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[ [link removed] ]Wisconsin voters risk health waiting on line in face masks



PFAW Member,

Republicans know that voters are coming for them … and they’ll do anything
to keep them from the polls.

You just saw it in Wisconsin, where Republican state lawmakers insisted on
making voters put their health and the health of others on the line to
turn out and cast in-person ballots. Right-wing justices on the Wisconsin
Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court – in a decision written by Brett
Kavanaugh – sided with Republicans against Wisconsin voters.

But guess what? Wisconsin voters DID turn out. And the Right Wing LOST the
very election they were trying to rig by suppressing the vote!

People are actually risking their health, and perhaps their lives, to cast
their ballots against Trump Republicans, and that sort of motivation on
our side is a NIGHTMARE for the GOP. So Republicans are doing everything
they can to prevent making voting more accessible with simple solutions
like expanded vote by mail and more early voting, and they’re trying to
create chaos in key battleground states by encouraging their own
supporters to rebel against stay at home orders!

That's why at PFAW we’re working to ensure that every eligible voter is
able to cast a ballot that counts, by fighting back against voter
suppression, by securing billions of dollars for election security funding
in coronavirus relief legislation, and with direct voter outreach. But we
need to raise another $21,000 in the next 48 hours to do it.

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It’s become clear that to Republicans, everything is an opportunity for a
power grab – even an unprecedented public health crisis.

In Wisconsin, even with health experts advising people to stay at home and
extreme shortages of poll workers due to the pandemic, Republicans would
not push back Election Day or expand absentee voting to allow voters to
cast their ballots by mail.

That meant forcing voters to violate social distancing and brave severely
overcrowded polling places – especially in the state’s Democratic
stronghold of Milwaukee, which also has the state’s highest concentration
of minority voters. Milwaukee usually has 180 polling places open, but on
Election Day earlier this month, there were five.

We’re fighting for voters all across the country, but states like
Wisconsin – and Michigan, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Florida, and North
Carolina – where the presidential election and some key U.S.  Senate races
will be decided, are where Trump Republicans are prioritizing their voter
suppression efforts. So we’re working with partners to recruit an army of
organizers and volunteers in those states to talk to voters directly about
how to cast absentee or mail-in ballots, take advantage of early voting,
or generally find the best options for them to ensure their votes are
counted based on what voting methods are available in each state.

We’re talking about one-on-one conversations – by phone, text, email, and
video chat, during the current social distancing – and real
relationship-building, to make sure voters are getting the information and
encouragement they need, from people they trust, to request, properly
complete, and return their absentee and mail-in ballots or take advantage
of the safe and secure in-person voting options available. And with the
number of voters we need to reach, this work is happening NOW and needs to
KEEP happening all the way through Election Day.

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match funds expire?



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Republican voter suppression is nothing new but it’s sickening to see how
they’re exploiting the pandemic and taking it to a whole new level to
attack democracy and deny Americans their right to vote.

In a crisis like this, people’s true character comes out. For the most
part, we’re seeing incredible resilience and resolve from Americans.
People are sacrificing like they never have, supporting their neighbors
and their communities through this hardship. Many – including People For
the American Way members like you – are calling and petitioning Congress
to make sure the most vulnerable among us get the resources they need to
survive this crisis.

But right-wing Republican politicians and activist leaders are showing
their true character too – and it’s not pretty. They’re even using their
own supporters as pawns in a deadly game for their own political ends,
encouraging them to violate stay at home orders and turn out to crowded
in-person protests against the social distancing policies that scientists
and public health experts say we need!

Part of Trump’s dismal failure in this crisis has been passing the buck to
governors and state officials. But in a shockingly cynical twist, Trump
and his far-right allies are using responsible governors’ leadership in
this crisis to scapegoat them for the necessary social distancing policies
that are painful for voters. Naturally, since this is about holding
political power, these Trump Republican efforts, led by the
corporate-funded right-wing groups behind the Tea Party, are heavily
focused in purple and red states with Democratic governors – in
particular, states that could be 2020 battlegrounds.

Trump ended this past week with a series of tweets that NBC News points
out are being seen as a call to armed insurrection by some extremists.

Referencing the right-wing protests in Michigan, Minnesota, Virginia, and
several other states, Trump tweeted:

“LIBERATE MINNESOTA!”

“LIBERATE MICHIGAN!”

“LIBERATE VIRGINIA, and save your great 2nd Amendment. It is under siege!”

More evidence that Trump and his enablers are willing to do anything, say
anything, create chaos, and even endanger American lives to win. This is
what we’re up against.



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Thank you for standing with us in this fight. Together, we’ll defend
democracy, save the soul of our country, and restore the American Way …
but only together.

– Ben Betz, Digital Director



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