Dear MoveOn member,
My name is Robert Fox, and I’m MoveOn's chief operating officer. The last time I emailed you was over the summer—100 days out from the election—to share with you what MoveOn was working on to defeat Donald Trump and the GOP.
There are only 47 days until Election Day, so I wanted to follow up with you now, to share an update on our work for this final stretch. We have fewer than 50 days to ensure that Trump is defeated, Mitch McConnell loses control of the Senate, and a blue wave washes over the country. To make this happen, MoveOn is sprinting to the finish line of the biggest, boldest election program in our 22-year history.
But we need your help to meet our budget for the final stretch and fully bring these plans to life. I crunched the numbers this morning, and I’m so grateful that in just the past week, thousands of MoveOn members like you have stepped up and contributed to our collective work. But we still need 8,975 people to become weekly donors by midnight to meet our budget goals.
This is the last time I will email you before Election Day, so I need to ask: With fewer than 50 days left and the clock quickly running out, will you chip in $3 a week to power our get-out-the-vote programs? (MoveOn will bill your weekly donation to your credit card once a month starting today and will contact you shortly after the election to see if you want to modify or cancel your weekly donation.)
No, I'm sorry, I can't chip in weekly.
Whether you have yet to make your first donation to MoveOn this year or you’re a longtime donor, I need to explain to you why your donation today is so critical.
The fact of the matter is that many people wait until just days before Election Day to chip in. While I’m so grateful for every dollar that every MoveOn member contributes, the truth is that the earlier you contribute, the better.
Here’s why: Voting is already underway in the critical battleground states that will decide who wins this election. Last week, voters in North Carolina began getting their ballots in their mailboxes, and by the end of this week, voters in half of the battleground states will begin voting.
Due to the pandemic, millions of people—especially Democrats—are voting by mail for the first time in their lives. While mail-in voting is safe and secure, we know that people might have questions about how to fill out and return their ballots.
That’s why my colleague Emma is leading a powerful get-out-the-vote initiative called "ballot chasing." Emma and her ballot chase team are texting mail-in voters the information they need to properly fill out their ballots, and the team is on hand to answer any questions voters might have. This work is especially important, because more than half a million mail-in ballots were rejected during this year's primary season due to people improperly filling out their ballots.1 And in a recent poll, more than half of voters under the age of 35 say they don't have the resources or knowledge they need to vote by mail.2
But that’s not all we’re doing to ensure every vote is counted. Starting this Friday, voters in the swing state of Minnesota will be able to vote early in person. So my colleague Elsie and her team are creating videos tailor-made to get the word out and to give Minnesota voters the info they need to vote early at a polling place.
And my colleague Kate and her team are pioneering an innovative friend-to-friend voter mobilization program called "Vote Tripling." Recent studies show that one of the most effective ways to turn out voters is if their friends and family encourage them to vote. So Kate and her team are asking MoveOn members to take Vote Tripling pledges: pledges to reach out to three friends, help them make a plan to vote, and ensure they vote in the fall. This program is so effective that last week Trump's campaign began using it as well—which means we need to double down and fight back.
That’s just some of what the team here at MoveOn is doing to win this election.
But my colleagues can’t do this alone. They need your help.
With fewer than 50 days to go until Election Day, will you chip in $3 a week to enable us to fire on all cylinders? (MoveOn will bill your weekly donation to your credit card once a month starting today and will contact you shortly after the election to see if you want to modify or cancel your weekly donation.)
No, I'm sorry, I can't chip in weekly.
I’m going to be honest with you, John. At many other political organizations, the chief operating officer spends most of their time wining and dining the billionaires and corporate donors that bankroll them.
But not at MoveOn. I don't answer to corporate bosses, and billionaires don't call the shots around here. MoveOn is powered by thousands of small-dollar grassroots donations from members like you across the country.
Will you chip in $3 a week to help ensure we meet our budget necessary to defeat Trump, flip the Senate, and power a massive blue wave? (MoveOn will bill your weekly donation to your credit card once a month starting today and will contact you shortly after the election to see if you want to modify or cancel your weekly donation.)
No, I'm sorry, I can't chip in weekly.
Thanks for all you do.
–Robert Fox, Chief Operating Officer, MoveOn
Sources:
1. "More Than 550,000 Primary Absentee Ballots Rejected In 2020, Far Outpacing 2016," NPR, August 22, 2020
https://act.moveon.org/go/143424?t=8&akid=274151%2E40999114%2Egyfh_T
2. "Poll: More Than Half Of Young People Lack Resources To Vote By Mail," NPR, July 30, 2020
https://act.moveon.org/go/141675?t=10&akid=274151%2E40999114%2Egyfh_T
Want to support our work? As Robert Reich says, "No organization in America has a better track record of success in developing cutting-edge strategies to get out the vote and win elections than MoveOn." But it will take each of us doing our part to defeat Trump and flip the Senate!
Will you chip in $3 a week to help MoveOn combat right-wing lies, make sure every vote is counted, and win this election?
No, I'm sorry, I can't chip in weekly.
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