Blog de Dunlap: “Great idea, but it'll never happen.”

Danielle, w hen I ran for president in 2020, we had a lot of plans.

Universal child care? We had a plan for that.

A minimum tax on giant corporations that were paying $0 in federal income taxes? There was a plan for that too.

Student debt cancellation? Oh, we definitely had a plan for that.

Each plan tackled a different piece of how the rules have been rigged against working people — but no matter which proposal we were talking about, some people had the same feedback over, and over, and over:

"Great idea, but it'll never happen."

Danielle, I was pretty used to it at that point. This is the same thing I was told when I went to Washington to talk about my idea for a government agency to protect consumers from financial scams (spoiler alert: We made the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau a reality).

I wasn't fazed, because here's the thing — these plans CAN happen, when we fight for them. This month, we passed a 15% minimum tax on giant corporations as part of the Inflation Reduction Act. And just last week, President Biden canceled student debt for tens of millions of Americans.

We keep proving the naysayers wrong. We keep showing what it looks like to make our government work for everyone, not just the wealthy and well-connected. It doesn't all happen overnight, but it gets done because we fought by side as a grassroots movement.

Danielle, we can continue making big, structural change like this. We can make a wealth tax, universal child care, and so much more possible. We just need to build our momentum, organize, and keep fighting side by side. So before our August fundraising deadline, can you pitch in $15 or anything you can to hit our goal and power our movement forward?

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Danielle, o nce you start talking about helping working people instead of ultra-wealthy corporations, plenty of critics will be quick to tell you what you can't do and what's not possible.

But these ideas are popular. In a democracy, that matters. And the more change we make, the more momentum we build — by showing we can use the power of government to transform people's lives.

We need to keep laying out bold plans, and here's the absolutely critical part: We need to be willing to fight for them.

I'm going to keep fighting with everything I've got — but nobody gets this done on their own. That's exactly why I launched Warren Democrats. To support and elect bold candidates across the country and up and down the ballot who share our vision for big, structural change.

And that's why I'm asking if you can pitch in to keep growing our movement and support our re-election campaign. If it makes sense for you right now, please make a donation before our end-of-month deadline.

Thanks for being a part of this,

Elizabeth

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