Spring is here, the weather is getting warm, Americans are getting vaccinated, and a sense of normalcy is setting in — but this is all a mirage. Below the surface, the future of the United States has never been in more danger.

John, this is a long but important email about our fight to end the filibuster. It’s a reality check, a call to action, and a warning of what might happen if we lose this fight.

If you don’t have time to read it all, here’s a summary: we urgently need your financial help to increase our pressure on the handful of Democrats who are protecting the filibuster and queuing up a Republican landslide next year.

The potential future we’re about to describe isn’t hard to envision: if Democrats fail to eliminate the Senate filibuster and fail to pass the For the People Act, the GOP will likely win a majority in the U.S. House next year.

If this happens — even if Democrats managed to defend the current 50/50 U.S. Senate split — virtually all progress throughout Joe Biden’s final two years as president would cease.

After two more years of inaction from the federal government against obscene wealth inequality and a worsening climate crisis, the likelihood of Republicans winning the presidency in 2024 would be high. You can imagine what would happen next.

The good news is this: Democrats currently have the power to prevent this future by passing a wave of legislation to protect our democracy and secure economic rights for working people.

House Democrats have already used their majority to pass legislation to expand voting rights and union rights, raise the minimum wage, make Washington, D.C. a state, prevent gun violence, and much more.

But here’s the bad news: more than 100 days into Joe Biden’s presidency, Senate Democrats have failed to pass any of this legislation because of one reason: the filibuster.

John, every Democratic Senator who chooses to protect the filibuster instead of passing legislation is choosing to hand the United States over to the Republican Party. Our Revolution is devoting our resources toward pressuring these Senators into changing their minds, but we’re running out of time — we need your help to expand this pressure campaign before it’s too late.

Here’s a reality check: American democracy barely survived four years of President Trump, and his Republican successor would be worse.

As the climate crisis spirals into a global refugee crisis, they’d put a more palatable face on Trump’s dystopian policies while accelerating the GOP’s current crusade against voting rights, labor rights, and basic human rights in a way that would become increasingly difficult to reverse.

Despite Trump’s historic unpopularity, Democrats nearly lost their House majority last year and were barely able to achieve a 50/50 Senate split. With multiple House Democrats in swing districts retiring and redistricting set to stack the odds against Democrats for years to come, our window of opportunity is narrow.

As Nina Turner said during our recent Ohio organizing meeting, Our Revolution is “part of the movement that is pushing the current administration to the left. And the policies we are pushing for are not only popular, they are necessary.”

Our work reforming the Democratic Party from within is working slowly but steadily. Every year, more progressives are elected locally and nationally, and progressive issues become more and more popular. We are even pushing state Democratic parties to pass resolutions in support of ending the filibuster. President Biden has adopted many of our issues and ideas — now we need those ideas to become law.

If Democrats run campaigns on progressive ideas then pass progressive legislation when in power, defeating the GOP in future elections will become easier and easier. If Democrats fail to do this, Republicans will likely return to power next year and in 2024.

John, our movement’s multiracial, multigenerational coalition of working class people must devote all of our energy toward ending the filibuster because it’s the only thing standing in the way of our futures.

Next week, Our Revolution will host a town hall with Senators Jeff Merkley and Amy Klobuchar to discuss our plan to end the filibuster. We’re entering the next phase in our national pressure campaign, and we need your help to fund this work. Will you donate $10 now to help us end the filibuster?

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As you may know, we already have organizers on the ground in states like West Virginia and Arizona to pressure holdouts like Senator Kyrsten Sinema, who recently vowed that she “won’t bend to pressure from either party.”

It’s on us to prove her wrong. In the weeks ahead we need to hire more organizers and devote more of our resources toward our campaign to end the filibuster.

If you can’t donate today, please RSVP for next week’s call with Senators Merkley and Klobuchar to get involved in this critically important work.

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In solidarity,

Our Revolution