A new message from your friends at People For the American Way.

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People For Member,

The most important elections in 2021, with tremendous national
consequences, are this year’s statewide elections in Virginia.

And in the biggest race on Virginia’s ballot – the race for governor –
we’ve enthusiastically endorsed a true progressive champion, Jennifer
Carroll Foy, in the Democratic primary.

Virginia is a incredibly important bellwether state, vital to America’s
political landscape in so many ways. Its state elections this year will
have a serious impact on the 2022 national midterms.

For starters, this is our first chance to hold the Far Right’s Trump
insurrectionists accountable in a major election. A disproportionate
number of people making up the insurrectionist mob in Washington on
January 6 – including extremist public officials – hail from nearby
Virginia. And the expected front-runner for governor in the Republican
field is a far-right extremist who could easily be considered Virginia’s
Marjorie Taylor Greene.

In addition, the organizing work and voter outreach we do in Virginia this
year, especially around an exciting candidate like Jennifer Carroll Foy –
who would be Virginia’s first woman governor and our nation’s very first
Black woman governor of ANY state – could help us flip two Republican U.S.
House seats in next year’s midterms. And that could make THE difference in
our ability to stop the Far Right from taking control of the U.S. House
via their aggressive gerrymandering in other states.

[ [link removed] ]With less than two months to go will you chip in on ActBlue today to
help history-making progressive Jennifer Carroll Foy secure the Democratic
nomination in Virginia’s gubernatorial primary?

Your full donation will benefit the Jennifer Carroll Foy campaign.

Virginia’s political transformation over the past several years has been
the story of progressive change that we hope to see replicated at the
national level. It’s an inspiring story that People For the American Way
has been, and remains, deeply invested in and that Jennifer Carroll Foy
has helped lead.

The example set in Virginia for other states – especially other southern
states – shows just how much state elections matter. Since flipping from
red to blue, Virginia has abolished the death penalty, legalized cannabis,
made great strides in protecting health care for its residents, and so
much more. Lives are getting better… for millions of people.

Electing progressives is the only way to maintain safeguards against the
far-right legislative attacks on the American Way that we’re seeing in
other states. You know the list: voter suppression, attacks on LGBTQ+
people, disastrous environmental policies, union busting …

Progressive leadership like Jennifer Carroll Foy’s would mean that the
meaningful reimagining of public safety through policing and criminal
justice reform is very much on the table … as is Virginia becoming the
final state needed to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution…

Foy is the right person to continue the vital progressive change that is
already benefiting Virginians in so many ways and showing what is possible
in a southern state that was once the seat of the Confederacy.

[ [link removed] ]Please invest in this year’s most important election and join us in
supporting Jennifer Carroll Foy for governor of Virginia with a donation
now>>

Beyond the historic nature of electing Foy as governor, her record as a
public servant, her lived experience, and her vision for Virginia all make
her a true standout among a field of strong Democratic candidates.

People For endorsed Foy in her elections for state legislature and we are
proud of her leadership in the House of Delegates, where she championed
the expansion of Medicaid and passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. She
has fought for policies to protect workers and the environment, and to
help families make it through the pandemic.  

As a magistrate judge, she had a first-hand look at a two-tiered criminal
justice system that often devastates lives and families without making our
communities safer, and knows we need solutions. As a public defender, she
advocated for people who would otherwise have had no voice and no chance
at getting justice out of that system.  

[ [link removed] ]Will you donate any amount you can today to elect one of the
progressive movement’s brightest rising stars, Jennifer Carrol Foy, as
Virginia governor?

Let’s keep making progress and show America that the state that was once
the seat of the Confederacy can continue to set an example as a bastion of
progress, equality, and justice.

Thank you for everything you do.

-- Ben Jealous, President

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