Two lessons

During a crisis, the door to change opens just a crack. What had been impossible becomes hard-but-maybe-possible. That's the moment to fight with everything you've got.

Danielle, During the fight to create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, I learned two important lessons. The first lesson was that you don't get what you don't fight for. The agency didn't happen because it was a really good idea. It happened because we fought for it. The second lesson I learned was that during a crisis, the door to change opens just a crack. What had been impossible becomes hard-but-maybe-possible. That's the moment to fight with everything you've got. I'm not naïve. I know that the headwinds will always be fierce and that change will always be hard. But a crisis like the pandemic in 2020 shakes up the embedded order. In a crisis, people are forced to stop saying "this is how it's always been" and consider a new thought: "this is how it should be." The decisions we make in the next few months — on infrastructure, on taxes, on voting rights, and more — will set the course of our country for decades to come. Now is the time to raise our voices. Now is the time to fight. Warren Democrats is working to elect more progressive leaders across the country who will fight to level the playing field for working people. If you're able to, please chip in $15 or whatever makes sense right now to help hit our end-of-month fundraising goal and make sure we can keep up the fight. If you've saved payment info with ActBlue Express, your donation will process automatically: DONATE NOW: $15 DONATE NOW: $28 DONATE NOW: $50 DONATE NOW: $100 DONATE NOW: $250 OTHER AMOUNT > After four disastrous years, the election of 2020 was another one of those moments when the door to change opened. And what made change possible? An enormous, vital, incredibly powerful force: voters. Turnout for the election was huge. Two-thirds of America's eligible population voted in 2020, the highest percentage in more than a century. An estimated twenty million new voters turned out. Millions of young people voted. Millions of people of color voted. It was a massive outpouring of faith in the idea that voters — not a group of rich, distant power brokers — controlled this country. And that puts us at this pivotal moment in history. The four corrupt and shocking years of Donald Trump's presidency were topped off by a pandemic, an economic collapse, a national demand for racial justice, and a violent insurrection. Now we have a once-in-a-generation chance to build something new, to shake off who we were and decide who we want to become. This remarkable moment is an opportunity for change, but not a guarantee that it will happen. Because you don't get what you don't fight for. We can't let this moment go by without taking bold steps forward for working people across the country. We can reimagine our tax code. We can pass Universal Child Care. We can cancel student loan debt. We can end the filibuster. But first, we must fight. If you can, will you make a donation today to help power this fight? Monday is our big end-of-month fundraising deadline — and your support would go a long way to help hit this goal. Thanks for being a part of this, Elizabeth   Our next big fundraising deadline is coming up this Monday. Grassroots donors like you are powering the fight for big, structural change. If you can, will you chip in $15 or whatever makes sense right now to help re-elect Elizabeth and put more Warren Democrats in office across the country?   DONATE NOW Paid for by Warren Democrats All content © 2021 Warren Democrats, All Rights Reserved PO Box 171375, Boston, MA 02117 This email was sent to danielle.davenport.blog@blogger.com We'll miss you, but you can always unsubscribe.