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

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Hi PFAW Member,

The match challenge deadline is coming up fast so I wanted to make sure
you saw my note.

I’m the donor who put up the money for the current match offer to help
PFAW stop Trump and Mitch McConnell’s assault on our federal courts,
including the Supreme Court, by defeating Trump and flipping control of
the Senate in 2020.

I did not know where to take my concern about the courts until I turned to
PFAW in the 1980s…

I believe the Framers wanted a judiciary that would prevent the hijacking
of our legal process by people hostile to constitutional protections.
That’s one of the reasons I’ve been a consistent supporter of PFAW for
nearly 40 years, going all the way back to my first donation in 1982!

And it’s why I hope you’ll join me by meeting my match challenge and
renewing your 2020 PFAW membership before next Tuesday with a donation
that I will personally match, dollar-for-dollar, up to $50K.

We only have $12,019 to go! Please don't let us fail to complete this
match challenge to stop Trump and McConnell!

[ [link removed] ]Join me in renewing your 2020 support for PFAW TODAY and I’ll MATCH
100% of your renewal donation, doubling your impact to defeat Trump
Republicans and save our courts!>>

[ [link removed] ] DOUBLE MY DONATION >> 

Here’s why I’m so eager to help PFAW raise $100,000 for their work to save
our federal courts – and our country – in 2020, by putting up half of it
for this match challenge.

I received a warning almost 20 years ago that could not have been more
prescient.

It was from PFAW and it came printed on campaign button, playing off the
iconic mantra of Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign, “It’s the
Economy, Stupid,” the button read, “It’s the Supreme Court, Stupid!”

A few months later, the question of who would become our next president
was answered by a one-vote conservative majority on the Supreme Court in
Bush v. Gore.

A right-wing Supreme Court majority would go on to deliver one blow after
another to our democracy – from gutting the Voting Rights Act to upholding
partisan gerrymandering.

Now, with one Supreme Court seat STOLEN by Mitch McConnell (remember
Merrick Garland?) and two Trump-nominated far-right justices confirmed to
lifetime appointments by McConnell’s rubber-stamp GOP Senate majority, Roe
v. Wade, LGBTQ equality, workers’ rights, civil rights, and countless
environmental protections are all in this Court’s crosshairs.

The situation is just as dire throughout our lower federal courts with
Trump and McConnell’s record-breaking stacking of the bench with unfit,
extreme right-wing judges.

But thanks to the dogged work of PFAW and the dedication of members like
you, a backlash is brewing.

With your help, if we act quickly and decisively, we can defeat Trump,
take back the Senate, and finally chart a new course for the Supreme Court
and our lower federal courts in 2020.

If you choose to stand with PFAW in this fight by renewing your 2020
membership with a donation before November 19, I will double your gift
with a 100% MATCH.

[ [link removed] ]Please renew with a fully MATCHED donation immediately>>

[ [link removed] ] RENEW FOR 2020 NOW >> 

We need a judicial selection process designed to ensure the separation of
powers through an independent judiciary … we get there by WINNING in 2020.

I know you get it, and it’s probably one of the reasons – if not the main
reason – that you, like me, support People For the American Way.

We can get the job done. But only together and only if we all play
whatever part we’re able to in our shared fight for the American Way.

From one supporter to another, thank you in advance for standing with PFAW
and joining me in what I consider a deeply patriotic investment.

In solidarity,

Tom Wallace Lyons
Louisville, Kentucky

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