Pompeo’s in. Here’s what you can do




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Our power is growing.
We came within a few votes of stopping Trump’s war cabinet in its tracks.
With your help, our massive grassroots opposition, showed that Mike Pompeo may speak for Donald Trump, but he doesn’t speak for us.

And while the Senate ultimately ended up confirming Mike Pompeo as our next Secretary of State, the 57-42 vote breakdown means that Pompeo received was among the fewest votes of any Secretary of State nominee in modern history. And it’s because of us.

But we can’t stop now. In just a few weeks, the Senate will vote on yet another member of Trump’s war cabinet — torture enabler Gina Haspel, Trump’s nominee for CIA Director. And if we can build on the momentum from yesterday’s neck-and-neck vote, we have a serious chance to tip the scales to stop Haspel and deny Trump the full war cabinet he wants.

Can you chip in today to keep our campaign on full blast and win over the extra votes we need to stop dangerous torturer Gina Haspel?

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I’ll be honest. As proud as I am of our campaign to stop Mike Pompeo, I’m also worried about what will happen next.

Trump now has John ‘Bombs Away’ Bolton whispering in one ear, and the anti-diplomacy, bigoted yes-man Mike Pompeo in the other. Meanwhile, Congress is considering a bill to give them a blank check for whatever war they want.

And on top of that, Trump looks likely to tear up the historic Iran nuclear deal in just a few weeks. So we need to be prepared for the worst: Trump putting us back on the path to a deadly war with Iran.

We have our work cut out for us: blocking Trump from rounding out his war cabinet with Gina Haspel and preparing for a campaign to stop a war with Iran. We’re going to need your help.


Thank you for working for peace,
Stephen, Erica, Amy, and the team at Win Without War





 
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