Help me tell the GQP: HANDS OFF OUR KIDS!
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Before I explain why Iâm so pissed off, I guess I should introduce myself â Iâm Kirsten Heffron, Director of Digital Strategy for No Dem Left Behind (that means I run our e-mail program, our ad buys, and our social media accounts). Iâm also a recovering ex-Republican, the proud mother of a gay son, and proud godmother to a non-binary child. Which leads me to why Iâm so angry today, and why Iâm asking for your help: I am OUTRAGED by my former partyâs HATEFUL attacks on LGBTQIA+ children and their families in Florida and Texas ⦠and coming soon to a state legislature or Congress near you. Look, I was raised in a Republican household and worked for the party the first half of my career, but I donât even recognize todayâs GOP ⦠or should I say GQP? The conservative values I was raised with said âlive and let live.â The folks who raised me used to believe more than anything else that the government should stay out of peopleâs lives. Now, theyâre cheering from the sidelines as Ron DeSantis takes away studentsâ and teachersâ freedom of expression and Greg Abbott forbids parents from supporting their trans kids ⦠and hoping one or both of these goblins run for President! Itâs absolutely heartbreaking ⦠and sickening. A steady diet of Donald Trumpâs speeches, FOX News/OAN, right-wing radio, and online disinformation has transformed far too many formerly mainstream conservatives into crazed conspiracy theorists who truly believe our public schools have become indoctrination centers where Communists are trying to destroy America by turning its kids gay, transgender, and anti-white. Thatâs ridiculous, of course â not just for the obvious reasons, but because Iâve seen our local school budget, and they barely have the resources to buy math books or ink for the copy machine, let alone plan and execute some grand social-engineering scheme. Yes, these fantasies are totally absurd ⦠but a lot of folks have been brainwashed to believe them, and theyâre terrified and furious. Thatâs why you see politicians like Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott pushing this extreme legislation, and their GQP allies falling all over themselves not just to support it, but to add even more harmful amendments, like the Republican lawmaker in Florida who tried to change the âDonât Say Gayâ bill to âDonât Say Gay ⦠Unless itâs to âOutâ Gay Children to Their Abusive Parents.â These presidential-wannabes know whoâs motivated enough to make big, early-bird donations to their campaigns, attend their rallies, and show up for the primaries, and itâs not sane, mainstream Republicans (if there are even any of those left). No, the folks who decide Republican primaries are the ones who are fired up â and what better way to fire people up than feeding them a steady diet of fear, outrage, and hate? This is why we have to fight like hell to expose and counter disinformation wherever we find it, because disinformation works, and it works well. But itâs also why we must find it within ourselves to be just as fired up, just as motivated as the other side. You and I may not have hate to motivate us, but I can tell you right now, as the mother of a gay son, as a woman, as an ally â I do have outrage and fear â outrage at what my former colleagues have become and what theyâre doing to our country ⦠and fear that come the midterms, theyâll get the votes they need to take complete control. [So, Iâm asking you to help me stop them, before itâs too late. Please, chip in any amount today to help No Dem Left Behind fight to protect and expand our Democratic majority, before the horrors about to be unleashed on families in Florida and Texas by these Republican wannabe dictators become the horrors facing every American.]( For the sake of my son, my godchild, and other kids like them who just want to be free to live as their authentic selves and love who they want to love ⦠For the sake of the families who cherish them ⦠For the sake of whoever the GQP is going to target next as they fight to âout-Trumpâ each other: [Please contribute whatever you can, even if itâs just a few dollars. 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