Hello,

Earlier this year, Mitch McConnell forced a historic vote using the "nuclear option" to change Senate rules and allow himself and Trump to continue to pack the courts with even more right-wing justices.

McConnell bragged just a few weeks before that the "Republican Senate majority is confirming President Trump's judicial nominees at a record-setting pace." But since this latest vote, McConnell has now been able to confirm them even faster by limiting debate to just 2 hours per nominee. And he's wasted no time putting that new power to good use.

This latest rule change is yet another way McConnell has been willing to break the Senate in order to pack the courts with right-wing judges...

After President Obama took office, Mitch did everything he could to slow down the process of confirming Obama's nominees, so that by the time Obama's first year was over, there were over 100 vacancies on the federal courts.

In 2013, Mitch refused to confirm any judge Obama nominated to the DC Circuit Court - one of the most powerful and influential courts in the country. And in 2015, when Republicans took control of the Senate and McConnell became majority leader, he changed the rules so that judicial confirmations came to a screeching halt. Only 25% of President Obama's nominees were confirmed after that - the lowest number since Harry Truman was in office.

And then, Merrick Garland...

Merrick Garland. Merrick Garland. Merrick Garland. No one will forget the day that Mitch McConnell told President Obama that he would refuse to allow him to fill that Supreme Court seat. Mitch gleefully calls it one of the "proudest moments" of his 34 years in the Senate.

Once Trump took office, Mitch began confirming his nominees like they were "on a conveyer belt." When Neil Gorsuch was nominated instead of Merrick Garland, McConnell used the "nuclear option" to do away with the filibuster and ram him onto the court. And even after Brett Kavanaugh was credibly accused of sexual assault by multiple women, McConnell rammed him onto the Supreme Court as well, where he will now sit for decades to come.

This latest move by McConnell to allow Republicans to push through even more of Trump's nominees is all part of Mitch's strategy. When Democrats are in power, he does everything he can to block and obstruct. And when Republicans are in power, Mitch changes the rules back (and then some!) to pack the courts with right-wing justices for an entire generation.

McConnell is willing to erode the very fabric of our democracy to get his way, and when future generations write the history of who broke Washington, it will be Mitch McConnell's name staring up at them from the pages of their history books.

In 2020, Mitch McConnell is up for reelection, and he's already begun blanketing Kentucky with TV ads to get reelected for another 6 year term. But America can't afford another 6 minutes of McConnell in the Senate, let alone another 6 years. That's why we created Ditch Mitch - a new, completely grassroots-funded group that is solely dedicated to defeating Mitch McConnell and supporting his Democratic opponent.

Mitch is wasting no time getting ready for 2020, and we can't either. We've set an ambitious goal of raising another $100,000 this week to fund our next ad campaign against Mitch, and we're so close to hitting it. But we don't have corporations and special interests backing us like McConnell does. Instead, we're building a grassroots movement of already over 78,000 donors, and we're counting on everyday people like you to give now if we're going to hit our goal:

If you're as ready as we are to Ditch Mitch, then please, click here right now and make a contribution of whatever amount you can afford today so that we can help Amy McGrath take on McConnell and send him packing next November. Every dollar you give will go directly to ensure that Mitch McConnell never wins another election ever again.

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Together, we are going to show Mitch McConnell that no amount of corporate money is going to save him in 2020. We will defeat him and finally end his political career once and for all.

Thank you for being a part of this grassroots movement from the start,

The Ditch Mitch Fund















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