From Robert Reich:
Dear MoveOn member,
I’m more hopeful than I’ve been in months. But I need to ask us all to be clear-eyed about the odds we still face in electing Kamala Harris and defeating Donald Trump.
We live in a divided country, the Electoral College is biased toward Republicans, and I have an overriding worry about the undertow of authoritarian fascism, especially when supported by Big Money.
Thankfully, my friends at MoveOn—experts at the intersection of cutting-edge digital political tactics and voter turnout—are running their most innovative and ambitious presidential get-out-the-vote campaign in their 25-year history.
Will you join me and start a $5 monthly donation today to power MoveOn’s nationwide campaign to get out the vote, elect Kamala Harris, and defeat Trump and the MAGA movement?
No, I’m sorry, I can’t make a monthly donation.
For decades, I’ve argued that the consolidation of great wealth in the hands of a few undermines our democracy. Wealth is most dangerous when transformed into political power.
Elon Musk is the poster child for this concern.
One way Musk is transforming his gargantuan wealth into political power is by committing huge gobs of cash—possibly as much as $45 million a month—to a new pro-Trump Super PAC founded and funded by other tech oligarchs.
Musk also is transforming his wealth into political power by posting pro-Trump, anti-Kamala Harris messages to his 189 million followers on X, formerly known as Twitter. The reason Musk has 189 million followers is that he owns X. He can adjust its algorithm to give his tweets maximum exposure and effectively buy and capture huge numbers of X users.
Trump is obviously delighted with Musk. They are two rich and famous narcissists who crave attention, lie through their teeth, enjoy provoking critics, hate labor unions, refuse to be held accountable for anything, and have utter contempt for democracy.
Toward the end of America’s first Gilded Age, Louis Brandeis, the eminent American jurist, said: “We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.”
So what do we do about my overriding worry? We do everything we can to make Kamala Harris our next president. And that’s why I am asking you to donate today to MoveOn.
As the nation’s largest independent grassroots progressive political organization, and one staffed by some of the country’s foremost experts on cutting-edge digital technology and voter turnout, MoveOn truly has a special place in this election.
But as a grassroots organization that is powered primarily by small-dollar donations from people like you, they need your help to make it happen. Please, start a $5 monthly donation to MoveOn today. Every dollar helps.
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After Harris announced for president, MoveOn members quickly voted to endorse her candidacy in one of the most decisive endorsement votes in the organization’s history.
Now, MoveOn is ramping up what was already their most innovative and strategic election-year campaign ever. Their ambitious plan is to reach and turn out 1.5 million surge voters—voters who don’t consistently show up to the polls but vote Democratic when they do—in the critical battleground states and districts that will decide this election.
MoveOn members are reaching these voters, who tend not to pay close attention to politics, face-to-face in their homes, via text, on social media, through phone calls, by sending them postcards, ensuring they see our ads, and more.
With less than 100 days to go until Election Day, it is time to go all-out in full force to defeat Trump, elect Kamala Harris, and deliver a decisive blow to authoritarian fascism.
Please join me in donating $5 a month to power MoveOn’s work to win this November.
No, I’m sorry, I can’t make a monthly donation.
Thanks for all you do.
–Robert Reich
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