Dear MoveOn member,
CNN has released a series of shocking text messages exchanged between
Republican Senator Mike Lee and Mark Meadows, Trump's White House chief of
staff, in the lead-up to the January 6 insurrection.^1
In the previously unknown exchange, Lee offers Meadows advice regarding
Trump's effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election, urging the
White House to "stay strong and keep fighting."^2 That's right: A sitting
U.S. senator was encouraging Trump to overthrow the U.S. government.
John, the Republican Party and the far right are hell-bent on
ending U.S. democracy and installing Trump back in the White House by any
means necessary.
As you read this, Trump is enacting a plot to install his lackeys to key
offices across the country that oversee the counting of ballots and will
be responsible for certifying the results of the 2024 presidential
election.
But we won't let them. That's why MoveOn made the unprecedented decision
to invest millions of dollars in a campaign to defeat Trump's candidates
for these positions and elect people who will protect our rights and count
every vote.
Together, MoveOn members have already invested more than $1.5 million to
help defeat MAGA candidates who are running to oversee elections.
Can you chip in $5 a month to continue powering the effort
to defeat Trump-backed candidates and protect democracy?
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The damning messages between Lee and Meadows come on the heels of the
release by The Washington Post and CBS News of dozens of text messages
between the Trump White House and Ginni Thomas, a far-right activist and
the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in which Thomas urges
Trump's staff to overturn the 2020 election.^3
In one exchange, Lee pressures Meadows to bring on right-wing lawyer John
Eastman as the chief legal architect of the effort to overturn the
election.^4
Just last month, a federal judge said that Eastman may have been planning
a crime with Trump as they sought to disrupt the congressional
certification of the presidential election on January 6. The federal judge
called Trump and Eastman's actions "a coup in search of a legal theory."^5
The Republican Party is attempting to plunge our nation into the depths of
authoritarianism. We cannot let them get away with it.
And that is why MoveOn made the decision, for the first time in its
23-year history, to invest millions in an effort to defeat Trump's chosen
candidates for secretary of state.
MoveOn members have stepped up to support this democracy-saving work, and
we need you to continue to do so until the last election is called this
November.
Join us and chip in $5 a month now.
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Thanks for all you do.
–David, Jennifer, Nita, Cheryl, and the rest of the team
Sources:
1. "CNN Exclusive: 'We need ammo. We need fraud examples. We need it this
weekend.' What the Meadows texts reveal about how two Trump congressional
allies lobbied the White House to overturn the election." CNN, April 15,
2022
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2. Ibid.
3. "First on CNN: January 6 committee has text messages between Ginni
Thomas and Mark Meadows," CNN, March 25, 2022
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4. Ibid.
5. "CNN Exclusive: 'We need ammo. We need fraud examples. We need it this
weekend.' What the Meadows texts reveal about how two Trump congressional
allies lobbied the White House to overturn the election." CNN, April 15,
2022
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