The NRA just put out another extremely disturbing video threatening violence against progressives -- and we need to step up our organizing to stop them.
This latest video, which you can see here, again features conservative TV host Dana Loesch. This time, she claims "we are witnesses to the most ruthless attack on a president and the people who voted for him...in American history." (Which is absurd, especially considering that slaveowners in the South responded to Abraham Lincoln and the people who voted for him by provoking a civil war.)
By suggesting Trump is facing violent opposition, she justifies violence toward Trump's opponents. She literally says "they will perish in the political flames of their own fires."
Coming just weeks after a white terrorist killed more than 50 people in Las Vegas using guns the NRA is determined to keep legal, this threat is particularly chilling. The NRA is openly encouraging political violence. We have to stand up to them.
Will you show the NRA that we're not going to stand for their threats? Chip in $3 or more to help DFA defeat NRA-backed candidates in Virginia on November 7 across the country in 2018?
This latest NRA ad has sent chills down the spines of progressives across the country. Splinter News called it the NRA's "most deranged yet."
Bree Newsome put it best when she explained "There's no mention of rifles or gun rights in this ad. This is basically the NRA acknowledging that they're a white supremacist lobby org."
And that's what's at the heart of today's NRA. They're not even primarily interested in guns any more. Instead, they use guns as a tool in their increasingly violent and unhinged promotion of white supremacy, a fight against progressives and anyone not lockstep with Trump's bigoted agenda.
But the other crucial tool of the NRA is money. Right now, they're spending big on the elections in Virginia, pouring money into campaigns against progressive Democrats. DFA members have been hitting the phones to contact voters ahead of next month's elections.
These are very close races in a key swing state. If we win, we'll show the NRA that they can be defeated. Not with violence, but with grassroots organizing. Can you help us defeat the NRA?
DFA has helped candidates defeat the NRA on numerous occasions. This ad makes it clear we have an urgent need to do so again. Chip in $3 or more to help DFA elect candidates in Virginia in 2017 and across the country in 2018 who will resist the NRA and their hateful, violent threats.
Thank you for helping DFA take on the NRA.
- Robert
Robert Cruickshank, Senior Campaign Manager
Democracy for America