John,

Last week, fossil fuel billionaire allies launched a new organization they’re calling The Empowerment Alliance. Its explicit goal is to squash momentum for the Green New Deal and keep expanding the oil and gas industries in the US.¹ Their plan is to launch a smear campaign, pouring money into TV ads and deceptive reporting to turn the public away from common sense ideas that would improve the lives of 99% of people.

When people hear the truth about the Green New Deal, they like it. When they hear lies, they don’t. The next few months are our window of opportunity to shape the dominant public opinion on the Green New Deal heading into the 2020 election by making sure people get the truth. Here’s how:

We know that the best way for us to invest in spreading our message is by building our hubs. With more support, hubs can double down on grassroots outreach and building positive local news coverage around the Green New Deal. Chip in to help our hubs amp up their work telling the true story of the Green New Deal as our opponents get louder.

I’m not gonna lie: in the media battle over the Green New Deal, right-wing attack groups are currently ahead. The stats show that the people who are most likely to have heard of the Green New Deal are those who listen to conservative talk radio and watch Fox News--and what those people have heard are made up narratives around socialism and banning cows.

But it’s still early in the game. The coming months are our chance to seize control of the narrative heading into 2020 as voters are deciding where they stand and candidates are deciding whether to lean into the Green New Deal in their campaigns.

The moments when the Green New Deal has gotten real, positive media coverage are times when grassroots energy for it has spiked. We can keep building those moments--we just need to invest in our organizing.

To do it, we really need your support. Right-wing groups like Empowerment Alliance can pour money into smear campaigns just by reaching into the deep pockets of the fossil fuel billionaires who fund them. But we’re powered just by regular people like you. So to spread our stories, we need millions of people like you to chip in whatever you can.

Support our hubs so they can go throw down to make more viral moments for the Green New Deal and make sure the public hears the truth about the bright future we’re working to build.

Thank you.

Victoria Fernandez

1. https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-influence/2019/09/30/new-nonprofit-will-fight-green-new-deal-promote-natural-gas-764862