Dear MoveOn member,

The Saturday morning the networks finally called the election and
announced Joe Biden and Kamala Harris would be the next president and vice
president, I burst into tears. We defeated an incumbent president and a
wannabe authoritarian, even though the deck was stacked against us with an
anti-democratic Electoral College and more. We navigated massive voter
suppression and a global pandemic, and despite it all, an overwhelming 81
million of us showed up at the polls to boot Donald Trump out of office
and lay the foundation for a better future.

This was the culmination of a rough four years. Our communities have been
under attack. Our democracy has taken body blows, and our nation’s social
fabric is hanging by threads. To be honest, I wasn’t always sure we’d make
it.

It’s not just the work we did over the last four months that made it
possible. Our election win reflected the work we did together to turn the
tide against Trump over the last four years. Millions experienced a
political awakening after Trump’s election, with unprecedented levels of
activism and civic engagement, and it showed in the record-breaking voter
turnout numbers in November. 

Together over the past four years, we consistently and valiantly showed
up, pushed back and spoke out against the hate, greed, corruption, and
dishonesty of the now outgoing administration. And we aligned a durable
majority of the country alongside us.

* We joined together at airports all over the country to speak out
against the racist and xenophobic Muslim Ban.
* We protested together for months to stop Trump and Republicans in
Congress from ripping up the Affordable Care Act.
* We showed up with tens of thousands of others for Sunday night Resist
& Win organizing  calls, building a strong community ready to act.
* We volunteered in record numbers in 2018, and together we elected the
most diverse U.S. House of Representatives in the history of this
country and put an important check on Trump.
* We demanded that Trump be impeached for his abuse of power and then
organized for months to build the support to make it happen.
* We came together to make the anti-war majority visible and push back
against Trump’s reckless escalation of tensions with Iran.
* We took care of one another through a pandemic, offered each other
resources, and raised millions for emergency services.
* We joined in solidarity with the Movement for Black Lives to demand
racial justice and an end to the indiscriminate killing of Black
people at the hands of law enforcement, and we flanked demands for
shifting money from police budgets to investing in community services
and mental health. MoveOn members raised millions of dollars for the
Movement for Black Lives and the National Bailout Network. 
* This fall, we created one of the country’s largest virtual voter
turnout operations. Our America for All election campaign engaged more
than 900,000 volunteers and included ads and content viewed more than
half a billion times.
* Last but not least, we did all of this while preparing to take action
if Trump’s flagrant attempts to overturn the election ever
materialized as a serious threat. Thank goodness, his attempts have
failed, our institutions have held strong, and Joe Biden and Kamala
Harris will be sworn in on January 20.

If we don’t step back every now and then to look at the big picture, it’s
easy to minimize the significance of what we accomplish when we come
together. But the truth is that all of us played an essential role at this
treacherous time in American history, and MoveOn members were critical to
making this country a better place. 

The election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris bought us time, but we are not
in the clear. We should celebrate our victory, rest, and restore (and keep
fighting in the Georgia runoffs!). But then we need to get back to work.
This is no time to get complacent. The election gave us the opportunity to
build a country that works for all of us, but it did not guarantee it. The
far right and Republicans in Congress who empower extremism remain a
threat, and if we don’t continue to act and organize and build and protest
and demand and call for what we know is possible, we could end up in the
same place we were four years ago.

So get some rest, and then let’s suit up and come back together to
continue the work. Here’s what to expect in 2021:

We will organize and push the Biden administration and incoming Congress
to fight for all of us and pass bold policies that deliver directly for
people. No fake solutions, no bipartisan committees to replace real
action, no tinkering around the edges. We need bold and aggressive
policies that meet the gravity of the crises at hand. They need us to push
them. Without us pushing for green jobs, education debt relief, affordable
quality health care for everyone, equitable distribution of the COVID
vaccines, and more, they won’t feel the pressure to go big.

We must hold Trump and the worst of his entourage accountable, and we must
undercut the power of the emboldened far right. The flagrant abuses, the
blatant stoking of white nationalism, the personal enrichment at the
expense of our country, and the constant attacks on our democracy demand
that they not get away scot-free. We must send a message that you can’t
treat governance as a self-serving capitalistic joy ride and get away with
it. 

We must continue to win elections and increase our power in the House and
Senate. In 2022, the MoveOn community will be essential to electing
progressive champions in primaries, keeping and expanding the majority in
the House, and securing a durable majority in the Senate. 

Just think about it: Everything we fought to protect over the last four
years would have been so much harder without the millions of us working
together as MoveOn members. The elections we won in 2018 and now in 2020
would have been much less likely. The wins we need in the years ahead
won’t happen without you, without us, leveraging our collective power for
good and for one another.

I am closing out 2020 incredibly grateful for all of you and for what we
can accomplish when we act together, and I wish you a Happy New Year and a
fresh new start in 2021! 

I am honored to make change with this vibrant, beautiful, diverse
community called MoveOn.

Thanks for all you do.

–Rahna and the rest of the MoveOn team

P.S. MoveOn members did a ton of great work to power wins in the 2020
elections—learn more at
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This email reflects four years’ worth of organizing and campaigning that
MoveOn members did through two different entities: MoveOn Civic Action, a
501(c)(4) advocacy nonprofit, and MoveOn Political Action, a federal
political action committee.




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