Dear MoveOn member,
This morning, Congress announced two articles of impeachment against Donald Trump, charging him with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Trump violated the Constitution by pressuring Ukraine to help rig the 2020 election and then attempted to cover it up when Congress began to investigate.1
The evidence is overwhelming that Trump is guilty. He continues to commit crimes. And unless both the House and Senate take action to stop Trump, he will take it as a blank check to undermine the integrity of the 2020 election.
MoveOn is pulling out all the stops, and our staff will be working around the clock over the next few days to make sure that members of Congress feel overwhelming pressure to stand up for our democracy when they vote on Trump's impeachment.
With your help, we will:
- Turn out and protest in cities across the country the night before the House votes. More than 75,000 people in all 50 states have now signed up to attend rallies calling on Congress to impeach and remove Trump. This is a huge surge over the last few days, so we need to keep up the momentum to increase the number of events and the turnout. We urgently need to raise enough money to make sure our protests are seen by millions, to invest in promoting this online and through social networks and earned media, to fly in organizers, to rent stages and audio equipment, to print and ship signs and other materials, to do enough press pitches to propel these events to the front pages of local papers, to coordinate with dozens of organizations on the ground, and more.
- Work on the ground in key states to flip the Republican senators who are most likely to vote to convict Trump. While the media attention is focused on the House right now, the truth is that the House will almost certainly vote to impeach. But to win this fight, we have to secure a conviction in the Senate. Your donation will help pay for MoveOn organizers who are working every day to host events, generate local media coverage, and more—including preparing for tactics that could launch in key Senate states as early as Christmas recess.
- Keep camera crews at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., to confront members of Congress. MoveOn activists have been asking a very simple question of Republicans: Is it OK for a president to solicit help from a foreign government to win an election? Republicans are literally running and hiding to avoid answering this question, so MoveOn is capturing evidence of their cowardice, featuring it in digital videos, and sharing the videos far and wide.
- Keep phones ringing off the hook. Our most efficient way to connect droves of activists to their lawmakers costs about $2 a call. It requires dedicated analyst time, costs to our robocall vendor for every single call we make—which add up quickly—and legal costs, too, because the rules in every state are different. And while there are cheaper ways to make some (smaller) number of calls, we simply can't connect anywhere close to this volume of calls any other way.
It took a long time for Republicans to abandon Richard Nixon in 1974. And impeachment wasn't popular until right before he resigned.2
It's our job to build a movement so powerful and so loud that when Republicans vote on impeachment, they truly believe that they have no choice but to vote to impeach Trump.
That will only happen if masses of people take to the streets in a big way to show Republicans that they will pay a steep price for covering up Trump's abuses of power. Only then will the Republican dam finally break.
In 1974, impeachment seemed impossible. But then the tide turned. And that only happened when the American people demanded it.
Now that the House is preparing to vote on Trump's impeachment, we have to speak out loudly and make our case in the court of public opinion.
Mar, please join us now in demanding the impeachment, conviction, and removal of Donald Trump.
Thanks for all you do.
–Kelly, Emma, Robert, Mary, and the rest of the team
Sources:
1. "Trump 'Ignored and Injured' the National Interest, Democrats Charge in Impeachment Articles," The New York Times, December 10, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/113960?t=5&akid=252415%2E10220574%2EexB5KI
2. "It Took A Long Time For Republicans To Abandon Nixon," FiveThirtyEight, Octobr 9, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/107239?t=7&akid=252415%2E10220574%2EexB5KI
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