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To: MoveOn
Please help the American people mobilize to resist a rising autocracy!
During the period of the Mueller investigation, MoveOn very successfully created and then mobilized "rapid response" teams of Americans to protest when a "triggering event" occurred, such as a threat by President Trump to interfere with the Mueller investigation or fire Mueller.
I am asking MoveOn to once again use its powerful megaphone and its organizing network to help Americans form "rapid response" teams and mobilize by the millions to defend our democracy in response to "triggering events" that are attacks on our bedrock constitutional principles and institutions. As individuals, we are terrified and isolated, and we struggle to achieve this kind of mobilization on our own, particularly because Facebook is not a safe and secure platform for political organizing of this kind. We need MoveOn to use its power and resources to help us take to the streets in unprecedented numbers and with unprecedented tenacity. Because only tenacious mobilization by the millions will be able to save our democracy from utter peril.
Why is this important?
We are entering an incredibly perilous time for our democracy. The signs of creeping authoritarianism, and indeed, fascism, are everywhere. Robert Reich has pointed out that anti-democratic leaders and forces control every branch of government. In the last several days, we had, 1. Trump order the firing of Vindman and his brother; 2. Trump boast that he did this in retaliation; 3. Trump tweet suggest that the military consider disciplining Vindman; 4. Trump influence the Justice Department to change a sentencing recommendation for a Trump friend; 5. 4 AUSAs resign over the politicization of DOJ; 6. Trump boast about his power over DOJ; and 7. Trump intimidate and threaten an Article III Judge. I may be missing more, but each one of these is, in my view, a "triggering event" that should prompt an immediate and vitally necessary response to defend our democracy.
As Masha Gessen teaches us, we cannot count on our institutions to save us. Instead, we must save them. There are no guardrails as our democracy careens toward the abyss, and we the people are the ultimate bulwark. The frog is nearly boiled, and the temperature is ratcheting up fast.
We need leaders who have the megaphone, the institutional clout, and the organizational heft to help us take to the streets. We need MoveOn to do the thing it has done so well in the past and for which it is so well-suited: mobilize us before it's too late!