Dear MoveOn member,
Do you care about climate change, economic justice, voting rights, and
reforming our broken criminal justice system?
If we're going to make progress on any of the issues we care about, the
most important thing we can do is ensure that all voters are able to
register and vote—and that each of our votes are accurately counted.
But in America today, far too many people are denied the right to cast
ballots and make their voices heard.
That's why after my Republican opponent Brian Kemp oversaw his own
election and suppressed the votes of Georgians through malfeasance and
incompetence, I launched the organization Fair Fight. Our mission is to
fight voter suppression through legislation, organizing, and advocacy.
And now we are launching the Fair Fight 2020 initiative, a comprehensive
plan to hire voter protection teams in 18 battleground states that will
work with state Democratic parties and allies to ensure that every
eligible voter can register, access a ballot, and cast a vote that will be
counted.
We need to get these teams on the ground now so they can start building
the infrastructure needed to protect the vote in 2020. At the same time,
MoveOn is preparing for the biggest election effort in its 21-year
history. And to do it all, we need your help.
Will you chip in $5 a month, split between Fair Fight 2020's
voter protection efforts and MoveOn's critical work to defeat Donald Trump
and end GOP control of the Senate?
[ [link removed] ]Yes, I'll chip in monthly.
[ [link removed] ]No, I'm sorry, I can't make a monthly donation.
This fight is personal for me, John. The architect of voter
suppression, my opponent Brian Kemp, took office after silencing the
voices of Georgians. While overseeing his own election as the secretary of
state, he purged 1.5 million voters from the rolls, allowed 214 precincts
to close under his watch, and held up the registrations of 53,000
voters—80% of whom were people of color. In the end, following extensive
voter suppression, the race was decided by fewer than 55,000 votes.
While my election was an extreme example, voter suppression is nothing
new. At our nation’s founding, only white male property owners could vote.
Later, Jim Crow poll taxes and violence denied Black Americans the right
to vote. Now, voter suppression is more insidious, with superficially
neutral rules enacted to disproportionately disenfranchise voters of color
and low-income voters, including modern-day poll taxes, like the ones
recently instituted in Florida, which make newly enfranchised voters pay
court fines before they can vote.
When I ran for office, I knew what I would be up against. And I knew that
the fight would not be fair. But, joined by Georgians of all backgrounds,
we waged a historic fight and won more voters than any Democratic
candidate in Georgia history. I am proud to be the first Black woman in
U.S. history to become a nominee for governor for a major party. And I
know that if we work hard, invest in new voters, and protect the vote in
2020, we will win.
What we need to do now is roll up our sleeves and fight to lift every
voice and protect every vote, creating an America where the true winner,
as decided by voters, wins in a fair fight—and in doing that, we can
restore faith and trust in our democracy and our institutions, one
election at a time.
That is why I launched Fair Fight. I am fighting for the integrity of the
2020 elections, while MoveOn fights to defeat Donald Trump and end GOP
control of the Senate. And we need you now. Will you split a monthly
donation of $5 between our organizations to help power our
work?
[ [link removed] ]Yes, I'll chip in monthly.
[ [link removed] ]No, I'm sorry, I can't make a monthly donation.
When politicians win office through voter suppression, democracy loses.
And that poisons people's hope. It tells voters that our voices don't
matter. It tells the worker who takes off half a day to stand in the rain
and cast her ballot at an understaffed, far-away polling place that her
voice doesn't matter. It tells the new citizen who’s proud to become an
American but who's stopped from registering to vote that he's not welcome
in America. And it tells the voter purged from voter rolls that their
voice is unwelcome in our democracy.
But in spite of all of the challenges that we face, I remain optimistic
and hopeful.
I am optimistic because I know that here in Georgia, as well as in all 18
states that Fair Fight is targeting in 2020 and all across America, people
will keep going door to door, fighting to register every eligible voter
and count every vote.
I am optimistic because I believe in the work that MoveOn is doing to kick
Trump out of office, stop Mitch McConnell and end Republican control of
the Senate, finally pass voter protections at the federal level, and renew
and restore the Voting Rights Act, which the Supreme Court gutted in 2013.
I'm optimistic because I'm in that fight, and MoveOn is in that fight.
Will you join us and chip in $5 a month?
[ [link removed] ]Yes, I'll become a monthly donor to Fair Fight 2020 and MoveOn to fight
for fair elections and work to defeat Donald Trump and end Republican
control of the Senate in 2020.
[ [link removed] ]No, I'm sorry, I can't make a monthly donation.
Thanks for all you do.
–Stacey Abrams
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