Dear MoveOn member,
In just his first days back in office, Donald Trump has unleashed an
unprecedented number of extreme executive actions—from pardoning violent
January 6 insurrectionists to attempting to end birthright citizenship to
withdrawing from global climate agreements. His strategy is clear:
overwhelm us with outrage after outrage until we feel powerless to fight
back.
But we're already stopping Trump's authoritarian actions. On Thursday, a
federal judge blocked his attack on birthright citizenship, calling it
"blatantly unconstitutional."^1
This early victory shows that when we stand together and fight back
strategically through the courts and with sustained public pressure, we
can defeat Trump's most dangerous overreaches.
We've been here before—and won. When Trump was in the White House and
Republicans controlled both chambers of Congress in 2017 and 2018, MoveOn
members and allies successfully blocked major parts of his agenda.
Together, we:
* Saved the Affordable Care Act
* Forced Trump to end family separation at the border
* Prevented some of his most extreme policies from being implemented
* Protected key democratic institutions through sustained resistance
Now, with Republicans holding only a razor-thin majority in the House and
by using every political and legal tool at our disposal, we can again stop
Trump's most dangerous plans to undermine our freedoms, pollute our
planet, and empower his billionaire friends at our expense. But we must
act swiftly and strategically, showing Trump and MAGA forces that:
* There will be immediate, highly visible public opposition to any
attempt to take away our freedoms
* Our movement will not be distracted by Trump's chaos and misdirection
* We can focus our collective power where we have the most leverage
That's why your support for MoveOn is so critical right now. We're
building a powerful nationwide movement to challenge Trump's actions where
we have the most leverage, mobilize massive public opposition, and hold
accountable those enabling his attacks on our freedoms, justice, equal
economic opportunity, and our planet. But we can do this work only with
grassroots support from members like you.
Will you start a monthly donation to help MoveOn lead the fight against
Trump's extreme agenda, day after day and month after month? Every dollar
helps us build the strategic, sustained resistance needed to protect our
freedoms and stop Trump's worst abuses of power.
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With your help, MoveOn will:
* Encourage states to stand up to Trump. State attorneys general have
already sued to stop Trump's birthright citizenship order, which a
federal court has also blocked, and we'll need to push states to take
far more actions like these.^2
* Fight to protect Social Security. The far-right Cato Institute has
prepared a report for Elon Musk's so-called "Department of Government
Efficiency," which calls Social Security a Ponzi scheme and says that
cost-of-living adjustments should be frozen, the eligibility age must
be raised to 70, and benefits overall should be cut back—all so that
billionaires and corporations can receive more tax cuts.^3
* Work to save Medicare and Medicaid. Project 2025's "antiscience,
antidata, and antimedicine" agenda is poised to "upend medical
practice," push seniors onto managed care programs that enrich
corporate executives at the expense of health care access and quality,
and bring back the old days, before the Affordable Care Act, when
insurance companies could deny coverage to people with preexisting
conditions.^4
* Work to protect public media by pushing Congress to keep funding for
NPR and PBS. For years, Republicans have been trying to eliminate NPR
and PBS but have failed. Now, we expect these pushes to reach a fever
pitch, and we'll need to pull out all the stops to fight back.^5
* Fight for the most vulnerable Americans with clear moral opposition,
protests, and efforts in states across America to beat back policies
that attack immigrants, pregnant people, LGBTQ+ people, and others.
Please, start a monthly donation to MoveOn to help stop some of the worst
parts of Trump's Project 2025 agenda. We can do it only with you.
If you've saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your
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Together, we can and will defeat Trump's attempts to overwhelm and silence
us. We've come up against seemingly impossible odds before and prevailed
by staying focused, strategic, and united. But we must act together.
Our collective power is immense—if we use it.
Thanks for all you do.
–Nakia, Emily, Eric, Alex, and the rest of the team
Sources:
1. "Judge blocks Trump's 'blatantly unconstitutional' executive order that
aims to end birthright citizenship," CNN, January 23, 2025
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2. "Twenty-two States Sue to Stop Trump's Birthright Citizenship Order,"
The New York Times, January 21, 2025
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3. "Cato Institute Report to the Department of Government Efficiency
(DOGE)," Cato Institute, December 11, 2024
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4. "Project 2025 Could Become a 'Political Reality That Would Upend
Medical Practice,'" BU School of Public Health, September 26, 2024
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5. "NPR and PBS Stations Brace for Funding Battle Under Trump," The New
York Times, December 27, 2024
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forward.
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