Liz Murphy · [email protected]

February 18, 2021 at 8:46 PM

Will you take action for student safety?

John, I can’t thank you enough for all the action you’ve taken recently to support Sandy Hook Promise. I need your help again. For the past two years, we’ve been working to pass the STANDUP Act, a lifesaving suicide prevention bill that would help more students across the cou…

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  SHP Policy Team · [email protected]

February 17, 2021 at 12:18 AM

Just checked for your signature

We wanted to follow up on Mark’s message, John. 20,000 people have already stepped up to sign the petition he sent urging the new Congress to finally pass universal background checks legislation – but we just checked, and it looks like you haven’t added your name yet. With this new Congress, w…

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  [email protected] · [email protected]

February 14, 2021 at 11:41 PM

Re: your signature

John, it’s heartwarming to see so many responses to our message this morning. So far, 15,000 people have signed the remembrance card to honor the 17 students and educators murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School three years ago today. And after seeing how much vile harassment their f…

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  Sandy Hook Promise · [email protected]

February 14, 2021 at 4:43 PM

Please sign: Card for those murdered in Parkland three years ago

John, Today marks three years since 17 students and educators were senselessly murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. We know all too well that no amount of time makes life without a child or loved one any easier. And as news has recently emer…

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  Bill Sherlach · [email protected]

February 11, 2021 at 4:29 PM

Please sign: Card for Mary's birthday

John, today is an incredibly difficult day for me – it would have been my wife Mary’s birthday. Maybe we’d have spent the day relaxing by the fireplace, Mary with a new book to read, while we both relished the slower pace of retirement. Maybe our daughters and granddaughters …

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  Mark Barden · [email protected]

February 10, 2021 at 11:29 PM

Please sign: Demand action on universal background checks now

John, When the Senate failed to pass background checks legislation after my sweet little Daniel was murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary, it absolutely crushed me – but I refused to give up. With this new Congress, we have our best chance in eight years to finally pass universal…

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  Liz Murphy · [email protected]

February 9, 2021 at 2:54 PM

Waiting to hear back from you

John, I wanted to quickly follow up because I noticed you still haven’t responded to the survey Nicole sent around on Saturday. We’ve received 16,000 responses so far, but I really want to make sure we get your feedback, too. With racist, hate-filled threats of gun violence rapidly increasin…

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  Nicole Hockley · [email protected]

February 6, 2021 at 8:08 PM

Have a minute?

John, It was so heartwarming to see that 40,000 dedicated supporters took the time to share their thoughts with us in our November survey. Every action this community takes helps honor my beautiful butterfly Dylan’s life – and save other families from the excruciating pain o…

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  Nicole Hockley · [email protected]

February 5, 2021 at 1:35 AM

You did it – Marjorie Taylor Greene was just removed from her committees!

John, Today, the House voted to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committee assignments, including the House Education Committee. It’s hard to find the words to express my gratitude to you and the rest of this community for standing with us during this time. More th…

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  SHP Policy Team · [email protected]

February 4, 2021 at 2:38 PM

VOTE ALERT: Just hours left to sign the petition to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from education committee

Time is running out, John. The U.S. House of Representatives is just HOURS away from voting on a resolution to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from the House Education Committee – but you still haven’t added your name. We need to demand the House vote YES to hold her accou…

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  Lauren Levin · [email protected]

February 4, 2021 at 1:17 AM

URGENT: House voting TOMORROW on removing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from education committee

John, I have an urgent update: House leadership just announced there will be a vote TOMORROW on the resolution to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from the House Education Committee. This vote is critical to holding Rep. Greene accountable – after spreading hateful conspira…

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  Nalini Ramachandran · [email protected]

February 3, 2021 at 12:49 AM

BREAKING: House issues ultimatum on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

John, It’s clear our pressure is working: The House just announced it will move forward with a vote to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from the House Education Committee if House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy doesn't take action in the next 48 hours. More than 50,000 peop…

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  Lauren Levin · [email protected]

February 1, 2021 at 10:48 PM

Following up on Nicole's email

I need to make sure you saw Nicole’s message, John. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene hasn’t been removed from the House education committee yet, despite her vicious lies denying the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary happened. So far, more than 34,000 dedicated supporters have spoken out to demand h…

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  Nicole Hockley · [email protected]

January 30, 2021 at 6:37 PM

Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't belong on the House education committee (sign the petition)

John, I’m absolutely appalled that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was just assigned to serve on the House education committee in Congress. After denying that the shootings at Sandy Hook and Parkland ever happened – statements she has refused to apologize for or renounce – Rep. G…

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  Nalini Ramachandran · [email protected]

January 27, 2021 at 7:15 PM

FWD: Join us: Take action for student safety in 2021

John, Did you see my message? My team and I are hosting a webinar this week, and we want you to join! 2021 will have many opportunities to push for policies that can meaningfully prevent violence. You can be a part of this change. National Policy Webinar: Passing Laws for Student Safety in 202…

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  Sandy Hook Promise · [email protected]

January 26, 2021 at 12:29 AM

Rep. Marjorie Greene doubles down on denial of Sandy Hook massacre – sign the petition demanding she renounce her lies

We wanted to update you on Nicole’s message, John. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene still refuses to renounce the appalling conspiracy theories she’s spread that the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School didn’t happen. Instead of apologizing for her vile state…

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  Sandy Hook Promise · [email protected]

January 24, 2021 at 3:46 PM

Youth Response to the U.S. Capitol, Awards and More

Plus: a path forward for Universal Background Checks and supporting our youth. Teenagers Respond to Insurrection in the U.S. Capitol For most students watching live as the attack on the U.S. Capitol unfolded, the fear and anxiety they saw in the eyes of lawmakers locked down i…

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  Nicole Hockley · [email protected]

January 23, 2021 at 1:04 AM

Rep. Marjorie Greene's denial of Sandy Hook massacre is dangerous – sign the petition demanding she renounce her statements

John, I’m outraged and disgusted to learn that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has spread conspiracy theories that the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary – where my beautiful butterfly Dylan, 19 of his classmates and six educators were murdered – and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High…

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  SHP Policy Team · [email protected]

January 20, 2021 at 4:54 PM

Can't find your name

We wanted to follow up about Mark’s message, John. 26,000 people have already signed the petition urging President-elect Biden to make universal background checks a top priority – but you haven’t added your name yet. With children’s lives at stake, we urgently need to push the new administra…

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  Mark Barden · [email protected]

January 17, 2021 at 10:56 PM

Tell President-elect Biden: Prioritize universal background checks!

John, this is a crucial, crucial moment. President-elect Biden will take office in just a few days, and the new Congress has already been sworn in. That means this is our best opportunity in eight years to finally pass bipartisan background checks legislation – legislation w…

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  Nalini Ramachandran · [email protected]

January 14, 2021 at 9:13 PM

Join us: Take action for student safety in 2021

John, We’re starting 2021 with big updates to share with you. This month’s horrifying events at the U.S. Capitol have shown us that violence continues to permeate our nation. Preventing violence and dismantling hate couldn’t be more important. We’re pushing for policies that …

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  Mark (Daniel’s father) · [email protected]

January 13, 2021 at 2:29 AM

Before you go to sleep, please

John, in the months after my sweet little Daniel’s murder, I went from congressional office to congressional office showing them photos of my gap-toothed little boy. I wanted lawmakers to see the human toll of inaction. It gutted me to watch some of those same lawmakers vote down a…

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  SHP Policy Team · [email protected]

January 11, 2021 at 11:51 PM

Three reasons to support background checks

John, we know we’ve emailed you a couple of times already, but this couldn’t be more important: With the 2020 elections officially decided, the new Congress is finally in an unprecedented position to pass a bipartisan bill requiring background checks on all gun purchases. We…

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  Natalie Barden · [email protected]

January 10, 2021 at 7:31 PM

Now is our chance

John, On Dec. 14, 2012, I was sitting in my fifth-grade science class when my school went under lockdown. When I came home, my parents told my older brother James and me to follow them upstairs. I silently cried as I climbed the stairs, because I knew what was coming. I sti…

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  Nicole Hockley · [email protected]

January 9, 2021 at 9:36 PM

BREAKING: New Congress opens path to pass universal background checks

This is a HUGE moment, John: With the new Congress, this is our best chance in eight years to finally pass bipartisan universal background checks legislation. After my beautiful butterfly Dylan was murdered in his first-grade classroom at Sandy Hook Elementary, I spent all my…

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  Sandy Hook Promise · [email protected]

January 1, 2021 at 3:27 AM

Final ask (last chance to TRIPLE your gift!)

John, we know we’ve been emailing you a lot lately, but this is just too important: We’re still falling very short of our year-end goal, so a group of generous donors is TRIPLE-MATCHING every gift to Sandy Hook Promise until midnight to help us close the gap. Unless we reach our goa…

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  [email protected] · [email protected]

January 1, 2021 at 2:03 AM

Asking you again (TRIPLE match expires in 3 hours!)

This is incredibly important, John: Our year-end match expires in 3 hours, but we're still very short of our $490,000 goal. We can't close our funding gap and reach our goal in time without a big surge in support, so a group of generous donors is now matching gifts THREE TIMES – but …

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  Sandy Hook Promise · [email protected]

January 1, 2021 at 12:57 AM

Triple match expires in 4 hours (still short!)

John, we know we’ve been emailing you a lot lately, but this is just too important: We’re still falling very short of our year-end goal, so a group of generous donors is TRIPLE-MATCHING every gift to Sandy Hook Promise until midnight to help us close the gap. Unless we reach our goa…

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  [email protected] · [email protected]

December 31, 2020 at 11:00 PM

All gifts now TRIPLE-MATCHED (only until midnight!)

This is incredibly important, John: Our year-end match expires in 6 hours, but we're still very short of our $490,000 goal. We can't close our funding gap and reach our goal in time without a big surge in support, so a group of generous donors is now matching gifts THREE TIMES – but …

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  Nicole (Dylan's mom) · [email protected]

December 31, 2020 at 9:31 PM

Asking one last time

December is really hard for me, John. As I got closer to the day my beautiful butterfly Dylan was murdered, I went on an emotional roller coaster. I was at my desk working and burst into tears for what seemed like no reason. But I know the reason: It's because my baby boy is gone for…

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  Sandy Hook Promise · [email protected]

December 31, 2020 at 7:43 PM

Match expires at midnight! (still short)

John, we know we’ve emailed you several times today, but this is urgent: FIRST: A generous group of donors agreed to match every dollar we raise – but ONLY until midnight tonight. THEN: We just checked the numbers, and we’re still falling very short of our $490,000 year-end goal.…

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  Mark (Daniel's father) · [email protected]

December 31, 2020 at 5:51 PM

asking you again, please

It’s been an especially difficult few weeks, John. For the first time in eight years, we marked Dec. 14 – the day my sweet little Daniel was murdered – at home, in the same house where I shared my last morning with him, where we had to tell our other two children, James and Natalie,…

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  Sandy Hook Promise · [email protected]

December 31, 2020 at 3:44 PM

Asking again (only 13 hours left to DOUBLE your impact!)

John, we know we've emailed several times recently, but it’s for three incredibly important reasons: We're still short of our year-end fundraising goal. If we fail to reach it before midnight, we may not be able to work fast enough to prevent the next tragedy before it happe…

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  Nicole (personal) · [email protected]

December 31, 2020 at 1:01 PM

Asking from the bottom of my heart

This month has been very, very hard for me, John. A couple weeks ago marked eight years since my beautiful butterfly Dylan was murdered. There are simply no words to express how much I miss him. I rarely burst into tears, but I often find tears falling without realizing I've started …

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  Sandy Hook Promise · [email protected]

December 30, 2020 at 11:54 PM

Re: your donation status

John, We know we've emailed you pretty frequently lately to ask for your support, but it's for three big reasons: We know you care deeply about protecting children from gun violence. Right now, we’re still very short of our $490,000 year-end match goal. We might not have en…

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  Mark Barden · [email protected]

December 30, 2020 at 2:35 PM

By tomorrow, please

John, In the weeks after my sweet little Daniel's murder, my wife Jackie and I would literally collapse on the floor in a heap, sobbing together. In those terrible moments, our family looked the opposite of what you might think: It was our surviving children, James and Natali…

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  Nicole Hockley · [email protected]

December 29, 2020 at 4:28 PM

Dylan's funeral

No parent wants to plan their child's funeral, John. After my beautiful butterfly Dylan was murdered, I was in shock. As a mother, I couldn’t imagine never seeing Dylan again or hearing his infectious laugh. Even when I saw Dylan’s body in his tiny casket, I couldn’t believe…

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  Nicole Hockley · [email protected]

December 20, 2020 at 11:02 PM

Incredibly grateful

John, my heart is filled with overwhelming gratitude. Because of the support of over 16,000 donors in this community, we’re back on track to reach our critical year-end goal. As long as we keep this momentum through the final stretch of the year, we’ll be able to expand our g…

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  Nicole (Dylan's mom) · [email protected]

December 18, 2020 at 11:31 PM

I'm so humbled

John, I’m so incredibly grateful. Since I emailed you this morning, we’ve received an outpouring of support from this community to help expand our lifesaving gun violence prevention programs. Even after eight years, I can never learn to grieve my beautiful butterfly Dylan – because my heart ca…

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  Nicole Hockley · [email protected]

December 18, 2020 at 4:20 PM

my birthday

John, today is my birthday, but those close to me know I choose not to celebrate it anymore. My birthday falls four days after Dec. 14, the day of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting. My first birthday after the tragedy was also the day I saw my 6-year-old son, Dylan, for the …

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  Sandy Hook Promise · [email protected]

December 15, 2020 at 11:32 PM

One final ask (still short)

John, this is too important for us not to email one last time: Yesterday marked eight years since our children and loved ones were murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary on Dec. 14, 2012. We had set a goal of raising $750,000 before yesterday to help protect more children from g…

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  [email protected] · [email protected]

December 15, 2020 at 4:25 PM

We didn't make it

We didn’t want to have to send this email, John, but we fell short of Sunday’s critical $750,000 fundraising goal. If we don’t make up the difference, we won’t have enough resources to expand our work to protect children from gun violence next year – and we just can’t accept…

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  [email protected] · [email protected]

December 14, 2020 at 11:00 PM

Re: your signature

John, the outpouring of love in response to our message from this morning has warmed our hearts on this incredibly difficult day. Just in the past few hours, 20,302 people have signed the remembrance card marking eight years since our children and loved ones were murdered at Sandy Hook Elemen…

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  Sandy Hook Promise · [email protected]

December 14, 2020 at 2:33 PM

Please sign the card honoring our children and loved ones

John, Eight years ago today, our children and loved ones were murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary. There are no words to describe how deeply we miss them, or how agonizing it is to mark another year since the last hug, smile or laugh we shared with them. No matter how much time…

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  Nicole (Dylan’s mom) · [email protected]

December 13, 2020 at 11:52 PM

A heartfelt ask of you

I often minimize my pain, John. I say, “grief is grief, and loss is loss” – as if it’s equal. But I know I’m lying. I’ve lost family members. I’ve lost friends. I’ve felt grief. But losing a child is ... incomparable. I believe only a parent who has suffered the same wrenching loss i…

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  Mark (Daniel's father) · [email protected]

December 13, 2020 at 9:44 PM

Final request

John, tomorrow is a really, really difficult day for me. Every single morning, I have to reacquaint myself with the horrible reality that my sweet little Daniel was murdered, and he's never coming back. The heartache is constant. But Dec. 14 – when we mark the day Daniel was ki…

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  Sandy Hook Promise · [email protected]

December 13, 2020 at 6:49 PM

Asking again (still very short of our goal)

We wouldn't ask if this weren't really important, John, but we need your help right now for three big reasons: Tomorrow marks eight years since the most painful day of our lives – the day our children and loved ones were murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary.With less than 11 hours left…

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  [email protected] · [email protected]

December 13, 2020 at 2:37 PM

The day hell came to school

John, "The day when hell came to my school." That's how Jake, my surviving son, describes Dec. 14, 2012. I remember how relieved I felt when I found Jake at the firehouse that morning – but I still struggle to accept that my beautiful butterfly Dylan is gone forever. Even af…

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  Natalie Barden · [email protected]

December 13, 2020 at 12:12 AM

My little brother, Daniel

John, On Dec. 14, 2012, we had a lockdown in my fifth-grade science class. We were told there had been an "incident" at Sandy Hook Elementary – where my little brother, Daniel, went to school. When I got home, Daniel wasn't there. I silently cried as I followed my parents u…

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  Bill Sherlach · [email protected]

December 12, 2020 at 4:34 PM

Holidays without Mary

I dread this time of year, John. It used to be my wife Mary's favorite. She would decorate our house for weeks before Christmas. She'd set out red-and-green plaid tablecloths, wrap garland around the bannisters and hang wreaths on the doors. But now, Christmastime is almost…

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