Friend,

It’s been an intense few weeks, but the election is settled. Now we must prepare.

The last Trump administration was filled with hostile drug war ideas and constant attempts to roll back our progress. And we have little reason to expect it to be different this time.

Here's what we know: We already pushed back against a Trump administration. And we’re ready to do it again. Because with your support, we won’t let anything stop us when it comes to ending the drug war and building the world we deserve.

This is a crucial moment to gather resources for the next chapter of our fight. And that’s why I’m reaching out to you.

Our #GivingTuesday match launches today, and all gifts will be DOUBLED up to $15,000! Your first gift to the Drug Policy Alliance will deliver TWICE the support to power our fight in 2025.

You know the drug war is a failure. It hasn’t reduced drug use. Instead, it has filled our jail and prisons, exacerbated the overdose crisis, and wasted trillions of dollars.

Yet, as you saw earlier this month, this country is still electing leaders at every level of government who proudly embrace the drug war. But we refuse to be deterred.

That’s why we are gearing up to take our fight from the halls of Congress to city halls across the country with opportunities for badly needed local reforms.

We are going to keep pushing Congress to pass bills like the MORE Act and the CAOA — legislation that ends marijuana criminalization, provides pathways to expungement, and is still broadly popular with the public. And we are going to keep fighting against proposals to ramp up mandatory minimum sentences for other drug charges.

We’re also building an on-the-ground presence some of the places with the harshest drug laws, like the South and Midwest, to decriminalize marijuana… to reclassify other drug charges from felonies to misdemeanors… and to stop arrests for simple, life-saving harm reduction tools like sterile syringes and drug checking kits.

Your financial support is one of the keys to winning these fights and building drug policies rooted in help and health.

And when you give today, your #GivingTuesday gift will go TWO TIMES as far to fund campaigns that reshape the conversation about drugs and get new laws passed. And to counter misinformation and lies from drug war proponents.

This is our fight and we’re not going anywhere. I hope you’ll continue to show up in our movement to end the drug war.

P.S. The best way to fight the drug war in 2025 is by going in ready, with the undeniable strength it will take to build on our progress. Your early bird #GivingTuesday gift will be DOUBLED so we can keep changing laws, advancing justice, and saving lives.