Hi John — Right now, the NRA is holding its annual convention in Houston, just a short drive from Uvalde, TX where 19 children and two teachers were murdered in what should have been the safe haven of their classroom. I wanted to share the full statement below, which I sent to the press today, because it sums up my anger and my resolve. We are not doomed to repeat this cycle again and again. We can choose a safer, more just future. And we must.

Thank you for fighting alongside us.

– Renée (she/her)

PS - We've created an Emergency Action Fund to take down the gun lobby once and for all. Please fund our fight.

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“Today, the NRA is holding its annual meeting just a few hundred miles from Robb Elementary School, where 19 young children and two teachers were gunned down in their classroom on Tuesday.

This glaring juxtaposition is horrifyingly fitting. In the last two weeks, we have been forced to confront, in the most devastating ways, the country that the NRA and cowardly elected officials have created. A country where children are murdered in their classrooms, where parents, grandparents, friends, and neighbors are killed by a white supremacist at their local grocery store, where churchgoers are shot during a service because of their ethnicity.

The gun lobby has spent decades fomenting racism, hate, and fear in its pursuit of profit and power. But it has not created this grim reality alone. Every elected leader, Republican and Democrat alike, who has refused to stand up to the gun lobby and act has blood on their hands too.

In Washington state, we’ve proven that the NRA’s stranglehold can be broken. We have beat them at the ballot box and in the legislature, passing dozens of lifesaving bills and electing gun responsibility majorities. We’ve beat them here and we will beat them in the other Washington too. We refuse to allow our country to be held hostage by the gun lobby any longer. We refuse to accept empty platitudes and political excuses. We refuse to keep burying our children.”