I want to ask you something, and I need you to chip in $5 or $10 to Equal Opportunity Now at this link before you finish reading this email — because what I'm about to tell you is exactly why this organization exists.
Here's the truth about Washington that nobody in power wants to say out loud:
The system is working exactly as designed. Just not for you.
And now, with Donald Trump and his MAGA allies in power, it has gotten worse. Dramatically worse.
Think about what we've watched happen in just the last eighteen months.
The Department of Justice — turned into a weapon against Trump's political enemies. The free press — attacked, delegitimized, and frozen out. Elections — undermined at every turn, with new laws designed not to protect the vote but to restrict it. Independent oversight — gutted. Inspectors general — fired in the middle of the night. And Members of Congress — too many of them — standing by and letting it happen for their own political self preservation.
This is not what democracy looks like. This is what the slow death of democracy looks like.
I've spent my career fighting this. I have led the fight to ban stock trading by Members of Congress because I believe that when you serve the public, you serve the public — not your portfolio. I believe in term limits because I believe that power was never meant to be permanent, and that fresh voices and fresh accountability are the only antidote to the rot that sets in when the same people hold the same seats for decades. I've fought for transparency, for oversight, for a government that actually answers to the people it represents.
But here's what I've learned: You cannot reform a system that is actively working to prevent reform. You have to change who's in the room.
That is what Equal Opportunity Now is built to do.
We are going to find leaders who come to this fight without the baggage of decades in power. Leaders who haven't been compromised, who haven't been bought, who haven't forgotten why they wanted to serve in the first place. Leaders who will walk in the door on day one and fight for term limits, for ethics reform, for a government that works for the people — not the powerful.
Because here's the thing about democracy: It doesn't defend itself. It requires people who are willing to fight for it. Every single day. Against forces that are better funded, better organized, and more ruthless than anything we've faced before.
Will you chip in $5 or $10 to Equal Opportunity Now today to help us elect the leaders who will fight to restore honest, accountable government to this country?
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