Friend, I'm Megan Matson, a longtime supporter of The Lincoln Project like you. I've also joined the Board of Directors because I believe in our shared cause. In the future, you can expect to hear more from me about our organizing work – I've been helping fine-tune what we're doing internally and bringing our volunteer capacity to bear where it is needed most as a volunteer with The Union.

I love America – our country – and our Constitutional freedoms. You have heard a lot about Roe v. Wade this week. What you may not know is that it delivered to “we the people'' in a clear voice, the individual and fundamental right to privacy – our personal freedom to live, love, marry and procreate without government interference. Every single one of us.

In a series of Supreme Court Cases, the Court has long recognized that a right of personal privacy, or a guarantee of certain areas or zones of privacy, does exist under the Constitution’s 9th and 14th Amendments.

From Washington, DC we have news that the Supreme Court may be taking all of our rights back almost half a century, and signaling to state politicians that our homes are open range for their knocks at the door and their prying eyes. 

I don’t think privacy is just a women's issue – it’s an American issue. Our freedom from the overreach of a blundering state must be constantly tended. But now these maligned forces of heavy government control are in ascension. Now the women, the men, and the families of America will be subordinated in their most private affairs to the politicians deciding what goes on inside their homes, their bodies, their lives.

This move toward big government intrusion didn’t start here, and won’t end here. From Don’t Say Gay bills to snitch laws and banned history books, an attack on the individual rights and freedoms of any of us is an attack on all of us. There are forces amassing to move against settled individual Constitutional freedoms to live, speak, think, marry and procreate without seeking permission from us or our elected representatives. At the same time, those very politicians keep moving against the voting rights that would make them answer for these attacks. Now is the time – and we are the people – to stop the madness and end the assault on the Constitution. That is why I joined the Board of The Lincoln Project and why I am writing to you to get involved and stay involved until Election Day. 

The Lincoln Project is not a policy organization. We are a “democracy organization” with clarity of purpose and great determination to preserve, protect and defend American Constitutional Democracy against its enemies. The enemies of freedom and privacy are organized, well-funded and heavily engaged. We must not take anything for granted when defending our liberties. 

The fight for democracy in 2022, 2024, and beyond is this fight. I’m glad you’re with us in it.

-Megan Matson

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