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People For Supporter,

With just three months until Election Day 2022, we are mobilizing voters,
recruiting and training volunteers, and building grassroots power in key
cities and regions in states with races that will determine the future of
our democracy – that includes:

* Races for governor and secretary of state that will determine whether
or not Trump-loyal promoters of the Big Lie and insurrectionist
sympathizers are the ones counting, certifying, and reporting their
states’ voting results in the 2024 presidential elections. After this
week’s Republican primaries, election deniers have won the GOP
nomination for the office ultimately in charge of their state's
elections in Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, and Pennsylvania ... and more
are on the ballot in primaries coming up this month...

* Races for U.S. Senate that will determine whether or not we have a
pro-democracy majority that will vote to do away with the filibuster
so we can protect voting rights, codify reproductive freedom in
federal law, and more ... AND continue to confirm fair-minded judges –
including a Supreme Court justice, should another vacancy occur during
President Biden’s term...

* Races for state and local offices that will determine, among other
things, whether or not the freedom to learn is protected for all
students or books are banned, Black history is ignored, and LGBTQ+
youth are attacked ...

So much is on the line this year! Which is why we’ve never needed your
sustained support more.



[ [link removed] ]Will you chip in $5 a month to power this work through the midterm
elections and beyond to fight back against far-right hate and defend our
fragile democracy?

Our monthly sustaining members – People For’s Defenders of Democracy – are
truly the backbone of our member-funded efforts to protect and defend
Truth, Justice, and the American Way at a time when these ideals are under
attack like never before in modern times.

Monthly giving is convenient, easy, and the most impactful way to support
this work, but if you cannot commit to a monthly donation at this time,
you can still let us know you’re standing with us by making a one-time
gift today.

[ [link removed] ]Make a one-time gift instead >>

According to polls, key races for all the offices listed above are
statistical dead heats ... and, in many of these races, Republicans have
nominated some of the most extreme candidates we’ve ever seen.

* In Pennsylvania, far-right gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano is
an election denier, actually organized buses to transport members of
Trump’s mob to the Capitol on January 6, and is unapologetic about his
commitment to throwing out election results he doesn’t like ... and,
as governor, he would get to handpick the state’s chief election
officer.

* In Arizona, the far-right candidates who won primaries for governor
and U.S. Senate just this week are MAGA extremists who routinely
traffic in conspiracy theories and racism. Gubernatorial candidate
Kari Lake has said that not believing Trump’s Big Lie that the 2020
election was stolen should disqualify people from holding public
office, and Senate candidate Blake Masterson has made horrifying
racist comments attacking immigrants and Black people (and has an
endless supply of financial support from his mentor and benefactor,
anti-democracy billionaire Peter Theil). But it doesn’t stop there.
The GOP nominee for secretary of state in Arizona, Mark Finchem, is a
member of extremist militia group the Oath Keepers (you may remember
them as one of the core groups organizing the Jan. 6 insurrection)!
And the nominee for state superintendent of education wants to ban
bilingual education and set up a “narc line” to report teachers
suspected of teaching “CRT.”

* In Maryland, gubernatorial candidate Dan Cox is a MAGA conspiracy
theorist cut from the same cloth as Doug Mastriano, and the GOP
nominee for attorney general, Michael Peroutka, is a self-described
“confederate” (he takes exception to the term “neo-confederate”), a
9/11 conspiracy theorist, and has been a member of the League of the
South, an SPLC-designated white supremacist hate group.

And even far-right incumbents are becoming more and more brazen in their
extremism ...

Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, whom we have a good chance of defeating
this year, supported Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election
results, has peddled dangerous disinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, and
now is saying that he wants to end the guaranteed benefits of Social
Security and Medicare! Instead of guaranteeing the social safety net, his
idea would be to make Congress pass the spending for those programs anew
each year, forcing millions of Americans to live in a state of utter
insecurity and seniors to beg annually for a crucial benefit that most of
them have spent their working lives paying for.

The stakes are high. And with progressives at a historical disadvantage
based on midterms usually trending against the sitting president’s party,
generating voter enthusiasm and turnout is the name of the game.

But with potentially transformative changes to the political landscape due
to the Supreme Court’s attacks on fundamental rights (especially its
overturning of Roe v. Wade), details of the January 6 insurrection fresh
in the public’s mind thanks to this summer’s congressional hearings, and
bigoted extremists on the general election ballot in so many key races,
2022 is looking like a year without precedent, where anything can happen.

We need to work harder than ever to make the choice clear for voters. We
can save our democracy – together.

[ [link removed] ]Will you please join us and sustain our work to stop hate, protect
democracy, and defend Truth, Justice, and the American Way as a Defender
of Democracy with a monthly $5 gift? >>

Can’t give monthly at this time? [ [link removed] ]Please make a one-time gift
instead. >>

Thank you so much for all you do.

Go, Fight, Win,

Ben Jealous, President

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