A new message from your friends at People For the American Way.

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PFAW Member,

The ways in which the Trump administration has failed our country by
destroying our capability to respond to this public health crisis,
spreading lies and dangerous disinformation, and continuing to botch the
ongoing federal response on every level have been well documented and
continue to multiply. But Trump’s disastrous response to the coronavirus
pandemic is not only proving to be one of the deadliest failures of
leadership in U.S. history, it’s exposing, clear as day, the self-serving
priorities of Trump and his political allies to retain power … it’s all
about THEIR interests – political and financial – and NOT the interests of
the American people.

Here are just a few recent examples but the list is way too long for any
one email:

* Trump and his allies are exploiting the crisis to erect new voter
suppression tactics and are fighting every effort to help voters cast
ballots. The most egregious example is what just happened in
Wisconsin, where state Republicans – with the help of the right-wing
majorities on both the Wisconsin and the U.S. Supreme Courts – just
refused to push back an election or extend absentee voting, forcing
voters to choose between breaking the state’s “stay at home” order and
risking their health (and even lives) or be denied their right to
vote.

Trump had just a week earlier commented that if basic election
protection measures and funding to safeguard the vote were passed into
law, “you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again,”
essentially admitting that suppressing voter turnout is the only way
Republicans are able to win. It’s no accident that this was Wisconsin,
the state that may decide the presidential election this November.

* Trump just removed the head of the Pandemic Response Accountability
Committee, established as an oversight body for the trillions of
dollars in funds to be distributed per Congress’s coronavirus relief
legislation. A few weeks ago, dismissing independent mechanisms for
oversight and accountability related to relief funds, Trump said,
“I’ll be the oversight.”  

* Speaking of evading oversight, Trump also took the opportunity amid
our current national crisis to continue settling vendettas from his
impeachment by firing the intelligence community’s inspector general.

* According to an email from the White House this week, Donald Trump’s
daughter Ivanka is now the administration’s “job czar,” and the White
House is trying to credit her with securing $1.6 billion from U.S.
banks in relief funds for small businesses, in an obvious attempt to
snatch more credit and prestige for the Trump family in an election
year.

* In another attempt to consolidate power and protect his personal
interests, Trump has given broad authority over the federal
government’s response to his totally unqualified son-in-law Jared
Kushner, whose ineptitude and ridiculous whims have frustrated
scientists and other experts and have slowed the government’s response
in key areas, during a fast-moving crisis in which wasting time has
lethal consequences.

* Trump continues to give preferential treatment to states with
governors that flatter him and that he sees as important to his
reelection.

And. The. List. Goes. On. (And on, and on, and on.)

We need to keep fighting for oversight and accountability – fighting like
our democracy depends on it, because it does.

It’s also VITAL that future relief legislation from Congress include
adequate resources and reforms to protect the right to vote in the 2020
election, since, even though it’s too early to tell exactly how, we know
that November’s general election is almost sure to be disrupted in any way
they can get away with.

We need to make sure that future relief bills also address the inequity
that has made certain communities disproportionately vulnerable – in terms
of both health and economics – in a crisis like this. For one example,
we’re already seeing that Black communities are dying from coronavirus at
higher rates and it’s clear that the reasons are systemic and long predate
this crisis.  

We need to keep exposing the shockingly immoral, corrupt, and dangerous
actions of Trump Republicans at every level and the extreme right-wing
judges who help enable them.

And, more than anything, we need to WIN in November and replace Trump
Republicans up and down the ballot with strong progressive leaders who
take seriously their commitment to defending the Constitution, American
values, and Americans’ rights.

People For the American Way is adapting to the new landscape with new
tools and methods to make sure we can have the biggest impact possible as
a leader in all of these fights.

THANK YOU so much for standing with us, side by side, in these trying
times. It’s your support that makes this work possible and it’s work that
has never been more urgent or desperately needed.

We’ll get through this together. And, together, we’ll save our democracy,
make it even stronger, and restore the American Way.

Stay safe,

Michael Keegan, President

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