THIS is how we build winning momentum

| 10:00 pm EDT May 5, 2022
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After the bombshell of news that dropped late on Monday night, a number of activists are rightfully gearing up for the 2022 midterms, as the GOP has left little doubt what they will do with the legal power they have as long as they still have it. The leaked SCOTUS draft is very much real – and even the Republicans are admitting that while trying to spin the story to get the media looking into who leaked the draft, rather than what the draft contains.

It’s clear that if Roe v. Wade is successfully overturned, it certainly won’t be the last ruling of the 20th century that Republicans will try to undo. While the GOP is trying to distance themselves from the draft while also trying to reassure their base that they are adamantly “pro-life,” this should be an opportunity to unite the moderates and the left in the name of preserving reproductive rights in the United States.

Unfortunately, there are those among us that are pointing fingers at each other – that this is happening because Democrats aren’t doing enough to protect Roe v. Wade or aren’t fighting hard enough for abortion rights, or because Ruth Bader Ginsberg didn’t retire when she should have, or because President Biden didn’t codify Roe v. Wade – a process that requires 60 votes in the Senate which he can’t do on his own. If you’re doing any of these things, you’re essentially doing what Republicans are hoping you will do – lashing out at your own team rather than holding accountable the people who are willing to put millions of lives in jeopardy just to score some political points.

We have six more months to build our momentum and do all the things that winning requires: phone banking, driving up voter registration and turn out, and amplifying the message of a promising slate of Democratic candidates running for the House and Senate so we can expand our majorities – let’s focus on that instead.