A new message from your friends at People For the American Way.

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PFAW Member,

A new CNN poll has Donald Trump losing to Joe Biden in the popular vote
nationally but WINNING among voters in the 15 closest battleground states!

Whether we like it or not, the next president will be decided by the
Electoral College and we NEED to win back the traditionally blue and
purple states that Trump took in 2016.

But VOTER SUPPRESSION COULD BE A MAJOR BARRIER to winning in these states
thanks to their Republican-held state legislatures!

At least SEVEN of 2020’s top presidential battleground states have both
chambers of their state legislatures controlled by Republicans – including
the “big three” of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin!

Those three states, along with North Carolina, have Democratic governors –
elected in the last big election in which Democrats dominated across the
country. But thanks to right-wing gerrymandering, Republicans maintained
control of the legislatures and are now using their power to squash
efforts to expand Vote By Mail in response to the coronavirus, and are
pushing to deny voters access to their ballots in multiple other ways.

PFAW is fighting back with programs to educate voters on the importance of
vote by mail – and how to do it in their states. We’re fighting on Capitol
Hill for billions in funding from Congress to secure the 2020 election and
make sure voters are able to cast ballots that count. And we are fighting
every effort by the Right Wing to create chaos around the 2020 election
and deny citizens their right to vote.

But there is no way we’ll be successful without the ongoing support of our
members, and we need another 1,988 online donations from PFAW members
before the weekend to keep pace with this month’s budget.



[ [link removed] ]Will you renew today with a donation to protect the vote and defeat
Trump and his GOP enablers?



Here’s why your support is so urgently needed…

* Michigan: Republicans control both the House and Senate

* Pennsylvania: Republicans control both the House and Senate

* Wisconsin: Republicans control both the House and Senate

* North Carolina: Republicans control both the House and Senate

* Florida: Republicans control both the House and Senate (the governor
is also a Republican)

* Ohio: Republicans control both the House and Senate (the governor is
also a Republican)

* Arizona: Republicans control both the House and Senate (the governor
is also a Republican)

Because the policy response to the coronavirus pandemic varies so
drastically from state to state, state lawmakers are playing a central
role in how well we get through the crisis, how the public’s health is
protected, what the long-term economic fallout will be, and how our
democracy will function in this year’s election. In fact, decisions made
now about ending stay-at-home orders and re-opening businesses too soon
could prolong the worst of the pandemic in many states and create an even
larger crisis for our elections!

This crisis has not only highlighted the egregious failure of leadership
at the very top by Trump and his GOP allies in Congress, it’s made the
task of unseating Trump Republican state and local officials even more
urgent.

The impact of this pandemic will last well beyond the coming election and
we need real leadership, by elected officials who believe in and follow
science and put the good of the country and their constituents ahead of
petty partisan power grabs.

Republicans AT EVERY LEVEL OF GOVERNMENT are failing that test. And with
the next round of redistricting coming up following this year’s census, we
can not afford to have Republicans in control in key states ready to
gerrymander their states’ voting maps for the next ten years and cement
their grip on power even against the will of the voters.



[ [link removed] ]Please give what you can right now to help us mobilize voters and get
out the vote against Republicans by every means available!>>



The time to fight is now. Trump is outspending us everywhere and if we
can’t get our message in front of voters early and often, it will be too
late.

Thank you for your amazing support and for everything you do.

-- Ben, Sarah, Kristen, Charlie, Zach, and the whole team at PFAW

P.S. You saw what happened in Wisconsin when Republican state lawmakers
fought tooth-and-nail against expanding absentee voting in the primary and
then successfully SUED to stop the Democratic governor's attempts to offer
voters some relief. Now, national Republicans are reportedly amassing a
$20 million legal war chest to help them suppress the vote and beat back
voting rights lawsuits!

Their game plan is obvious. They are fighting with everything they've got.
And we need to fight even harder to stop them.



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