John,

This week, I earned the distinct honor of receiving a vile shoutout from Tucker Carlson on FOX News.

On Thursday, I was proud to introduce the Judiciary Act of 2021, which will re-balance the Supreme Court by adding four seats after the GOP packed it with a 6-3, far-right majority that is hostile to our democracy.

I assume that you don’t watch FOX News, but I wanted to take the opportunity to set the record straight here.

First, Tucker Carlson claimed that, despite being a Member of Congress, working in the Obama Justice Department, and graduating Stanford and Harvard Law School after growing up in poverty, I have “produced essentially nothing” — and that nothing about the Supreme Court “is real” to me.

That couldn’t be further from the truth. As an openly gay, Black man who was raised by a single mom in Section 8 housing and on food stamps, I know exactly what’s at stake if we fail to unrig our democracy. I’ve gone without health insurance. Every June, I await the Supreme Court’s decisions to see whether my basic human rights are affirmed or denied.

Unlike Tucker Carlson, a racist, trust fund kid, I know what it’s like to succeed in spite of the odds. Tell me again that this isn’t “real” to me.

Then Tucker aired a video from this campaign about court expansion and suggested it was “too well-made” for my campaign to be funded by grassroots supporters, and that I must have corporate PACs bankrolling our movement. That couldn’t be further from the truth — I’ve never accepted corporate PAC money a day in my life, and I never will.

I need your help countering Tucker’s lies. Can you make a contribution to my campaign here?

Once he stopped hurling personal insults at our movement, Tucker called us “brazen hypocrites” who want to “wreck” the Supreme Court.

In reality, we’re fighting to expand the Court because Republicans already wrecked it. They stonewalled President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland for a year, then rammed through Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation just days before the last Presidential election.

Tucker Carlson can point fingers at this movement all he wants. The only way Republicans can hold on to power is if we let them get away with their brazen power grabs over the last several years.

We must unpack and restore balance to the Supreme Court by passing the Judiciary Act. If we fail to do so, we risk losing decades of progress and losing even more power to white supremacists like Tucker Carlson and his following in the Republican Party.

So stay mad, Tucker. Our movement is just getting started.

Onward,
Mondaire

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