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And be the next to join them. [View in browser]( [AARP Real Possibilities] ADVOCACY ALERT [bullhorn] {NAME}: PhRMA, the lobbying group for big drug companies, is shelling out money big-time, running attack ads challenging AARP supporters like you. Let’s show them that older Americans will never be quieted by big drug company scare tactics. [More than 16,213 AARP advocates stepped up earlier this week to tell Congress that we demand action on drug prices. Will you?]( [Demand action on drug prices, {NAME}→]( Drug companies are on a spending blitz to stop AARP advocates just like YOU, {NAME}. PhRMA, the lobbying group for major pharmaceutical manufacturers, is buying pricey full page print and digital ads in major national publications. It’s an all-out effort to undermine the work we’re doing together to reduce the cost of prescription drugs. But they aren’t just running ads — big drug companies have also spent $10 MILLION lobbying Congress this year alone. Money speaks, but their greedy tactics will never outweigh AARP’s 38 million members. Together we call and email, we vote, and we will ensure our elected officials listen to us. [{NAME}, if you don’t want to let the pharmaceutical lobbyists win, it’s time to speak out. We’re rallying all AARP supporters to email Congress TODAY and tell our leaders to cut drug prices. Take action now >>]( [Tell Congress: cut drug prices now.]( [Send your message today, {NAME}]( Here’s another sad truth: big drug companies aren’t just fighting us in Congress. In Florida, PhRMA spent $6 MILLION in just two weeks to try to stop a bill that could allow FDA-approved drugs to be imported, effectively lowering medication costs for millions in the state. And another major pharmaceutical group spent in the “high six figures” on ads to block similar importation laws in 13 other states. But guess what — the pharmaceutical companies are losing fights across the country: - Florida, Colorado, Vermont, and Maine passed laws allowing lower-priced drugs to be imported into their states; - The New York legislature passed a bill to ban hikes in out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs in the middle of health plan contract years; - And in Texas, a bipartisan bill was signed into law requiring drug companies to make public and account for exorbitant price increases in prescription drugs. These wins are exciting — but no one in ANY state should have to choose between filling a prescription and putting food on the table, {NAME}. That’s why we can’t rest until Congress takes action to lower drug prices. [Tell Congress: We demand PROGRESS on lowering prescription drug prices.]( [I'll send my message today]( Big drug companies aren’t going to lower drug prices on their own — they’re too busy shifting blame and attacking those, like AARP and its members, who are fighting for lower drug prices. It’s OUTRAGEOUS. But together we’ll show the pharmaceutical companies that we won’t be silenced. Thank you, The AARP Grassroots Advocacy team [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [AARP.org]( [Make a Donation]( [AARP Privacy Policy]( [Unsubscribe from AARP Advocacy]( [Unsubscribe from all AARP e-mails]( [AARP 601 E Street NW, Washington, DC 20049]( [online fundraising, advocacy & donor database]( [nonprofit software](