[1]Sarah McBride - Democrat for Congress
It's David
Hogg.
The reason change doesn’t happen is not because it’s impossible — but
because people think it is impossible.
I believe this idea that change is impossible is the single greatest
threat to American democracy. [ [link removed] ]Before I tell you more, can you take a
moment to support our mission to elect young, progressive leaders by
making a small donation to Leaders We Deserve endorsed candidate, Sarah
McBride?
After Parkland, many adults said:
“What happened is terrible and it’s amazing you kids are standing up, but
you’ll never change anything because this is Florida.”
But guess what?
Outraged students and parents of victims — like Fred Guttenberg and Manuel
Oliver — said we don’t care; we’re still going to try. We showed up and
protested by the thousands in Tallahassee. And guess what? We actually did
change gun laws. We raised the age to buy guns in Florida to 21 and passed
a red flag law.
Later, my mother got a death threat from an NRA supporter that said: “F
with the NRA and you’ll be DOA.”
We used the law we passed after Parkland to disarm the man that threatened
to kill my mother, and since the passage of that law, over 12,000 other
people who were a risk to themselves or others have been disarmed.
[ [link removed] ]If
we didn’t have the audacity to hope – I may have had to bury my own
mother. That’s why I’m still fighting to keep others safe from gun
violence. Can you give $5 to our candidate Sarah McBride to
help her get to Congress and advance our work to create a safer future?
[ [link removed] ]Donate $5 »
A few years later, I hired a young guy named Maxwell Frost from my
freshman dorm room in college to be the March for Our Lives National
Organizing Director. In my junior year of college, he called me up and
said he would have to leave March for Our Lives because he wanted to run
for Congress and asked for my help.
Before this, I hadn’t really helped anyone run for office in a major way
because I didn’t trust politicians who only wanted to use me to get
elected and then do nothing about gun violence.
But I didn’t see Maxwell as a politician – I saw him as a friend, so I did
everything I could to help him run.
Once again, I heard the same thing from professors and “experts”:
“He’s too young.”
“He doesn’t have the political or donor connections to win.”
“How is he going to win against two former members of Congress?”
I didn’t care and decided to keep supporting him because I knew what an
incredible leader he could be, and I wanted to prove everyone who said it
wasn’t possible wrong. So, I helped Maxwell raise $380,000 in his first
two quarters, which helped him win by a margin of 10% — and he became the
youngest member of Congress.
Once elected, Maxwell’s first bill was to create a Federal Office of Gun
Violence Prevention (something March for Our Lives had been pushing for
over three years) and within 1 year of his election, Maxwell was
introducing the President of the United States, who was announcing the
creation of the Office of Gun Violence Prevention. That office has
overseen a 20% reduction of gun homicides in the first quarter of 2024.
If we listened to the people who said Maxwell couldn’t win, and if he
didn’t bother to try, we wouldn’t have:
* The youngest and first Gen Z member of Congress;
* an Office of Gun Violence Prevention;
* the first member of March for Our Lives in Congress.
[ [link removed] ]We’re changing the status quo and getting
more young leaders elected to office. Can you donate $5 to
Sarah McBride — who’s taken on the NRA and won the most significant gun
safety package in Delaware history? Every donation will help her get to
Congress.
We are in a vicious cycle of cynicism and hopelessness that will destroy
us if we don’t break it. Hopelessness is a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we
never think things can get better, they never will.
That’s why – with Maxwell’s campaign manager, Kevin Lata – we created
Leaders We Deserve. An organization dedicated to funding and advising the
best Democrats of our generation to get them elected, so we can have
leaders in office that will inspire young people to vote.
This year, we endorsed Sarah McBride, a millennial who will become the
FIRST out trans member of Congress if she wins her election in November.
Like all of our candidates Sarah is pro-gun reform, pro-choice, and
pro-environment. She also doesn't take money from large corporations and
neither does Leaders We Deserve.
Just recently, we spent $300,000 supporting Molly Cook, who won by just 62
votes, and is now the youngest member of the Texas Senate.
CHANGE IS POSSIBLE! And we’re making it happen.
Join
the thousands of people supporting a better, more progressive future. We
rely on grassroots support to get young progressives elected to office,
and with November 5 getting closer, we need a big surge of donations to
get across the finish line. [ [link removed] ]Can we count on you to donate
$5 to Sarah McBride to help her get to Congress and build a
better future for the next generation?
[ [link removed] ]Donate $5 »
We’re in this fight together.
Thank you,
David Hogg
Leaders We Deserve
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