Dear MoveOn member,
When Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn, whom Mitch McConnell tasked as
the lead negotiator for any proposed gun legislation, was asked last week
if there was a chance that the Senate would finally pass gun safety laws,
his response was clear: "not gonna happen."^1
You read that right. A senator from the state where an 18-year-old was
able to easily purchase two assault rifles, body armor, and hundreds of
rounds of ammunition and days later use them to slaughter 19 elementary
school children and two teachers has refused to even consider any law that
might keep weapons of war out of our communities.
This is the ugly truth of the GOP. They will never, ever put the lives of
children, elders, or anyone in between ahead of their cultish obsession
with guns. And it's time that we make them pay for it at the ballot box.
We can make this year's midterm elections a referendum on the GOP's abject
refusal to protect our communities and our rights—and show them once and
for all that we will not accept their cruelty as a part of our politics.
MoveOn is investing $30 million in the largest midterm election campaign
in our history to do just that, but we need your help to make it a
success. Will you chip in $5 a month to power and sustain
our campaign from now until Election Day? Monthly donations help to ensure
that we have the resources we need to keep up the fight over the long
term.
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Want more details about what MoveOn has invested in this year? Here are
just a few pieces of the plan:
* Running a massive, innovative voter contact program. In 2020, MoveOn
ran data-backed experiments to find the most effective way to turn out
the specific voters we need to win, and we found a tactic that proved
to be five times as effective as traditional phone banks or
canvassing. We've spent months developing new ways to make this
program even more effective, and we'll begin deploying it in
battleground states and districts this summer.
* Training thousands of volunteers to organize in their communities.
MoveOn hosted the Progressive Power Training Series to give members
across the country the resources they need to organize volunteer
shifts, run text banks, energize their communities, and ensure every
voter who can vote makes it to the ballot box this fall.
* Investing millions to support pro-democracy candidates. One of the
ways Republicans have stacked the deck to be able to strip away our
rights and stop meaningful reform is through the passage of racist
voter suppression laws. MoveOn is dedicated to supporting state
candidates for governor and secretary of state who will defend our
right to vote and stop these authoritarian moves by the GOP.
* Continuing to push Congress to pass progressive legislation. While we
organize to win in November, we are also keeping the pressure high on
Congress to pass gun control legislation, including a new assault
weapons ban, and will be heavily investing in ads to voters in the
districts of the members of the GOP who block this legislation from
passing in order to remind them to vote them out this fall.
Even though MoveOn has millions of members like you, John, our
staff is small, and finding the resources to keep these programs running
is difficult without your support. Will you chip in $5 a
month to grow and sustain these programs? While we are grateful for all
contributions, monthly donations provide a reliable source of income and
allow us to strengthen our programs.
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Following the deadly racist massacre that left 23 people dead in El Paso,
Texas in 2019, Beto O'Rourke made his stance on addressing mass shootings
clear. When asked if he supported a mandatory buyback of all assault
rifles, he said, "Hell yes, we're going to take your AR-15."^2
That weapon, designed specifically for use by the military on the
battlefield, was used in Buffalo, Uvalde, Parkland, Las Vegas, Pulse,
Sandy Hook, Sutherland Springs, and many other mass shootings over the
last decade.^3 It has no place on our streets.
We need leaders like Beto to replace gun-crazed Greg Abbott in Texas.
We need leaders like Wisconsin Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes to replace Ron
Johnson, a staunch opponent of commonsense gun laws, in the Senate.
And we need to expand Democratic majorities in both the House and Senate
to ensure that we can pass laws to address the epidemic of gun violence in
our nation.
In less than five months, we can win this fight. We cannot let this
opportunity slip through our fingers. Not again.
Will you chip in $5 a month?
[ [link removed] ]Yes, I'll chip in monthly.
[ [link removed] ]No, I'm sorry, I can't make a monthly donation.
Thanks for all you do.
–Justin, Madeleine, Allison, Jaira, and the rest of the team
Sources:
1. "Sen. Chris Murphy 'more confident than ever' Congress can reach deal
on gun laws but anxious about failure," CNN, June 5, 2022
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2. "Beto O’Rourke: 'Hell yes, we are going to take your AR-15,'" ABC7NY,
September 12, 2019
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3. "Where AR-15-style rifles fit in America's tragic history of mass
shootings," NPR, May 26, 2022
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