Dear John,
<p><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Thank you for standing true to your values. Thank you for being a part of the mission of CitizenGO. </span></b></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">Our strength stems from the fact that we can bring together millions of people with a common set of goals. Because of that, there’s a positive buzz making its way around... causing more and more people - common citizens - with a similar passion to join our movement every day.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">As a member of CitizenGO (a CitizenGOer), you’re part of a community helping to drive bold, high-impact campaigns to defend life, family, faith, and freedom. And - I have no doubt - the world we live in will continue to rapidly go into decline if you and I are not here to make a difference. </span></p> <p><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Your support, your activism, and your contributions have accomplished a lot in 2019. Every time you sign a petition, your voice is heard. Every time you share an action alert, you multiply your impact. Every time you make a donation, we can go out and act.</span></b></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">And now that the year is coming to a close, I think it's important that we also take the time to appreciate the difference that we're making together.</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">YOU HELPED TO SAVE ASIA BIBI</span></b></p> <p><img src="[link removed] bibi.PNG " alt="" constrain="true" imagepreview="false" width="638" height="463" border="" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">Together we achieved something we can be proud of when we saved an innocent Christian woman from facing the death penalty in Pakistan. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">Asia Bibi spent 10 years of her life suffering in prison only because of her faith. Now she can live freely and embrace her family in Canada, without fear of a corrupt government or an angry mob trying to take her life. </span></p> <p><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Thanks to your relentlessness, 2019 will be a year Asia Bibi will forever know for freedom.</span></b></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">I’m sure that without the impact resulting from our campaign, Asia Bibi would still be on death row. I can only credit the help of CitizenGOers, like yourself, for helping to make a difference in her life.<span> </span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">YOU GAVE TAFIDA RAQEEB A CHANCE AT LIFE</span></b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"><img src="[link removed]" alt="" constrain="true" imagepreview="false" width="721" height="573" border="" /></span></b></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">Helping Tafida with the opportunity to stay alive comes from the help of members of CitizenGO just like you.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">Tafida Raqeeb, a five-year-old girl, was in a deep coma when hospital administrators in the United Kingdom wanted to take her off of life support. This decision was made even though she was not considered brain dead, and many medical experts gave her a fighting chance to survive.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">We pushed and pushed for Tafida because doctors who were supposed to care for her only wanted to take her life. They even tried to intimidate Tafida’s parents with legal action.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">When a big government bureaucracy, led by administrators who only care about the bottom line, tried to give up on LIFE, we took a stand. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">And as a result, Tafida was allowed to travel to Italy to seek the highly qualified medical care that she needed. Now, Tafida is receiving proper treatment in an Italian hospital. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">We collected and delivered 279,331 signatures to hospital administrators and many British Embassies around the world. We organized rallies, vigils, and other actions in London, Rome, Nairobi, Brasilia, Washington D.C, Budapest, Madrid, Warsaw, Berlin, Amsterdam. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">Our advertisement in major newspapers landed on the desk of some of the most influential people in the world, including to key officials in the White House.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><img src="[link removed]" alt="" constrain="true" imagepreview="false" width="697" height="300" border="" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /><br style="color: #000000; font-family: -webkit-standard;" /><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">We mobilized as a unit and helped give her the opportunity that we pray will save her life.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">The parents of a battling child should never have to endure the plight that of Tadifa’s parents. They had the full weight of the British government against them. And you and I were in the corner for her!</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><img src="[link removed] Tafida 2.png" alt="" constrain="true" imagepreview="false" width="609" height="410" border="" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">The success of this campaign was only made possible thanks to the petition signatures, donations, and prayers from generous and committed CitizenGOers like you!</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">YOU STOPPED A SERIOUS OFFENCE AGAINST CHRISTIANS</span></b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"><img src="[link removed] Comics Second Coming.png" alt="" constrain="true" imagepreview="false" width="458" height="226" border="" /></span></b></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">As a result of our campaign, DC Comics responded by pulling the plug on this anti-Christian comic book series, Second Coming, that was scheduled to publish. Second Coming purposely distorted the life of Christ to offend Christians. </span></p> <p><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Our petition went viral and spread quickly through social media. In days, we received 228,989 signatures.</span></b></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">Thanks to these responses, we made a supergiant of superheroes comics rectify their poor decision.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">Some deranged folks within the DC Comic team wanted to show Jesus Christ as a failure and Christianity as wrong. Our stand made sure that Christ was not falsified.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">These offensive "caricatures" are not innocent, and its purpose was to "educate" young people with a biased and false view of Christianity. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">This victory also sent waves crashing through Hollywood<span> </span></span><i><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">channels</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">. Next time, be it DC Comic or whoever it may be, they will think twice.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">Well done!<br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">YOU SUPPORTED “UNPLANNED”</span></b></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"><img src="[link removed]" alt="" constrain="true" imagepreview="false" width="700" height="264" border="" /></span></b></span></p> <p> <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">Unplanned -- a powerful blockbuster film that chronicles the life of Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood abortion center director whose life was turned upside-down by what she saw one day in her center -- was being blackballed by Hollywood elites. As a result, the pro-life film encountered massive roadblocks in its promotion and debut in cinemas around the world. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">The powerful pro-abortion lobby, with activists all over the world, does not want the truth about the heartbreaking nature of abortion known to the public. These realities, as seen in Unplanned, are the reason Abby Johnson became a pro-life activist. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">With your support, we took this fight head-on by promoting this film where Hollywood and the pro-aborts didn’t want it to be seen. Together, with the help of many members of CitizenGO and other likeminded groups, we aided in the distribution and viewing of this pro-life cry against abortion.</span></p> <p><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">By promoting Unplanned, we are allowing people to witness the horrors of abortion firsthand, and learn of the havoc it wreaks on families. </span></b></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">You have made it possible for this film to premiere in many places that it would not otherwise have had the opportunity to be shown. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">Despite strong opposition against our efforts, the grassroots won again! </span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">Unplanned and our campaign to support its viewing around the world helped activate other pro-lifers to speak out -- and now; as a result, the abortion industry is on the precipice of defeat. </span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">WE’RE (TOGETHER) STANDING UP TO THE DISNEY GIANT</span></b></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"><img src="[link removed]" alt="" constrain="true" imagepreview="false" width="796" height="502" border="" /></span></b></span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"><br style="color: #000000; font-family: -webkit-standard;" /></span></b></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">Disney claims to focus on wholesome entertainment suited to children and families. But out of fear of retaliation from a few radical LGBT activists, Disney has done an about-face and gave in to the demands of the LGBT lobby.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">Our fighting started in July 2019 when Disney promoted its first-ever public “Pride” event at Disneyland Paris. After “Magical Gay Pride” took place, we uncovered that Disney’s CEO and Board are considering organizing more “Pride” events in other Disney theme parks around the world.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">As if that wasn’t enough, Disney is promoting many other alarming things, including the introduction of the first “boy-princess” on the Disney XD channel in the series, Star vs. the Forces of Evil. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">And now, Disney is receiving a lot of pressure to alter Frozen by turning Queen Elsa into a lesbian!</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">The LGBT lobby is pushing Disney to use its influence over millions of children to indoctrinate and encourage them to accept gender ideology.</span></p> <p><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">But CitizenGO, with your help, is fighting back.</span></b></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">For example, on November 20th, we delivered a truck filled with almost half a million signatures to Disney’s headquarters, c/o CEO Robert A. Iger and the Disney Board of Directors. It was clear that they received our message that lifelong Disney fans and parents are no longer going to tolerate their plan to indoctrinate our children.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">And our fight isn't over. We are not going to let Disney and radical activists indoctrinate our children and grandchildren.</span></p> <p><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">So, with your help, I guarantee you, it's a promise: as long as it takes, we will continue to work to confront the LGBT bullies and convince Disney to protect the innocence and freedom of our children.</span></b></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">These are only a few of our campaigns in 2019... </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">… There have been many more this year, just take a look at our website and see everything that we have accomplished. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">My commitment to you, on behalf of the entire CitizenGO team, is that we will continue to work (and fight) every moment, day by day and year by year to: </span></p> <ol> <ol> <li style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">defend the right to life for every human being from conception to natural death, </span></li> <li style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">push back on the gender ideologies and the LGBT lobby’s social agenda, </span></li> <li style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">defeat hate with hope, </span></li> <li style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;"><b><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">and begin the process of swinging the society's pendulum back toward sanity, decency, and the kind of future that we must never give up on. </span></b></b></li> </ol> </ol> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">We will do this no matter how powerful the forces are against us.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">So... We cannot give in, we have to<span> </span></span><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">double down</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>on our efforts.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">We must continue to protect and defend life, family, faith, and freedom. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">It's hard work. But that's the work we're accomplishing -- together.</span></p> <p><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Thank you for everything you helped accomplish in 2019 to make this world a better place. You’re making a real difference.</span></b></p> <p><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"><i><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;"><span>Gregory Mertz </span></span></i><i><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">and the CitizenGO team</span></i></span></b></p> <p><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"><i><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">P. S.<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>A few days ago, I asked you to complete a survey that will help us determine our priorities in 2020. Knowing your opinion will help us plan and budget accordingly for the coming year.<span> </span></span><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">If you haven’t done it yet, please answer the survey to guide our 2020 plans and activities by<span> </span><a href= "[link removed]" target="_blank" id="" >clicking here.</a><br /></span></b></span></i></span></b></p> <p><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">More information</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">:</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">Asia Bibi free at last as she leaves Pakistan for Canada after months of limbo ( The Telegraph)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;"><a href= "[link removed]" target="_blank" id="" >[link removed]</a></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;"></span><br /></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">Tafida Raqeeb: Brain damaged girl arrives in Italy (BBC)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;"><a href= "[link removed]" target="_blank" id="" >[link removed]</a></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;"></span></span><br /></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">DC cancels comic book about a second coming of Christ amids backlash (NBC)</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;"><a href= "[link removed]" target="_blank" id="" >[link removed]</a></span></span></span></span></p> <p><br /></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">Unplanned coming to Canada (The Interim)<br /><br /><a href= "[link removed]" target="_blank" >[link removed]</a><br /></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;"></span></span><br /></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;">Disneyland Paris bows to LGBT agenda (Christian Concern)<br /><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-weight: 400;"><br /><a href= "[link removed]" target="_blank" id="" >[link removed]</a></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"></span><br style="color: #000000; font-family: -webkit-standard;" /><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"></span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;">Prolife groups welcome decision to overturn abortion ruling (The Tablet)</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: #333333;"><br /><a href= "[link removed]" target="_blank" >[link removed]</a></span></p>
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