Dear MoveOn member,
 
What a year! With you and fellow MoveOn members, we were able to
successfully prevent a MAGA Republican "red wave" and win essential
elections while passing game-changing legislation—all in a political
environment shaped by dark money, disinformation, and right-wing
structural advantages. While it was a challenging year on many fronts, it
was also one marked by historic achievements—many of which millions of
MoveOn members helped make happen with our people-powered, grassroots
work.
 
Here's a one-minute video on some of the highlights of what MoveOn members
achieved in 2022:
 
[ [link removed] ]MoveOn members in action
 
We prevented a red wave, expanded the Democratic Senate majority, and
elected governors and secretaries of state who will defend democracy:

* We helped reelect Senator Raphael Warnock and helped John Fetterman
win the Pennsylvania Senate race.
* We elected secretaries of state and governors in states critical to
the 2024 presidential election, defeating all the most extreme,
Trump-backed election deniers for offices that help run elections.
* MoveOn members made over 1 million phone calls, donated more than $1
million directly to candidates in critical races, and endorsed nearly
100 Democrats and progressive champions for Senate, House of
Representatives, governorships, and secretaries of state.

[ [link removed] ]You can read the full MoveOn 2022 Election Report here.
 
We put wind in the sails of Congress to have one of the most productive
sessions in history and pushed the Biden administration to use its power
to make this economy work for all of us, not just the superwealthy:

* Democrats in Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which will
cap out-of-pocket expenses for prescription drugs for Americans on
Medicare, make a historic investment in green jobs and our climate
future, and make corporations pay more of their fair share.
* This was one of the most productive sessions of Congress in
decades—and even in the final days of Congress, we saw the passage of
the Respect for Marriage Act to prevent an illegitimate right-wing
Supreme Court from undoing federally recognized equality for same-sex
and interracial marriages.
* Our rallies, petitions, letters to the editor, actions on Capitol
Hill, and ongoing advocacy helped lead to President Biden’s historic
announcement to cancel significant amounts of student debt which has
been weighing down our economy.

 
[ [link removed] ]Electing progressive champions and preventing a red wave
 
We showed up for abortion rights and access throughout the year and at the
ballot box:

* When the illegitimate, Trump-packed Supreme Court overturned the
protections of Roe, hundreds of thousands of MoveOn members took the
“Our Bodies. Our Vote.” pledge to defeat Republicans in November.
* We invested in hard-hitting messaging and ads that put abortion rights
front and center in key races and bolstered Democrats who were willing
to make this a central issue in 2022.
* We continued to “Roe the Vote”—with actions and birddogging around the
country and with videos highlighting the voices of MoveOn members.

We continued to hold Trump accountable, tell the truth about the deadly
January 6 insurrection, and fight against the sources of MAGA
disinformation:

* We fought back against the corruption of Clarence Thomas, who has
refused to recuse himself from cases that touch on his wife’s
involvement in the attempted coup, as more than 1 million of us called
for his impeachment, delivered the petitions to Capitol Hill, and ran
ads in newspapers about his unfitness to serve.
* We ran campaigns against General Motors, Apple, and other corporations
to force them to break ties with and support of the Republicans who
were part of the deadly insurrection and attempts to overturn the
election—and helped win the campaign for AT&T to stop funding One
America Network, a major right-wing source of disinformation on
January 6 and the pandemic.
* We lifted up the work of the January 6 committee, helping their
findings cut through disinformation and media noise and calling on
them to make criminal referrals, which they did just this past week.
* After defeating Trump’s MAGA candidates for secretary of state, we
prepared to take on Trump himself—meeting his campaign announcement
with our own campaign to defeat him at the ballot box while holding
him accountable for his crimes, because nobody is above the law.

We did all of this our way—with grassroots donations, people-powered
action, member-driven campaigns, strategic partnerships, and
cross-movement collaboration. Millions of MoveOn members took action this
year—from signing petitions to calling Congress to showing up in the
streets to participating in voter outreach and so much more. And we were
powered by millions of grassroots donations, with an average gift of under
$15.
 
And that’s not all. Throughout the year, MoveOn members took to the
streets, the phones, the steps of the Capitol, their local town squares
and congressional offices, the airwaves, the pages of local newspapers,
and social media to power progressive change, make history, and stand with
communities under attack by the right wing.
 
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MoveOn members fought to pass laws, to keep pressure up for congressional
and administrative action for an America that works for all, and to secure
a historic confirmation to the Supreme Court: 

* Hundreds of thousands of MoveOn members took action to support the
confirmation of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and to celebrate the
historic confirmation of this exceptional judge. At the same time,
MoveOn members lifted up the call to expand and rebalance the court in
order to counter the influence of right-wing court-packing and restore
integrity to the institution.
* MoveOn members pushed Democrats to pass the first gun safety laws in
decades, the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, support for veterans’
health, and reforms to strengthen the Postal Service.
* Members  have continued to work with Dreamers to make DACA permanent
and support our immigrant neighbors against anti-immigrant policy and
bias.
* From fighting for nominees to the Federal Reserve Board to backing up
the antitrust work of the Federal Trade Commission, MoveOn members
fought alongside champions in government who are seeking to rein in
corporate power and put consumers first.

MoveOn members mobilized around the country when the right wing attacked
our rights, freedoms, and communities:

* MoveOn members took to the streets with Planned Parenthood and other
national allies to host more than 1,000 “Bans Off Our Bodies” rallies
with more than 1 million participants in May and June—while also
raising funds directly for abortion providers in states where
Republicans passed the harshest laws to deny pregnant people the
health care they need.
* As Texas, Florida, and other states attacked trans youth and their
families, MoveOn members worked directly with state-based allies to
fight against these assaults. In light of the ongoing attacks on
LGBTQ+ communities, we launched [ [link removed] ]Generation Rainbow, a site
dedicated to launching and supporting petitions centered on LGBTQ+
equality, rights, and respect.
* When right-wing activists ramped up their book bans, nearly 200,000
MoveOn members demanded school districts not ban books about the
Holocaust, and hundreds of thousands more took action to push back
against other bans attempting to censor books on slavery, gender,
racial justice, and more.
* After the massacres in Buffalo and Uvalde, we took action to take on
the interlocking cultures of white supremacy and gun violence—with
petitions against Tucker Carlson’s white supremacist rantings on Fox
News and actions against the NRA’s convention in Texas just days after
the Uvalde school shooting.

MoveOn members took action in solidarity against militarism and for
freedom around the world:

* After Putin launched a devastating and unfounded war on Ukraine,
MoveOn members donated more than $1 million to relief organizations
and took action to promote diplomacy and show solidarity with the
people of Ukraine.
* MoveOn members called on the American media to do better around the
uprising in Iran, to center the voices of women and young people who
are leading the uprising, and to stop spreading misinformation that
bolsters the current regime.

Across these measures, millions of MoveOn members signed petitions,
organized petition deliveries, wrote op-eds, made tens of thousands of
phone calls, and made sure the slimmest Democratic majority had
people-powered activism propelling it forward.
 
MoveOn is its members. Our work in 2022 is a testament to what all of us
have done together and a promise of what we can do together. So THANK YOU
for being part of this work and this community this year!
 
We know that MAGA has been damaged but is not defeated. We know that the
dangers of white supremacy, disinformation, and corporate power continue
to influence our democracy, our society, and our daily lives.
 
We also know that when all of us work together, we can achieve big,
powerful victories. MoveOn’s membership represents a broad base of fellow
Americans committed to justice. Together, we’ll continue to show care for
our communities and build the political power needed to effect longlasting
change.
 
[ [link removed] ]Help fuel people-powered progress in 2023! Pitch in to MoveOn's work in
the year to come.

Thanks for all you do.

–Rahna, Nita, Amy, Cheryl, and the rest of the team




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