Dear MoveOn member,
Here's the breakthrough we've been waiting for: On Friday, former White House counsel Pat Cipollone will testify before the congressional committee investigating the January 6 insurrection.1 Finally.
The big news comes on the heels of White House insider Cassidy Hutchinson's smoking-gun testimony last week.2
The January 6 committee is showing in no uncertain terms that Donald Trump and his white supremacist MAGA allies planned, promoted, and led a criminal conspiracy to try to overthrow the U.S. government—and are now actively working to stop witnesses from testifying about it.3
Meanwhile, before our very eyes, Trump and his MAGA allies are putting in place the pieces necessary to attempt a second coup in 2024. Their plan centers around installing Trump lackeys into offices that oversee elections in battleground states.4 And time is running out to stop it.
That's why MoveOn is doing something unlike any other campaign in our 23-year history: running a multimillion-dollar effort to support state-level candidates who, with our collective help, can defeat MAGA candidates and stop Trump's coup. And after Hutchinson's explosive testimony last Tuesday, it's more urgent than ever.
Will you chip in $5 a month to stop the Trump coup and elect state officials who will safeguard our democracy and count every vote?
No, I'm sorry, I can't make a monthly donation.
Cassidy Hutchinson was in close proximity to Trump in the days leading up to January 6, and her testimony was explosive. She testified that:
- Trump knew his supporters were armed to the teeth with AR-15s, Glock pistols, and even spears fastened on the end of flag poles. She recounted Trump saying, "I don't f---ing care that they have weapons. They're not here to hurt me."5
- Trump gave orders to allow his supporters to keep their weapons. Trump ordered, "Take the effing mags [magnetic metal detectors] away. Let my people in!"6
- Trump tried to lead the armed march to the Capitol—going so far as to assault a Secret Service agent who forced him to go back to the White House, saying, "I'm the f--ing president. Take me up to the Capitol now."7
Andra, we cannot let anyone who was involved in the deadly Capitol insurrection, or those who have spent the last 18 months parroting Trump's lies about it, run our government. Our democracy hangs in the balance.
But Trump's current coup plot is well underway. His plan is to install his cronies as governors and secretaries of state, since these are the officials who oversee voter registration, certify election winners and losers, and are even empowered to throw out ballots.8 When the 2024 presidential election comes, these loyalists will ensure Trump is declared the winner—no matter the true will of the voters.
Steve Bannon said it outright: "We're taking over all the elections."9
That's why MoveOn is investing $30 million—the biggest midterm election investment in our history—in order to stop Trump's white supremacist coup.
But as a grassroots organization, our money comes from you, Andra. Will you chip in $5 a month to help defeat MAGA candidates and elect secretaries of state and governors who will defend our democracy and count every vote?
No, I'm sorry, I can't make a monthly donation.
Thanks for all you do.
–Chris, Alexis, Allison, Cheryl, and the rest of the team
Sources:
1. "Former White House counsel Cipollone to testify before Jan. 6 committee," The Washington Post, July 6, 2020
https://act.moveon.org/go/164079?t=6&akid=327369%2E53570607%2Ei6JpS2
2. "Cassidy Hutchinson's Testimony Should Be the End of Donald Trump," The New Yorker, June 28, 2022
https://act.moveon.org/go/164042?t=8&akid=327369%2E53570607%2Ei6JpS2
3. "Trump's had bad moments, but few worse than Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony," The Washington Post, June 28, 2022
https://act.moveon.org/go/164043?t=10&akid=327369%2E53570607%2Ei6JpS2
4. "Election deniers want to control the 2024 election. And they're getting closer," CNN, May 24, 2022
https://act.moveon.org/go/164044?t=12&akid=327369%2E53570607%2Ei6JpS2
5. "A Withering Indictment of the Entire GOP," The Atlantic, June 29, 2022
https://act.moveon.org/go/164040?t=14&akid=327369%2E53570607%2Ei6JpS2
6. Ibid.
7. "Cassidy Hutchinson's Testimony Should Be the End of Donald Trump," The New Yorker, June 28, 2022
https://act.moveon.org/go/164042?t=16&akid=327369%2E53570607%2Ei6JpS2
8. "Trump-Backed Secretaries of State Could Flip the 2024 Election," New York, February 17, 2022
https://act.moveon.org/go/162166?t=18&akid=327369%2E53570607%2Ei6JpS2
9. "Trump allies are angling for election jobs up and down the ballot. That could have consequences in 2024," CNN, December 6, 2021
https://act.moveon.org/go/164045?t=20&akid=327369%2E53570607%2Ei6JpS2
Want to support MoveOn's work? Donald Trump and his allies are methodically enacting a plan to place some of Trump's most ardent supporters in key election offices that oversee vote counting, have the power to certify—or decertify—election results, and declare election winners and losers. We've launched a powerful, multimillion-dollar campaign to stop Trump. But we need your help to power our effort.
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