Dear MoveOn member,
Let's cut to the chase: If we defeat Donald Trump on November 3 but Mitch McConnell and the Republicans maintain control of the Senate, our ability to pass progressive legislation will vanish.
No legislation to tackle the climate emergency. No federal policing or gun reform. No Supreme Court confirmations. Nothing.
That's why ending GOP control of the Senate is just as important as electing Joe Biden this fall and why today MoveOn is announcing our plan to do it. And with strong candidates, we've increased the map of what's possible—if we take action and get to work.
The first step? MoveOn members have endorsed six top-tier red-to-blue Senate challengers who will form the main team we will support and the states where we will organize to flip control of the Senate. Here they are:
- Steve Bullock, who is taking on Senator Steve Daines in Montana.
- Cal Cunningham, who is taking on Senator Thom Tillis in North Carolina.
- Theresa Greenfield, who is taking on Senator Joni Ernst in Iowa.
- Sara Gideon, who is taking on Senator Susan Collins in Maine.
- John Hickenlooper, who is taking on Senator Cory Gardner in Colorado.
- Mark Kelly, who is taking on Senator Martha McSally in Arizona.
MoveOn is endorsing them today, along with Senate champion Cory Booker. We've already announced our endorsement of Jaime Harrison, a dynamic candidate who is putting Lindsey Graham on his heels in South Carolina. Today's announcement allows us to go big to mobilize MoveOn members, volunteers, and voters in these states to elect these Democrats. If just three of our seven endorsed challengers win, we will end GOP control of the Senate this November.
Here's the catch: While Arizona, Colorado, and North Carolina are also top-tier presidential battleground states, Montana, South Carolina, and Maine are not, which means we have to spin up and sustain full campaigning programs in these states in order to compete in the Senate races—without taking away any of the resources we need to defeat Trump.
Mar: Will you chip in $5 a month to power our campaign to take back the Senate in November?
No, I'm sorry, I can't make a monthly donation.
Our plan to go big to support these candidates—and so many others—includes all this:
- Running an innovative friend-to-friend voter mobilization program called "Vote Tripling." Recent studies have shown that one of the most effective ways to turn out voters is if their friends and family encourage them to vote. That's why we are asking hundreds of thousands of MoveOn members to take Vote Tripling pledges: pledges to reach out to three friends, help them make a plan to vote, and ensure they vote in the fall.
- Flexing our analytical muscles to identify and inspire "high-potential voters." Our research shows that there are millions of voters across these critical states who are progressive but often stay home on Election Day: young voters, new citizens, voters of color, low-income voters, and others who are often ignored by campaigns. Our crack analytics team is building algorithms to identify these voters so we can target them with authentic, inspiring content to encourage them to vote. If only a fraction of them cast a ballot, it will make all the difference.
- Fighting back against GOP voter suppression and online disinformation. Just like 2016, white supremacists, far-right extremists, and foreign actors are going all-in to spread disinformation online to suppress voter turnout. But unlike 2016, we're ready to fight back. MoveOn has hired a team of researchers and digital sleuths who are tracking disinformation networks, exposing them, and demanding that social media companies like Facebook take them down so they can't do any more harm.
- And because the stakes are so great, MoveOn is also re-launching our Super PAC to allow us to compete with the GOP efforts that are flooding battleground states and districts right now on behalf of Trump. Using our Super PAC again, as we have in recent general elections, will let us fund needed ads, reach millions of voters through our tested and trusted Vote Tripling program, and more.
None of this will be possible without your support. Can you chip in $5 a month to help fuel these programs and defeat Trump AND take back the Senate on November 3?
No, I'm sorry, I can't make a monthly donation.
Defeating Trump and ending GOP control of the Senate are our top priorities, but MoveOn is also dedicated to ensuring that Democrats maintain control of the House and that more inspiring progressive leaders are elected this fall.
That's why we are also announcing today that MoveOn members have endorsed a slate of incredible candidates for the House of Representatives running in competitive districts: Dana Balter (NY-24), Kara Eastman (NE-2), Christina Hale (IN-5), Sri Preston Kulkarni (TX-22), Betsy Dirksen Londrigan (IL-13), Candace Valenzuela (TX-24), and Cameron Webb (VA-5). They join MoveOn's other endorsed House candidates and, if elected, will lead the House to pass powerful progressive legislation on climate, the economy, racial justice, reproductive rights, and more.
It's a lot of work to support candidates for president, Senate, and the House, all across the U.S. This election will be the most important many of us face in our lifetimes, which is why MoveOn's election campaign is the biggest and boldest in our 22-year history.
But while so many of our tactics to win are new and innovative, one thing has stayed the same: The way we fund these programs is through tens of thousands of small donations from members like you. We never take a cent from corporations or special interests, because our allegiance is now and always will be to our members.
Can you join this fight by chipping in $5 a month?
No, I'm sorry, I can't make a monthly donation.
Thanks for all you do.
–Allison, Nita, Dan, Reggie, and the rest of the team
Want to support our work? The MoveOn community will work every moment, day by day and year by year, to resist Trump's agenda, contain the damage, defeat hate with love, and begin the process of swinging the nation's pendulum back toward sanity, decency, and the kind of future that we must never give up on. And to do it we need your ongoing support, now more than ever. Will you stand with us?
No, I'm sorry, I can't make a monthly donation.
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