Dear MoveOn member, 

In the midst of a deadly pandemic and just 77 days before the most
important election in our lifetimes, Donald Trump is attempting to destroy
the post office.

Why? Because Trump wants to cheat his way to re-election. 

In an outrageous Fox News interview, Trump openly admitted that he's
attempting to sabotage the post office in order to suppress mail-in
ballots this November. Trump continues to block coronavirus aid for the
post office, starving it of much-needed resources. And he's even installed
Louis DeJoy—a Republican megadonor—as the head of the post office to
destroy it from within. 

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stops the mail. And we
won't let Trump and DeJoy stop it, either. Together, we must ensure every
ballot cast is counted.

That's why MoveOn is leading an emergency nationwide campaign to protect
the post office. On Saturday, we're hitting the streets with our allies to
show Trump, DeJoy, and their GOP cronies that we won't let them get away
with their efforts to destroy the Postal Service to steal the election.

We'll be showing up to post offices across the country—from big cities to
small towns—to stand in solidarity with postal workers and to make sure
that Trump and DeJoy know that their efforts to slow down the mail and
stop the Postal Service from processing mail-in ballots won't work. 

[ [link removed] ]Show your support for the post office—and our democracy—by ordering
your FREE "We <3 Mail Carriers" sticker today!

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John, people around the country have flooded social media with
photos of USPS collection boxes being locked or even removed from city
streets and loaded into trucks.^1 And 46 states and the District of
Columbia were told that the Postal Service cannot guarantee that all
ballots cast by mail for the November election will arrive in time to be
counted.^2

And on top of all of that, DeJoy is taking unilateral actions—cancelling
overtime, reassigning or replacing 23 top-level Postal Service employees,
and instructing mail carriers to leave mail at distribution centers
overnight—to deliberately slow down the mail and bankrupt the post office
in advance of November's elections.^3

This is nothing short of despicable.

Ever since 1775 when Benjamin Franklin was appointed as the country's
first postmaster general, the post office has provided prompt, reliable,
and efficient services to every corner of our country. 

That tradition of dutiful service to our nation has continued even in the
midst of this pandemic, when mail carriers have been risking their lives
to deliver letters, food, unemployment checks, and lifesaving medicine to
over 135 million households.

Soon, they will be charged with the task of quite literally delivering
democracy. 

We must show our solidarity with postal workers. We must defend the post
office. We must protect our democracy. We must ensure every vote is
counted.

[ [link removed] ]Click here to get your FREE "We <3 Mail Carriers" sticker today!

Thanks for all you do.

–Jenn, Kelly, Sandra, Oscar, and the rest of the team

P.S. We've also printed special envelopes to mail the stickers, so postal
workers will know we are standing with them during these uncertain times.
Take a look:

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Sources:

1. "USPS won't say if decision by Western district to stop removing letter
collection boxes is still in effect," CNN, August 15, 2020
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2. "Postal service warns nearly every state it may not be able to deliver
ballots in time based on current election rules," CNN, August 15, 2020
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3. "Mail Delays Fuel Concern Trump Is Undercutting Postal System Ahead of
Voting," The New York Times, July 31, 2020
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Want to support our work? The MoveOn community will work every moment, day
by day and year by year, to resist Trump's agenda, contain the damage,
defeat hate with love, and begin the process of swinging the nation's
pendulum back toward sanity, decency, and the kind of future that we must
never give up on. And to do it we need your support, now more than ever.
Will you stand with us?



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