Friend, 

Last week we released our ad “Back to School” calling out Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for endangering the lives of school children with their anti-vax, anti-mask COVID conspiracies.

Since then, you’d like to think they figured it out and decided to put our kids’ safety before their partisan propaganda campaign. 

Remember this? “Florida got it right, and the lockdown states got it wrong.”

Yeah, right. They doubled down. You already know Abbott immediately rallied his team of mob-mouthpieces to attack the Lincoln Project and fundraise off our ad. Ron DeSantis? Still spewing lives while Floridians die, and now he’s facing the heat. 

5,600 kids in Tampa are quarantined right now. It’s an entire district. Rates are soaring.

DeSantis is still putting the talking points of Trump loyalists and far-right talking heads before the needs of Floridians. He’s met with Sean Hannity more times this term than he’s met with his own Lieutenant Governor. He’s held multiple meetings with Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, and Hannity before he’s had one meeting with Florida’s top public health official. 

You know how Fox News keeps having people on saying “I’m not a doctor, but… (insert anti-vax garbage)”... well, we’re not doctors either, but Fox News is killing people.

And while DeSantis is going to war to prevent Florida’s public schools from instituting mask mandates that we know save lives, the school he sent his kids, of course, has a mask mandate.

This hypocrisy is now the platform of the new “GOP.” It’s more of the same. Secretly vaccinated Republican Congresspeople applauding low vaccination rates. Sowing distrust in health officials and chaos in our emergency rooms. Endangering lives of everyday American children while their own families skirt the risk in fancy private schools. 

While DeSantis is campaigning to be our next American dictator, Floridians are dying. And we’re not going to take it lying down. Watch our ad, share it widely, and pitch in any amount you can afford so we can get it in front of the voters who matter. 

The GOP is no longer a “Party.” This is no longer about politics. It’s about life and death and democracy and authoritarianism. 

– The Lincoln Project