A new message from your friends at People For the American Way.

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PFAW Member,

As we get closer to Election Day, Trump is leaning into lies, bigotry, and
violence – the hallmarks of Trumpism – perhaps more than he ever has.

In just the past week, Trump has:

* Defended the actions of the 17-year-old far-right militia member who
murdered two protesters in Kenosha, WI in response to Trump’s
inflammatory and dishonest rhetoric about the nature of the ongoing
racial justice protests

* Continued to escalate his characterizations of mostly peaceful
protesters as thugs and anarchists

* Continued to assert that Joe Biden supports violence committed by
protesters and defunding the police (both are lies)

* Urged North Carolina voters to vote TWICE – once by mail and once in
person … it’s unclear whether Trump’s intent was to see if his
supporters could get away with casting multiple votes for him or if he
just wanted to sow chaos and cast doubts about the election results in
that important swing state

* Claimed, "Portland has been burning for many years, for decades it's
been burning" – another lie

* Said he’s done more for Black people than any other president except
“maybe Abraham Lincoln” (and went on to strongly emphasize the
“MAYBE”)

* Attacked mail-in ballots as a "disgrace" and claimed that dogs had
received them in the mail

* Mocked Joe Biden for wearing a mask, while Trump himself continued to
downplay the coronavirus crisis

* Invented a new conspiracy theory about “people that are in the dark
shadows” controlling both “the streets” and Joe Biden, and planes
“completely loaded with thugs, wearing these dark uniforms, black
uniforms, with gear and this and that” that were flying into cities to
spark riots

* Visited Kenosha and, during a press event, appeared to shut down Black
ministers before they could answer a question about racial injustice
and compared the police killings of Black people to a golfer “choking”
and missing a "three-foot putt"

It was also reported this week that Trump has repeatedly mocked members of
the military, especially those who have died or have been injured or
captured in combat.

And U.S. Intelligence has confirmed Russian disinformation efforts on
social media are boosting Trump’s efforts to disparage mail-in voting.

Haven’t you had ENOUGH??

We have just over EIGHT WEEKS to go until Election Day and we need to
raise $350,000 (about $81K per week) this month online to keep our
electoral programs firing on all cylinders to END THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY.



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A CNN Politics headline on Friday read: “After wild week, the Trump train
looks close to full derailment”.

And Trump has definitely been off the rails since the Republican
Convention. But this is all just the culmination of the most lawless,
corrupt, anti-democratic, and devastatingly awful presidency in American
history.

Just before the Republican National Convention, Trump praised followers of
the QAnon conspiracy theory – a bizarre and violent movement rooted in the
belief that prominent Democrats and media figures are involved in a
Satanic cabal that deals in child sex trafficking and cannibalism.

QAnon followers have been linked to at least two murders as well as
kidnappings and acts of domestic terrorism.

To be clear, the rise of QAnon benefits exactly one person: Donald Trump.

That’s according to Jared Holt, an investigative reporter who helps lead
QAnon coverage for PFAW’s Right Wing Watch and is one of the country’s
foremost experts on several far-right movements, including the QAnon
conspiracy theory. 

More than simply offering praise for QAnon followers, several Republican
candidates for office this year – including candidates for the U.S.
Congress! – are prominent QAnon promoters. The most famous of them, who is
almost assured to be elected to Congress because of her deep-red Georgia
district, is Marjorie Taylor Greene.

When she won her primary, Trump congratulated her and called Greene a
“future Republican star,” saying, “Marjorie is strong on everything and
never gives up - a real WINNER!”

Most recently, Greene has grabbed headlines for the unearthing of her past
racist, anti-Semitic, and Islamophobic comments as well as her sharing of
a Facebook meme depicting her holding an assault rifle (Greene loves to be
photographed holding guns) and U.S. Representatives Ilhan Omar, Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez, and Rashida Tlaib (three fourths of “The Squad” and all
women of color), with the caption “SQUAD’S WORST NIGHTMARE”.

I wish I could say that views like Greene’s were fringe and not widely
representative of Republicans’, but new research from the polling group
Civiqs shows that a whopping 33% of Republicans say the QAnon conspiracy
theory is mostly true, 23% think some parts are true, and only 13% say
it’s not true at all. (In contrast, 72% of Democrats correctly say the
QAnon theory is not true.)

This is Trump’s party … and QAnon’s just the tip of the
iceberg.

As noted by Stephen Collinson in that CNN “derailment” article:

"No President in modern history has gone into a reelection race warning
that the process of choosing a government that is the bedrock of American
democracy is illegitimate. Trump's conduct risks a full-on post-election
constitutional crisis.""

We can’t let Trump’s party become Trump’s America.



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