Friend -- The scale and energy of the movement we've built to end gerrymandering inspires me every day. I truly believe our mission has resonated so deeply with supporters because our message is simple: when the people speak, our governments should listen.
This foundational principle of our democracy was recently violated in Michigan and in Missouri where politicians have attacked citizen-led redistricting reforms that were overwhelmingly supported by voters at the ballot box in 2018.
We're preparing for more attacks on fair redistricting across the nation.
So I've asked the team to develop plans to protect these good reforms and enact others, and now we need your help -- will you chip in $15 to our Reform Protection Fund?
In both Michigan and Missouri, we see self-interested politicians experimenting with newfangled ways to overturn the will of voters to preserve their illegitimate power.
In Michigan, an organization with ties to Scott Walker's National Republican Redistricting Trust tried and has so far failed to block the state's independent redistricting commission from taking effect. The ballot measure was supported by 61% of Michigan voters.
In Missouri, the Republican-controlled legislature is seeking to reverse redistricting reforms supported by 62% of voters in 2018. They're working on creating a new ballot initiative that dismantles the very protections against partisan gerrymandering that Missourians voted to pass.
For map manipulators, these experiments are not happening in a vacuum. If they reclaim power or succeed at suppression in one state, they'll try to replicate that to tear down reforms across the country.
We have to be more agile, more creative, and more responsive than our opposition, friend.
If you can, please make a donation to All On The Line's Reform Protection Fund so we can keep up the fight.
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Thank you,
Eric H. Holder, Jr.
All On The Line is the grassroots advocacy campaign supported by the National Redistricting Action Fund.
