MoveOn under attack by Donald Trump

MoceOn.org
May 3, 2016


Over the past few months, as Donald Trump has campaigned from city to city, MoveOn members have turned out for peaceful demonstrations against his carnival of hate.
In response, Trump attacked us in the media, calling MoveOn members "not a good group of people," while his media surrogates explicitly blamed MoveOn for violence he incited at rallies.

That's when things started getting ugly.
We've been flooded with hate mail, spam, and personal threats to our staff and on-line security.
We won't back down from Trump.

Over the years, MoveOn has gone head to head against everyone from Dick Cheney to Sarah Palin to the Koch brothers.
But what we're seeing from Trump and his supporters is something different -- and scary.

We've all seen the videos of Trump supporters punching and shoving protesters - as well as Trump's explicit statements encouraging violence.
What the public doesn't see is the avalanche of threats that come in through e-mail and social media.
It's more hate mail of a more vicious nature than we received even when we took on the NRA or helped take down the Confederate Flag.
It's frightening!

The Trump strategy is clear: He picks a target, denounces them, and then tries to bully them into silence.
It's what he's done to Muslims, women, immigrants, reporters, people with disabilities - and now he's trying to do it to MoveOn.

But we won't back down.
MoveOn has already began taking on Trump's hate by providing support for peaceful protesters outside his rallies, by exposing how Trump incites violence, and by joining with leaders of civil rights, economic justice, women's rights, labor, immigrant rights, environmental, veterans and community organizations to launch a major initiative to stand up to trump's hate.

But this is going to be one of the hardest-fought elections we've ever seen.
It's also one of the most important: a fight for the heart and soul of America.



Ann Lewis
Chief Technology Officer at MoveOn.org

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