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Jason, The midterms are less than six months away, and now more than ever, we need a strong Democratic Party. Today, we’re asking for your help to keep building it. But before we ask for your support, we want to explain where your $3 goes when you donate to the DNC. Since the start of this year, we’ve:
And Jason, that’s just the beginning. In the coming weeks and months, as the midterm season continues to heat up, we’ll be scaling up our work massively to ensure that Democrats are not only able to flip Congress this year, but win down-ballot races across the country. That’s why your support is so important right now. So, what do you say? If you've stored your info with ActBlue, we'll process your contribution instantly. Thank you for your support, The Democrats  If you gave recently via check or mail, our system may not have yet processed your gift. We are appreciative and thank you greatly for your support. Text JOIN to 43367 Manage how often you receive DNC emails by filling out this form. If you no longer wish to receive emails from the DNC, submit this form to unsubscribe. If you're ready to elect Democrats in all 50 states, territories, and D.C., make a contribution today. Contributions or gifts to the Democratic National Committee are not tax deductible. Paid for by the Democratic National Committee, www.Democrats.org, and not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee. |
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Now more than ever…
I flew across the country for this…
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Jason — it’s Ken Martin. I was just on the ground in Phoenix, Arizona to register new Democratic voters with our When We Count Fellows. I flew across the country to be in person with our Fellows because I truly believe every single conversation we have (and every voter we register) between now and November matters. That’s the whole reason why we launched When We Count: To make sure that potential voters in battleground states hear from passionate young Democrats in their own communities. To close the gap in voter registration with real connections. To organize everywhere so we can win anywhere. Watching our team at work was genuinely inspiring: Fellows are meeting young people where they already are using third spaces — cafes, concerts, rideshares, thrift stores — you name it. We’re also organizing online through Instagram, Snapchat, Discord, and group chats because the bottom line is: If young people are there, so are our Fellows. Jason, right now we have 40 Fellows on the ground in Arizona. By June, we’ll have 75. And we’re not stopping there — we’re expanding to more battleground states soon. If you've stored your info with ActBlue, we'll process your contribution instantly. Thank you for being with us in this fight, Ken Ken Martin  If you gave recently via check or mail, our system may not have yet processed your gift. We are appreciative and thank you greatly for your support. Text JOIN to 43367 Manage how often you receive DNC emails by filling out this form. If you no longer wish to receive emails from the DNC, submit this form to unsubscribe. If you're ready to elect Democrats in all 50 states, territories, and D.C., make a contribution today. Contributions or gifts to the Democratic National Committee are not tax deductible. Paid for by the Democratic National Committee, www.Democrats.org, and not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee. |
“Fanciful” and “impertinent”
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Jason, there’s been some movement in our lawsuits against the Trump administration, so I wanted to fill you in. Back in March, we sued the Trump administration under the Freedom of Information Act to demand transparency about their plans for the midterm elections after the Trump administration flat-out ignored our FOIA requests. Now, the Trump administration and their lawyers are trying to dodge accountability again, filing a motion to strike parts of our lawsuit. They’re refusing to fully answer our suit and calling our allegations “fanciful” and “impertinent.” I want to be clear, Jason: We’ve got our foot on the gas, and we’re not letting up. The American people deserve to know if the Trump administration is going to attempt to stop their voices from being heard this November. This isn’t our only suit against the administration. Far from it. One more example: We’re also suing to stop President Trump’s new executive order that directs the federal government to build an eligible voter list for each state and instructs the US Postal Service not to return mail ballots for anyone who isn’t on this list. We have a hearing in that case today. While our legal team works every day to protect our nation's fundamental principles in court, the DNC is fighting back in every arena. We have organizers on the ground in battleground states registering new Democrats to vote. Teams of experts working to raise money and invest it where it matters most. Communications and social media teams are working to make sure that in big moments, Americans are hearing from Democrats. To continue all of this work, we need someone else: you. We need all hands on deck to power Democrats to victory this November. So if you’re with us, please make an $7 contribution to the DNC today. We’ll put your donation to work immediately to elect Democrats up and down the ballot, across the country. If you've stored your info with ActBlue, we'll process your contribution instantly. Thank you for your support, Dan Dan Freeman  If you gave recently via check or mail, our system may not have yet processed your gift. We are appreciative and thank you greatly for your support. Text JOIN to 43367 Manage how often you receive DNC emails by filling out this form. If you no longer wish to receive emails from the DNC, submit this form to unsubscribe. If you're ready to elect Democrats in all 50 states, territories, and D.C., make a contribution today. Contributions or gifts to the Democratic National Committee are not tax deductible. Paid for by the Democratic National Committee, www.Democrats.org, and not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee. |
Donald Trump wants you to believe that this is who we are as a country.
I have always felt that America has always been a place of two stories.
It has always been a place where we’ve seen the worst of humanity and the best of humanity. Witnessing the triumph of the best of us, over the worst of what we’ve seen, is also a very big part of who we are.
When it comes to ICE, it’s where both of these elements meet. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that this xenophobia and anti-immigrant feeling is happening at the same time as record levels of income inequality.
When you feel like “you could be next”, when you feel like you are one accident away from losing your house, or everything, the lesser impulse of us is to subjugate or to feel like there’s another class of people that is below us.
Capitalism and our society requires us to internalize the failures of our system.
It’s not the school that failed the kids, it's that you’re the dropout.
It’s not that Walmart pays less than a living wage, it’s that “I’m poor, and I didn’t work hard enough so I didn’t earn a better station in life.”
We’ve internalized this moralized system: The economic elite are smarter, better, more sophisticated — therefore, the people at the bottom are uneducated, lazy, etc.
In a history of racism and colonialism, this is served up to you on a platter. That’s Jim Crow, that’s racism, that’s a lot of this immigration story.
Another real problem in that code is that we start making exceptions to our values, exceptions to the society that we want to live in.
All of a sudden, we now have a paramilitary force that thinks they don’t need judicial warrants, so you don’t get due process.
We create this blackbox system where you can just point a finger — again, like we saw with Jim Crow — and accuse someone of something. If you think that once you build that machine that it’s reserved for that, think again.
These things eat profit. It’s not just ICE. It’s CoreCivic, it’s GEO Group. These are corporations that run ICE detention centers. They are for-profit. They are traded on Wall Street.
And what happens is that this system does not accept anything but growth.
It’s not enough to be profitable — you have to keep growing those profits.
And so once they’ve rounded up every “illegal” person in this country, who do you think is next?
Donald Trump wants you to believe that this is who we are as a country. We are here to say that it is not.
We are a country that has fought and defeated the confederacy. That has defeated a history of civil rights violations, of secret police, of fascism. We can, and will, again.
Help us continue the fight with a grassroots contribution today.
In solidarity,
Alexandria
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Disciplined and Ruthless
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“Disciplined and ruthless.” Jason, that’s how the chairman of the RNC described their plan for a multimillion-dollar “election integrity” push ahead of this year’s midterms. They plan on hiring directors in 17 states to recruit poll workers, poll watchers, and election observers to be their eyes and ears on “every vote cast” on Election Day. This is building off the “success” of their 2024 operation, in which they recruited more than 230,000 volunteers in key states for poll watching, among other duties. Don’t let their branding fool you, this is the opposite of election integrity — it’s a direct threat to the security of our elections. Jason, Republicans know their agenda is historically unpopular and that Democrats’ winning streak this year could foreshadow a landslide in November. So they’re planning to have hawk eyes on the polls to ensure things go their way. Democrats are committed to making sure this doesn’t impact anybody’s ability to vote. We’re working around the clock across the country to organize, register voters in key states, and distribute resources to the campaigns and state parties that need them most. This voter suppression plan from the RNC doesn’t change anything. If you've stored your info with ActBlue, we'll process your contribution instantly. Thank you, The Democrats  If you gave recently via check or mail, our system may not have yet processed your gift. We are appreciative and thank you greatly for your support. Text JOIN to 43367 Manage how often you receive DNC emails by filling out this form. If you no longer wish to receive emails from the DNC, submit this form to unsubscribe. If you're ready to elect Democrats in all 50 states, territories, and D.C., make a contribution today. Contributions or gifts to the Democratic National Committee are not tax deductible. Paid for by the Democratic National Committee, www.Democrats.org, and not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee. |
Jason, we’re not sending this email to everyone
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Jason, we’re not sending this email to everyone — we’re reaching out to you specifically today because you stood out. You’re one of our top grassroots supporters. You’ve been getting emails from us for a while, staying up to date on the DNC’s work to win the midterms this year. We appreciate your dedication to helping our country. Today, we’re asking you to take the next step and chip in $7 to the DNC. But first, let us explain why: This year, Democrats have a real chance to flip the House and the Senate and put a massive check on the Trump administration. We’re already scaling up our work to win races up and down the ballot, but we need your help. Thanks to the support of our grassroots donors this year, we’ve been able to register thousands of new Democrats in key battleground states, continue organizing nationwide to reach as many voters as we can, and funnel resources to state parties to help them win down-ballot races everywhere. But Jason, we’re not slowing down. In fact, we’re scaling up. That’s why we need your help. If you've stored your info with ActBlue, we'll process your contribution instantly. We appreciate your support, The Democrats  If you gave recently via check or mail, our system may not have yet processed your gift. We are appreciative and thank you greatly for your support. Text JOIN to 43367 Manage how often you receive DNC emails by filling out this form. If you no longer wish to receive emails from the DNC, submit this form to unsubscribe. If you're ready to elect Democrats in all 50 states, territories, and D.C., make a contribution today. Contributions or gifts to the Democratic National Committee are not tax deductible. Paid for by the Democratic National Committee, www.Democrats.org, and not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee. |