Things have been chaotic over the last few weeks.

Following the shooting of Charlie Kirk, MAGA have accelerated and heightened their rhetoric.

Like you, we’ve been troubled by the MAGA attempts to use a horrific tragedy to silence dissent, undermine free speech and vilify peaceful protest. We’d love to say we’re shocked that Trump followed Mrs. Kirk’s spiritual calls for forgiveness and peace with ‘I hate my opponent, and I don’t want the best for them,’ but we’re not.

Despite unanimous condemnation of political violence and widespread expressions of sympathy for Mr. Kirk’s family and friends from Democrats, President Trump, Attorney General Bondi, Vice President J.D. Vance and countless MAGA commentators and activists are weaponizing this tragedy to call for further division.

Rather than calling for unity and calm, they are using the language of “cracking down on violence” as cover to actually provoke more of it — inflaming tensions, painting their opponents as dangerous, and laying the groundwork to strip away core constitutional freedoms. This is especially rich coming from a movement whose supporters have led most of the political violence we’ve seen in modern America — including storming the U.S. Capitol and plotting to kidnap a sitting Governor.

Democrats are not the ones calling for violence, and everyone knows that. But Republicans are using this shooting to push their own authoritarian agenda – and we won’t stand for it. With the End of Quarter deadline coming up on Tuesday at midnight, would you rush a contribution right now to support our mobilizing and organizing efforts?
DONATESounding the alarm on fascist tendencies in our elected leaders is not inciting violence. Identifying a threat to our constitutional democracy as a threat is not inciting violence. Calling hate speech what it is — hate speech — is not inciting violence. The First Amendment protects our right to speak these truths, and our love for this country compels us to do it.

What we need now is real unity, rooted in shared values and mutual respect — not authoritarianism staged like reality TV. President Trump’s remarks at the memorial weren’t a call for peace; they were a call to criminalize dissent and normalize the further stripping of rights from Americans.

We must stand united against the un-American actions we have been bombarded with in the past week: political violence, censorship, and authoritarianism. All Americans can agree that these things go against the very core of who we are as a nation.

Would you rush a contribution right now to support our efforts to stand united against the anti-Americanism of the Republicans?
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