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This Halloween, Nothing is Scarier than a Donald Trump Presidency.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
OCTOBER 31, 2024

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Sarah Harris, [email protected]

The Purge and the Exorcist Have Nothing on Trump’s Voter Purges and Plans to Attack “the Enemy Within”

Spooky Season is here, and there’s nothing scarier than the specter of a second Trump presidency. With Election Day less than a week away, the gap between insurrectionist Donald Trump and democracy defender Kamala Harris is as thin as a ghost.

In this chilling final stretch, both candidates are making their closing arguments to voters. The Harris/Walz campaign gathered 75,000 people at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C. to urge voters to turn the page on the divisive and chaotic Trump era. The speech was all treats and no tricks during the week of Halloween.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump and JD Vance want to exorcize any American who disagrees with them, with Trump doubling down on his promise to to attack “the enemy within.” As the Associated Press reported, he has “made plain his desire to use the power of the federal government, including the military, to go after them.” Having watched too many Halloween movie marathons, Trump echoed the plot of “The Purge” and proposed a day of violence across America. And Trump’s MAGA cronies are ramping up dangerous conspiracy theories like the far-right great replacement theory that pushes the delusional belief that white people are being deliberately replaced by nonwhite people in America – a theory that has inspired numerous mass shooters who have killed Latinos, Jews and Black people, according to the Washington Post. 
 

Trump is counting on his MAGA Supreme Court majority to help him make this nightmare come true. Yesterday, the three justices appointed by Trump allowed a literal purge–ruling that Virginia could purge voters from the rolls just days before the election and in clear violation of the National Voter Registration Act. For months, Trump’s been telling scary stories about wanting to appoint even more MAGA Supreme Court justices, but this time he wants them in their 30s “so they’re there for 50 years” and promising his supporters that if he wins, they will not have to vote ever again.

Unlike Halloween scary tales and conspiracy theories, Donald Trump’s extreme agenda is no ghost story. It’s real and it’s terrifying. And it’s up to the American people to stop it.

Stand Up America’s nearly two million members are rallying to cast out the dark forces threatening our democracy–and one dark force in particular. This election cycle, our members have signed up for nearly 1,000 canvassing and phone banking shifts and sent nearly 1,000 handwritten letters to voters to get out the vote and strengthen our democracy. Although we don’t know who will win on Tuesday, it is too scary to sit on the sidelines. Stand Up America volunteers and staff are committed to ensuring we give everything we have to elect democracy defenders next week. For more information about the work Stand Up America is doing in the last few days before the election, please don’t hesitate to reach out at [email protected]

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About Stand Up America
Stand Up America is a progressive advocacy organization with nearly two million community members across the country. Focused on grassroots advocacy to stand up to corruption and voter suppression and build a more representative democracy, Stand Up America has driven over 1.7 million calls to lawmakers, registered over 100,000 voters, mobilized thousands of protestors, and contacted tens of millions of voters.

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