This is a big week for us!

We’re kicking off our annual 5-day team fundraising campaign! We're asking you to join us as we build people-fueled political power in Iowa.

2020 has the potential to be a momentous year –for all of us.

Why? Because we have so many opportunities next year at the local, state, and national level –to move the needle for clean water, for our health, for our public safety, and for climate action.

Wecan’t let up! We need to give it everything we’ve got next year to ensure abetter future– for all of us!

Together we’re speaking out and building grassroots people-powerlike never before around bold solutions like Medicare for All, a moratorium onfactory farms, a ban on racial profiling by police, and a Green New Deal. We’reuniting and energizing people, and WE WILL WIN!

Four years ago, these policies were called “pie in the sky.”The establishment brushed us off.

Now our solutions aretaking center stage in local and national debates. Politicians and candidates at all levels are being forced to address our issues and our solutions.

In September, we held our own People’s Presidential Forumthat drew nearly 2,000 Iowans and media to watch four of the top candidates listenand respond to us–our stories and our solutions. Itwas tremendously powerful!

You did that! You refused to back down! Youare creating the people power and momentum to address some of the biggest crisesof our time. You are showing howwe can do politics differently.

Today I want to thank you for all you do and to ask you to support the critical work we do together through CCI Action.

2020 is a BIG year. We’ve set a BIG goal:
We want to raise $45,000 by Friday, Nov. 22.

Generous donors are offering a challenge grant of$5,000 to help kickoff
our important year-end fundraising campaign in a BIG way.

Give TODAY. Join as a CCI Action member, renew your
annual membership gift or make a special gift.
Whatever you give will be doubled!

Next year –2020 –is about morethan just defeating Trump. It’s bigger than one election. It’s about buildingour power so we decide what’s bestfor people and our planet.

Right now, big-money industry groups arepouring millions into Iowa to breakdown the consensus among us on popular policies like Medicare for All and theGreen New Deal.

They deliberately try to distract us withlies, racial fear-mongering, and finger-pointing. Why? So they can continue toprofit.

That’swhy we need CCI Action. The only way to counter the dominating influenceof big money on our political process is with people – organized, powerfulpeople.

That’s what CCI Action does best! Lastyear alone, 15,000 Iowans joined us in bold actions on important issues. Together we’re building the multi-racial,multi-generational, multi-gendered people-power we need to win.

Here’s how your year-end gift will help uschange “business-as-usual” politics:

• Issue organizing – We’ve got toshow up big on our issues at the Statehouse and across the state. Issueorganizing is where we build our strength.
• People power – We want to grow and become increasingly inclusive. We wantto reach and engage a lot more people and cultivate more grassroots leaders –includingyoung folks and people of color who are often excluded from public discourse.
• Political power – We want to havea bigger impact on who gets elected. We’re developing a process to train ourmembers to run for office (city, county, state) using our vision, values andissues.
• Influence – We want to continueto seize the unique opportunity we have in Iowa to cement our issues and thevoices of everyday people squarely in the national debate.

Weneed to be bigger and stronger. We need everyone with us. We need you!

You’re the most important part of CCI Action! Your involvement and support make big change possible. Together we’re part of a vibrant, vocal, vital, and effective organization pointing the way forward for what is possible –and needed –in Iowa and the nation.

DONATE today - join as a member, renew or make a special gift.
Be generous. There’s a lot at stake. Together, we can do politics differently!

Thanks so much for all you do,
Hugh Espey,
Executive Director and proud member
(he/his)

P.S. Please give now, before Nov. 22, and your membership gift of $100, $75, $50 or more will be doubled!

• Follow along on Facebook this week to hear from the 45-member team helping raise $45,000 in 5 days - and other ways to plug in on this campaign.