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There’s a lot of chatter right now about democracy being “on the ballot” this year. I’m here to tell you that it’s true. The stakes of this election are as high as they’ve ever been.

That’s why I’m running for president.

If you’ve heard about Project 2025, then you are still in the minority of American voters. The media is only beginning to wake up to what they’ve called the blueprint for American fascism.

And there is plenty in this plan that is alarming. The “highlights” include:

- A mass purge of dedicated civil servants from every federal agency to be replaced by unqualified lackeys chosen for their loyalty to the Republican president.


- A deportation regime targeting millions of undocumented Americans and rounding them up into concentration camps to stage them for removal from the country.


- Putting a target squarely on the 2SLGBTQIA+ community by declaring all media and materials that even mention LGBTQ identities as “pornography” and placing anyone who publishes LGBTQ+ friendly-materials onto a government watchlist.


- Formally weaponizing federal law enforcement agencies to answer to the whims of the president, and even nationalizing local police forces.



This is just a taste of what this 900-page plan entails. But here’s what they haven’t told you...

This has been the Republican agenda for more than 40 years.

Project 2025 is the latest iteration of the Heritage Foundation’s “Mandate for Leadership,” drafted for Ronald Reagan in his first administration. Since then it has repeatedly evolved to incorporate new and terrible plans to expand the powers of the presidency, enrich the billionaire class, forcibly install Christian Nationalism as a governing doctrine, and convert our pluralistic democracy into the white supremacist police state they’ve always dreamed of.

The real danger of Project 2025 is that, with a successful, complete, right-wing takeover of our courts, Republicans now have all the tools they need to make it a reality – and Democrats have done nothing to stop them.

We saw this with last week’s Supreme Court decision declaring that presidents are officially above the law. And how did Joe Biden respond to this, a death blow to our constitution?

He said “I dissent” and tepidly promised to never abuse his new powers.

Joe Biden is right about one thing – democracy IS on the ballot this year.

But he’s wrong about this: Democrats cannot and will not save us.

We have to get real about the threats we’re facing.

This election will decide the future of our planet and the survival of our species as we confront an ever-accelerating climate emergency.

This election will decide whether or not women will remain second class citizens without full autonomy over our bodies and our lives.

This election will decide if our 2SLGBTQIA+ siblings will see all of their hard-won rights stripped away in the face of escalating harassment, abuse, and violence.

This election will decide if we continue to fund and facilitate the extermination of an entire people in Palestine, and whether we allow that barbarity to expand into a regional war that pulls in our own troops and makes us even more complicit in Israel’s war crimes.

This election will decide a lot of things, not the least of which is whether or not we continue to exist as the UNITED states of America.

With so much on the line, we have to be honest about our options.

Republicans have proudly broadcast their plans for more than 40 years. Democrats have done NOTHING to meaningfully stay the right wing’s fascist ambitions – and in more ways than I can begin to enumerate Democrats have actively advanced those ambitions.

As Biden’s approval ratings and electoral chances continue to plummet, THIS is what Kevin Robertson, president of the Heritage Foundation and principal architect of Project 2025, has to say about their plans:

“We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

That is a threat, and it must be treated as such.

Joe Biden cannot and will not meet this moment, but I will.

Ours is the ONLY pro-worker, pro-planet, pro-peace, anti-genocide campaign that will be on the ballot everywhere this November. After that disastrous debate, millions of American voters are re-examining their options – and they need to hear from us. <[link removed]>

<[link removed]>DONATE <[link removed]>In his recent interview with George Stephanopoulos, Biden was asked how he would feel if, despite all the warnings and the hundreds of millions of dollars Democrats are raising, Trump actually wins and all of this comes to pass.

Biden’s answer was: “I'll feel, as long as I gave it my all, and I did as good a job as I know I can do, that's what this is about.”

That’s his answer to the threat of American fascism and the collapse of American leadership on the world stage: “At least I did my best.”

It reveals a cold hard truth about the president and every member of our political elite: if Trump is re-elected, they will be fine.

They’ll go back to fundraising for the next election. They’ll run to K-Street and cash in as lobbyists. Or they’ll retire to Martha’s Vineyard.

The elites will survive a second Trump presidency without a hitch. It is always the most vulnerable who pay the price for repeated Democratic failures and betrayals.

I need your financial support to get our campaign out to every voter looking for a president who will actually fight for our democracy as if lives are on the line – because they are. <[link removed]>

In solidarity and gratitude,

Jill

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