Friend,

Today we impeached Donald Trump for attacking our government. We took action to hold this lawless, dangerous man accountable for inciting violence last week in his last-ditch effort to remain in power—against the will of the American people, who voted him out in record numbers.

A week later, Trump has still not apologized for inciting a mob of his supporters to storm and breach the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to disrupt the official certification of Joe Biden’s electoral win. The violent white supremacist attack left five people dead—including a Capitol police officer who succumbed to his injuries after he was brutally attacked with a fire extinguisher.

Trump told his supporters to march on the Capitol, saying: “We will never give up. We will never concede. It will never happen. You don’t concede when there’s theft involved. Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore.”

Then, Trump watched the violent mob attack the U.S. Capitol, brandishing antisemitic Nazi paraphenalia, nooses (a symbol of anti-Black terror), and Confederate flags. He responded by tweeting: “These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away.”

After his advisors’ and lawyers’ requests to denounce the violence, Trump released a video half-heartedly telling people to go home, while continuing to push lies that the election was stolen. He told the seditious mob: “We love you. You’re very special.”

Now, armed far-right extremist groups are planning to march on state capitals this weekend and in the lead-up to Joe Biden’s January 20 inauguration. Trump is continuing to egg on and fuel these threats to our public safety.

Even before taking office, the now-twice-impeached president tapped into the currents of white supremacy in this country to foment unhinged hate. Until we confront and reckon with this poisonous ideology that’s foundational to and embedded in this country, it will continue to endanger our communities.

That’s why, in 2016, I spoke up and got thrown out of the Detroit Economic Club during Trump’s speech, where I demanded that he read the Constitution and noted that his plans for a Muslim ban were—and are—unconstitutional. It’s why I’ve been leading in Congress on impeachment from day one.

It’s why we must work to ensure that accountability and truth are at the forefront of our immediate actions, including impeaching Trump. And it’s why the Senate must also act and remove him from office. We cannot have “unity”—which Republicans are now calling for after purposely dividing our country along lines of hate—before true accountability.

For today, let’s remember how we got to this moment: impeaching Trump for a second time.

For years, the media and even Democrats told us that impeaching Trump was not politically possible. Now, after impeaching Trump along bipartisan lines, there appears to be movement among Senate Republicans, including Republican leader Mitch McConnell, to not only convict Trump, but to bar him from ever holding federal office again.

This is how change happens: We pushed for accountability, shifting what was politically possible in order to do what was right, which set us up to be ready for this moment.

When we rise up together, anything is possible.

Can you donate now to finish the job and remove Trump from office? Your donation is an investment in my leadership, so I can keep bringing your voice to Congress, holding people in power to account, and pushing for needed change.

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Thank you for helping bring us to this moment, making history yet again by ensuring Trump is the first president to be impeached twice. Now let’s make sure he’s removed from office and that he cannot run for office again!

Always serving you,

Rashida