Dear MoveOn member,
It's on: House Democrats are moving forward with the process to impeach Donald Trump.
The allegation? That he used nearly $400 million in foreign aid to blackmail a U.S. ally into helping him smear a political opponent.1
If this doesn't qualify as "high crimes and misdemeanors," nothing does.
The number of Democrats supporting action on impeachment is growing by the hour. We have to act fast while momentum is on our side—to make sure that Democrats don't back down, and that the American people know exactly what Trump did before Fox News smothers the truth in an avalanche of lies.
We’re launching an urgent campaign to raise $250,000 in the next 72 hours, and we need your help. Will you chip in $3 to help us flood Congress with calls, run ads, swarm the U.S. Capitol in D.C. Thursday, and prepare for a massive week of action across the country next week while members of Congress are on recess?
Yes, I'll chip in to support MoveOn's emergency, 72-hour impeachment blitz.
The latest revelations are so far beyond the pale that Congress no longer has any choice but to uphold the rule of law and begin impeachment proceedings now. And it seems that the damn has broken, with more than 180 members of Congress coming out in support of impeachment and Nancy Pelosi finally changing her tune and announcing her support for a full-throated impeachment inquiry.
In July, Trump froze $391 million in military aid to Ukraine—money the country desperately needs to defend against Russian incursions.2
Just days later, he called the president of Ukraine and pressured him eight times in a single phone call to launch a bogus corruption investigation into Joe Biden and his son.3
Trump and his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, have essentially admitted these facts.4 A White House whistleblower filed a complaint that Trump’s own appointee confirmed was urgent and credible—a complaint that by law must go to Congress but is being blocked by Trump.5
We know what comes next: Trump will call it a witch hunt and Fox News will launch a massive propaganda push to convince their viewers that he’s right.
To uphold the rule of law, we must not let Trump's lies overcome the facts. And the best way to get the truth is through an impeachment inquiry.
MoveOn is fighting back with our own major campaign: We're flooding Congress with calls, running ads, pounding the pavement in D.C., and pushing to get the facts out. Since we can’t count on the media, we’re going around them by cutting a series of powerful and shareable videos and then using ads and our massive social media network to spread the word online. And then next week, we'll launch a massive week of action across the country while members of Congress are on recess.
Our democracy is on the line. We must act now.
Thanks for all you do.
–David, Emily, Manny, Kelly, and the rest of the team
Sources:
1. "Trump Said to Have Frozen Aid to Ukraine Before Call With Its Leader," The New York Times, September 23, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/93772?t=4&akid=246649%2E40999114%2E4Onqzo
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. "Rudy Giuliani's Role In Trump Ukraine Call," NPR, September 23, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/94373?t=6&akid=246649%2E40999114%2E4Onqzo
Want to support our work? The MoveOn community will work every moment, day by day and year by year, to resist Trump's agenda, contain the damage, defeat hate with love, and begin the process of swinging the nation's pendulum back toward sanity, decency, and the kind of future that we must never give up on. And to do it we need your support, now more than ever. Will you stand with us?
Click here to chip in $3, or whatever you can afford.
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