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

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People For Member,

The Far Right is seeking to erode our democracy before you even cast your
next ballot. They continue to propagate Trump’s Big Lie to justify passing
racist laws that restrict the right to vote. They are preparing to further
gerrymander congressional districts to rig the playing field for their
candidates to win. And if they don’t win? Well, they’re passing laws to
make it easier to challenge – or even ignore – the results!

Unless we continue to mobilize against this assault on our democracy, the
Far Right could solidify their power for years or even decades to come –
will of the People be damned.

We CAN stop them. Grassroots pressure works. That’s why our democracy is
depending on progressives like you to renew your commitment to fighting
against these blatant power grabs and help us outmaneuver the Far Right as
they continue to chip away at America’s free and fair elections.

We’re slipping behind our monthly budget to combat voter suppression and
pass critical legislation like the For the People Act and the John Lewis
Voting Rights Act. We need another $8,055 in grassroots online donations
from supporters in the next 48 hours to get back on track.



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The Far Right’s full-frontal assault on our democracy extends from voter
suppression, gerrymandering, and the embrace of big money in politics to
their coverup of the January 6 insurrection and making mischief with the
fundamentally undemocratic Electoral College.

As noted in a recent Washington Post column by Dana Milbank, Yale
historian Timothy Snyder, who studies 20th century authoritarianism and
predicted an event like the January 6 insurrection, warns that Republicans
are “digging themselves ever deeper into becoming a party which only wins
by keeping other people from voting, and that’s a downward spiral.”

“We’re looking almost certainly at an attempt in 2024 to take power
without winning election,” [Snyder] told me Thursday. Recent moves in
Republican-controlled state legislatures to suppress the votes of people
of color and to give the legislatures control over casting electoral
votes “are all working toward the scenario in 2024 where they lose by 10
million votes but they still appoint their guy.”

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The extinguishing of our Reichstag fire on Jan. 6 made Trump’s failed
coup less like 1933 Germany than 1923 Germany, when Hitler’s clownish
Beer Hall Putsch failed. Historically, most coup attempts fail. “But a
failed coup is practice for a successful coup,” Snyder said. This is
what’s ominous about the Republicans’ determination to sabotage
investigations that could help us learn from the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Also ominous is the move in many Republican-controlled states to ban
schools from teaching about systemic racism — “memory laws,” Snyder
calls them — which “feeds into this authoritarian turn” by providing
cover for the new attempts to disenfranchise more non-White voters.
“They’re trying to ban the discussion of things like voter suppression,
and it’s precisely the history of voter suppression which allows us to
see it for what it is,” Snyder said.

And it’s not just 2024 that we have to worry about. The Far Right is
aggressively pushing its voter suppression and gerrymandering agenda NOW
so they can take control of Congress in next year’s midterm elections!

Remember: without your continued support our work to counter these growing
threats is not possible.



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to protect democracy and the right to vote>>



Trump may have lost the presidency, but those on the Far Right who support
him are stopping at nothing to make sure they’ll never lose power again –
even if they lose elections.

We can’t afford to lose this fight.

Thanks for all you do and for standing with us,

Zach, People For the American Way



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Source:

[ [link removed] ]“Opinion: This historian predicted Jan. 6. Now he warns of greater
violence.” The Washington Post, 7/15/21

 

 

 

 

 

 


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