After four long years...
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Dear friend,
BREAKING NEWS: American voters have just elected the most pro-equality ticket in
history — President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris! The
Human Rights Campaign has been integral to that decision and to helping grow the
LGBTQ Caucus in the House of Representatives, welcoming new members of color.
This is an historic moment for our movement, but more work lies ahead in
Georgia, and we’re ready to roll up our sleeves.
After four long years, we can finally celebrate — our voices were loud and
clear, and together, we have elected Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to the White
House, by more than four million votes and counting! Their election proves once
again that equality is a winning issue, and reflects both the incredible work of
this organization and the strength of our shared unity.
The Biden/Harris White House will be the most pro-equality in history.
President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris are not just our allies,
but they are true advocates for LGBTQ equality. These leaders have a clear
vision: a vision where LGBTQ people are protected from discrimination; a vision
where transgender and gender non-confirming people don’t fear for their lives
walking down the street; a vision where LGBTQ children are loved, embraced and
protected from bullying.
In this election, voters embraced this more just vision of America — not just
for LGBTQ people, but for every single person in this nation. And the Human
Rights Campaign has been investing in this moment for three and a half years. In
the lead up to the 2018 election, we made a $26 million investment in the
largest grassroots expansion in our history. Together, you helped us pull the
emergency brake on Trump and Pence — and in the process, build and strengthen
the infrastructure we would need to secure victory in 2020. Since 2018, we have
not slowed down, and in the last few months, we sprinted through the finish line
towards victory. Your support fueled the most sophisticated campaign operation
in our history.
* HRC staff on the ground recruited more than 5,800 individual volunteers who
completed more than 29,000 hours of voter contact.
* We sent over 2.7 million person-to-person text messages — up from the roughly
500,000 texts sent in 2018 — sent 2.7 million mail pieces, had over 930,000
phone conversations with voters and engaged more than 200,000 voters through
HRC’s online voter dashboard.
* We activated our community of HRC members and supporters with 7.2 million
text messages and more than 31.6 million email messages to get-out-the-vote
and organize this election.
Together, we reached voters from every corner of this nation — and particularly
in the crucial battleground states of Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania,
and Wisconsin — empowering and energizing people to make their voices heard. Now
the people have spoken — and they have spoken for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Because of this organization, because of our partners, because of people of
conscience from every corner of this nation — we have voted to advance equality,
and quite literally to save our democracy.
Today, we also celebrate crucial wins at the federal and state level. In the
U.S. House of Representatives, we have retained a crucial pro-equality majority
and re-elected some of our greatest openly LGBTQ champions. And with the
trailblazing wins of Ritchie Torres and Mondaire Jones, we now have the largest,
most diverse LGBTQ caucus in our history. We will now have a more inclusive
Congress — one that better reflects our diversity and better protects our
interests. We also celebrate the history-making victory of HRC’s own Sarah
McBride. Sarah brings the kind of leadership our nation urgently needs. We were
proud to be a part of this chapter of her journey, and we know she will have
many amazing chapters ahead.
With Vice-President-Elect Kamala Harris, with Sarah, Ritchie and Mondaire’s wins
— along with the countless trailblazing victories across the country — we are
giving hope to the next generation of our community, and building the bench that
will take our movement into the future. Because of these leaders, and because of
your support, the future of equality is bright.
As we look to what comes next, the fate of the Senate is still in our hands.
John Hickenlooper and Mark Kelly both won their races, flipping two critical
seats and leaving control of the Senate in play. In Georgia, HRC-endorsed
candidates Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock are heading into a run-off
election against Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, respectively, in
January. Their historic races will be our highest priority in the coming weeks
and months.
I also want to acknowledge in this moment of celebration, that there is also
hurt and disappointment. After all that we have seen from Trump and his cadre —
from failure to acknowledge and address racial injustice to ineptitude in
addressing COVID-19 which has taken more than 230,000 lives, to the blatant
homophobia and transphobia reflected in their policies to the negligence in
managing the economy — it is both heartbreaking and infuriating so many people
in this country would still vote the way they have. But cultural change is never
easy. We are here today because generations before us fought and sacrificed to
get us here. It is our struggle to carry forward — not just for one election,
but for our chapter in history. We are in the business of transformative change
— dismantling brick by brick the systems of oppression that have existed since
before the founding of this nation.
There is more work for us to do. That was true before this election, and it is
true now. Trump, Pence and anti-equality forces left us with unlawful and
regressive policies that have stripped away protections marginalized communities
have had for years. In the coming days, the Human Rights Campaign will release
our Blueprint for Positive Change charting the path forward for equality under
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Together, we will work to repair our communities,
defeat the forces of oppression and injustice, and transform our systems so that
they truly serve all of us.
I am so proud to have fought alongside you all, and so grateful for all that we
have accomplished together. I believe with our resistance and resilience, we
will continue to create the change our community and our country need. We are on
a path again to hope and progress, and we will walk that path together.
United, in victory, we rise.
In Unity,
Alphonso David
President
Human Rights Campaign
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