John, this is an email where we’re going to ask you to make a contribution to our movement. We know – the election just happened, you want a break, and you earned some rest. But let’s talk about the stakes of our next two years of organizing for a moment:
For decades, politics in Washington have been dominated by “incremental” change. Our government can’t insure every American, so people will be left in the cold. The government can’t pass free college, so millions of people will be stuck with crippling debt. Universal childcare is too expensive, so instead millions of low-income parents will have to juggle two jobs and raise a family on top of it all.
We were expected to accept those trade-offs because our leaders told us that eventually we’d have all the things that working people have deserved for years. So where does that leave us now?
265,000 people are dead in a global pandemic. Thousands more will follow. We’re in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. The minimum wage is the same as it was ten years ago. There is $1.6 trillion of outstanding student loan debt. Childcare workers can’t even afford to send their own kids to the daycare centers they work at.
We. Need. Transformative. Change. That’s why, from day one, our movement has been fighting for the alternative – deep canvassing and real organizing that shows up every day, not just Election Day. If you’re a part of this movement, we don’t have to convince you of that. You already know that the old way of doing things is broken. But that’s why we’ve got to ask for your help.
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Your grassroots support enables us to continue organizing our communities, building progressive momentum, investing in deep canvassing, and constructing a powerful, on-the-ground apparatus that can pressure the system from inside and out.
Together, we can build a movement capable of breaking away from the mistakes of the past, and finally passing the true, transformative change that all of us need in our lives. That’s not just what we deserve – it’s what our friends, our families, and our communities have earned.
In solidarity,
Team Cori