Add your name: No border wall

Tell Congress to stand up to Trump and oppose funding for his stupid, wasteful border wall!

Dear fellow MoveOn member,

Donald Trump bragged that he will be "proud" to shut down the United States government unless Congress gives him $5 billion for his wall.¹ Congress should not let Trump take our government hostage.

Sign the petition telling Congress to reject Trump's border wall.

Trump's obsession with a border wall is a bad idea. Mexico isn't paying for the wall, and we shouldn't have to either. Tell Congress to stand up to Trump and oppose funding for his stupid, wasteful border wall!

The border wall that Donald Trump has demanded for years would be an ecological disaster, an enormous waste of money, and an international symbol of intolerance that doesn't represent America's values.²

Even many Republicans know that the border wall is a bad idea.³ The money could be better spent on projects related to health care, education, and the economy.

Trump is threatening to shut down the government if he doesn't get his way, but Congress needs to check his power trip.

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

Thanks!

–Matt Hildreth, America's Voice

Sources:

1. "Trump: Proud to shut down government over wall," CNN, December 11, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/61544?t=10&akid=222072%2E10220574%2EGOC99f

2. "The ecological disaster that is Trump's border wall: a visual guide," Vox, October 29, 2017
https://act.moveon.org/go/61551?t=12&akid=222072%2E10220574%2EGOC99f

3. "Trump demands a border wall but many Republican lawmakers aren't convinced," The Washington Post,
September 20, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/61562?t=14&akid=222072%2E10220574%2EGOC99f

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Call today to reform our democracy

Take action and reach out to your legislators now to demand that they fix our broken democracy when the session begins in January.

Dear MoveOn member,

For the first time in many years, there is new and different leadership at the state Capitol in Albany. Now is the chance for real measures to strengthen and protect democracy, taking on the rigged system that has prevented progress for too long.

The November elections in New York put our state's disgraceful election system on full display. In New York City, broken voting machines caused voters to wait many hours to cast their ballots, and many gave up and went home without voting.¹ Beyond that, due to New York's restrictive voting policies, thousands of people couldn't even participate.² And unlimited money in politics—the result of some of the most lax laws in the country—sought to drown out the voices of regular people once again.³

Right now, Senate Democrats are honing their priority agenda for when they take power in January. Can you take action and reach out to your legislators now to demand that they fix our broken democracy, as a precursor to taking on so many of the huge challenges we face together?

Here is where to call: 

• Assm. Miller - (518) 455-3028
• Sen. Kaminsky - (516) 766-8383

You can say: There's no excuse not to fix our broken democracy. Pass voting rights and a small-donor public campaign finance system early in 2019.

Then click here to tell us how it went. 

Legislators have a long list of priorities going into next year. For too long, our communities have fought for real affordable housing, full funding for public schools, and other priorities to improve the lives of New Yorkers. In the past, real estate and hedge fund billionaires have used their money to block progress. From expanding access to health care to taking meaningful action to confront climate change, New York's broken democracy has allowed Big Money, corporate interests, and right-wing influence to stymie much needed legislation.

All of this is critically important. To make legislators' long wish list achievable, we first need to make Albany work for all New Yorkers, not just wealthy special interests.

Lawmakers leave this week for a retreat where they will set the agenda for the next legislative session. We have no time to lose.

Call your Assembly and Senate members today to ensure they make democracy reforms the first priority.  

Here's where to call: 

• Assm. Miller - (518) 455-3028
• Sen. Kaminsky - (516) 766-8383

Then click here to tell us how it went. 

Thanks for all you do.

–Justin, Gabby, Emma, Brian, and the rest of the team

Sources: 

1. "Election Day Angst: Voting Machines Crash All Over NYC," CBS News, November 6, 2018

https://act.moveon.org/go/61507?t=9&akid=221734%2E10220574%2EvsJGXF

 

2. "New York's Worst-in-the-Country Voting System," The Atlantic, September 13, 2018

https://act.moveon.org/go/61508?t=11&akid=221734%2E10220574%2EvsJGXF

 

3. "N.Y. Democrats Vowed to Get Big Money Out of Politics. Will Big Money Interfere?" The New York Times, November 22, 2018

https://act.moveon.org/go/61509?t=13&akid=221734%2E10220574%2EvsJGXF

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Saturday in NYC: Peaceful interfaith prayer circle and action

You're invited! Break Down Walls: Peaceful prayer circle and action WHEN Saturday, December 8 at 8 a.m. ET — 11 a.m. ET WHERE Zuccotti Park, 117 Trinity Pl, New York, New York 10006 Take action to demand justice for refugees and immigrants. Yes! I'll be there! Tear gas attacks on Central American refugees. Children ripped from families at the border. This is Trump's America—a country where freedom and justice for all is replaced by xenophobia and hate. If we care about the future of our country and protecting our communities, We the People must stand united and break down walls of hate. We must take bold action to protect asylum-seekers and resist Donald Trump and the Republicans' racist agenda. We must demand that Democratic leaders Sen. Schumer and Rep. Pelosi block funding for Trump's wall and the expansion of ICE and CBP, and hold them accountable if they don't. Join Movimiento Cosecha, CREDO, allies and MoveOn members on Saturday, Dec. 8 in New York City to show that you stand in solidarity with the Migrant Exodus and all immigrants. Yes! I'll be there! By choosing to attend this event, you are committing to participate non-violently and in accordance with the law, to work to de-escalate confrontations with others, and behave lawfully to ensure the safety of event participants. You also acknowledge that you are solely responsible for any injury or damage to your person or property resulting from or occurring during this event, and that you release all event sponsors and organizers (and their officers, directors, employees, and agents) from any liability for that injury or damage.

FW: Straw poll: 2020 presidential candidates

Can you participate in MoveOn's first membership-wide straw poll and survey about the 2020 presidential elections? It'll take less than three minutes.

Hi Eddie—Tens of thousands of MoveOn members have already cast their votes. Make sure to tell us who you favor as a presidential candidate and what qualities in a candidate matters most to you. The straw poll closes Sunday night. See Jenn's original email below.

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Dear MoveOn member,

The 2018 elections ended with a blue wave that put a stop to Republican control of the House—and now, naturally, the media, politicians, and many of us are turning our attention towards the 2020 presidential elections. While MoveOn isn't endorsing a presidential candidate this early, we do want to hear from you about who and what excites you as you look toward 2020—and we think it's important for politicians and the public to hear what MoveOn members are thinking. And, because MoveOn's power and direction come entirely from members like you, we need your input to help plan our work together.

Can you participate in MoveOn's first membership-wide straw poll and survey about the 2020 presidential elections? It'll take less than three minutes.

You must be a MoveOn member as of Monday, December 3rd at 11:59 PM EST to participate, and we'll leave this straw poll open until Sunday, December 9th at 11:59 PM EST. This is non-transferrable, and you may only participate once. We will share the results of this survey with our full membership next week and use it to help us plan and direct our work over the months ahead.

Thanks for all you do.

–Jenn, Allison, Seth, Karine, and the rest of the team

Want to support MoveOn's 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?

Yes, I'll chip in $5 a month.

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

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Sign the petition re: rigged immigration system

Sign the petition to stop Trump's attacks on immigrants.

Dear MoveOn member,

The Trump administration has proposed cruel rules to punish immigrants in America seeking green cards—but right now is a period when the federal government MUST accept comments from the public! I hope you will join me in signing a petition—which we will formally submit as public comments on this measure—to hold the Trump administration accountable for its extremist immigration proposal. We only have until December 10 to push back and make our voices heard as part of the comment period. Sign the petition to join us in the public record today.

The Trump administration unveiled a new proposed regulation that penalizes immigrant families for simply accessing basic needs to feed their children and keep their families healthy. Immigrant communities, long the target of attacks by Trump, will now live in fear of seeking the basic support they need. We cannot let this stand. 

Under the proposed regulation (CIS No. 2499-10 
DHS Docket No. USCIS-2010-0012), Trump would be able to establish a rigged immigration system where green cards would only be available to the wealthy few who are trying to immigrate to this country. All the while, those with modest financial means are left uncared for, forgotten, and denied the possibility of a permanent future in this country.¹ 

This extremist, anti-immigrant measure betrays our fundamental values. We are a country largely made up of immigrants, and this proposal undermines what our country is built upon. Just like the termination of DACA, the cruel family separation policy, and the Muslim Ban, this proposed rule criminalizes immigration and represents an extremist attempt to close America's doors to all but those with financial means. 

We have until December 10 to submit as many comments as possible to push back against these proposed policies.

The Trump administration is required by law to post this unjust proposed order on Regulations.gov for 60 days before finalizing the regulation. This means that the public can weigh in before the 60 days are up. If people like you and I post comments against the order, we stand a better chance of disrupting or even stopping it. When the Trump administration attacks marginalized communities, he attacks the character of our nation. People nationwide have taken a stand each time this administration has launched an attack on the most vulnerable among us, and now it's time for us to take a stand again.

Let's step up and push back against these extremist policy proposals before its too late. 

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

Thanks!

—Adela de la Torre, National Immigration Law Center

Source:

1. "Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds," Federal Register, October 10, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/61420?t=11&akid=221524%2E10220574%2EqwSjaK

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Straw poll: 2020 presidential candidates

Can you participate in MoveOn's first membership-wide straw poll and survey about the 2020 presidential elections? It'll take less than three minutes.

Dear MoveOn member,

The 2018 elections ended with a blue wave that put a stop to Republican control of the House—and now, naturally, the media, politicians, and many of us are turning our attention towards the 2020 presidential elections. While MoveOn isn't endorsing a presidential candidate this early, we do want to hear from you about who and what excites you as you look toward 2020—and we think it's important for politicians and the public to hear what MoveOn members are thinking. And, because MoveOn's power and direction come entirely from members like you, we need your input to help plan our work together.

Can you participate in MoveOn's first membership-wide straw poll and survey about the 2020 presidential elections? It'll take less than three minutes.

You must be a MoveOn member as of Monday, December 3rd at 11:59 PM EST  to participate, and we'll leave this straw poll open until Sunday, December 9th at 11:59 PM EST. This is non-transferrable, and you may only participate once. We will share the results of this survey with our full membership next week and use it to help us plan and direct our work over the months ahead.

Thanks for all you do.

–Jenn, Allison, Seth, Karine, and the rest of the team

Want to support MoveOn's 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?

Yes, I'll chip in $5 a month.

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

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FW: Donald Trump is FREAKING OUT

Trump reportedly planned to give a $50 million Moscow penthouse to none other than Vladimir Putin himself, a claim that Trump seemed to substantiate in tweets, when he admitted to working on the Moscow project.

Hi, fellow MoveOn member,

On Thursday, Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former lawyer, pleaded guilty in a Washington, D.C., court to lying to Congress about Trump's interests in Russia.¹ Cohen admitted that his lies were intended to minimize links between Moscow and Trump.² Trump reportedly planned to give a $50 million Moscow penthouse to none other than Vladimir Putin himself, a claim that Trump seemed to substantiate in tweets Friday morning, when he admitted to working on the Moscow project.^3,4

And now, as Trump and his lapdog Rudy Giuliani escalate their attacks on special counsel Robert Mueller and his investigation, it's being reported that it's Trump that is "Individual 1" in Mueller's recent court filings.⁵ The Mueller investigation isn't just drawing in all of the cronies around Trump and his relatives, but focusing on the activities that Trump was engaged in directly. It raises the stakes—and as Trump feels more and more threatened, he might act with audacious recklessness to derail this investigation.

Will you chip in $3 a week to help MoveOn mobilize the grassroots pressure we need to protect the Mueller investigation? (MoveOn will bill your weekly donation once a month starting today. You can modify or cancel your weekly donation at any time.)

Yes, I believe that no one is above the law, including the president. I'm ready to chip in weekly to fight back!

No, I'm sorry, I can't chip in weekly.

For more details on the Trump threat to the rule of law, see my message from earlier this week, below.

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Dear fellow MoveOn member,

We're living through a slow-motion Saturday Night Massacre.

Jeff Sessions recused himself from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, so Donald Trump fired him.

Assistant Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was next in line to replace Sessions, but Trump didn't think he'd shut down the Mueller investigation, either.

So, instead, Trump installed as acting attorney general an unqualified lackey named Matt Whitaker, who has already said on CNN how he would go about ending the Mueller investigation—by starving it of funds. Whitaker is well-known in the Justice Department as a "White House spy," who will feed information about the investigation directly to Trump.⁶ (Let's be clear: Not only is Whitaker a Trump loyalist opposed to the probe, he also has his own record of shady business dealings and a history of attacking the values of non-Christian Americans.)

Congress must act now to protect the rule of law by passing bipartisan legislation to protect the Mueller investigation during the lame-duck session of Congress. And then, when Democrats take over the House in January, they need to begin oversight hearings immediately.

Will you chip in $3 a week to help MoveOn mobilize the grassroots pressure we need to stop Whitaker and protect Mueller? 

Yes, I believe that no one is above the law, including the president. I'm ready to chip in weekly to fight back!

No, I'm sorry, I can't chip in weekly.

Putting a stooge like Whitaker in charge of the Justice Department is shocking even by Trump standards. Whitaker tweeted out an article referring to the Mueller investigation as a "lynch mob."⁷ He's linked to a firm that scammed veterans out of their life savings.⁸ And the Justice Department won't even release his financial disclosure forms.⁹

But now that Trump has installed his lackey as acting attorney general, the next step is obvious: Trump will either order Whitaker to fire Mueller or simply allow Whitaker to implement his own plan of defunding the Mueller probe.

Either way, the very integrity of our democracy and rule of law are at stake.

That's why the American people are rising up against this grotesque abuse of power. MoveOn has a sharp campaign plan to keep the pressure on, including:

• A media-grabbing "Guilty Pleas-ures" ice cream truck handing out free ice cream, with flavors like "Cocoa Conspirator" and "IndictMint Chip," and sharing real facts about the impact of the Russia probe. Everywhere it goes, the ice cream truck gets great press, and MoveOn has decided to keep it going, introducing new flavors like "Michael Waffle Cone Lied to Congress," and a new single-scoop "Individual 1" option.
• Organizing extended protests in Washington, D.C. and around the country, following up on the more than 1,000 events that MoveOn members pulled off in the days after the Sessions firing. 
• Flooding Congress with calls to make sure Republicans know that they will be held accountable for Trump's abuses and to remind Democrats that their constituents expect them to fight.
• Producing a raft of new shareable videos to explain in clear terms that people can understand what's at stake and why Trump's actions are so dangerous.

So much of this resistance is tied to the work that MoveOn members have been fueling for the past two years—and relies on MoveOn's continued investment, leadership, and mobilization.

MoveOn has proven time and again that its tactics are effective, but after a knock-down, drag-out midterm election, MoveOn needs our help to sustain this long-term fight.

Can you chip in $3 a week to help build and sustain the next stage of MoveOn's grassroots resistance?

Yes, I'll chip in weekly to power MoveOn's critical work to hold Trump accountable!

No, I'm sorry, I can't chip in weekly.

Legal experts from both political parties say that Whitaker's appointment is illegal, and Democrats have filed a lawsuit to stop it.¹⁰ Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer has threatened to add the Mueller protection bill to must-pass spending legislation to prevent a government shutdown.¹¹

The reason that Democrats in Congress are standing strong is because they've heard our voices. Within hours of Trump firing Sessions, MoveOn members organized more than 1,000 rallies all over the country, which were attended by more than 100,000 people.

MoveOn members are ready to hit the streets again—and, in the meantime, have been hitting the phones, protesting at local events, getting TV coverage, and flooding social media every step of the way to defend the investigation and demand real accountability for Trump and the truth about Russia. It's now just as critical that MoveOn help protect Mueller's work, push Democrats in the House to use every tool at their disposal to hold Trump accountable, and force Whitaker to recuse—or, even better, have him removed from his unconstitutionally-appointed position.

We must keep up the pressure. This is perhaps the greatest threat to our democracy and rule of law that we've seen in a generation, and we need to demand that Republicans join Democrats in passing legislation to protect the Mueller investigation during the lame-duck session of Congress, and then make sure that Democrats begin investigations when they take over the House in January.

Will you chip in $3 a week so that MoveOn can answer this constitutional crisis with the intensity of public outrage that this moment demands?

Yes, I'll chip in weekly to fight back against Trump's constitutional crisis!

No, I'm sorry, I can't chip in weekly.

Thanks for all you do.

–Robert Reich

Sources:

1. "Michael Cohen pleads guilty, says he lied about Trump's knowledge of Moscow project," CNN, November 29, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/61416?t=10&akid=221334%2E10220574%2ENoiy0w

2. Ibid.

3. "The Trump Organization Planned To Give Vladimir Putin The $50 Million Penthouse In Trump Tower Moscow," BuzzFeed News, November 29, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/61417?t=12&akid=221334%2E10220574%2ENoiy0w

4. "Trump admits he 'looked' at proposal to build Trump Tower in Moscow," The New Republic, November 30, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/61418?t=14&akid=221334%2E10220574%2ENoiy0w

5. "'Individual 1': Trump emerges as a central subject of Mueller probe," The Washington Post, November 29, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/61419?t=16&akid=221334%2E10220574%2ENoiy0w

6. "Schumer calls for investigation of Whitaker's contacts with White House," The Hill, November 20, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/61289?t=18&akid=221334%2E10220574%2ENoiy0w

7. "What Sessions's Resignation Means for Robert Mueller," The Atlantic, November 7, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/61284?t=20&akid=221334%2E10220574%2ENoiy0w

8. "The many scandals of Trump's new acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker, explained," Vox, November 14, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/61285?t=22&akid=221334%2E10220574%2ENoiy0w

9. "Failure to turn over Whitaker's public financial disclosure forms angers critics," CNN, November 19, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/61286?t=24&akid=221334%2E10220574%2ENoiy0w

10. "Senate Democrats are suing to try to stop Matthew Whitaker from serving as acting attorney general," Vox, November 19, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/61287?t=26&akid=221334%2E10220574%2ENoiy0w

11. "Charles Schumer says Democrats might tie spending bill to Mueller protection," USA Today, November 11, 2018
https://act.moveon.org/go/61288?t=28&akid=221334%2E10220574%2ENoiy0w

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