Dear MoveOn member,
Tuesday's explosive hearing by the January 6 committee revealed the most complete and damning evidence yet that Donald Trump personally summoned the armed white supremacist mob to Washington, D.C., and knowingly directed them to attack the U.S. Capitol.1
Former members of white supremacist militia groups Oath Keepers and Proud Boys described how Trump's infamous "Be there, will be wild" tweet on December 19 initiated planning for the attack, and the committee revealed evidence that Trump personally helped plan the rally and march to the Capitol.2
There's no doubt left. It's case closed. Trump is guilty.
And yet even now, as evidence of Trump's conspiracy to overthrow the 2020 election piles up, he and his MAGA allies are planning yet another coup attempt right under our noses by installing cronies in the key election offices that will count votes and certify the winner in 2024.3
That's why MoveOn, for the first time in its 23-year history, has launched a multimillion-dollar campaign to defeat Trump's Big Lie candidates for secretary of state. Will you chip in $5 a month to help fund this all-important effort to stop Trump's coup and save our democracy?
No, I'm sorry, I can't make a monthly donation.
In Tuesday's hearing, we learned about an "unhinged," six-hour-long meeting in which conspiracy theorists Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani, and Michael Flynn got into a screaming match with White House legal staff over their baseless claims of election fraud and a plan for the military to seize voting machines in states that Trump lost.4
We learned that after the meeting, when Trump failed to convince his White House legal advisers that the election was stolen, he turned his focus toward organizing a violent insurrection, posting on Twitter, "Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!" That tweet immediately sparked a wave of organizing by the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys that led to the deadly riot of January 6.5
Another draft tweet revealed by the committee showed that Trump planned to urge the crowd to march to the Capitol all along.6
And to top it off, the committee disclosed yet another instance of criminal witness tampering, revealing that Trump personally called one of the witnesses scheduled to testify at a future hearing.7
All this comes after Cassidy Hutchinson's firsthand witness testimony that Trump knew the crowd was armed, demanded that metal detectors be removed so that the mob would be as large as possible, and even supported calls to "hang Mike Pence."8
It's simply jaw-dropping, but perhaps the scariest part of all is that Trump remains the front-runner for the GOP nomination in 2024 and is actively putting the pieces in place to stage another, more successful coup.
Trump's efforts in 2020 were stopped only when a handful of honest and courageous state officials refused to go along with his plan to "find" the votes needed to overturn the election. That's why Trump is now running a slate of Big Lie candidates for these key election oversight positions so that he will have cronies in place to do his bidding next time.
MoveOn is investing $30 million in this fall's election to stop Trump's Big Lie candidates and save our democracy. But as a grassroots organization, our money comes from you, so we can do it only with your support. Will you chip in $5 a month to help stop Trump's next coup?
No, I'm sorry, I can't make a monthly donation.
Thanks for all you do.
–Chris, Alexis, Seth, Allison, and the rest of the team
Sources:
1. "Trump Planned March to Capitol, Jan. 6 Committee Says," The New York Times, July 13, 2022
https://act.moveon.org/go/164329?t=6&akid=327888%2E40999114%2EigV3CL
2. "Four takeaways from the latest hearing of the House Jan. 6 committee." The Washington Post, July 12, 2022
https://act.moveon.org/go/164330?t=8&akid=327888%2E40999114%2EigV3CL
3. "Election deniers want to control the 2024 election. And they're getting closer," CNN, May 24, 2022
https://act.moveon.org/go/164044?t=10&akid=327888%2E40999114%2EigV3CL
4. "Four takeaways from the latest hearing of the House Jan. 6 committee." The Washington Post, July 12, 2022
https://act.moveon.org/go/164330?t=12&akid=327888%2E40999114%2EigV3CL
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. "Cassidy Hutchinson Stuns With Testimony About Trump on Jan. 6," The New York Times, June 28, 2022
https://act.moveon.org/go/164331?t=14&akid=327888%2E40999114%2EigV3CL
Want to support MoveOn's work? Donald Trump's preparations for being able to steal the presidency in 2024 are well underway and include working to replace top election officials in battleground states with his own loyalists. Which is why MoveOn is doing something we've never done in our 23-year history: We're launching a powerful, multimillion-dollar effort to defeat Trump-backed secretaries of state across the country and elect individuals who will count every vote and ensure fair elections.
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