Dear MoveOn member,
Shocking news reports revealed last week that QAnon-supporting Congresswoman Lauren Boebert live-tweeted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's location and movements during the white supremacist attack on Capitol Hill, in what appears to have been an effort to help the racist mob locate the speaker.1
We've already impeached Trump, and we are working hard to ensure the Senate convicts him. But we can't stop there. The Republicans like Boebert, Ted Cruz, and Josh Hawley, who also helped to motivate this deadly white supremacist mob to invade the Capitol, plant explosive devices, and murder a police officer, must be condemned, held accountable, and removed from office.
Which is why MoveOn has launched an urgent, nationwide campaign to immediately do just that.
From potentially buying newspaper, TV, and digital ads; holding rallies; flooding Congress with calls; putting up billboards; and more, we're ready and willing to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes to get this done. Will you chip in $5 a month to hold these traitors accountable?
No, I'm sorry, I can't make a monthly donation.
Led by a coalition of our partners, MoveOn helped release a full-page ad in The New York Times last week, calling on Congress to expel not only Trump but also the eight senators and 139 members of the House who voted to overturn the election results.
And MoveOn is strongly supporting Representative Cori Bush's resolution calling on the House to investigate and potentially expel Republican members who helped incite the deadly white supremacist mob.
There is already a groundswell of bipartisan support for removing these violent extremists from public office. The two largest newspapers in Hawley's home state of Missouri have called on him to resign for his despicable actions, his publisher has dropped his upcoming book deal, and hundreds of his constituents painted "Resign Hawley" in downtown St. Louis on Saturday.2,3 And over the weekend, the Houston Chronicle called on Ted Cruz to resign. In Colorado, Boebert's constituents even organized a rally and press conference calling for her resignation.4,5
Make no mistake: The calls for resignation, expulsion, and removal of these violent members of Congress are growing louder and clearer.
We can win this fight.
We can send a powerful message that white supremacist violence won't be tolerated.
But it won't be easy. People like Lindsey Graham are trying to sweep the deadly white supremacist violence under the rug and are saying "it is time to heal and move on."6 Despicable.
There can be no healing without accountability. And accountability means that the members of Congress who incited violence must be removed from Congress.
John, we urgently need your help to run this campaign. Will you chip in $5 a month to run this campaign for as long as it takes to ensure these violent extremists don't get away with inciting a deadly insurrection?
No, I'm sorry, I can't make a monthly donation.
Thanks for all you do.
–Mohammad, Arvin, David, Erica, and the rest of the team
Sources:
1. "A Colorado Republican tweeted about Pelosi's location during the Capitol siege. She's now facing calls to resign," The Boston Globe, January 12, 2021
https://act.moveon.org/go/149350?t=6&akid=288067%2E40999114%2EuVyz93
2. "St. Louis protesters call on Hawley to resign from Senate," Associated Press, January 10, 2021
https://act.moveon.org/go/149317?t=8&akid=288067%2E40999114%2EuVyz93
3. "As Josh Hawley loses a book deal over the Capitol riots, his GOP mentor says backing him was ‘the worst mistake I ever made,'" The Washington Post, January 8, 2021
https://act.moveon.org/go/149302?t=10&akid=288067%2E40999114%2EuVyz93
4. "Editorial: Resign, Senator Cruz. Your lies cost lives," Houston Chronicle, January 8, 2021
https://act.moveon.org/go/149311?t=12&akid=288067%2E40999114%2EuVyz93
5. "Rally in Pueblo calls for Rep. Lauren Boebert's resignation," KRDO, January 8, 2021
https://act.moveon.org/go/149315?t=14&akid=288067%2E40999114%2EuVyz93
6. "Ocasio-Cortez slams Graham after he calls for the nation to 'move on' without impeachment," The Hill, January 8, 2021
https://act.moveon.org/go/149316?t=16&akid=288067%2E40999114%2EuVyz93
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