Friend,

What a spectacle we witnessed last night.

In this much-hyped meeting of the two corporate party candidates, we were promised two very different visions for our country as they continue to court your vote. But that’s not what we got.

Both Harris and Trump boasted about embracing war criminals and guaranteeing the dominance of American capital at the expense of all else.

Both of them promised to support fracking and bragged about their results in expanding fossil fuel extraction.

Both of them promised to continue building our military and stoked military tensions with Iran, China, and Russia.

But indeed, there were some differences between Harris and Trump.

Harris bragged about supporting the border militarization bill that Trump killed.

She also doubled down on bragging about being endorsed by some of the worst Republicans and unrepentant war criminals in living memory:

And repeated her promise both to “always give Israel the right to defend itself” and to maintain the U.S. military as “the most lethal fighting force in the world.”

As for Donald Trump...

He predictably leaned on racist tropes and violent rhetoric that demonizes and dehumanizes our immigrant neighbors, spreads vicious lies about women exercising control over our own bodies, and fans the flames of hatred against our 2SLGBTQIA+ family.

Trump’s cynical rhetoric on abortion was perhaps the most revolting to me.

His fake concern over “abortions after birth” (a far-right fever-dream) rings particularly hollow as he and every member of the Republican party supports Israel’s genocide – which is literally executing babies every single day in Gaza.

Still, when you strip past the theatrics, the simple fact is there is very little policy daylight between these two candidates.

Both candidates agree on giving Israel unilateral authority over our foreign policy decisions in the Middle East.

Both agree on unlimited militarization of our border (they only quibble over who gets the credit).

Both agree that private interests like the profit of fossil fuel companies outweigh the collective interest of the survival of our species and our planet.

And they both gleefully embrace the support of war criminals, genociders, “transnational” thugs, and despots.

Donald Trump has and will continue to advance the interests of Christian Nationalist fundamentalists and white supremacists in his pursuit of unrestrained power.

Kamala Harris chooses the softer approach to fascism of capitulating to endless war and corporate rule in exchange for half a billion in campaign contributions.

The end result is the same. Working people are squeezed back into the meat grinder of our exploitation economy, the American empire remains unchecked, and our planet is burned to ash as our core democratic freedoms – like the rights to protest, boycott, and petition our government for grievance – are crushed.

There is one single, solitary fair point that Donald Trump raised. For all the things Harris has promised to do...why isn’t she doing it now?

Harris again repeated last night that she and the president are “working tirelessly” for a ceasefire agreement in Gaza. But there are simple measures the administration could take today – indeed, could have taken months ago – that would have saved COUNTLESS innocent lives.

How many more Palestinians have to die while we wait for Kamala Harris to take the reins? Why can’t this be done today?

If we want to chart a new path as a nation and as humankind, we did not see that path articulated on last night’s debate stage.

Those looking for a campaign that will end American militarism and expansionist empire are left with only one option – our campaign.

We continue to hear from people who are fed up with the empty rhetoric and unfulfilled promises. They’re ready for a radically different direction, one that we the people chart together.

Please donate to our movement today, and share this message with your friends and family to encourage everyone to VOTE GREEN this November.

In solidarity,

Jill

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