When I went to Washington after the financial crisis, I learned two important lessons.

The first lesson was that you don’t get what you don’t fight for. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau didn’t happen because it was a really good idea. It happened because we fought for it — because we came together as a grassroots movement and demanded it.

I also learned that during a crisis, the door to change opens just a crack. What had been impossible becomes hard-but-maybe-possible. That’s the moment to fight with everything you’ve got.

Of course, the headwinds will always be fierce. Yeah, change will always be hard. But a crisis — like the Great Recession, like the pandemic — shakes up the status quo. People are forced to stop saying “this is how it’s always been” and consider a new thought: “this is how it should be.”

The decisions we make in the next few months — on infrastructure, on taxes, on voting rights, and more — will set the course of our country for decades to come. Now is the time to raise our voices. Now is the time to fight.

Side by side, let’s keep working to elect more progressive leaders across the country who will fight to level the playing field for working people.

If you’re able to, please chip in $3 or whatever makes sense right now to help hit our end-of-month fundraising goal and make sure we can keep up the fight.

After four disastrous years, the election of 2020 was another one of those moments when the door to change opened.

And what made change possible? An enormous, vital, incredibly powerful force: voters.

Turnout for the election was huge. Two-thirds of America’s eligible population voted in 2020, the highest percentage in more than a century. An estimated twenty million new voters turned out. Millions of young people voted. Millions of people of color voted.

It was a massive outpouring of faith in the idea that voters — not a group of rich, distant power brokers — controlled this country.

And that puts us at this pivotal moment in history. The four corrupt and shocking years of Donald Trump’s presidency were topped off by a pandemic, an economic collapse, a national demand for racial justice, and a violent insurrection.

Now we have a once-in-a-generation chance to build something new, to shake off who we were and decide who we want to become.

This remarkable moment is an opportunity for change, but not a guarantee that it will happen. Because you don’t get what you don’t fight for.

We can’t let this moment go by without taking bold steps forward for working people across the country. We can reimagine our tax code, with billionaires and giant corporations paying a fair share. We can pass Universal Child Care. We can cancel student loan debt. We can end the filibuster. But first, we must fight.

If you can, will you make a donation today to help power this fight? Tuesday is our big end-of-month fundraising deadline — and your support would go a long way to help hit this goal.

Thanks for being a part of this,

Elizabeth