Helping Tom Suozzi Close Strong, Dr. Jill Biden's Inspiring Note To All Of Us

Monthly Hopium Gathering This Thursday at 7pm EST

Friends, Sunday is usually an off day for Hopium, but a few important things today:

Home Stretch In NY-3 - Please Donate, Volunteer Today - I am so grateful for how this community has stepped up to help us win this critical race. Over 1,800 of you have contributed through this site so far, raising almost $110,000! Many more have sent postcards, called, texted, canvassed, spread the good word about Tom Suozzi and our opportunity to take this seat away from MAGA.

Tom leads in all the final polls. The early vote is promising. We can and should win here on Tuesday - but only if we do the work and help Tom close strong. So, please, take one more step today, right now - make a small contribution, sign up for another shift of GOTV calls, knock on a few more doors, work your networks to encourage others to join you. What you do, today, could make the difference between us having a big and consequential win this week, or not. Let’s get to it:

Donate - Learn More - Canvass - Make Calls - Watch My Interview w/Tom

The 2024 Elections - Posts, Presentations, Interviews and Pods - Why I Am Optimistic About Winning This Year - Lots of material here for you to chew on in the coming days. Enjoy all…..

• Hopium Posts/Essays - The New Republic - 4 Things Biden Should Do Now, The Democratic Party Is Strong, Building The Most Powerful Democratic Machine We’ve Ever Had, Another Huge Jobs Report, Notes on Recent Polling, Republicans Are Having A Truly Awful 2024

• Video Interviews - MSNBC’s Last Word, CNN’s Amanpour, MeidasTouch’s Ben Meiselas, Lights On With Jessica Denson

• Podcasts (Audio) - The Ezra Klein Show, Deep State Radio w/David Rothkopf and Tara McGowan, Rick Wilson’s Enemies List

• Hopium Presentations - Why I Am Optimistic About Winning This Year (2/8/24), With Democrats, Things Get Better

• Do More, Worry Less - As it has been since Hopium launched in 2023, our goal this year is about growth and expansion, taking away demographic and geographic terrain MAGA’s extremism is making available to us now. In that spirit I’m encouraging our community to consider supporting three important projects - flipping NY-3, flipping North Carolina, and of course keeping Joe and Kamala in the White House, which is job 1 this year.

• The Hopium Community Gathers This Thursday at 7pm EST To Talk 2024 - Register here. Looking forward to seeing everyone!

Jill Biden’s Important Note To All Of Us - Last night Dr. Jill Biden sent this note to supporters of the Biden-Harris campaign (and it’s another reason you should join the campaign by donating any amount you can today):

I’ve heard from so many of you asking about the Special Counsel's report this week. Thank you for your love and support.

You probably know the basics: Joe cooperated fully with a Special Counsel’s investigation and they found he did nothing wrong -- no criminal charges were warranted. I thought Heather Cox Richardson wrote about it eloquently here.

The reason I’m writing is because of what else was in the report: Inaccurate and personal political attacks about Joe. Rather than just saying the case was closed, as they have for others, the Special Counsel claimed that Joe “couldn’t remember the year his son died.” Believe me, like anyone who has lost a child, Beau and his death never leave him.

I hope you can imagine how it felt to read that attack -- not just as Joe’s wife, but as Beau’s mother.

I don’t know what this Special Counsel was trying to achieve. We should give everyone grace, and I can’t imagine someone would try to use our son’s death to score political points. If you’ve experienced a loss like that, you know that you don’t measure it in years -- you measure it in grief.

May 30th is a day forever etched on our hearts. It shattered me, it shattered our family.

So many of you know that feeling after you lose a loved one, where you feel like you can’t get off the floor. What helped me, and what helped Joe, was to find purpose. That’s what keeps Joe going, serving you and the country we love.

Joe is 81, that’s true, but he’s 81 doing more in an hour than most people do in a day. Joe has wisdom, empathy, and vision. He has delivered on so many of his promises as President precisely because he’s learned a lot in those 81 years. His age, with his experience and expertise, is an incredible asset and he proves it every day.

Look at all he’s accomplished: He brought our country back from COVID. He brought our economy back from the brink. He created 14 million jobs. Gas prices are down. Inflation is down. Energy costs are down. He got bipartisan legislation passed -- even in the midst of this hyper-partisan environment. The media may not give him credit, but I’m thankful you realize all he’s done for this country.

Joe is the most resilient person I’ve ever known. When he gets knocked down, he gets back up and gets back to work. That’s what he’s doing.

It is just so meaningful to both of us to have you behind us. Your support is what keeps this campaign moving forward.

At some point in our lives, we’ll all experience grief or loss. We’ll go through challenging moments and twists and turns. But we find joy together, we persevere together, and ultimately we’ll prevail together.

Thank you for being part of our campaign.

Love,

Jill

There are going to be good days and bad days friends. It is how this business works. Together we have the power to make Tuesday a very good day by doing the work to elect Tom Suozzi.

Remember, friends, Hopium is hope with a plan. We don’t just hope we will win on Tuesday, we do the work to make it so.

Let’s go win this one, together - Simon