Dear MoveOn member,

As a MoveOn member, you are part of a community helping to drive bold,
high-impact campaigning. In this moment—in the face of an emboldened Trump
administration and Republicans shamelessly attacking immigrant
communities, the very values of our democracy, our bodily autonomy, and
more—it's critical that we come together to speak out and fight back. And,
it's important that we also take the time to lift up and appreciate our
hard work and the impact we're making together.

In just the last few months, we hosted MoveOn's first-ever in-person
presidential candidate forum, raised our voices in opposition to a
disastrous war with Iran, held Donald Trump accountable for his abuses of
power, fought to close immigrant concentration camps and keep families
together, helped build momentum for bold action on climate change, and
worked to secure reproductive freedom.

Tens of thousands of us mobilized to "Close the Camps."

Mothers, children, and families are immigrating to seek refuge and asylum
in the United States. And the Trump administration is terrorizing them
with its xenophobic policies and rhetoric. With partners in the
immigration movement, MoveOn has been running an emergency campaign to
close camps, keep families together, and push Congress to defund the
agencies that cause fear and harm in immigrant communities.

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* On Tuesday, July 2, as the news about inhumane conditions at Trump's
immigrant concentration camps was breaking, MoveOn members led more
than 175 #CloseTheCamps protests, with tens of thousands of
participants gathering at local congressional offices. More than 800
letters were hand-delivered to members of Congress, ensuring they
received our demands and feel the pressure to act. The actions
generated significant national media coverage and had a tremendous
presence on local TV, with a total of more than 1,600 TV hits. And
they helped establish "Close the Camps" as a rallying cry that
organizers and activists across the country continue to amplify.
* We produced hard-hitting video and social content to put Congress in
the hot seat—demanding that members of Congress step up and rein in
the Trump administration or face the outrage of their constituents.
[ [link removed] ]A video we produced in collaboration with Physicians for Human
Rights was screened at the Human Rights Council in Geneva at an event
focusing on the treatment of children being detained by federal
immigration agencies.

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* We brought the Statue of Liberty to Washington, D.C. The Statue of
Liberty is a symbol of the timeless promise our country has made to
welcome those seeking refuge and a life in America. To serve as a
reminder of this promise, MoveOn and a coalition of partners placed a
replica of the statue in the nation's capital. For three days, our
statue, built and designed by local artist César Maxit, stood in front
of Union Station, in view of the Capitol, where people from all walks
of life, including members of Congress, could see that America
welcomes immigrants and refugees.

We stood up for reproductive freedom.

The right-wing crusade to shut down health centers and ban abortion in
America is spreading like wildfire. MoveOn is part of a broad movement
that's fighting back. In May, MoveOn, along with Planned Parenthood, the
ACLU, NARAL, and others, organized hundreds of events to stop the bans and
protect reproductive freedom. Tens of thousands of people, including
many MoveOn members, took to the streets in 500 events nationwide to
demonstrate grassroots opposition to the attacks on abortion rights. Along
with marching in the streets, MoveOn members contributed more than
$200,000 to the [ [link removed] ]Yellowhammer Fund and more than $85,000 to the
[ [link removed] ]Gateway Women's Access Fund, which provide financial assistance to
people who cannot afford the full cost of abortion care in Alabama and
Missouri, respectively.

We campaigned hard to impeach Trump—and delivered the biggest petition in
U.S. history in the process.

Trump and his administration have committed countless abuses of
power—threatening the rights of communities across America and trampling
on the Constitution, and angering millions of Americans in the process.
MoveOn and allies have turned that outrage into action. In the largest
online petition campaign in U.S. history, MoveOn and a coalition of
progressive national advocacy partners delivered 10 million petition
signatures to Congress urging the House of Representatives to start
impeachment proceedings against Trump. That's more than the entire
population of the cities of Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston combined! We
followed that up with a nationwide day of action on June 15 to push every
member of Congress to act on behalf of constituents, country, and
Constitution and begin impeachment now. And, as Robert Mueller prepares to
testify before Congress this week, we are upping the pressure on Democrats
to impeach Trump and stop his rampant abuses.

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We fought to end the Washington war machine.

The war industry is back at it again. And the Trump administration—in
order to lay the groundwork for another unnecessary and unjust war, this
time with Iran—is using the same playbook that the George W. Bush
administration used to launch the Iraq War. MoveOn has been producing
content that recalls the severe costs of the Iraq War and draws clear the
parallels between that disaster and the current warmongering playbook in
Washington.

We also worked together to push Congress to reclaim its constitutional
authority to decide when the U.S. fights a war—and were part of the
successful effort to get Congress to vote to end to U.S. support for the
Saudi war on Yemen, which is creating a humanitarian crisis. This
legislation was vetoed by Trump—only his second veto—but moving this bill
through both houses of Congress showed the strength of our movement.
(Trump's other veto—against overturning his fake national emergency power
grab—was also the result of an effort we helped muscle through Congress!)

While Trump and administration figures such as John Bolton angle to get us
into another senseless war, the fact is that for far too long the basic
needs of people in the U.S. have been swept under the rug, thanks to the
prioritization of exorbitant Pentagon spending. The Pentagon's annual
budget is a staggering $718 billion. Meanwhile, many in the U.S. lack
access to basic health care, are drowning in student debt, or are living
paycheck to paycheck. That's why MoveOn has called on the 2020
presidential candidates to pledge to cut at least $200 billion from the
annual Pentagon budget and reinvest it in critical needs, such as
education and averting catastrophic climate change.

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We partnered with youth organizers fighting the climate crisis.

Efforts led by a younger generation, which knows its very future is at
stake, have galvanized the dialogue around the climate crisis and
environmental justice, pushing the issue closer to the center of our
political conversation than it has been in years. MoveOn fiercely supports
these efforts, and we are helping to ensure that climate change remains
central to the political debate this year and through 2020.

Over the past several months, MoveOn members have joined this fight in a
number of ways:

* MoveOn was an early supporter of the Green New Deal push in November,
joining with the Sunrise Movement and supporting the work of
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and others to champion this
ambitious vision.
* MoveOn is working with the US Youth Climate Strike in calling on all
Democratic candidates to participate in a climate debate; tens of
thousands of MoveOn members signed on to this demand and multiple
candidates committed.
* MoveOn members have made tens of thousands of calls to Congress about
the Green New Deal. MoveOn produced videos about this issue that have
millions of views and distributed tens of thousands of stickers
helping MoveOn members make visible their support for tackling the
climate crisis.

We brought together presidential candidates to share big ideas.

In June, MoveOn Political Action brought together eight leading contenders
in the Democratic primary to present bold ideas that could transform our
country, tackle the biggest challenges we're facing, and improve people's
lives. MoveOn's Big Ideas Forum was the first-in-our-history in-person
candidate forum, and MoveOn members packed the room, participated in
online watch parties across the country, and had their questions brought
directly to the candidates on a national stage. The candidates pitched
their big ideas to MoveOn members directly because they understand the
power of the MoveOn community and the critical role MoveOn members will
play in getting out the vote in 2020. [ [link removed] ]Check out this video roundup of
the event.

We're helping build momentum for bold and progressive leadership to
inspire voters and defeat Trump in 2020.

While MoveOn Political Action is not endorsing any Democratic presidential
candidate at this time, as there is not yet sufficient alignment among our
membership, the latest MoveOn straw poll, conducted June 17-21—just before
the first debates—showed that Senator Elizabeth Warren had the support of
38% of responding members nationwide, followed by Senator Bernie Sanders
with 17%. Members said they want a candidate who "inspires the public with
deep progressive values" and "makes the connections between racial,
social, and economic injustice." As the 2020 election approaches, MoveOn
members cited climate justice, health care, and reproductive freedom as
the three most important issues to them. You can see the full results of
the straw poll [ [link removed] ]here.

We're preparing for the future.

Beginning in October, Rahna Epting, MoveOn's current chief of program,
will take on the role of executive director of both MoveOn Civic Action
and MoveOn Political Action.

Epting has been a leader in the progressive movement for 15 years, playing
important roles in the organized labor, leadership development, youth
organizing, and democracy reform spaces. She has held senior roles in a
number of organizations, including the Service Employees International
Union, Every Voice, Wellstone Action, and the Alliance for Youth
Organizing.

For the past two years, Epting has worked at MoveOn, first leading
strategic partnerships, then as our 2018 Resist & Win election program
director, and currently as chief of program, overseeing our advocacy
campaigning and elections, field, and Washington, D.C., work. In these
roles, she has played a pivotal part in achieving significant advocacy and
electoral wins.

As a Black and Iranian woman, Epting will be the first person of color to
serve as MoveOn's executive director.

We're thrilled to have you by our side as we head into the next chapter in
MoveOn's history. Thanks for all you do. We truly couldn't do this
important work without you.

–Nick and the rest of the MoveOn team



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we must never give up on. And to do it MoveOn needs your ongoing support,
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