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Friend,
The empire is pulling out
all the stops to try to derail our campaign. After Biden’s
disastrous debate, millions of voters saw that the emperor has no
clothes, and started looking for a campaign that shares their vision
of a just and livable future.
Nothing scares the political elites
more - so it’s no surprise that they’re trying to knock out the
leading anti-war, pro-worker, climate action campaign that’s already
on the ballot for the majority of voters across the
country.
Here’s the empire’s latest assault on
democracy:
On Thursday June 27th, the FEC
informed us that our campaign had qualified for primary matching
funds. Then minutes later, FEC told us the Treasury
department will withhold our payments to give priority to general election
funding - just in case the Democratic and Republican
candidates decide they want it.
Let me explain why that’s so outrageous:
- In 2022,
there was over $420 million available for public funding in the
Presidential Election Campaign, thanks to taxpayers who check the box
on their income tax forms to contribute $3 to the
cause.
- On March
22, 2024, Congress raided the Presidential Election Campaign
Fund for $375m. This was well after we posted that
“qualifying for public matching funds will be a game-changer for our
campaign.” According to the FEC, there is now about $17 million left
in the fund.
- Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen - a Biden
appointee - is now using this manufactured shortfall to withhold
matching funds for qualified primary election candidates to
“prioritize” hypothetical general election
candidates.
- The only
candidates who could claim general election funds under the rules are
the Democrat - Biden - and the Republican - Trump. But claiming public
funds would limit these billion-dollar campaigns to spending the $17m
in available public funding, and foregoing all private
donations.
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In other words: there’s
no way in Hell that Biden or Trump will use public funds, and everyone
knows it, but the Biden administration is using that “possibility” to
withhold the matching funds we qualified for - until two weeks after the Democratic
nominating convention, long after we need the money for our ballot
drives.
It’s a huge tribute to our
campaign that the Democrats are declaring all-out war on democracy to
stop us, with their army of lawyers to sue us off the ballot,
their job postings for campaign infiltrators and spies, and now their
assault on public funding.
They are terrified that we're on a
roll to challenge empire, oligarchy, and genocide in this
election.
So I’m asking you from the bottom of my heart
to give whatever you can today to keep our campaign going full speed
ahead.
The empire is doubling down, so we
need to do the same to stay in the fight. This is their last-ditch
effort to stop us. If we can get through this together, we’ll
be unstoppable.
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