I'm gonna take a second out of my morning trying to make my house livable again to talk to every #Democrat candidate who emailed me in the last 12 hours. (For the record, it was 27)

My inbox was GRIM this morning. Like, walking into Mordor grim. "We're in tears". "Trump's won". "TERRIFIED". "Sauron's Got the Ring". That's just a sampling of the subject headings I was greeted with.

You need to stop.
Full stop.
This is a shitty, traumatizing tactic for voters who have spent the last four years living with disbelief, sadness and fear. Not only that, it will make me hit the delete button without opening the message.

This isn't saying that fear can't be a motivator. But it can't be the ONLY motivator. Did Shakespeare's Henry V tell the soldiers at Agincourt, "Lads, we are outnumbered twelve to one and if we don't fight, we're going to be proper fucked."?

NO HE DID NOT.

In the progressive movement, we've seen hundreds of thousands of people motivated by the prospect of real change and a better, fairer future. And we are ready to fight. Give us something to fight FOR and we will follow you all the way.