Dear MoveOn member,

Who do you think should be elected president? The person who earns the
most votes or the winner of a harebrained Electoral College system?

Remember in 2016, when Donald Trump lost the national popular vote by 7
million votes—and still won the presidency?

Well, John, it's on the verge of happening again.

Nate Silver, one of the nation's foremost elections experts, predicts that
Vice President Kamala Harris has a 58.9% chance of winning the national
popular vote but only a 41.6% chance of winning the Electoral College—and
thus the presidency.

Infuriating.

But we have a decision to make: become angry and disillusioned or become
agents of change.

I know what side I'm on. That's why I'm writing to you today, to ask you
to donate to help my friends at MoveOn get out the vote in battleground
states.

MoveOn has an incredible track record of turning out the very voters who
will make the difference in this election: people in battleground states
with progressive values who do not consistently vote. MoveOn's special
sauce is engaging these voters on the issues they care about most,
convincing them that their voices and votes matter, and getting them to
the polls.

[ [link removed] ]Will you join me and rush a $9 donation to MoveOn right
now?

Someone else's vote shouldn't count more—or less—than yours.

But for 80% of Americans, that's exactly what's happening.^1 Their vote
for president isn't nearly as valuable as the vote of someone in a
so-called "swing state." Why?

Most of us live in states that have become so predictably Democratic or
Republican that we're taken for granted by candidates. Presidential
elections now turn on the dwindling number of states that could go either
way, which gives voters in those swing states huge leverage.

And as the nation becomes more divided and polarized, there's a shrinking
number of swing voters who live in these swing states.

Decades ago, elections were won by winning over moderate voters who didn't
have an allegiance to either party. Those voters hardly exist today.

This November, the election will be decided by a new type of swing voter.
Not one who swings between the two parties but one who swings between
voting and not voting at all.

As The New York Times puts it, the election will be decided by one thing:
"It's about turnout."^2

And that's exactly what MoveOn's plan does: turn out people in
battleground states with progressive values who do not consistently vote.

This year, MoveOn is focusing on "surge voters" in these battleground
states—people who became active for the first time, or became more active,
after the 2016 election. And then, narrowing it down even more, they are
prioritizing young voters and voters who skipped voting in the 2016 and/or
2022 elections.

Young people are aging into the electorate and are voting at a higher rate
than previous generations did at their age, and they reject MAGA by
20-point margins.^3 If they vote, they will deliver the margin we need to
win.

One of the key tactics in MoveOn's plan is "vote tripling"—one of the
simplest, smartest, and most proven-effective get-out-the-vote methods.
Vote tripling is organizing voters to reach out to three of their friends
or family members, talk with them about the issues at stake, help them
make a plan, and ensure they turn out.

MoveOn deployed and honed vote tripling in the last two election cycles,
and they have shown that it both increases the likelihood of the tripler
voting and mobilizes their network to vote. In 2022, MoveOn used vote
tripling to turn out 50,000 people in key states and districts who
otherwise might not have voted—a HUGE number given that elections in our
50-50 divided country are typically decided by exceedingly narrow margins.

[ [link removed] ]Now, with less than nine weeks to go until Election Day, will you join
me in donating $9 to help MoveOn reach voters in the crucial
battleground states that will decide this election?

Thanks for all you do.

–Robert Reich

Sources:

1. "The First Step to Fixing the Electoral College," RobertReich.org, May
10, 2023
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2. "Turnout Data Reveals the Core of Democrats' Success in Special
Elections," The New York Times, February 3, 2024
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3. "Gen Z might be the MAGA movement's undoing," The Washington Post,
January 28, 2024
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Want to support MoveOn? The MAGA right is declaring war, and Project 2025
is their battle plan. Project 2025 threatens our rights, attacks
communities of color, hurts middle- and working-class families, and
undermines our democracy. But we will not back down or let Trump steamroll
our nation.

Will you donate to power MoveOn's election plan, stop Trump, and ensure
Project 2025 is never enacted? 



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