Here is an email I received from Moveon.org.
Dear MoveOn member,
Last night, without consulting local police, Donald Trump abruptly cancelled a rally in Chicago in the face of massive and overwhelmingly peaceful student-led protests.1
Then he blamed MoveOn members for his decision, telling Fox News we must have "staged" the protests and that MoveOn is "not a good group of people."2 Fox News's coverage and other right-wing media have followed his lead—denouncing MoveOn "agitators" for ruining Trump's event. This morning, he called protestors "thugs."3
We're being flooded with aggressive emails and social media posts from Trump supporters. Some of them are threatening.
We refuse to be intimidated by Donald Trump, Fox News, or anyone else. We need to make sure the public at large understands what Trump is up to here—encouraging violence, looking for scapegoats, and then, perversely, trying to paint himself as the victim.
We need to double down on our work, showing that America is better than Trump's bullying, hate-baiting, and incitements to violence.
Will you chip in $3 to help our campaign?
Please stand with MoveOn right now by chipping in.
Let's be clear. Trump has been encouraging attacks on peaceful demonstrators for months.4 On stage at a rally in St. Louis yesterday morning, he called for "consequences" rather than "politically correct" handling of protesters.5
As Rachel Maddow pointed out, and as even the other Republican presidential candidates now seem to understand, Trump is deliberately inciting violence at his rallies.6
Now he's trying to pin the blame on MoveOn for the toxic atmosphere he's fueling.
Please stand with us with an emergency contribution of $3.
Yes, I'll chip in to help stand up to Trump's message of hate.
It's become increasingly clear in recent weeks that Donald Trump's rising fascist rhetoric poses a new and dangerous threat to our democracy. And now, MoveOn members are on the receiving end of his megaphone.
We're not backing down from our work to stand up against Trump, Fox, and the broader right wing that's seeking to divide our country. Not now. Not ever.
We must decisively reject Trump's fascist rhetoric and this rising tide of hatred.
We are committed to nonviolence, but we will not be silent. We will not be invisible.
So here's the plan: We'll support MoveOn members to call out and nonviolently protest Trump's racist, bigoted, misogynistic, xenophobic, and violent behavior—and show the world that America rejects Trump's hate.
And to keep it going, we're counting on you to donate whatever you can to cover the costs of everything involved—the organizers, signs, online recruitment ads, training, and more.
Will you chip in $3 to stand up to Trump?
Yes, I'll chip in right now to help out.
We've been ramping up our efforts for months—from the "We Are Better Than This" ad we helped organize in The New York Times in December, to our collective advocacy for refugees under attack from the GOP, to the support we provided students in Chicago last night by printing signs and a banner and recruiting MoveOn members to join their peaceful protest. We need to double-down in the face of direct attacks on our community.
Thanks for all you do.
–Victoria, Robert, Josh, Anna, and the rest of the team
Emphasis is mine.
Sadly it does not surprise me that Moveon is being threatened by some of Trump’s supporters. Trump has been inciting violence from his supporters since the very beginning.
Here is a statement on Moveon’s website about this incident.
Caution: the comments are full of Right Wing vitriol and most are very pro Trump!
I agree with Moveon, Trump is a clear and present danger to our Democratic Republic and to Humanity!
I remember originally being shocked at how popular Trump started becoming. I am past that point now, nothing shocks me anymore unfortunately. What has many of the American people come to that they can rally behind Trump so much?!?
This is truly a sad time in American history and will stain us for generations to come! Thanks to Trump and the other RW Republicans America is becoming the laughing stock of the civilized world.
We simply must stand together and put an end to the to the Republicans constant attempts to turn on racism and bigotry, and divide our country. They are all fascists and must be stopped!
This is a call to ALL Democrats to GOTV this year and vote Democrat up and down the ticket, all the way from local to national elections. Our very Democracy and America itself is at stake!!