John,

When you run for office, you know you’re going to hear from plenty of folks who don’t agree with you. Trust me, I’ve caught plenty of flak from voters over the years.

But that’s part of the job. As an elected official in a democracy, your job is to serve the people. That means you have to face voters directly and defend your policy choices. And if they don’t agree with you? Well, you just might get voted out of office.

That’s democracy. It’s how the system is supposed to work. But right now, Republicans across the country, in lockstep with the White House, want to break that system. They have increasingly recognized that their ideas won’t sell, so they’re trying to rig the game, by drawing maps that splinter Democratic voting blocs or pack Democrats into just one district so that they don’t have influence in other districts.

By redrawing electoral maps in states like Texas and Missouri in the middle of the decade, they’re trying to rewrite the rules of the game so they can’t lose. They want an America where politicians can pick their voters — rather than voters picking their politicians.

Eric Holder and I founded the National Democratic Redistricting PAC to push back on these extreme partisan power grabs that put our democracy in peril. Can we count on you to stand with us and support this cause with a donation right now? [[link removed]]

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Here’s the bigger problem: More Republican-led states are vowing to follow Texas and Missouri’s lead, and are planning to manipulate their own maps to benefit the Republican Party. Legislatures in Ohio and Indiana are considering extreme partisan redistricting measures that would take away representation from entire communities. In Kansas, some legislators are openly scheming to eliminate the district of the only Democratic representative in the state’s delegation and one of the first Native American women ever elected to Congress.

And this anti-democracy effort to silence voters isn’t just taking place in state legislatures. This administration’s Department of Justice filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, trying to significantly weaken the part of the Voting Rights Act that prohibits the dilution of minority voting power.

Let me be clear: These types of power grabs remind us that democracy is not a given. It requires us to fight for it — especially in moments like this.

The NDR PAC is the leading organization fighting back against these Republican power grabs. But we can’t do this without your support. Join me in taking a stand for our democracy — make a donation of whatever you can today. [[link removed]]

Thank you,

Barack Obama

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