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HI?,

I am writing to urge you to support the ballot access drive to put Matthew
Hoh on the North Carolina ballot as the Green Party candidate for U.S.
Senate.

Matt needs 14,000 good signatures by May 15. That means at least 25,000
signatures to be safe from challenge. It takes money to pay petitioners to
make sure Matt gets the signatures he needs.

CLICK HERE TO DONATE TO MATT'S CAMPAIGN [8]

At this time of war and growing militarism while climate protection and the
people's needs are neglected, I think Matt's campaign is the most important
Green Party campaign this year

Matt came to national prominence as a voice for peace and democracy in 2009
when he resigned from his State Department post in Afghanistan in protest
over President Obama's "surge" that escalated the US war in Afghanistan.
Matt spoke up from experience as a former Marine Corps officer who had done
two tours of duty in Iraq. His powerful resignation letter [9] was
recognized as an "Essential Document" on the war in Afghanistan by the
Council on Foreign Relations.

The first issue that Matt's policy platform [10] addresses is the democracy
crisis our nation faces. The extremist Republicans are passing laws in many
states to restrict voting rights and take over election administration in
order to steal elections. The feckless Democrats have failed to lift the
Senate filibuster in order to pass federal voting rights and election
protection legislation that would pre-empt the Republicans' anti-democratic
state laws.

Beneath this immediate democracy crisis is the anti-democratic system of
single-member-district, winner-take-all elections that has long crippled
our democracy by systematically excluding political minorities from their
proportional share representation in legislative bodies. Matt addresses
these problems with a pro-democracy agenda that features reforms that
neither major party is supporting, including Fair Ballot Access,
Ranked-Choice Voting, and Proportional Representation.

Matt will be the only candidate in his race campaigning for a Green New
Deal, Medicare for All, a livable minimum wage, student and medical debt
forgiveness, treating drug abuse as a health problem instead of a criminal
problem, ending US wars overseas, nuclear disarmament, and many other
popular progressive policies that the politicians of the major parties do
not support because they pander to the special interests of the super-rich
and the giant corporations who have bought and paid for their campaigns and
political careers.

Matt's campaign depends on donations from regular people like you. Let's
make sure Matt's ballot petition succeeds. Please make a contribution
today.

For peace and democracy,

Howie Hawkins

Click here to donate to Matthew Hoh's campaign [8]

Visit Matthew Hoh's website [11]

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