Dear MoveOn member,

As Ambassador Gordon Sondland began to testify on Wednesday morning, only
four Republican members watched from the committee room. Why? Because the
rest were scrambling to rewrite their talking points as Sondland flipped
and admitted that Trump not only directed the Ukraine bribery plot, but
that multiple other senior members of the administration were in on it
too.

Now that Sondland's testimony has wiped away the remaining Republican
excuses and obfuscations, it is up to each and every member of the GOP to
make a simple choice: Will you defend our Constitution, or will you defend
Donald Trump? They must choose the former. 

We want to drive that message home. So our Creative Lab has put together a
TV ad, and we are buying space to run it in prime time—starting in the
district of "new Republican star" Elise Stefanik.



[ [link removed] ]John, can you chip in $3 to help us buy more
time to replay this ad in Representative Stefanik's district and expand
our ad buy into other districts as well?



MoveOn teams have been hard at work pounding the pavement on Capitol Hill
to get Republicans on the record, organizing on the ground in key states
where senators could break with their party, and buying space for
billboards that will go up in important districts next week. These TV ads
are the next step in our plan to put a mirror up to these more "moderate"
Republicans who may be wavering in their support for Trump after hearing
all of the damning testimony from the past two weeks of impeachment
hearings. They can be convinced.

Our ad is set to air during all of the major Sunday morning shows this
weekend, on Sunday's episode of "60 Minutes," and during MSNBC's "Morning
Joe" every day next week to keep the pressure up while Rep. Stefanik is
home for recess.

But we don't have the money to keep the ad running any longer than that or
to produce similar ads to run in other districts. That's where you come
in, John.

We cannot afford to lose all of the momentum from the past two weeks of
hearings when Congress goes on recess next week, which is why hitting the
airwaves with our ad just as members head home is so important.



[ [link removed] ]Will you chip in $3 right now to make sure we can keep
our ad running over and over again—and make similar ad buys in other
districts?



Gordon Sondland's impeachment testimony was the most damning yet in the
impeachment inquiry. He said that when he worked to bribe Ukrainian
officials, he was "following the president's orders." He said that
"everyone was in the loop," and that "we knew what we were doing and why."
And in the starkest moment of the day, he simply said, "Was there a quid
pro quo? The answer is yes."^1

Any member of Congress who heard yesterday's testimony must hold Trump
accountable and vote to impeach him.



[ [link removed] ]Can you chip in $3 right now to help us get our ads on
TV and make sure Republicans know that if they choose to protect Donald
Trump, they are choosing to abandon our democracy?



Thanks for all you do.

–David, Erica, Brian, Rahna, and the rest of the team

Source:

1. "Sondland acknowledges Ukraine quid pro quo, implicates Trump, Pence,
Pompeo and others," The Washington Post, November 21, 2019
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