Dear MoveOn member,
This week, some at-risk Americans will be eligible for their fourth
COVID-19 vaccine shot.^1
The CDC has approved a fourth COVID vaccine dose for people who are
moderately or severely immunocompromised. Israel has gone farther and is
already offering fourth doses to older adults.^2
Yet only 63% of Americans are vaccinated, and just 37% have received a
booster dose—in large part due to rampant misinformation about COVID and
vaccines spread by Republican politicians.^3,4 And now, with omicron
spreading like wildfire throughout the country, more Americans are
hospitalized with severe COVID-19 than at any other point in the pandemic,
despite the availability of safe and effective vaccines.^5
Make no mistake: Republican politicians have blood on their hands. They
know the truth but care more about using the pandemic to sow division,
rile up their base, and win elections than protecting their communities,
saving lives, and bringing this pandemic to an end.
To fight back against Republican misinformation and protect your vaccine
card, we’re bringing back our FREE "Pro-Science, Pro-Health, Pro-Vaccine"
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[ [link removed] ][IMG]MoveOn is working to defeat at the ballot box this November the
worst anti-science, conspiracy-peddling Republicans who bear
responsibility for the staggering numbers of hospitalizations and deaths
from COVID-19 that are occurring right now, including these three
Republicans:
* Georgia Governor Brian Kemp. As parents in Georgia raised concerns
about sending their children back to school last fall without school
mask mandates, Kemp responded that masks were "a tool of government
overreach."^6 And in recent days as the omicron surge forced Kemp to
dispatch the National Guard to Georgia hospitals and testing sites, he
reiterated that he would not institute any public health mandates that
"divide the vaccinated from the unvaccinated or the masked from the
unmasked."^7 More than 30,000 Georgians have died from COVID-19.^8 In
November, we can replace Kemp with one of the most inspiring leaders
of our time, MoveOn member-endorsed Stacey Abrams.
* Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson. Johnson has become one of the most
unabashed spreaders of COVID-19 misinformation in elected government,
with The New York Times calling him "the Republican Party's foremost
amplifier of conspiracy theories and disinformation."^9 He spent
months proudly boasting that he was unvaccinated, suggested that
allowing 3% of the U.S. population to die of COVID-19 would be
acceptable to help the economy, said that mouthwash could kill the
virus, and has repeatedly peddled utterly false statistics claiming
that coronavirus vaccines have killed thousands of people.^10,11 He
does not belong in the Senate, and in November we have the chance to
replace him with MoveOn member-endorsed Mandela Barnes, a progressive
champion who will help turn the tide on Johnson's failures.
* Florida Senator Marco Rubio. On the last day of 2021, as cases of the
omicron variant were spiking out of control in Florida and around the
country, Rubio tweeted that the coronavirus was nothing more than a
"sore throat," that concerns about the rise in case numbers were
"irrational hysteria," and suggested that people who test positive
should continue going to work.^12 Rubio has made it clear that he does
not believe in science and thinks corporate profits are more important
than the lives of Americans. We can and must defeat him in November.
Over the next several weeks, MoveOn will be rolling out our grassroots
plan to help kick these and other dangerous Republicans out of office this
fall, but if you want to get involved right now—and protect your vaccine
card from damage at the same time!—you can order one of our free
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Thanks for all you do.
–Kelly, Allison, Chris, Amy, and the rest of the team
P.S. As more and more state and local governments, along with private
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Sources:
1. "Starting later this week, some at-risk Americans become eligible for a
4th shot." The New York Times, January 9, 2022
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2. Ibid.
3. "COVID-19 Vaccinations in the United States," Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, accessed January 11, 2022
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4. "House GOP committee deletes tweet spreading disinformation on Covid
boosters after backlash," CNN, January 1, 2022
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5. "Covid News: U.S. Hospitalizations Break Record as Omicron Surges," The
New York Times, January 11, 2022
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6. "Governor stops short of measures to address COVID-19′s rampant
spread," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, September 14, 2021
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7. "Omicron surge: Georgia will send National Guard to assist hospitals,
test sites as cases increase," Fox 5 Atlanta, December 29, 2021
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8. "Tracking Coronavirus in Georgia: Latest Map and Case Count," The New
York Times, accessed January 11, 2022
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9. "Assaulting the Truth, Ron Johnson Helps Erode Confidence in
Government," The New York Times, March 21, 2021
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10. "What this Republican Senator doesn't know about Covid-19 is, well, a
lot," CNN, January 6, 2022
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11. "Fact check: Sen. Ron Johnson (again) misleads on vaccines and
reported deaths," CNN, June 28, 2021
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12. "Marco Rubio Faces Backlash After Calling Omicron Concerns 'Irrational
Hysteria,'" Newsweek, January 1, 2022
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