Dear MoveOn member,
Because this election is so crucial, MoveOn members across the country are engaging their friends and family in conversation about the importance of voting. While speaking to my own best friend from high school, I asked her about what it means for her to vote this year. What she told me is a story of exhaustion and resilience. “Where do I begin?” she said. “I’m a mom who is currently battling COVID-19 while working from home and also holding down homeschooling for my son. I am tired, but I have to do everything in my power to make sure the world is better for my family. That’s why I’m voting, volunteering, texting, and talking to everyone I know about this election.”
Despite her exhaustion, her illness, her duty to her son and her community—or perhaps because of how clearly it outlines what's at stake in this election—this incredible woman has not stopped fighting for the America she believes in: an America that belongs to all of us.
The story my friend tells me is a story I’ve heard from MoveOn members across the country: resilience and resistance mixed together to render a powerful blossoming of revolutionary actions across all lines of difference. We are showing up with each other, and that is giving us the power to change the story of ourselves and our communities.
When Republicans tried to dismantle the post office, to curb our ability to vote, MoveOn members fought back in droves.1 When they tried to trick us with fake drop boxes we resisted.2 When they tried to disenfranchise us by restricting early voting, we turned out in record numbers.3 When they thought long voting lines would deter us, we danced to pass the time.4
They tried to make it harder for us to vote at every turn but, against all odds, we are showing up. This is because we have a collective dream to be better, stronger, more resilient, and better prepared as a nation to deal with any challenges that come our way.
With one week left, this is our final opportunity to demonstrate our resilience and our resistance. This is our last opportunity to vote and to show up for each other, no matter what curveballs they throw at us. Will you make your plan to vote by November 3?
Election time is not just a time for action; it’s also a time for reflection. It’s time to evaluate what has happened in the past four years and to enumerate what it is that we want to see changed this time around. Over 60 million Americans have taken their wishes to the ballot box, and now it’s time to gather up and to cheer on the rest of us headed to vote by November 3.
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Thank you for your resilience and your resistance. Thank you for showing up at the polls. Thank you for dancing. For surviving. Thank you for wearing your mask and social distancing in lines. Thank you for homeschooling, caretaking—for texting, calling, volunteering, and for talking to friends and family. Thank you for doing whatever it takes to change our future.
Let’s bring this win home together.
Thanks for all you do.
–Chrissy, Emma, Erica, Brieanna, and the rest of the team
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