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[link removed] [[link removed]] John, I know that things may feel scary and uncertain right now, so I wanted to reach out to you with this message: We’ve been here before and we are not going anywhere.

Just days after Donald Trump took office in 2017, CREW filed a lawsuit to stop him from illegally receiving payments from foreign governments – and from there we never stopped fighting to hold him accountable to the law and the Constitution and do what we could to curb the worst of his administration’s abuses. We took thousands of legal actions during the Trump presidency to hold him accountable for his blatant corruption and violations of the law.

We have a playbook for this, and we have the expertise to be a check on Trump again and the flexibility and innovative thinking to adapt to new challenges and threats.

CREW has never stopped fighting to hold Donald Trump accountable, and clearly our fight is far from over. We’ve got the playbook and the expertise to hold the line against Trump, but we need resources to do it. Can you donate to CREW today to help us fight back against Donald Trump? → [[link removed]]DONATE ONCE→ [[link removed]]

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When I say that CREW has been fighting back against Trump since day one and that we haven’t stopped the fight, I mean it.

Here are just a few of the actions we took:

1.
On
January
23,
2017,
just
days
after
Trump
took
office,
we
filed
a
lawsuit
against
Trump
to
stop
him
from
violating
the
emoluments
clauses
of
the
Constitution
by
illegally
receiving
payments
from
foreign
and
domestic
governments.
2.
We
tracked
more
than
3,700
conflicts
of
interest
created
by
Trump’s
failure
to
divest
from
his
businesses.
3.
We
filed
*multiple*
complaints
with
the
IRS
after
the
Trump
Foundation
appeared
to
illegally
give
$25,000
to
a
political
organization
associated
with
Florida
Attorney
General
Pam
Bondi
while
her
office
was
reportedly
considering
joining
a
lawsuit
involving
Trump
University
and
failed
to
disclose
the
contribution.
4.
We
called
for
the
obstruction
of
justice
investigation
(which
became
the
Mueller
investigation)
of
Trump
after
he
fired
FBI
director
James
Comey.
5.
We
sued
the
National
Security
Agency
and
the
Central
Intelligence
Agency
on
March
14,
2018
for
their
failure
to
disclose
records
under
the
Freedom
of
Information
Act
about
meetings
between
President
Trump
and
Russian
officials.
6.
We
raised
the
alarm
about
the
national
security
threat
posed
by
Mar-a-Lago
long
before
the
Department
of
Justice
indicted
Trump
for
his
illegal
retention
of
classified
documents
at
Mar-a-Lago.
7.
We
filed
numerous
Hatch
Act
complaints
against
senior
Trump
administration
officials
after
they
used
their
official
government
positions
for
political
activity,
which
the
Office
of
Special
Counsel
found
to
be
violations
in
more
than
a
dozen
cases.
8.
We
filed
a
conflict
of
interest
complaint
against
(and
called
for
an
investigation
into)
Ivanka
Trump
for
participating
in
the
implementation
of
Opportunity
Zones
while
her
husband
Jared
Kushner
benefited
from
the
program.
9.
We
filed
four
criminal
complaints
over
Trump’s
Stormy
Daniels
hush
money
payment,
long
before
Manhattan
DA
Alvin
Bragg
indicted
Trump
over
similar
allegations—for
which
he
was
found
guilty
last
summer.
10.
We
held
Trump’s
cabinet
accountable
too,
tracking
ethics
scandals
involving
his
Secretary
of
Energy,
Secretary
of
State,
Secretary
of
Health
and
Human
Services
and
more.
We
even
filed
a
criminal
complaint
against
Trump’s
Treasury
Secretary
Wilbur
Ross
for
possibly
violating
federal
conflict
of
interest
laws
by
participating
in
multiple
meetings
with
companies
tied
to
his
financial
interests.

And when Trump lost reelection in 2020, we didn’t stop fighting to hold him accountable. In fact, we had to fight harder than ever after the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

We led the charge for Trump’s impeachment after the release of a stunning tape in which President Trump pressured Georgia Secretary of State Raffensperger to “find 11,780 votes” to flip the state for Trump. We pushed back against his election lies—which members of Congress seized on. From there, we monitored corporate contributions to the “Sedition Caucus” (AKA: the members who voted against certifying the 2020 election results) and fought to stop insurrectionists from holding office.

Section 3 of the 14th Amendment bars any person from holding federal or state office who took an “oath…to support the Constitution of the United States” as an “officer of any State” and then “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” or gave “aid or comfort” to insurrectionists.

CREW went to court in New Mexico, arguing that the attack on the Capitol was an insurrection and that Couy Griffin, Otero County Commissioner, having participated in the insurrection, was disqualified from serving under the Constitution. We won that case, and Griffin was removed and barred from office.

We took the very same argument all the way to the Supreme Court in an attempt to remove Donald Trump from the ballot for inciting the insurrection.

We represented Republicans and unaffiliated voters in our 14th Amendment lawsuit in Colorado to disqualify Trump from the ballot. We won our case in Colorado, but when Trump appealed to the Supreme Court, the Court turned its back on the Constitution and allowed him to remain on the ballot.

But John, we didn’t let that loss stop us from continuing our fight. We turned our focus to defeating last minute election rule changes in Georgia—and sizing up Trump’s national security, authoritarian and corruption threats.

As you can see, we’re not afraid of taking big swings. We take on the biggest legal fights and the most powerful opponents.

That means we know what this fight will take, because we’ve been here before.

Time and time again, Donald Trump has broken the law and abused his power, and CREW has been there to hold him accountable.

We don’t know what the next four years will hold, but we do know that we will continue to hold Trump accountable for his blatant corruption and violations of the law and keep fighting to preserve an ethical democracy in the United States.

At CREW, we’ll keep helping to demand accountability, for as long as it takes. We’ll continue to take legal action to demand transparency from the Trump administration and to hold him to the law. And we’ll keep up our long term work to build a better democracy and more ethical government.

We’ve been in this fight for a long time, and we’re not backing down—ever. Are you with us John? Please, donate to CREW today to help us continue this important work → [[link removed]]DONATE ONCE→ [[link removed]]

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Thank you,

Arielle Stogner
Senior Vice President
CREW
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