Dear MoveOn member,
Congress just made history: This afternoon the Senate voted to end Donald Trump's fake national emergency—in a bipartisan move to reassert congressional control over an out-of-control president who is abusing his power and pitting communities against each other with his racist, anti-immigrant agenda.1 The House already overwhelmingly passed the same measure. It's a historic rebuke of a sitting president.
However, 41 Republican senators voted to support Trump's unconstitutional, illegal actions—including Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado, Senator Martha McSally of Arizona, and Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina, all three of whom spoke out against the fake emergency, but, ultimately, failed to stand up to Trump.
Senators Gardner, McSally, and Tillis are up for reelection next year, and all three are in swing states. We've got to hold them accountable for their cowardice.
If we can raise the money, MoveOn is going to launch billboards in Colorado, Arizona, and North Carolina calling out the senators for their cowardice, hypocrisy, and complicity in Trump's illegal, racist actions. Will you help out?
The truth is that Trump is going to veto this measure, and there are not enough votes in Congress to stop him.
While Trump's fake emergency declaration is deeply unpopular, including with Republicans in red states, Republicans are too scared of Trump, beholden to the Big Money interests that back him, and have chosen to side with him, his illegal actions, and his racist agenda yet again.
So we're not planning to mount a major campaign to override his veto. Instead, we are going to focus on holding the senators who disregarded the Constitution to appease Trump responsible for their actions, and we will continue to work against Trump's attacks on our democracy and communities. The next battle against Trump's racist wall has already begun with the 2020 budget process.
This is a critical moment; our democracy is on the line. We absolutely must hold GOP senators accountable for their actions. Will you chip in $3?
If we raise enough money, we'll expand the billboards to as many as six additional states, targeting politically vulnerable Republican senators with hard-hitting, attention-grabbing ads, so they can't duck responsibility for turning their backs on their duty to their constituents and the Constitution.
Thanks for all you do.
–Emma, Robert, Brian, Isbah, and the rest of the team
Source:
1. "Senate Rejects Trump's Border Emergency Declaration, Setting Up First Veto," The New York Times, March 14, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/63952?t=16&akid=229246%2E10220574%2ET_wBJ8
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