Dear Friend,

Hey, folks. David Segal here, the executive director of Demand Progress.

And I need to share with you some bad news: This year, we're not where we
need to be to make ends meet, and we're on the verge of having to cancel
work on the causes you care about the most.

[ [link removed] ]Will you make a donation to help bridge our fundraising shortfall so we
don't have to cut back our crucial campaigns?

I'm in charge of overseeing our campaigns on everything from net
neutrality to taking on Wall Street and reining in Trump's war powers. But
as executive director, I'm also the bottom line, responsible for managing
our budgets and making sure our income matches our expenses.

Let me share some specific numbers.

By this time last year, we'd raised $457,136 from fundraising emails like
this. But this year, we're more than $100,000 behind that pace. If we
don't close the gap by the end of the year, we'll have to relook at some
of our campaign plans, and one way or another, we'll have to balance our
books.

I want to be clear. We're always blown away by the support we receive from
our members. The drop-off in fundraising this year is just part of the
natural cycles of our issues being in the news or not. And no matter what,
Demand Progress is not going away.

Regardless, as a nonprofit organization, we don't have any venture
capitalist investor we can go to for bridge funding. We only have you, our
grassroots supporters.

In the year ahead, we will face huge battles:

* Net neutrality: We're working hard to restore net neutrality
protections—while beating back bad legislation in Congress that would
strip the power of states to set their own net neutrality rules.
* Impeachment: We're calling on Congress to move forward with articles
of impeachment to hold Trump accountable for all his crimes—and to
strengthen protections for whistleblowers like the Ukraine
whistleblower and government workers who call out corruption.
* Facebook and Amazon: We're taking on Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos
and their unaccountable power, which threatens our democracy and our
economy.
* NAFTA: We're pushing Congress to reject Trump's new version of the
notorious trade deal that would protect Big Pharma while undermining
labor and environmental rights.
* Wall Street: We're taking on the big banks and their allies by making
sure that Congress and government regulators are fighting for the
public interest—and reducing the risk of another crash.

That's just the beginning, and with so much at stake in 2020, we can't
afford to finish 2019 in a fundraising hole. That's why I'm asking you
today to make a special donation to make sure we don't have to cut back on
any of these crucial fights going forward. Will you donate to help bridge
the fundraising shortfall?

[ [link removed] ]Yes, I will donate today.

Thanks for your support.

David Segal 
Executive Director, Demand Progress

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