Indivisibles,

A few weeks ago, the New Yorker published a scary article about how the Kochs and other right wing mega-donors are pushing a shady, McConnell-backed campaign to stop the For the People Act. Here’s the headline:

It’s a long article (if you have a while, read it here) but here’s the gist: the For the People Act, like D.C. statehood, is just common sense, and it’s popular even with Republican voters.

Now you’d think Republican voters liking it would prompt right wing leaders to support the bill, right? Wrong. They don’t really listen to the will of the people, so instead they’re doubling down, planning to use what they call an “under-the-dome” strategy to block the bill. Translation: they’re going to use the filibuster to kill common-sense, democracy-strengthening bills that even their own voters support!

The Kochs may have near-bottomless pockets, but we’ve got something they don’t: people power. (Also, we’re right. And they’re not.)

We don’t have to match them dollar-for-dollar, but we do need to raise enough to keep our tools going so we can support this grassroots movement. Can you chip in $10 today? Your donation will fund TV and newspaper ads that ask people to call their members of Congress, support web hosting for organizing tools, and much more.

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So what are the Kochs so upset about? Well, here’s a quick look at what the For the People Act does:

• Empowers voters and ensures everyone is included and represented with same-day registration, expanded early voting, preventing gerrymandering, and more.
  
  
• Gets money out of politics by encouraging small-dollar donations, requiring additional transparency and curtailing the power of super PACs.
  
  
• Cracks down on corruption by making sure ethics rules reply to everyone, including the president, and requiring much more transparency about conflicts of interest.
  
  
• Supports the Post Office by increasing support for USPS, prohibiting the removal of mail collection boxes and mail processing machines, and prohibiting USPS from making major operational changes that would affect the delivery of voting materials or election mail.

These aren’t controversial things -- they’re rational, simple changes that will strengthen our democracy. The only reason to be afraid of them is if you’re afraid of regular people being represented in government -- which the Kochs and McConnell are. They admitted they can’t win this debate on the merits, so instead they’re going to twist the rules of the Senate to block progress, just like their predecessors did to block the Civil Rights Act and prop up Jim Crow.

You’ve already seen what our plans to fight back look like: newspaper and radio ads in crucial states, highly-targeted digital persuasion campaigns, on-the-ground and online organizing, direct mail, and most important of all, providing resources to empower thousands of groups and hundreds of thousands of activists nationwide to pressure their elected officials to abolish the filibuster and pass democracy reform.

But all of that costs money -- we’ve budgeted over $700,000 on our For the People Project alone. And since we’re not billionaires with bottomless wallets, we need your support: can you chip in $5 or $10? If everybody reading this email did that, we’d have all we need to beat the Kochs. Click here to rush your donation now.

Sometimes it feels daunting to stand up to the right wing’s seemingly endless money and power. But we always find comfort, strength and that last little bit of determination in remembering that while they may have the endless wallets on their side, we have the people on ours.

In solidarity,
Indivisible Team