Dear john,

Did you know we have just over 100 days to go until the election?

That’s why you’re hearing from us today: we’re activating our members to get out the vote and make sure every union brother, sister, and sibling makes their voice heard in November.

The labor movement is stronger than ever, and if we want to keep the gains we’ve won over the past few years we need to hit the ground running and bring that union energy to our election effort.

That means we have just three months to elect pro-worker candidates up and down the ballot who will put working families first and fight back against corporate greed.

Let’s go!

The AFL-CIO unanimously endorsed Vice President Harris last night, and we are ready to fight with all we have to ensure another four years of putting working people first.

As the most pro-union president in history, we are eternally grateful to President Biden for fighting for working people at every turn during his tenure. We know that Vice President Harris has played an instrumental role in the Administration’s pro-worker efforts and will build upon it as president.

This election isn’t just about who is at the top of the ticket: we’ve got a full list of labor-endorsed candidates all across Texas who will fight for working people in Congress and the Texas Legislature. Read it here.

In the race for the presidency, the contrast couldn’t be more stark: Trump is transparently attempting to win over workers by claiming that Republicans are the party of the working class – despite their decades-long record of ignoring the needs of working people and instead empowering greedy corporations at every turn.

It’s not just the party’s record. Both Trump and his billionaire-funded VP pick J.D. Vance support Project 2025, a blueprint for a second Trump administration that would roll back decades of progress and turn our democracy into a dictatorship. It would destroy everything the labor movement has fought for for decades. It proposes:

• Banning unions for public service workers (page 82).

• Firing civil service workers and replacing them with Trump anti-union loyalists (page 80).

• Letting bosses eliminate unions mid-contract (page 603).

• Letting companies stop paying overtime (page 592) and allowing states to opt out of federal overtime and minimum wage laws (page 605).

• Eliminating child labor protections (page 595).

• Urging Congress to pass Vance’s bill to let employers create their own sham company-run unions (page 599).

Here in Texas, we’re all too familiar with these kinds of anti-worker attacks. Texas has been a laboratory for them for decades, and Project 2025 would take that to the national level. We can’t let that happen.

We have to educate our members about the existential threat Project 2025 poses to our movement and our livelihoods. You can learn every one of its harmful anti-worker policies here in the AFL-CIO’s new comprehensive tool.

Have you seen our governor? Speaking of the RNC Convention, Gov. Abbott was in Wisconsin pushing his anti-worker agenda on the national stage — while thousands of Texans were still without power in the sweltering heat. This was just days after he returned from galavanting about in Asia during Hurricane Beryl. It seems he cares more about auditioning for his next job than doing the one he was elected to do.

As we get closer to the election, we’ll be organizing mobilization efforts like phone banks, text banks, and block walks, so make sure you keep opening this email to stay updated.

Thanks for reading, y’all! We have just over 100 days to mobilize the hell out of every union member we know to ensure our hard-fought victories stay intact. Let’s get to it!

In Solidarity,

Team Texas AFL-CIO