I just got off the phone with my friends at MoveOn, and I was troubled by their news:
Though MoveOn is the best in the business at turning out, at scale, the specific voters needed to win close elections, donations to MoveOn are far below what is typical for them in an election year. Donations are down across the nonprofit sector, but I had assumed MoveOn would see a surge of support as the election approached.1
MoveOn is a grassroots organization, and its donations come from people like you and me chipping in what we can. So while Elon Musk and other billionaires are pouring record amounts of money into MAGA Super PACs and the Trump campaign, MoveOn’s facing a budget shortfall.2
This is worrying know many of us are tired of fighting Donald Trump. It’s been a very long nine years and four months since he descended the golden escalator at Trump Tower and first announced he was running for president.
But right now, right this moment, for the next 20 days, this is our opportunity to defeat Trump—and for good. Yes, for good! He’s 78 years old and already experiencing obvious cognitive decline. He will face major legal jeopardy if he loses.
And if he wins, our democracy and futures will be plunged into uncertainty. And we will need A LOT more energy to preserve what we can and stop Project 2025 from becoming our realities.
So what do you say Will you join me, if you can afford it, and start a weekly donation to help turn out voters in battleground states and districts? I’ll tell you next about their plan—and why it’s so strategic, effective, and critical to support.
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First, MoveOn is an organization with a long track record and that can reach voters that political campaigns or the Democratic Party cannot.
And MoveOn’s whole plan focuses on voters in battleground states who have progressive values but do not consistently vote, as well as progressive voters who are newly registered. These voters are at risk of staying home and not voting at all.
The “undecided voters” in this election aren’t deciding between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris; they’re deciding whether to vote at all.3 That is why MoveOn’s work is so important.
I know that you are receiving many requests for support. But I’m asking you to donate to MoveOn because they have the data savvy and expertise to identify these voters, engage them meaningfully, and convince them that their vote truly does matter. In 2022, MoveOn’s get-out-the-vote program resulted in 50,000 infrequent progressive voters casting a ballot in battleground districts, many of which were decided by a margin of just a few thousand votes.4
We simply must improve voter turnout in battleground states to win and make it possible to build an economy that enables everyone to thrive.
The recent, strong jobs report is another reminder that you don’t grow the economy through trickle-down economics. You grow it by investing in workers. When workers have more to spend, the economy grows, and businesses create more jobs. It’s a virtuous cycle.
But let’s be clear that virtue is the very last thing on Donald Trump’s and JD Vance’s minds. Trump recently said striking workers should be fired, which is illegal.5 He also said he “hated to give overtime” to his workers and wouldn’t pay it.6 Also illegal.
JD Vance is a former venture capitalist who took advantage of a tax loophole that almost exclusively benefits the super-rich.
Page 605 of Project 2025 calls for states to be able to opt out of federal labor laws, which could allow some states to have no minimum wage protections at all.7
Jeff, we have 20 days left. It’s going to take all of us to defeat Trump and the MAGA movement and elect Vice President Harris. Please, don’t have regrets.
Join me right now and start a weekly donation to MoveOn to help supercharge their work turning out infrequent progressive voters in battleground states and districts.
I know we can do this, together. And then we can get to work building a better country for all of us.
