Our Day of Reckoning

Title: Our Day of Reckoning

Dear NOW Summary Archives,

In a matter of days we will face our last chance to end George Bush's War on Women. I am more hopeful than ever, because I have never seen such a concerted effort by women's rights activists and our allies.

We can't stop now!

This is a fight we cannot afford to lose, and we need your help.

We are making phone calls, going door to door and organizing on campuses to identify and turn out every progressive voter. But with a little extra financial help from every supporter in these final days we can double and triple our organizing power. Please give as generously as you can. We'll put your gift to work immediately.

The polls are looking better and better, but only one thing will protect us: an overwhelming turnout of women voters, voting for their rights and their lives.

I need your help to ensure that we reach out to every voter in the next few days. Please take a moment NOW to give the most generous contribution you can afford to support this last big push push in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida.

The NOW Action Center in Washington is very quiet these days, with fewer than a dozen staff remaining. The rest are all in these key states turning out the women's vote.

We are also working side by side with NOW activists to ensure that the thousands of new voters we helped to register this summer now take the crucial step of going to the polls and casting their votes.

I'll never forget the 2000 election, when just a few votes in a few precincts could have made all the difference.

We don't intend to let it happen again! NOW is using every resource of our unparalleled grassroots network of volunteers to mobilize voters who favor reproductive rights. The exciting news is that there are lots of wonderful progressive candidates we can support - people who will come to Washington to vote for women's rights. If we work our hardest and extend ourselves to the limit in the next few days, we may see more than one big victory in November.

The momentum is with us. In case after case, races which were considered a "sure thing" by our opponents are now too close to call.

We need your support to send organizers to these late developing campaigns, so that we can help them with the effort that will take them over the top. Take a moment to respond NOW.

Please send the most generous contribution you can to support our GOTV campaigns in Pennsylvania, Colorado, Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin, Oregon and Washington, where rabid enemies of reproductive rights are running against strong champions, people we can count on when the going gets tough.

In each of these states and many others, NOW activists have been working hard and long. We're in the home stretch now and need that infusion of energy that can carry us over the election day finish line. Please make a contribution today so we can speed that help to the targeted areas right away. There's no time to lose.

Right wing control of all three branches of our government must come to an end on November 2.

You know it's not just abortion rights at stake: It's health care, Social Security, disability rights, Title IX equal educational opportunities, family planning, programs to prevent violence against women, job training and childcare, and whether our government will continue to use of bigotry and discrimination to advance a political agenda — in short, everything you and I care about.

Please give us your support in these final hours, so we can work to ensure that that no progressive voter sits home on election day. Your help can make a real difference.

I look forward to hearing from you today.

For equality and justice,

Kim A. Gandy
President
National Organization for Women