Friends — I wanted to make sure you didn't miss this important email I sent last week. Thank you. — Robert Reich

Dear John,

As the election fast approaches, Republicans aren’t pushing just the Big Lie that Trump won the 2020 election.

Republicans are pushing three other bald-faced lies — on crime, inflation, and taxes — that could prove to be even more effective at fooling voters and putting the MAGA Republicans in charge of Congress.

We can’t let that happen, and that's why Inequality Media Civic Action is working furiously to do what we do best: using our vast reach on social media to reach millions of people — including and especially young voters — to engage them and make sure they know the truth.

Young people are far less likely to show up and vote in midterm elections, and that’s why our task over the next three weeks is clear. We must work around the clock to produce and market our explainer videos, TikToks, graphics, and other posts to get the truth to the voters who matter most.

Will you donate to help support our work to reach young voters and debunk the Republicans’ lies?

In the face of persistent inflation, of course Americans are worried about putting food on the table. With mass shootings and gun violence a daily occurrence, of course they are worried about crime.

But across America, Republican candidates are spewing blatant lies to voters about the nature and source of these problems.

Let’s take a look at crime. While violent crime rose 28 percent between 2019 and 2020, gun homicides rose 35 percent. That’s not because Democrats are soft on crime or defunding the police, as the GOP alleges. That’s because Republicans keep making it easier for people to get and carry guns.

Nor are Democrats to blame for rising prices on everything from gasoline to milk, as Republicans claim. In fact, the most important driver of domestic inflation is corporate greed — with companies enjoying their highest profit margins since the 1950s. The GOP wants to protect its corporate donors and cut taxes for the wealthy, not rein in corporate monopolies.

Perhaps the most absurd GOP lie of all? That Democrats have hired 87,000 IRS agents to go after the middle class. In fact, those new workers, phased in over time, will restore the IRS to its staffing levels before Republicans gave it the axe. And their role is to go after the wealthy — the richest 1 percent of whom are hiding a fifth of their income from the federal government.

These Republican claims are all utterly fact-free. But unless we aggressively market to young voters on social media and make sure they know the truth, these Republican lies just might work.

Inequality Media Civic Action is working on TikTok, Instagram, and every other place where young voters are online to debunk the GOP’s lies and stave off a red wave this November. Will you donate?

Thank you for joining the fight to save our democracy,

Robert Reich
Inequality Media Civic Action