Friend, I hope you got a chance to read this email from our Democratic Nominee for Attorney General, Rochelle Garza.

We have been sitting on pins and needles for over a month waiting for this devastating news. But now that it’s official -- it feels surreal. Despite the years of Republicans chipping away at our reproductive liberty and threatening this exact moment, I don’t know if I ever actually envisioned how this day would feel.

I believed that our nation was better than this. More progressive than this. More empathetic than this. But today, I’m not only mourning the loss of our autonomy, but the soul of our nation I believed would prevail.

Friend, it’s now more apparent than ever that we can’t rely on anyone but ourselves to protect our right to choose. No matter how much we protest, Republican lawmakers will never hear us.

Electing leaders at the state level who will put everything on the line to reinstate abortion access is the only way forward. Electing leaders like Rochelle Garza is the only way forward.

Will you split a $7 contribution between us and the Rochelle Garza campaign right now so we can elect the true fighters for freedom -- Texas Democrats that will always lead with empathy, listen to science, and put people first?

This November, Texans have a choice: radical conservatives running on a platform of authoritarianism, forced birth, and human suffering. Or Democrats who will cushion the blow of today’s national trauma by ensuring Texans can live without fear of forfeiting the right to their most basic bodily autonomy.

The choice is clear. The moment to act is now.

Thanks for being with us in the fight,

Hannah Roe Beck
Co-Executive Director, Texas Democratic Party

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Sender: Rochelle Garza
Subject: Friend, we won’t back down from this fight.

Friend,

My name is Rochelle Garza, and I am your Democratic Nominee for Texas Attorney General.

Even though we had time to prepare for this news, it doesn’t make hearing it any easier. In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court has officially overturned Roe v. Wade. I’m angry, and I know you are too.

Friend, this fight is not new to me. As a civil rights attorney, I represented Jane Doe, a 17-year-old in immigration detention who was denied her right to access abortion care. I took on the Trump administration, then-D.C. Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh, and Texas AG Ken Paxton and WON. That case resulted in the “Garza Notice,” which mandates the federal government notify all teens in immigration detention of their right to abortion care without obstruction or fear of retaliation.

As a new mom, I refuse to let my daughter, and all of our children, grow up in a state and country that does not value their health and their human right to decide what happens to their bodies.

Our mothers and grandmothers fought for our rights before and won. Now, it's our turn to continue the fight and win for our daughters and everyone’s access to abortion care. The fight for reproductive freedom is generations long and sadly not over. We can’t give up now.

Last year, Texas Republicans in the Legislature passed an extreme trigger law –– banning abortion access at any stage of pregnancy and criminalizing abortion providers if Roe v. Wade was overturned. That means that 30 days from now millions of Texans will have their fundamental right to reproductive freedom stripped from them. Millions of Texans — relegated to second-class status.

It doesn't have to be this way. Sixteen states have protected abortion access at the state level. Texas could be one of those states, but we’re being held hostage by Republicans who have declared an all-out war on reproductive rights.

Texans know that reproductive healthcare and access to abortion care are moral imperatives, and an issue of racial, economic, and gender justice. I’m committed to restoring abortion access and defending the rights of ALL Texans whenever they’re threatened.

As your Attorney General, I will work tirelessly to reinstate and expand abortion access so Texans can control their own bodies, and their futures.

So I’m asking: will you split a $7 donation between my campaign and the Texas Democratic Party, so we can make our state a safe place for women and pregnant people again?

Today’s news is nothing short of devastating. Know that I’m thinking of you, I’m angry with you, and I won’t stop fighting for you.

I’m with you,

Rochelle Garza
Democratic Nominee for Texas Attorney General