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