful attack on democracy? It came from the
5-4 right-wing majority on the U.S. Supreme Court!

In her dissent, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg pointed out, “Either they will
have to brave the polls, endangering their own and others’ safety. Or they
will lose their right to vote, through no fault of their own.”

This attack on democracy comes at a devastating time and denies voters
their fundamental right to cast a ballot all to give Donald Trump and
Republicans an unfair advantage in one of the most critical swing states
this November!

You can fight back immediately with an emergency 3X-MATCHED donation to
defeat Republicans in 2020 – in Wisconsin and in other key battleground
states, especially Senate battlegrounds, so we can STOP the right-wing
takeover of our courts.



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To recap this saga:

First, the Republican-controlled Wisconsin legislature resisted every
effort to make voting accessible during the coronavirus pandemic – as
recently as Saturday, shutting down those efforts in an emergency session
called by the governor.

Following that, the governor announced an extension of absentee voting and
pushed back in-person voting until June, but the Right Wing-dominated
Wisconsin Supreme Court blocked his order.

Then, just last night, the U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4 not only to stand
with Wisconsin Republicans’ voter suppression and force Election Day to
happen during the coronavirus stay at home order but also to overrule a
previous lower court order that had slightly extended the absentee ballot
submission postmark deadline … meaning all absentee ballots are now due
TODAY by 8pm!

This outrageous attack on the public’s health and safety as well as our
democracy itself is the latest salvo in a war on the right to vote,
strategically orchestrated between Republican elected officials and the
right-wing judges they fight so hard to get onto our courts.

It’s now clearer than ever that the only way we’re going to save our
democracy and stop these attacks on the right to vote is by voting
right-wing vote suppressors out of office. That’s why Wisconsin is at the
very top of our list of Tier 1 target states in 2020 for our various
electoral programs (which include support for state and local progressive
candidates) and why we’re working so hard to defeat Trump AND flip control
of the U.S. Senate, so we can get judges who actually believe in a
democracy that will protect voters’ rights.



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Today’s election in Wisconsin is not just for the presidential primary. It
is actually the final, general election for several key state and local
races.

Crucial to Wisconsin’s role as a swing state, there is a Wisconsin Supreme
Court election on today’s ballot in which a far-right justice is up for
election. And THAT election could determine whether a MASSIVE voter purge
put forth by Wisconsin Republicans is allowed to move forward! That purge
is based on highly suspect data and methods that could kick hundreds of
thousands of voters off of the rolls and would, of course,
disproportionately disenfranchise Democratic-leaning voters, particularly
minority and low-income voters.

DNC official Maria Cardona, writing in The Hill, points out some
interesting info about that right-wing Wisconsin justice:

Justice Dan Kelly, an incumbent with an exceedingly thin résumé, was
appointed by former Governor Scott Walker. He's been endorsed by President
Trump, and he's running his "nonpartisan" campaign out of the Wisconsin
Republican Party Headquarters. Kelly has recused himself from that voter
purge case, but he signaled last month he would likely rejoin the case
after this election.

Wisconsin very well could be the most crucial swing state in this year’s
presidential election. Wisconsin Republicans are fully aware of that fact
and, just like far-right Republicans in other states, their loyalty
belongs to TRUMP – not to their constituents or to the American values
they swore to protect. And, apparently, the same goes for far-right
judges.

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Thank you for fighting for our democracy.

-- Ben Betz, Digital Director

P.S. PFAW put out a release last night that said:

"With this outrageous ruling the Supreme Court's far-right majority put
not just its thumb, but its entire fist, on the scale in favor of making
it harder for people to vote. This ruling will disenfranchise tens of
thousands of Wisconsin voters in the midst of a terrible public health
crisis, forcing them to choose between casting their ballot or risking
their health and the health of others. If there were any lingering doubt
that Republican aims of voter suppression were being aided and abetted by
the courts and via far-right appointments to the bench, it was removed
tonight."

This is an existential threat to our democracy and, even though these are
difficult times, we can’t let Trump Republicans and the Far Right
(including far-right judges) exploit the current crisis for partisan power
grabs.



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