 | Joe Biden has more than enough aviators. So, this holiday season, I want to send him something a little different — and I need your help to do it.
I've worked with VP Biden long enough to know what truly matters to him is treating others with dignity and respect.
And so, to honor that spirit and celebrate all our great work together this year, I want this whole team, especially folks like you in Virginia, to sign this holiday card for the VP and Dr. Biden >>
Together, we accomplished so much over the past 12 months — 81 candidates we endorsed won their races. And that success was driven by people like you. Every endorsed candidate, every exceptional leader, started with a recommendation from a supporter — someone like Rochelle in Pennsylvania and Steve in Illinois and Jaime in Arizona.
So I just want to celebrate a great 2018, acknowledge the promise of what we can accomplish together in the months to come — and while we're at it, take a moment to do something nice for the Bidens.
All I need is a few minutes of your time and a couple of clicks!
Here's the link to sign:
https://go.americanpossibilities.org/sign-the-card
Thanks for standing with us this year!
Merry Christmas and happy holidays,
Greg Schultz
Executive Director
American Possibilities | | |
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| | Folks,
We now know enough about the results of this election to begin to learn a little bit from it. And as far as I'm concerned, there are three big lessons that we all need to appreciate.
But it's worth taking a moment to remind ourselves what really happened. In the House of Representatives, we won 60 million total votes (the most in any midterm ever) and likely picked up 40 seats (the most for Democrats since Watergate). We flipped governor's mansions and legislative chambers. Because of our work, we are going to expand Medicaid in five states.
And this team played a direct and consequential role. We endorsed 133 candidates and won 81 races.
Three big lessons:
Lesson one. The first and most important lesson we should internalize is that we can accomplish big, important things if we stick together. Now the real work begins. Will you chip in $3 and keep our momentum going into a new year — where there will be more races to win and fights we need to have?
Lesson two. If we want to create our best chance to win future elections, we need to compete in every corner of the map. Come January, when that new Congress gets sworn in, 31 different lawmakers will represent districts that President Trump carried two years ago. We simply wouldn't be in a position to take back power if we hadn't taken the fight to every part of the country and shown the courage to compete on rough terrain.
Lesson three. We have to stay focused. The President spent the final weeks of the campaign trying to make the election about a caravan of desperate families who were slowly making their way to our border to begin the legal process of applying for asylum. The news media gave the issue wall-to-wall coverage. But our candidates didn't blink. They stayed focused on the issue that ultimately defined this election — health care — and voters rewarded them for it.
Folks, if we can do these three things — stick together, fight everywhere, and stay focused — I'm convinced we can build on the success of the 2018 election in the months to come. We can build a real governing majority that is able to deliver meaningful progress on the things we value. We can tackle the challenges ahead of us — climate change, inequality, and the corrosion of our nation's democratic institutions.
But not if we let up now. Impressive as last month's victory was, we can't allow ourselves to feel satisfied or complacent.
So let's keep moving, folks. Donate $3 right now:
https://go.americanpossibilities.org/your-support
Thanks,
Joe | | |
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