🚨Red alert

Red alert: The House Judiciary Committee just voted to send articles of impeachment to the full House of Representatives, for a final vote early next week.

Dear MoveOn member,

Red alert: The House Judiciary Committee just voted to send articles of impeachment to the full House of Representatives, for a final vote early next week.¹

That means we are now only days away from the historic moment when Donald Trump becomes the fourth president in the history of the United States to be impeached.

Included in the articles just voted out of committee is this stunning statement: "In the history of the Republic, no President has ever ordered the complete defiance of an impeachment inquiry or sought to obstruct and impede so comprehensively the ability of the House of Representatives to investigate 'high Crimes and Misdemeanors.'"²

The case against Trump is clear-cut and undeniable—and unless Congress takes action to stop him, Trump will continue to put personal interest ahead of the interests of the American people and undermine the 2020 elections. But Republicans are going to do everything in their power over the next few days to muddy the waters and attempt to shut down the final impeachment vote.

That's where we come in.

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.

We have to go all out, and there is no time to waste. Mar, can you rush an emergency donation of $3 right now to make sure we can go big over the next few days?

Here is what we have planned for our big, final push in the House:

• Turn out and protest in cities across the country the night before the House votes. More than 100,000 people in all 50 states have now signed up to attend rallies on the eve of the full House vote, calling on Congress to impeach and remove Trump. This is a huge surge over the past 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, payments 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.

This is an all-hands-on-deck moment. Will you join us and chip in $3 right now?

The gravity of this moment cannot be overstated. This is only the fourth time in the entire history of our nation that Congress has moved to impeach a president, and as three constitutional scholars laid out in their testimonies last week, Trump's crimes are the precise reason that the Founding Fathers included impeachment in the Constitution.

It is Congress' duty to stand up for our democracy. The integrity of the 2020 election and our very democracy depends on it. But we know that as long as Republicans think they can get away with it, they will cower, hide, and do Trump's bidding.

Which is why we must show the strength of our grassroots movement in these final days. It is essential that we show Republicans that if they choose to vote to protect Trump, they are voting against the will of the people and the future of our nation.

The next few days will be written about in history books, so ask yourself: How do you want to be remembered?

Join us.

Thanks for all you do.

–David, Emma, Robert, Mary, and the rest of the team

Sources:

1. "Panel Approves Impeachment Articles and Sends Charges for a House Vote," The New York Times, December 13, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/114012?t=5&akid=252590%2E10220574%2EBVLxna

2. "Read the Articles of Impeachment Against President Trump," The New York Times, December 10, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/113961?t=7&akid=252590%2E10220574%2EBVLxna

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 towards sanity, decency, and the kind of future that we must never give up on. And to do it we need your support, now more than ever. Will you stand with us?

Click here to chip in $3, or whatever you can afford.

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Presidential Primary Survey: 2020 presidential candidates

Can you participate in MoveOn's survey about the 2020 presidential elections? It'll take less than three minutes.

Dear MoveOn member,

The race is heating up! As we head into 2020, with the Iowa caucuses set for February 3, we now have 15 declared candidates. Primaries are an important part of our democratic process. A robust primary allows us to debate what we stand for and what we'll fight for. We are now seeing a robust debate play out in many ways. As candidates debate the policies and practices that they would institute if elected president, it remains unclear what Democratic voters will prioritize, and whether they'll elect a moderate Democrat or a bold progressive.

MoveOn's power and direction come entirely from our members. We need your input as we continue to plan our work together. Over the next several weeks we will be exploring the best ways that MoveOn can have an impact during this election season.

Can you participate in MoveOn's Presidential Primary Survey? Please note this is just a survey, and not a binding vote—it's to give MoveOnStaff a sense of where our members are as we consider next steps in the presidential primary process.

We will use this information to help as we continue to plan our work over the months ahead. Your participation is critically important.

Just click here to participate in MoveOn's Presidential Primary Survey.

Thanks for all you do.

-Allison, Dan, Nick, Kate, 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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Thanks for your RSVP to a "Nobody Is Above the Law" event!

Hi Mar, 

We're excited about your participation in the "Nobody Is Above the Law" rapid-response plan to demand Congress Impeach & Remove Donald Trump. 

Here are the details for the event you signed up for—

Bicentennial Plaza
1 E Edenton St
Raleigh 27601-1011

The date of the events is not yet established—we will announce a date for events when a House vote on impeachment articles is scheduled, aiming to go the evening before that vote takes place.

To access details about the event you signed up for, and to invite friends to join you, find your event here: https://www.impeach.org/event/impeach-and-remove-attend/125765/attend/?akid=a332933783.10220574.Xgcy5G&aktmid=tm11509707.P18QFK&t=1&source=conf

We appreciate your commitment to engage in non-violent, peaceful action, to act lawfully, and to strive to de-escalate any potential confrontations with those who may disagree with our values.

Thanks for all you do.

–David Sievers with Nobody Is Above the Law partners

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Articles of impeachment against Donald Trump announced

This morning, Congress announced two articles of impeachment against Donald Trump, charging him with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

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.

Please rush an emergency donation of $3, or whatever you can afford, to support MoveOn's campaign to impeach, convict, and remove Donald Trump.

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.

Now is the moment. Please rush an emergency donation of $3, or whatever you can afford, to support MoveOn's campaign to impeach, convict, and remove Donald Trump.

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

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 towards sanity, decency, and the kind of future that we must never give up on. And to do it we need your support, now more than ever. Will you stand with us?

Click here to chip in $3, or whatever you can afford.

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How the Republican dam will (finally) break

It's game time on impeachment: As you read this message, House committees are writing articles of impeachment, at the direction of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The House vote is just days away.

Dear MoveOn member,

It's game time on impeachment: As you read this message, House committees are writing articles of impeachment, at the direction of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.¹ The House vote is just days away.

That means Republican members of Congress will soon face a choice: Will they continue to cover up for Trump? You can be sure that they will do what's needed to save their skins. If Trump's approval rating falls even further or if masses of people take to the streets in a big way to show Republicans that they will pay a price for covering up Trump's abuses of power, the Republican dam will finally break.

To help that happen, we are planning more than 400 protests in 48 states, which will take place the day before the House votes on impeachment. We've raised enough so far to print and ship jumbo "IMPEACH" lettering to our highest-visibility events; to pay for lighting, stages, sound equipment, livestreaming, and security at the larger protests; and to help get the word out about the events, so even more people can be involved.

But we still need to raise $200,000 in the next 24 hours to ensure our protests are seen as widely as possible on TV, to buy targeted ads on social media, to ship even more signage and provide other support to volunteer event hosts around the country, and to make sure our events are promoted so well that they are mentioned on local news and in local newspapers everywhere (i.e., the media outlets in their home districts that members of Congress pay really close attention to).

Which is why we're asking for your help right now. Will you please chip in $3 to fund MoveOn's critical work to impeach and remove Donald Trump?

Yes, I will help support "Impeach & Remove" protests in communities from coast to coast the night before the House vote on impeachment.

As constitutional scholar Michael Gerhardt recently testified, Trump's actions "are worse than the misconduct of any prior president," and "if what we are talking about is not impeachable, then nothing is impeachable."²

Constitutional scholar Noah Feldman put it in even more stark terms in his testimony: "If we cannot impeach a president who abused his office for personal advantage, we no longer live in a democracy."³

The bottom line? Trump's actions are far worse than Richard Nixon's Watergate scandal. They're an attack on free and fair elections—including the integrity of the presidential election next year—and our very democracy itself.

And although the Trump White House announced that they will mount NO defense to these charges whatsoever, Republicans in Congress are still peddling debunked conspiracy theories. But that's nothing new.

"The closer President Nixon comes to impeachment, the louder his supporters proclaim his innocence," wrote The New York Times in July 1974.⁴

But, in the end, Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee voted to impeach Nixon—sealing his fate. Nixon resigned three days later.

We still have work to do to flip Republican votes and break the Republican dam. It starts with ramping up the visibility of our events in the coming days.

We still need to raise $200,000 in the next 24 hours to pay for targeted ads, to make sure that local communities show up in droves, to get so much media attention that our events land on the front pages of local newspapers, to maximize our coordination efforts with dozens of organizations, and more.

Will you chip in $3 right now to make these protests big and successful?

As Speaker Pelosi told us last Thursday night, her decision to draw up articles of impeachment is "quite historic"—and absolutely necessary under the circumstances. Trump's impeachable acts were "taking us across a threshold," she said, where "we just had no choice."⁵

Our country is at a crossroads, and what we do now will determine the very future of our democracy.

Will we let Trump get away with his abuses of power and rig the 2020 election, or will democracy and the will of the voters prevail?

It's up to us, Mar. History will judge us for what we do in this moment.

Join us.

Thanks for all you do.

–Kate, Scott, Seth, Jayne, and the rest of the team

Sources:

1. "Pelosi's Leap on Impeachment: From No Go to No Choice," The New York Times, December 7, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/113950?t=5&akid=252354%2E10220574%2Epv7tKa

2. "Impeachment Briefing: Highlights From Legal Experts' Testimony," The New York Times, December 4, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/113916?t=7&akid=252354%2E10220574%2Epv7tKa

3. Ibid.

4. "Republicans Defending Trump on Impeachment Should Fear the Judgment of History," The New Yorker, December 2, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/113912?t=9&akid=252354%2E10220574%2Epv7tKa

5. "CNN Town Hall with Nancy Pelosi," CNN, December 5, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/113951?t=11&akid=252354%2E10220574%2Epv7tKa

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 towards sanity, decency, and the kind of future that we must never give up on. And to do it we need your support, now more than ever. Will you stand with us?

Click here to chip in $3, or whatever you can afford.

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Read this email—because our democracy depends on it.

"The closer President Nixon comes to impeachment, the louder his supporters proclaim his innocence," wrote The New York Times in July 1974.

Dear MoveOn member,

"The closer President Nixon comes to impeachment, the louder his supporters proclaim his innocence," wrote The New York Times in July 1974.¹

But, in the end, Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee voted to impeach Richard Nixon—sealing his fate. Nixon resigned three days later.²

Today, Republican members of Congress are parroting debunked, Russian-fueled conspiracy theories about Ukraine to try to defend Donald Trump.³

But, Thursday morning, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked her committee chairs to proceed with drafting articles of impeachment, so Republican members of Congress will soon have to vote. And you can be sure that they will do what's needed to save their political skins. If Trump's approval rating falls even further or if masses of people take to the streets in a big way to show Republicans that they will pay a price for covering up Trump's abuses of power, the Republican dam will finally break—just as it did in 1974.

That's why, Mar, we're organizing a massive wave of protests all across the country, in collaboration with dozens of partner organizations, to take place the night before the House vote on impeachment. These protests need to be very big and very loud and get attention everywhere—on TV, on social media, and in the local press around the country that members of Congress pay closest attention to.

Already, more than 350 events are being planned in 48 states.

But we still need to raise $200,000 by Monday to make the events impactful and successful. (We have to print and ship jumbo "IMPEACH" lettering to the highest visibility events, pay for lighting, stages, sound equipment, livestreaming, and security at the larger protests, help get the word out about the events, so even more people can be involved, and more.) Will you help out by chipping in $3 now?

Yes, I will help support "Impeach & Remove" protests in communities from coast to coast the night before the House vote on impeachment.

Trump's actions are worse than Nixon's Watergate scandal and are an attack on free and fair elections—including the integrity of the presidential election next year—and our very democracy.

"President Trump welcomed foreign interference in the 2016 election. He demanded it for the 2020 election," said House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler yesterday, as he began the next stage of the impeachment inquiry.⁴

Trump's actions "are worse than the misconduct of any prior president," testified constitutional scholar Michael Gerhardt at the Judiciary Committee hearing.⁵

He continued, "If what we are talking about is not impeachable, then nothing is impeachable."⁶

"If we cannot impeach a president who abused his office for personal advantage, we no longer live in a democracy," testified constitutional scholar Noah Feldman of Harvard University.⁷

Trump MUST be impeached, convicted, and removed from office. Our democracy depends on it.

And that's why we're taking the impeachment fight to the streets. We urgently need to increase the visibility of the public's demand for impeachment—exponentially so in the remaining days before the House vote. And more than 350 protests in 48 states is a good start. But we need an influx of resources to make these events big and loud and seen by millions. We need to rent stages and audio equipment for the biggest protests, print and ship signs and other materials to the highest visibility events, pay for targeted ads to make sure that local communities show up in droves, get the media's attention to put these events on the front page, coordinate with dozens of organizations, and more.

Will you chip in $3 right now to make these protests for Donald Trump's impeachment big and successful the night before the House vote on impeachment?

Our country is at a crossroads, and what we do now will determine the very future of our democracy. Will we let Trump get away with his abuses of power and rig the 2020 election—or will democracy and the will of the voters prevail?

It's up to us, Mar. History will judge us for what we do in this moment.

Join us.

Thanks for all you do.

–Kate, Scott, Seth, Jayne, and the rest of the team

Sources:

1. "Republicans Defending Trump on Impeachment Should Fear the Judgment of History," The New Yorker, December 2, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/113912?t=5&akid=252250%2E10220574%2EJza3mU

2. Ibid.

3. "GOP embraces a debunked Ukraine conspiracy to defend Trump from impeachment," The Washington Post, December 3, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/113913?t=7&akid=252250%2E10220574%2EJza3mU

4. "Scholars Call Trump's Actions on Ukraine an Impeachable Abuse of Power," The New York Times, December 4, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/113914?t=9&akid=252250%2E10220574%2EJza3mU

5. "Dems signal Mueller-related impeachment charges as witnesses assail Trump," Politico, December 4, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/113915?t=11&akid=252250%2E10220574%2EJza3mU

6. "Impeachment Briefing: Highlights From Legal Experts' Testimony," The New York Times, December 4, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/113916?t=13&akid=252250%2E10220574%2EJza3mU

7. Ibid.

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 towards sanity, decency, and the kind of future that we must never give up on. And to do it we need your support, now more than ever. Will you stand with us?

Click here to chip in $3, or whatever you can afford.

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Sign the petition: SNAP

Hundreds of thousands of people to lose access to their "food stamp" benefits. Add your name.

Dear MoveOn member,

The Trump administration recently announced changes to SNAP that will cause hundreds of thousands of people to lose access to their "food stamp" benefits. Will you sign the petition to urge Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue to stop these attacks on families who depend on SNAP?

USDA's newly proposed rules for SNAP will cut food stamp benefits for hundreds of thousands of hungry people. We demand that you stop these proposed changes before they take effect on April 1, 2020.

According to Feeding America, "SNAP provides families with their basic nutritional needs to get them through temporary hard times. It helps people get back on their feet and on the road to a better life."

But the Trump administration has been working for the last three years to undermine SNAP as part of their agenda to limit access to public assistance programs.

This newly announced attack on SNAP is especially outrageous, because Congress rejected these proposed changes to the program during the Farm Bill debate last year. The House rejected them in a bipartisan vote of 330-83, and the Senate voted down a similar amendment 68-30.

But now, Sonny Perdue, Trump's secretary of agriculture, is moving forward with these changes through an undemocratic "executive order" that targets very poor people struggling to work—many of whom are homeless, living in small towns and rural communities with little or no access to employment, or have health conditions that prevent them from working.

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

Thank you.

—Matthew Hildreth, RuralOrganizing.org

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 support, now more than ever. Will you stand with MoveOn?

Click here to chip in $3, or whatever you can afford.

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