Dear MoveOn member,
The committee investigating the January 6 insurrection has just released stunning video footage of longtime Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone two months before January 6 describing how Trump would use violence to overturn the election results.
"F*ck the voting. Let's get right to the violence," Stone says in the video.1
The footage also shows Stone describing how Trump would use phony claims of voter fraud to throw out election results and declare himself the winner.
It's among the clearest evidence yet that the January 6 attack was planned in advance with the knowledge of Trump and those closest to him. But more importantly, it's a warning about how far Trump will go in 2024 to regain power.
In fact, Trump's next attempted coup is already underway. In battleground states all over the country, Trump-aligned Big Lie election deniers are running for secretary of state, the key position that oversees our elections, counts votes, and certifies the results.2 If these Trump cronies win, the legitimacy of the 2024 election will be in serious danger.
That's why MoveOn is alerting voters about these Big Lie election deniers—with targeted ads, texts, phone calls, mailers, social media, and more. But with just one month left before Election Day, we've fallen behind our fundraising goals, and we need MoveOn members to chip in right now to make sure we don't have to scale back our plans.
Will you chip in $3 to help defend our democracy and stop Trump from stealing the 2024 election?
As a MoveOn member, you've probably heard about the Trump-backed candidates for secretary of state around the country.
But most Americans haven't.
Historically, elections for secretaries of state have tended to be low-profile races with relatively little controversy. As a result, the media tend not to pay much attention.
But this year, Trump allies—including white supremacists who were present at the January 6 insurrection and those who claim the 2020 election was stolen—are running to take over our elections in Nevada, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.3
If they win, they will have the power to shut down polling places, purge voter lists, and declare Trump the winner in 2024 no matter who actually got the most votes.
So earlier this year, we made a big decision: For the first time in our history, MoveOn announced endorsements in secretary of state races and a multimillion-dollar campaign to stop Trump's allies from taking over our elections.
However, we've now fallen significantly behind our fundraising goals, and if we aren't able to close that gap, we may have to scale back our plans.
Roger Stone founded "Stop the Steal" and has been one of Donald Trump's closest political advisers for years, working as a lobbyist for Trump's casinos in the 1990s.4
He worked on Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, orchestrating a massive disinformation effort through hundreds of fake Facebook accounts.5 In 2019, Stone was convicted on a series of charges related to the Mueller investigation but was later pardoned by Trump.6
And today, Stone remains one of Trump's closest allies and supporters. That's why the video footage of Stone promising violence in the run-up to the 2020 election is so chilling.
Thanks for all you do.
–Chris, Elsie, Jenn, Tzyh, and the rest of the team
Sources:
1. "'Let's get right to the violence': New documentary film footage shows Roger Stone pre-Election Day," CNN, September 27, 2022
https://act.moveon.org/go/168731?t=5&akid=335200%2E53570607%2Ex_xwzK
2. "Campaigning to Oversee Elections, While Denying the Last One," The New York Times, January 30, 2022
https://act.moveon.org/go/160255?t=7&akid=335200%2E53570607%2Ex_xwzK
3. "Election Deniers in Secretary of State Races," States United Democracy Center, October 1, 2022
https://act.moveon.org/go/168732?t=9&akid=335200%2E53570607%2Ex_xwzK
4. "Take my party, please," CNN, September 20, 1999
https://act.moveon.org/go/168733?t=11&akid=335200%2E53570607%2Ex_xwzK
5. "Facebook Removes Roger Stone for Ties to Fake Accounts," The New York Times, July 10, 2020
https://act.moveon.org/go/168734?t=13&akid=335200%2E53570607%2Ex_xwzK
6. "Trump Pardons Roger Stone, Paul Manafort And Charles Kushner," NPR, December 23, 2020
https://act.moveon.org/go/168735?t=15&akid=335200%2E53570607%2Ex_xwzK
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