UPDATE! Home Depot is the latest corporation to announce that they are suspending PAC donations to Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, and all the other Republican traitors who voted to overturn our democratic election.
Judd Legum at Popular Information, whose reporting our #DrainTheTraitors campaign builds on, reports that it is "Hard to overstate how significant this Home Depot move is. They are an extremely conservative company. The fact that its moving to create distance between itself and these Republicans shows how toxic they are right now." (Subscribe to Popular Information here.)
Since we launched our #DrainTheTraitors 3 weeks ago, more than 60 big corporations have changed their tune on making PAC donations to Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, and the other Republican traitors in Congress who voted to overturn our democratic election.
Thousands of PCCC members have been pressuring corporations on Twitter and with phone calls -- and the pressure is working. CNBC reports "Republicans are worried about raising money for 2022 House races as corporations cut donations following riot." GREAT JOB!
This is grassroots activism at work:
Universal Music Group, Intel, Charles Schwab, Exelon, and Holland & Hart have all recently announced they will permanently stop making PAC donations to the Republican traitors. Thank them here -- and urge them to go a step further and request refunds for all past donations -- like Hallmark did.
Amazon, Comcast, Disney, Pfizer, Morgan Stanley, Oracle, and others have "suspended" PAC donations to the Republican traitors. That's a start, but it's not good enough. Thank these companies for that much, and pressure them to make the decision permanent.
Many other corporations need much more pressure because they have so far failed to take appropriate action.
Dozens of corporations have suspended all of their PAC donations, creating a false equivalency between the Republicans who voted to overturn our democracy and everybody else who did not. That may be a public relations strategy, but it's not accountability -- and it does nothing for our democracy. Pressure corporations to permanently stop making PAC donations specifically to the 147 Republican traitors who voted to overturn our democratic election results.
Still other corporations have taken even weaker stands, saying they are "reviewing" their PAC donation policies.
Thanks for being a bold progressive.
-- The PCCC Team (@BoldProgressive)
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