I remember the day after the 2016 election with dazzling clarity. After not sleeping, I walked into the Daily Kos office and began gaming out what a Donald Trump presidency would look like—and what our response should be to anything he leveled at us.
Then the Daily Kos community told me exactly what you wanted and expected.
In the hours, days, weeks, months, and now years since that day, you made it clear that our role is to fix our floundering democracy, protect frontline communities, defend the rule of law, and, yes, impeach the m*th*rf*ck*r.
Finally, in the shadow of repeated abuses of power and betrayals of his oath of office, House Democrats have made the case for the impeachment of Donald Trump. However, despite bombshell testimony from multiple witnesses, mountains of evidence, and an admission of guilt from Trump and his staff, our work still isn't done.
Trump's Republican co-conspirators in Congress—aided by Fox News, Sinclair Broadcasting, and Facebook—are doing everything they can to protect their king.
To impeach, convict, and remove Trump from office, we'll have to campaign harder than we ever have before.
That's why Daily Kos has committed to buying billboards, running digital ads, and—if we can raise $66,000 by next week—investing in field organizers to increase pressure on key Republican senators.
This is the largest campaign in Daily Kos history, and we need your help to make it happen. Please chip in $5 to help impeach, convict, and remove Trump from office.
Even if you can’t chip in today, please join us the night before the House of Representatives takes a vote to impeach Trump to declare that Nobody Is Above the Law as representatives finalize their positions and senators look on.
(Note: New events are still being added. If you don’t want to host and don’t see an event near you, check the link again later.)
We expect the House of Representatives to vote on the articles of impeachment next week, in a mostly party-line split (because Republicans are cowards and/or support authoritarianism). The next step will be a trial in the Senate, with U.S. senators as the jurors.
We’ll be heading directly into the backyards of vulnerable Republican senators facing tough reelections in 2020, including Susan Collins in Maine, Cory Gardner in Colorado, Mitch McConnell in Kentucky, and Martha McSally in Arizona. We also will not let up on Republican senators that have been critical of Trump's actions, including Lisa Murkowski in Alaska and Mitt Romney in Utah.
We’ll target them with moving billboards, digital ads, field work, rallies, phone calls, letters: everything we have in our toolbox (and a few things we don’t currently have but are working with partners to make happen).
This is a risk. When we set our budget for 2019, we didn't expect this level of urgency. However, Republican intransigence has made it clear that nothing less than everything we've got will be enough to hold Trump accountable. And if I'm being honest, even that might not be enough.
Here's the thing: When Brett Kavanaugh was seated on the Supreme Court, I was angry and devastated. But I knew that we'd done everything we could to stop him. If Trump remains in office, I want to make sure it wasn’t because we didn't give everything we had to the fight to remove him.
As the largest progressive media and activism company in the country, Daily Kos is uniquely set up to challenge right-wing outlets and make sure the public knows the truth about Trump, his attempt to bribe Ukraine, and how willing Republicans are to sell out the country. However, as a grassroots-supported organization, we can only go as far as you will take us.
So help us make sure we don’t leave anything on the table. Chip in $5 to help us roll out moving billboards, run digital ads and, if we reach our $66,000 goal, hire field organizers in critical states.
Also, please join us the night before the House of Representatives takes a vote to impeach Trump to declare that Nobody Is Above the Law, as representatives finalize their positions and senators look on.
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