Dear Friends,

You, our VIPs — our grassroots Volunteers in Politics, have been making hundreds of thousands of calls into vulnerable Republican districts since our kickoff to Save Our Health Care in January! You have been organizing locally and inspiring action nationally. You have been relentlessly focused on what we can influence and change with your outside mobilization. So when Texas Republicans made their move to disenfranchise millions of voters in Texas and attempt to rig Congressional elections, we knew we could count on California voters to fight back with a YES vote on Proposition 50 on your November ballot.

California has always stood up to Trump — and we are not backing down now. Trump and his minions think they can steal Democracy district by district and silence voters’ voices — but we will fight back and we will win.

As we prepared to celebrate Labor Day weekend with our families and our communities last week, Texas Republicans signed their illegal redistricting plan into law — yet another action from Republicans that put politics over the needs of the people, not only in Texas but across the country. We have long called this for what it is — an attempt by Republicans to escape accountability for what they have done. Republicans know that their policies are not popular and are causing tremendous harm to millions of Americans and unnecessary destruction to our economy and social safety net – health care, jobs, food assistance and more. They know they cannot and will not keep power without changing the rules in the middle of the game and outright cheating — and they are brazen enough to do so because they think they can get away with anything.

We also know that Trump and his minions seek to distract us as they continue to serve the needs of their ultra-rich donors at the expense of the health and safety of the American people. They may try and change the marketing for their cruel and deadly budget, but that won’t ease the pain that it will cause to millions of hardworking Americans. Trump’s Big Ugly Budget Bill, passed by Republicans in the House and Senate, will cause more than 20 million Americans to lose their health care and food aid. Sinful.

As Congress comes back into session to address the allocations of funds related to the Republicans’ Big Ugly Bill and Republicans work to ram through Donald Trump’s agenda, the product of that dysfunctional process may be worse than reported. So we must also continue to not only remind people of the harm that will come from this law, but also to remind the American people of our power to do something about it — to hold their representatives to account. Then, if these Republican office holders still choose to go forward with harming their own constituents, the people must remind them that they will pay a price by losing their seats in the midterm elections.

California voters will say NO to Trump and Republicans’ attempt to lie, cheat and steal their way to remain in power. California voters will say YES to health care, jobs, justice and Democracy. We say NO to Trump and YES to fair maps and representation with Proposition 50. California voters, check your voter registration and help everyone you know in California to check their registration as well so they are ready to Vote YES on Proposition 50 this November!

Our time to fight back is now by voting YES on Prop 50. Join us for the campaign kickoff on September 6th by visiting https://linktr.ee/teampelosi. We encourage you to participate, spread the word and most importantly, to get out the vote to safeguard the interests and rights of all Californians and to save our Democracy.

Thank you for all that you are doing — it matters now more than ever!

NANCY