Dear fellow MoveOn member,
Ten months of this malarky. It’s enough to make one scream, run stark naked in the streets, and mount a revolution!
Much has been revealed lately, both about Trump and the rot at the top of our system.
Trump’s attempted cover-up of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein has riveted the nation’s attention to the moral depravity of many rich and powerful men who raped children with impunity.
Trump’s celebration of the Saudi crown prince who ordered the brutal killing of a Washington Post reporter has shown the moral vacuity of the CEOs who flocked to the White House dinner to honor the prince because they want his investments.
Trump’s blatant threats against corporate media whose journalists ask him hard questions and whose comedians ridicule him—and media executives’ cowardly, obsequious responses to those threats—are exposing the dangers of giant media corporations controlling our access to information.
Trump’s wheeling and dealing with tech company oligarchs is revealing the cozy, incestuous ways wealth and power are concentrating in fewer and fewer hands.
Trump’s acceptance of gifts, bribes, payoffs, kickbacks, and perks from those seeking handouts shows how a demagogue cashes in on his power.
His awards of pardons, government contracts, regulatory exemptions, tax subsidies, and lower tariffs to those who bribe him reveal how an authoritarian builds power through favors.
His uses of criminal investigations, tax audits, regulatory enforcement, withholding of government funds, and vicious public smears exhibit how a neofascist punishes opponents.
None of this is entirely new to American politics, but it has never happened on this scale—or with this much shameless abandon.
It’s the essence of Trump and his neofascist regime.
But I believe we can prevent our democracy’s downfall, together. Research on other authoritarian regimes gives us the playbook we need to fight back.
According to researchers, "no government has withstood a challenge of 3.5% of their population mobilized against it during a peak event."1 3.5% of the population is 11 million Americans.
If we mobilize at this scale, the research shows we'll win. And we’re well on our way.
We went from 3 million people in the streets for the Hands Off! protests in April to 5 million for the first No Kings Day in June to 7 million in big cities, small towns, blue counties, and ruby-red districts in October in the largest single day of political protest in U.S. history.
MoveOn has a plan—using cutting-edge technology—to reach, train, support, organize, and communicate at a scale that is unparalleled in the progressive movement.
And that includes working with partners to plan another series of massive, powerful, nationwide No Kings protests. It won't be easy, but for the sake of our country's future, it must happen. And we need your help.
John will you join us by starting a monthly $5 donation to MoveOn to help build a powerful nationwide movement to strategically and effectively challenge Trump's worst actions and abuses? As a grassroots organization, MoveOn gets the resources and ability to do this work from us.
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Authoritarians throughout history have understood that their greatest enemy is an organized citizenry.
That's why they work so hard to make us feel isolated and powerless.
But we are not powerless when we stand together.
The path forward won't be easy. But I've seen the power of organized resistance before. More than 55 years ago, I participated in the movement against the Vietnam War—a movement that ultimately ended the war and caused a once-powerful president to resign.
Today, we will prevail because we are relearning that same basic truth: We are the leaders we've been waiting for.
Please, will you start a monthly $5 donation today to help MoveOn build the movement we need to strengthen our democracy against Trump's authoritarian assault?
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Thanks for all you do.
–Robert Reich
Source:
1. "Questions, Answers, and Some Cautionary Updates Regarding the 3.5% Rule," Harvard Kennedy School Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, April 2020
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr/publications/questions-answers-and-some-cautionary-updates-regarding-35-rule
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