MoveOn.org Sticks to Its Guns, Demands Cash-Strapped DNC Divest from Major Donors

The Democratic Party is struggling to raise money as it is.

Now their most embittered partisans are demanding that DNC accept even less money.

They are sticking to their guns--pun intended--in that they demand that the Democratic Party not accept any money from gun manufacturers and other "dangerous" businesses.

MoveOn.org refuses to let any crisis go to waste, as expected!

Our daughter was slaughtered in the Aurora theater massacre

Dear MoveOn member,

I'm Sandy Phillips. My daughter Jessi was slaughtered in the Aurora, CO, movie theater massacre in 2012. I believe that the gun lobby and other corporate interests have far too much influence in American politics. That's why my husband Lonnie and I are supporting a proposed resolution to be taken up by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) that will take a step toward fixing this broken system. Please sign our petition telling the DNC to reject money from the gun, tobacco, and payday loan industries.

The Democratic National Committee is set to convene this week in Las Vegas, NV—just weeks after one of the most deadly mass shootings in modern American history took place there. I am asking the DNC to reject all contributions from those who profit from guns, tobacco, predatory payday loans, and other nefarious industries!

The Democrats say that they support meaningful government action to stop gun violence, but they're being pushed around by Republicans and the industries that line their pockets. And the result is that our political system can't make progress on gun violence because lobbyists and big money interests have more influence than millions of American constituents.

Thoughts and prayers are appreciated, but we also need real action—the DNC must reject donations from reprehensible corporate interests such as the gun, tobacco, and payday loan industries.

We lost our daughter, and our heart breaks every time someone with a gun unleashes carnage on innocent Americans. But we will continue to speak up; we will not go away.

Please sign the petition and share.

Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to your friends.

Thank you.

-Sandy Phillips

Final Reflection

Progressives have grown completely out of control within the Democratic Party.

They want to take money out of politics, yet at the same time there is no way to get into politics without money.

The Democratic National Committee is already struggling as it is to raise money. In quarter after quarter, the Republican National Committee has been romping their liberal, regressive counterparts without ceasing. President Trump's pro-American populist, conservative agenda is making the hearts of America burn, and even conservatives in blue states are getting out there and fighting to make their states great again.

The Democratic Party is all wrong on guns, on the Second Amendment, and the innate necessity of individuals to protect themselves from a destructive world filled with fallen, evil men. Every tenet of this Big Government statism cannot rise up against these hard-core, harsh realities.

The unprecedented attacks, slaughter, and deaths on American innocents have not jaded American support for firearms and self-defense. Even liberal-leaning Millennials support the Second Amendment without equivocation.

Going after the tobacco companies? Really? Since when have we seen any major discussion on smoking and its negative affects in the media or our local cultures. Smoking has been reduced to an aberrant deviance, and even then other forms of smoking have risen to help break free of the destructive nicotine addiction.

No matter how the DNC tries to spin the progressive rant demanding an end to big money in politics, the Democratic Party is facing its pre-eminent demise, and there is very little that seems capable within the party to stop it.