This is a moral outrage. Hold Republicans accountable.

We must ensure that Republicans up and down the ballot are defeated in a landslide of historic proportions.

Dear MoveOn member,

Now that Republicans have rammed through their massive giveaway to corporate and billionaire donors, what's next?

It's simple, really: We must ensure that Republicans up and down the ballot are defeated in a landslide of historic proportions. To make that happen, in early 2018, MoveOn is launching a $15 million plan to win control of the House and Senate in next year's midterm elections and to stop Donald Trump and the GOP.

We need your help to make crucial upfront investments and then see the plan through, which is why I'm asking for your ongoing support.

Will you chip in $5 a month and become a founding member of MoveOn's 2018 "Resist and Win" election program? Just click here.

Republicans, who lost the popular vote in 2016, had no base of popular support to pass this unpopular and costly tax giveaway to their 1-percent supporters. And they have no mandate. The bill is extremely unpopular, with just 33% of Americans supporting it.¹ And, outrageously, 14 Republican senators will personally benefit from provisions shoehorned into the bill—as will Trump and his family.²

Now, it's up to us to make sure that Republicans pay the price for passing this bill. According to recent polling, Democrats have a 15-point lead over Republicans in a generic ballot for the House—Democrats biggest advantage so far.³ Meanwhile, Trump's approval rating has sunk to 32 percent—the lowest since he took office.⁴

Unpopularity this deep has the potential to result in a wave election that throws Republicans out of office at all levels.

We can take back the House and even the Senate and win seats in state legislatures across the country, if numbers like these hold. But that will only happen if voters turn out to vote. And in midterm election years, turnout is generally lower than in presidential election years—which is why what we do together is poised to make a huge difference.

Our "Resist and Win" election plan includes a massive mobilization powered by MoveOn's millions of members, in every state and congressional district. We will do everything possible, together, to ensure that voters turn out, vote, and throw Republicans out of office.

To reach voters, we will send text messages, knock on doors, donate to and volunteer to elect compelling candidates, train activists in electoral and movement organizing skills on an unprecedented scale, create videos, leverage social media networks, shape media coverage, and mobilize together in ways that have measurable and critical impact.

Can you chip in $5 a month and become a founding member of MoveOn's 2018 "Resist and Win" election program?

Yes, I'll chip in monthly and help kick Republicans out of office in 2018.

No, I'm sorry, I can't make a monthly donation.

We need to help build a grassroots movement big enough to cause a Republican landslide defeat. Here's how we plan to do just that:

• Endorse candidates all over the country in 2018. MoveOn members expect to endorse and support at least 100 candidates for the House, Senate champions, and 100 down-ballot candidates in state and local elections.

• Build on to the tactics and technology that we developed and tested in 2017—tactics in the areas of recruitment, training, voter persuasion, mobilization, organizing, social media, mobile tools, tech, analytics, and video that helped lead to victories in Virginia and Alabama. In 2017, with partners, MoveOn led a series of "Ready to Resist" mass mobilizing calls that regularly engaged tens of thousands of MoveOn members and also organized a "Resistance Summer" training program that supported 1,000 MoveOn members across the country as they developed powerful organizing skills. MoveOn members mobilized and trained through these actions will play a key role in winning back power in 2018.

• Put new tools and technology to work to win more elections. To help drive landslide victories, MoveOn's analytics team and Video Lab pioneered innovative social media persuasion testing and delivery technology that proved effective at persuading and turning out thousands of voters in both Virginia and Alabama. In addition, MoveOn’s tech and mobile teams developed a new peer-to-peer messaging platform, Spoke, that has already been responsible for mobilizing 60,000 grassroots actions. We will continue refining these tools to win in 2018.

• Keep resisting and pushing for policies we believe in. Although Republicans have now passed one major piece of legislation, the Resistance has propelled substantial victories. We have repeatedly beaten back full repeal of the Affordable Care Act. Trump hasn't gotten his border wall. And, for the time being, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are safe—though the Tax Scam increases the threat to them, and we must fight to protect them. In the months and years ahead, we will push for our positive agenda—including, right now, the Dream Act.

Can you chip in $5 a month and become a founding member of MoveOn's 2018 "Resist and Win" program? Your ongoing support will help MoveOn build a grassroots movement big enough to create a Republican landslide defeat.

Yes, I'll chip in monthly and help MoveOn build a grassroots movement big enough to create a Republican landslide defeat.

No, I'm sorry, I can't make a monthly donation.

Republicans just robbed millions of Americans, you and me included, in order to please their wealthy and powerful donors with unnecessary and irresponsible tax cuts. Let's make sure that they pay the price. Even as we are fighting for the Dream Act, for children's health, to protect the Mueller investigation, and against a GOP government shutdown, we need to invest in the elections less than 11 months away.

Thank you so much for all you do.

–Ilya, Katie, Sunjeev, Jayne, and the rest of the team

Sources:

1. "The $1.5 trillion Republican tax bill is increasingly unpopular as it nears passage," The Week, December 19, 2017 
https://act.moveon.org/go/27845?t=8&akid=195725%2E10220574%2EFbvhdH

2. "Republican Senators Will Save Millions With Special Real-Estate Tax Break," International Business Times, December 20, 2017
http://act.moveon.org/go/27903?t=10&akid=195725%2E10220574%2EFbvhdH

3. "Poll: Democrats lead GOP by 15 points in generic 2018 ballot," The Hill, December 13, 2017
http://act.moveon.org/go/27846?t=12&akid=195725%2E10220574%2EFbvhdH

4. Ibid.

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The resignation of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai

I'm personally outraged that an industry shill like Ajit Pai was allowed to chair the FCC in the first place. Click here to sign and share my petition calling for his resignation.

Dear fellow MoveOn member,

By repealing net neutrality, FCC Chairman Aji Pai has ignored millions of complaints to give his former employer Verizon and other major internet service providers the right to close off access to information on the World Wide Web. Pai also ignored the fact that millions of fake public comments corrupted the FCC's public process on net neutrality—including 2 million that were allegedly submitted using the stolen identities of real people.¹

I'm personally outraged that an industry shill like Ajit Pai was allowed to chair the FCC in the first place. Click here to sign and share my petition calling for his resignation. 

We are requesting the resignation of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, for ignoring millions of complaints about removing Net Neutrality and for impeding freedom of speech on the internet.

I, and millions of other internet users, will be affected by this decision and be placed behind pay walls set up by telecom corporations.

This will limit the amount of free information that is accessible to millions of people worldwide. If Pai does not want to improve the lives of American's across the country, then he should resign as chairman.

Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to your friends.

Thanks!

–Gavin Cool

Source:

1. "New York attorney general says FCC's net neutrality vote would come after a 'corrupted' comments process," The Verge, December 13, 2017
https://act.moveon.org/go/27649?t=17&akid=195435%2E10220574%2EwYvCsO

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Will you sign my petition?

Puerto Rico needs a lifeline that only Congress and the Trump administration can provide. Please sign this petition to amplify the voices of those on the island who are still—quite literally—powerless.

Dear fellow MoveOn member,

It’s Lin-Manuel Miranda here. The people of Puerto Rico need Congress to help the island, which was left ravaged by Hurricane Maria nearly three months ago—but they can’t do it without you.

Hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans haven’t had electricity since then. They don’t have power to turn on a light, stock a refrigerator, or take a hot shower. Thousands of homes are destroyed, rural areas are still isolated, small businesses are not operating, and there's an ever-increasing migration of Puerto Ricans to the U.S. mainland.

It’s clear that the federal government’s response to the disaster in Puerto Rico has been painfully slow and not commensurate with the hurricane response in Texas and Florida. Please sign the petition telling Congress the people of Puerto Rico need help now—it’s part of the United States too!

Please tell Congress the people of Puerto Rico need help now—it's part of the United States too!

The list of needed actions is short, straightforward, and agreed upon by Puerto Ricans of all political stripes who want to address these problems through the pending tax bill, funding for health care, a new relief package, and debt relief.

Let's amplify the voices of those on the island who are still—quite literally—powerless. Please sign the petition.

Thanks!

–Lin-Manuel Miranda

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We can kill this bill. We must kill this bill.

This is Robert Fox, MoveOn's Chief Operations Officer. As "the numbers guy," I write to MoveOn members very rarely. But I'm writing to you today because yesterday evening, Congress released its final version of the Republican tax scam—one of the worst bills ever considered by Congress. This fight is now entering its final stretch.

Dear MoveOn member,

This is Robert Fox, MoveOn's Chief Operations Officer. As "the numbers guy," I write to MoveOn members very rarely. But I'm writing to you today because Friday evening Congress released its final version of the Republican tax scam—one of the worst bills ever considered by Congress. This fight is now entering its final stretch.

This bill truly is a scam. It is the biggest tax increase in American history.¹ It cuts taxes for the super rich and corporations, while socking the rest of us.² And it's expected to result in 13 million Americans losing their health care.³ That's why, as Senator Ron Wyden said, this bill is "the ultimate betrayal of the middle class."⁴

Never in my entire career has Congress so explicitly raised taxes on the middle class to cut them on millionaires and billionaires. It's absolutely despicable. But we still have a chance to stop this. Right now, as we enter the final stretch, we still don't know if the GOP has enough votes to pass this bill.

Thanks to strong support from MoveOn members this year, we've been able to successfully block the GOP from dismantling our health care—even though they tried several times. Now, in addition to fighting the GOP tax scam, we're also campaigning to win a clean Dream Act by Christmas, stop the Muslim ban, and expose Donald Trump's corrupt ties to Russia. And we're gearing up to win back the House and Senate in 2018.

It's a lot to do all at once. And we still have major financial commitments to make for our last-chance efforts to stop this despicable bill. Which is why I'm asking you:

Will you rush a contribution of $3, or whatever you can, to support MoveOn's emergency efforts to stop the GOP's sham tax plan and attack on our health care? Click here if you can.

I've been in progressive politics for a long time, and this is by far one of the worst bills considered by Congress during that entire time. I'm determined to stop it, and I'll do whatever it takes to make that happen (including writing you emails over the weekend asking for money, so that I can approve more urgent campaign expenses).

I know firsthand just how much you and our other members have invested in this movement already. I wouldn't ask you again if it weren't so important. With your support, we will take our very best shot at stopping this GOP tax bill, continue to protect our health care, and work on all of our other priorities at the same time.

We still need to make major financial commitments to defeat the GOP's tax scam over the coming days. That's why I'm asking you now—and why I need to know by Monday night: Can we count on you to pitch in $3 and help us stop this terrible tax reform and health care bill from passing?

Here's what we have planned to stop the GOP tax giveaway:

• We're melting the phone lines in Washington, D.C., just like we did to defeat Trumpcare, using our innovative tools and targeting to drive constituent calls to key members of Congress. We have also mobilized a volunteer team to text tens of thousands of voters across the country and urge them to call key members of Congress. MoveOn members have made more than 75,000 calls to Congress on taxes already.

• We're running in-person events this weekend and into next week. We're recruiting MoveOn members to host and attend rallies and actions around the country this weekend and working with allies to coordinate constituent drop-bys at offices in key states and congressional districts on Monday. We'll also continue to have a presence with rallies and actions in Washington, D.C.

• We're making and targeting more hard-hitting videos. Our videos on taxes have already been seen 10 million times, and we've strategically invested to boost these videos in key markets. We're finalizing videos focusing on Senators Susan Collins and Jeff Flake that we'll run on social media in Maine, Arizona, and Washington, D.C. And we're continuing to push videos that specifically target the two dozen House Republicans who could still flip and reject this bill.

• We're running more Facebook ads. Facebook ads help us show videos to constituents in key states and districts for only one tenth of a cent per view. So your donation will go a long way! And our videos also ask folks to call, which helps to flood congressional phone lines. Facebook ads also help us recruit folks to last-minute events—growing crowds and getting news coverage.

• And we're gearing up to boot vulnerable Republicans who voted to raise taxes on their own middle-class constituents out of office. Many Republicans, representing areas carried by Hillary Clinton, already voted for this bill in some form. And no matter what ultimately happens, they must be held accountable. We'll make sure that their voters know that when they go to the polls on Election Day in 2018.

Will you help us fight back against the GOP tax scam and attack on health care? Click here to chip in $3—or whatever you can afford.

This is a massive undertaking. We know that the wealthiest and greediest of Trump's cronies are willing to spend whatever it takes to pass this bill and get their tax cuts. It's on us to ensure—once again—that people power prevails.

Thanks so much for all you do.

–Robert Fox

Sources:

1. "The GOP Plan Is the Biggest Tax Increase in American History, By Far," The Intercept, December 1, 2017
https://act.moveon.org/go/27681?t=5&akid=195527%2E10220574%2EPXpzCa

2. "The Biggest Tax Scam in History," The New York Times, November 27, 2017
https://act.moveon.org/go/27738?t=7&akid=195527%2E10220574%2EPXpzCa

3. "The final GOP tax bill is complete. Here's what is in it," The Washington Post, December 15, 2017
https://act.moveon.org/go/27739?t=9&akid=195527%2E10220574%2EPXpzCa

4. "Republicans' Tax Bill Nears the Finish Line," The New York Times, December 13, 2017
https://act.moveon.org/go/27740?t=11&akid=195527%2E10220574%2EPXpzCa

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Sign the petition re: Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)

Will you sign and share my petition telling Congress to stop putting children's lives at risk and reauthorize the Children's Health Insurance Program?

Dear fellow MoveOn member,

This week, late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel brought his son who has a serious heart disease—and who underwent a second heart surgery last week—on air and pleaded to Congress to reauthorize funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which serves 8.9 million children.

I'm Rev. Phillip Geliebter, a MoveOn member in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and I agree with Kimmel. If we can ignore the most vulnerable among us, what are we doing as a nation?

That's why I started a petition to Congress demanding they save CHIP. Click here to sign and share my petition. 

Save CHIP, which serves 8.9 million children. It's outrageous that our country easily funds endless wars but can't find the money to fund children's health care.

Kimmel shed tears while making an impassioned statement, saying the following words that we should all agree with, Republican, Democrat, or otherwise:

"If your baby is going to die and doesn't have to, it shouldn't matter how much money you make."

CHIP currently serves 8.9 million children. The program was last reauthorized by Congress in 2015, and was up for reauthorization again on September 30 this year. Congress failed to reauthorize it and let that deadline pass. Without reauthorization, the money will start to run out soon, and children's lives will be at risk. 

Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to your friends.

Thanks!

—Rev. Phillip Geliebter

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No, I'm sorry, I can't make a monthly donation.

Should MoveOn support this petition?

Dear MoveOn member,

A MoveOn member named Wayne Hsiung recently created a petition on our public petition website entitled "Costco: Remove "Humane" labels from products connected to animal abuse"–and we'd like to know what you think of it.

The petition is addressed to Costco, and reads:

Chickens inside of a Costco cage-free egg supplier were trampled to death. Stop calling this violence humane!

Sign Wayne's petition.

Here's what Wayne wrote about it:

Investigators with Direct Action Everywhere recently exposed horrific violence at a Costco egg farm in Colorado. At this "cage-free" farm, hens were packed into enclosures so tightly that they were often piled three high. The bodies of trampled birds were left to rot inside the farm. These eggs are sold at Costco as "certified humane."

During the investigation, activists rescued one hen named Bailey who was trapped inside the farm's machinery. According to egg industry estimates, more than 1 million hens die every year by getting stuck this way! See her story at dxe.io/costcocagefree.

Costco is known as a progressive company, but there is nothing progressive about animal abuse and consumer fraud. Tell Costco to stop lying about the conditions that animals live in!

Can you click to let us know what you think?

I want to sign this petition.

I don't think MoveOn should support this petition.

We'll decide whether to send this petition out to additional MoveOn members in your area based on your feedback.

In case you haven't heard about it, MoveOn's petition site allows anyone to start an online petition and share it with friends and neighbors to build support for their cause.

Thanks for all you do.

—Milan, Alex, Corinne, Erica, and the rest of the team

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Sign the petition: re: Alabama's new senator

Mitch McConnell is desperately obstructing the will of Alabama voters as he tries to pass a massive tax cut for the wealthy. Sign the petition to demand Doug Jones be seated immediately.

Dear fellow MoveOn member,

My name is Bradley Davidson, and I'm from Birmingham, Alabama. My neighbors and the people of Alabama—powered by an influential turnout of African-American voters and a strong rebuke to the GOP's racist voter suppression efforts—spoke up in favor of Doug Jones last night. We also spoke out against the GOP's attempts to strip health care from millions while giving massive tax breaks to the wealthiest 1% and large corporations. 

But now Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell plans to stop us from being heard—choosing to swear in Jones next year rather than immediately so Republicans can jam through the GOP's awful tax legislation that will hurt the people of Alabama.¹

The people of Alabama have voted. Let us have our voice. Click here to sign my petition demanding Doug Jones be immediately seated in the United States Senate.

The people have spoken, and we want Doug Jones to immediately step into his rightful role as elected senator from Alabama. Seat Doug Jones now.

Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to your friends.

Thanks!

–Bradley Davidson

Source:

1. "McConnell: Strange to stay in Senate until end of current session," The Hill, December 12, 2017
http://act.moveon.org/go/27359?t=17&akid=195273%2E10220574%2Es64VG9

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