When I went to Washington after the financial crisis, I learned two important lessons.

The first lesson was that you don’t get what you don’t fight for. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau didn’t happen because it was a really good idea. It happened because we fought for it — because we came together as a grassroots movement and demanded it.

I also learned that during a crisis, the door to change opens just a crack. What had been impossible becomes hard-but-maybe-possible. That’s the moment to fight with everything you’ve got.

Of course, the headwinds will always be fierce. Yeah, change and progress will always be hard. But a crisis — like the Great Recession, like the pandemic, like the fight to save our democracy — shakes up the status quo. People are forced to stop saying “this is how it’s always been” and consider a new thought: “this is how it should be.”

We’ve had some good recent movement on key things like canceling student debt and making sure corporations start paying their fair share. And our ability to continue making progress — on child care, on taxes, on voting rights, on abortion access, and more — will be determined by whether or not we can hold onto our Democratic majorities in the midterms. Now is the time to raise our voices. Now is the time to fight.

Side by side, let’s keep working to elect more progressive leaders across the country who will fight to level the playing field for working people. If you’re able to, please chip in $3 or whatever makes sense right now. We have an important end-of-month grassroots fundraising goal to hit before next week — and any amount helps.

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The election of 2020 was another one of those moments when the door to change opened. And what made change possible? An enormous, vital, incredibly powerful force: voters.

Turnout for the election was huge. Two-thirds of America’s eligible population voted in 2020, the highest percentage in more than a century. An estimated twenty million new voters turned out. Millions of young people voted. Millions of people of color voted.

It was a massive outpouring of faith in the idea that voters — not a group of rich, distant power brokers or corrupt politicians — controlled this country.

And that puts us at this pivotal moment in history. The four corrupt and shocking years of Donald Trump’s presidency were topped off by a pandemic, an economic collapse, a national demand for racial justice, and a violent insurrection.

Republicans are doing everything they can to try to reclaim their power and take us back. Right now, we have a critical chance to reject their anti-democratic ways, to shake off who we were and decide who we want to become.

This remarkable moment is an opportunity for change, but not a guarantee that it will happen. Because you don’t get what you don’t fight for.

We can’t let this moment go by without taking bold steps forward for working people across the country. We can reimagine our tax code, with billionaires and giant corporations paying a fair share. We can pass Universal Child Care. We can end the filibuster. We can expand the Court. But first, we must fight.

If you can, will you make a donation today to help power this fight? This week is our big end-of-quarter fundraising deadline — and your support would go a long way to help hit this goal.

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Thanks for being a part of this,

Elizabeth

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