Hello,

It's hard to explain just how dangerous Mitch McConnell has been to our democracy, but please, let us take a few minutes to try. With everything Donald Trump is doing right now, nothing is a more critical threat to our constitutional ideals.

When you look at how democracies devolve into autocracies, the pattern is frequently the same. Often it starts with economic downturn, disruption, or growing inequality. New leaders come to power by promising to fix everything while demonizing a minority group or groups. They attack the independent and free press along the way.

Once in power, they pack and politicize the courts with judges who will side with them. They manufacture emergencies and crises. They begin to outlaw dissent and erode civil liberties, even employing the power of the military against their own citizens.

And when their slow erosion of norms and consolidation of powers are challenged through the judicial system, the judges they picked defend them and declare their actions as constitutional.

The similarities to what Mitch McConnell has done over the past decade are stark. And while Mitch might not be trying to claim the power at the top for himself, he has continually attacked and undermined our democracy in ways that have precariously set the stage for malicious actors like Donald Trump to act like dictators and to seize unprecedented levels of power.

When President Obama was in office, McConnell obstructed and held up so many of his judicial nominees that, by the time Donald Trump took office, there was not just an open Supreme Court seat belonging to Merrick Garland, but also 107 other judicial vacancies that Trump began filling with people who would be loyal to him.

Since Republicans regained the White House, Mitch has changed the Senate rules again and again and again to swiftly and efficiently stack the courts with lifetime appointments of right-wing judges. This is Mitch McConnell's strategy: When Democrats were in power, he blocked and obstructed Obama's judicial nominations, and now with Republicans in power, McConnell is doing everything he can to ram through Trump's nominees and fill the vacancies he created.

It might be a strategy that Mitch McConnell thinks is simply harmless political and partisan gamesmanship, but to those of us watching it more closely and critically, the damage being done to our democracy right before our eyes is terrifying.

Donald Trump has vowed now to use the United States military against its own citizens. And by enabling him for so long, Mitch McConnell has taught Trump - and any other autocrat who might come after him - that he can do whatever he wants and Congress is powerless to stop him.

Mitch McConnell swore an oath when he became a senator to "defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic." But it is clear that Mitch himself has now become a threat to our constitution.

This November, Mitch McConnell is up for reelection, and he's already blanketing Kentucky in TV ads attacking Democrat Amy McGrath to try to win another 6 year term. But America can't afford another 6 minutes of McConnell, let alone another 6 years.

That is why we created Ditch Mitch - a completely grassroots movement that is solely dedicated to supporting Mitch McConnell's Democratic opponent and defeating Mitch once and for all.

We're running brand-new TV, radio, and digital ads exposing the truth about Mitch McConnell to Kentucky voters, but we need to raise another $20,000 today to keep them up and send Mitch McConnell packing, and right now we're still $12,246 short.

Already, over 148,000 everyday people have donated and joined our grassroots movement to Ditch Mitch. If you're as concerned as we are about what Mitch McConnell is doing, then please, can you give whatever you can afford right now to so we can hit our goal and defeat Mitch McConnell? Every dollar you give today will go directly to help Amy McGrath end Mitch McConnell's political career once and for all.

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Mitch thinks he can get away with anything - cutting Social Security and Medicare; giving tax cuts to the wealthy; blocking Merrick Garland; ramming through Brett Kavanaugh - and he's willing to risk all of our democratic ideals to get what he wants.

But together, we're going to make him see that the power of the people is stronger than anything his corporate campaign donors can buy.

Thank you for helping us build the movement that will defeat McConnell this November,

The Ditch Mitch Fund













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