Climate crisis and minimalist action. Police brutality and racial injustice. Healthcare for some. Pandemics with no real response. These are the results of the status quo.

These crises are the result of bad policies and bad policymakers. We’ve seen the response strategy of our current representatives: throw money at multinational corporations, billionaires, and lobbyists. Meanwhile they leave Main Street to fend for itself, with almost no help from the government. We saw the results of their response in the financial crisis of 2008: trillions of dollars in Wall Street bailouts, yet 3.1 million foreclosures nationwide. Now in this pandemic, Main Street has been left high and dry again.

If we don’t win our election on July 7, the establishment will continue its cycle of outdated thinking. We have just 9 days left. Can you chip in $9 right now—just a dollar a day—to fund our final GOTV effort?

If we don't win, Congress will pass a climate minimalist bill that will do nothing to clean up our world. New fossil fuel pipelines will spring up across the country and ravage our communities for the next thirty years. The planet will warm past the point of no return. The 32-year corporate Democrat I’m challenging in this primary, who takes millions from fossil fuel companies like Duke Energy and TransCanada, will never protect our lives from the pollution of these companies. He put out a bill that would try to mitigate massive coastal flooding, instead of calling out the root cause of the climate crisis—pollution and fossil fuel companies. We must address causation, not just effects.

Congress will pass a watered-down racial justice bill, which will still fail to protect black and brown communities from systemic racism. As we slap murderers on the wrist, black bodies will continue to pile up. Congress will do something symbolic like changing a definition of a hate crime to include lynching, something that should have been done 120 years ago. We need our government to tackle the hard challenges. We cannot be complacent.

Congress will pass a weak public option for the health insurance marketplace, “achieving” something that should have been written into the Affordable Care Act 10 years ago. Millions will remain uninsured and underinsured, millions more will be stuck in their jobs for the insurance benefits, and everyone will pay more than they should, more than every other nation on the planet. We need real change, not half measures.

This campaign is so important because it’s the difference between progress and the status quo. If you like the direction our country is heading, by all means support my opponent—he helped get us here. But if you think it’s time for change, for a new direction and a new deal, then I guarantee I am the better Democrat for the job.

Help send me to Congress by chipping in $9 today.

In Solidarity,

Russ Cirincione

I'm up against a 32-year Corporate Democrat - he's lost touch with our district because he's funded by Big Pharma, insurance companies, fossil fuel companies and Wall Street. I'll serve only People like you. I don't take corporate PAC or lobbyist money, so I need your help. Every $20 pays for 400 calls to voters. I'm counting on YOU: please, join the hundreds of supporters who invest what they can for a better America.

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