| Dear Katy, Donald Trump is so desperate for his border wall that he just hijacked prime time to try to get it.1 And it's not just prime time. Trump has also been threatening to declare a national emergency, which would give him not only the power to use the military to build his wall, but a sweeping and terrifying set of other extrajudicial powers.2 Now more than ever, we need Democratic leaders to keep standing strong, hold the line on wall funding and immediately put checks on Trump if he declares a national emergency. Will you add your name now? Tell Democrats: Don't give an inch. Keep holding the line on border wall funding. Click here to sign the petition. It's important to remember that Trump created this border crisis to sanction attacks on immigrants and coerce the public and Congress into backing his border wall. Trump's wall isn't just unnecessary, a waste of taxpayer dollars and harmful to the environment and communities who live in the southern border region, but it's also a monument to hate. Building it would hand Trump a major political victory and ramp up attacks on our communities. It would prove to his racist base of supporters that he has the power to deliver on hateful campaign promises, even at the expense of our Democracy. We must keep pushing to make sure Democrats keep up the fight to block Trump's racist agenda. Trump's national emergency threats are terrifying. History has shown that the end of many democracies begins when leaders invoke emergency powers to force the government to do their political bidding.3 By trying to circumventing Congress and a majority of voters who don't want a wall, Trump is proving, once again, that he will do anything – including taking a sledgehammer to the Constitution – to advance his white supremacist agenda. If Trump follows through with his latest threats to abuse emergency powers, it would escalate and normalize the use of lethal military force at the border, supercharge the mass incarceration and state-sanctioned abuse and killings of children in DHS custody and give Trump the power to suppress political protests at the border and dissent across the country.4 We cannot allow that to happen. To protect our immigrant neighbors, friends and family members and defend our democracy, we need to make sure Democrats continue to hold the line and refuse to cave to Trump and Republicans' threats and hostage taking. Republicans' craven tactics will only work if Democrats compromise. Speak out now to make sure they keep standing strong. Tell Democrats: Don't give an inch. Keep holding the line on border wall funding. Click the link below to sign the petition: https://act.credoaction.com/sign/dems_shutdown_2019?t=7&akid=31133%2E12967895%2E2q7L8i Thanks for taking action, Thaís Marques, Campaign Manager
CREDO Action from Working Assets Add your name: References: - Veronica Rocha, et al., "Trump addresses the nation, Democrats respond," CNN, Jan. 8, 2019.
- Elizabeth Goitein, "What the President Could Do If He Declares a State of Emergency," The Atlantic, January/February 2019.
- Andrea Pitzer, "If Trump Declares a state emergency, he may actually cause one," Washington Post, Jan. 8, 2019.
- Boris Sanchez, "Trump inclined to declare national emergency if talks continue to stall," CNN, Jan. 5, 2019.
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