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The House returns next week and is expected to take the lead in crafting the next COVID relief package. This could be our last chance before then to push again for desperately needed pandemic relief that leaves no one behind. 

Make sure your members hear from you that American Jews demand Congress rise to this moment. It takes just a minute to send them a message. <[link removed]>

You’ll be forwarding them a letter signed by twenty three Jewish groups, which Bend the Arc sent to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer last week with specific asks for the next package: 

- Protect public health, full stop.
- Provide financial relief to the most vulnerable, not corporations.
- Protect everyone, regardless of their immigration status, age, or ability.
- Ensure that elections can take place safely.

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As the letter says:

We are being offered a false choice between our lives and our livelihoods, when we should be in mourning for over 58,000 lives lost unnecessarily. 

We should be fighting to end the horrific racial disparities in deaths and illness. 

We should be ensuring our healthcare workers are safe and supported, and that every person in this country has access to testing and the care they need. 

We shouldn’t just be calling essential workers heroes — we should be ensuring their essential needs are met and honored.

Less than a week after we sent the letter, the confirmed death toll has already grown to over 74,000 lives lost. And the president and his allies show no plan or ability to keep us safe, and have no plan or desire to provide real economic relief to millions of Americans who are suffering in the economic collapse.

Send this urgent demand to your Representative so it’s in their inbox before the House is back in session next week. <[link removed]>

One thing we know about moments of massive social destabilization is that antisemitism and white nationalism will surely increase — including attacks on Jews, immigrants, and Asian Americans — unless our government responds swiftly and at scale to the pain being experienced in our country.

On Tuesday we launched a new website — HowToFightAntisemitism.com <[link removed]> — which includes details on the increase in antisemitic conspiracy theories as a result of the coronavirus.

From Nazi signs at anti-lockdown rallies to gunmen storming state capitols to politicians calling to send thousands of workers to their deaths, the dangerous connections between antisemites, white nationalists, and leaders in the GOP have never been more clear.

It’s not the only reason we’re fighting for public health, financial relief to the most vulnerable, and election protection, but it is a reason why we must do this work in powerful solidarity, as Jews and allies.

Thank you for answering the call to fight for pandemic relief,

The Bend the Arc team



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