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Friend,
It's clearer than ever that Donald Trump and the Republicans will do anything to suppress votes and steal the election in November.
Sabotage the Postal Service. Purge voter rolls. Shut down polling places. It's all happening right before our eyes.
But even if Trump loses by such a large margin that these voter suppression tactics don't change the outcome, we must be prepared for the possibility that Trump might simply refuse to leave.
It's not as far-fetched as it might have once seemed. Donald Trump has been saying for years that he will not accept the results of any election that he loses. Each time, the corporate media has treated it as a joke or just another day in the Trump circus. But it's not a joke to his supporters, and it's clearly not a joke to Trump.
But what makes this scenario most dangerous is that so many votes will be cast by mail this year due to the pandemic. That means it's likely that the final vote count won't be complete--and winner won't be declared--for several days after the Election Day. Trump will have as much as a week or more to push conspiracy theories that the corporate media will predictably hype that the election is being stolen by fraudulent mail-in votes.
All of this is possible only because the corporate media has proven to be so utterly incapable of responding to Trump's demagoguery and hold him accountable. The job will undoubtedly fall the nonprofit journalists including our team here at Common Dreams to ferret out the truth, just like we have with Trump's attacks on the Postal Service.
We must be ready for what is shaping up to be the greatest threat to our democracy in a century or more. That's why our Summer Fundraising Campaign--the last fundraising drive before the final days of the campaign--is so important.
We need to raise $80,000 by September 1 to ensure that we have the resources to make sure the American people know the truth about the slow-motion coup that Donald Trump is engineering. Will you make a donation today?
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