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Dear Friends,

President Biden deserves our respect, our compassion, and our gratitude. The debate last week, however, made clear that the time is now for another Democratic candidate to take his place on the November ballot.

The nominating process for the Democratic Party needs to begin again. We need to recalibrate, and we need to do so quickly. Over the next two months we need to do what we should have been doing over the last year and a half: engaging in a robust conversation about this country and how we’re going to beat Donald Trump in November. Today I throw my hat in the ring. We need to have an exciting campaign and an open convention in August.

It is imperative that the new process not be manipulated by party and media elites. The search for a new candidate must be not directed by behind-the-scenes players, but rather must be a genuinely democratic process. All news outlets owe it to the public to fairly cover all FEC registered, qualified candidates going forward.

I would like to talk to you about my campaign. By the end of the primary season, I had received half a million votes. I traveled throughout the United States for over a year, gaining personal experience of ravages of both body and soul in communities throughout this country. And I did not just bear witness to the problems. I articulated solutions that speak to the minds and hearts of voters on the left, the right, and in the middle. I know how desperately people in this country want change.

With my candidacy, I submit to the people of the United States that a better way forward is both possible and necessary.

I am a candidate who both foresaw this crisis in our party and had the courage to act on it. I have seen firsthand the economic anxiety that now invisibly shackles so many Americans, and I have spoken to it consistently for the last year and a half. If the decency, intelligence, and yearning for a better life on the part of millions of Americans is harnessed for the purpose of genuine change, we will win the Presidency in November.

But we will not win by repackaging the status quo, because the status quo has failed the majority of the American people. We will win by being honest about what is really happening in this country, with an agenda that improves people’s material conditions over the next four years. 

Let me say this again: We will win in November.

We will win by standing for a fundamental new beginning, delivering on a transformational vision of Medicare for All, tuition-free higher education and tech school, affordable housing, and a guaranteed living wage. We will win with an Economic Bill of Rights, establishing an economy that serves people rather than exploiting them. We will win with a plan to wage peace as effectively as we wage war, repudiating the undue influence of a forever war machine. 

We will win by committing to the end of poverty. We will win with a historic commitment to America’s children. We will win by treating climate change as the global emergency it truly is. We will win by putting the safety of our food supply and the health of the American people before soulless, ill gained profits. We will win by dismantling America’s Drug War and creating a network of recovery options for the addicted. We will win by offering the American people a much Better Deal than the one they are receiving now.

Let me repeat: We will win in November. Donald Trump has no plans to make life better for people over the next four years. That’s our job, and we need to do it.

We need to revive the spirit of the American people at a moment when hopelessness is rampant. For the last forty years I have worked closely with people whose lives were in trouble, and I know something about restoring faith in what’s possible. As a writer, speaker, entrepreneur, and non-profit activist, I have reached millions of people who were looking for hope that things could be better in their lives. I have helped provide that hope. I will provide it as a candidate and as President of the United States.

This country needs more than changes in policy. We also need a change in our hearts, for without that we will not be able to fuel the “new birth of freedom” we so desperately need. The American people need to rise up now. We need a new coalition of decency and love. We need to say no to the cynical vision of dictatorial forces, be they political or economic. We need the courage and the conviction to say en masse, so loudly and so powerfully that no one will doubt it, that this is our moment and we are ready to meet it. A government “of the people, by the people, and for the people” has been replaced by a government “of the donors, by the lobbyists, and for the corporations.” We the People will no longer tolerate this.

I’m ready, and I hope you’ll join me. For those of you have supported me in the past, I hope you feel this is our moment. I want to go to Washington and co-create with the American people a new chapter of our history. This will start with a victory in November, but that will be just the beginning. The political industrial complex has had its way with us for far too long. It’s our turn now.

This is it. Our new beginning. 2024. 

Together we can rise to the moment,

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If I make it, it won’t be because of power brokers within the Democratic Party and it won’t be because of billionaire donors.

It will be because of the single mother with two kids, one of whom has special needs but Mom has to work two jobs and she can’t afford health care.

It will be because of the community college students who are living out of their cars and selling their blood plasma to make it all work.

It will be because of young adults – and their aging parents – who know something is wrong when they’ve done everything right but the kids in their twenties and thirties can’t afford a place to live on their own.

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February 28, 2024 | Martin Pengelly

The self-help author Marianne Williamson “un-suspended” her quixotic, all-but-certainly doomed campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, saying she did so because Joe Biden could not defeat Donald Trump, who she called a “fascist” and a “juggernaut of dark, dark vision”.

February 28, 2024 | Lauren Irwin 

Author Marianne Williamson announced Wednesday that she is “unsuspending” her presidential campaign, claiming American voters are “watching a car crash in slow motion” with the current candidates.

“Hey, I have an important announcement to make. As of today, I am unsuspending my campaign for the presidency of the United States,” Williamson said in a video posted to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

February 28, 2024 | By Kyler Alvord and Brendan Le

The progressive self-help author, who dropped out of the race three weeks ago, said on Wednesday that she will “arouse in Americans the angels of our better nature” as she looks to keep Trump out of power

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February 28, 2024 | Martin Pengelly

The self-help author Marianne Williamson “un-suspended” her quixotic, all-but-certainly doomed campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, saying she did so because Joe Biden could not defeat Donald Trump, who she called a “fascist” and a “juggernaut of dark, dark vision”.

February 28, 2024 | By Kyler Alvord and Brendan Le

The progressive self-help author, who dropped out of the race three weeks ago, said on Wednesday that she will “arouse in Americans the angels of our better nature” as she looks to keep Trump out of power

Democrat Marianne Williamson 'Unsuspends' 2024 Presidential Campaign in Surprise Announcement

February 28, 2024 | By Kyler Alvord and Brendan Le
Marianne Williamson says she’s “unsuspending” her presidential campaign just three weeks after dropping out. The progressive self-help author, 71, argued on Wednesday that President Joe Biden is a weak candidate for the general election, writing in a letter to voters, “My ability to arouse in Americans the angels of our better nature is the most powerful antidote to Trump’s dark and authoritarian vision.”
February 28, 2024 | Lauren Irwin 

Author Marianne Williamson announced Wednesday that she is “unsuspending” her presidential campaign, claiming American voters are “watching a car crash in slow motion” with the current candidates.

“Hey, I have an important announcement to make. As of today, I am unsuspending my campaign for the presidency of the United States,” Williamson said in a video posted to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

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Marianne Williamson ‘un-suspends’ campaign after Michigan primary

February 28, 2024 | Martin Pengelly
The self-help author Marianne Williamson “un-suspended” her quixotic, all-but-certainly doomed campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, saying she did so because Joe Biden could not defeat Donald Trump, who she called a “fascist” and a “juggernaut of dark, dark vision”.
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Dear Friends,

As of today, I am unsuspending my Presidential campaign.

All of us have noticed America’s political dynamics are moving in a disturbing direction. Donald Trump’s power is on the incline, and President Biden’s is on the decline. More and more people are saying the quiet part out loud: that despite the fact that the President deserves credit for many of his accomplishments, he is clearly a weak candidate to defeat Donald Trump in 2024.

I, however, am not. My ability to arouse in Americans the angels of our better nature is the most powerful antidote to Trump’s dark and authoritarian vision.

I suspended my campaign because we were losing the horse race. But there is something much bigger than the horse race that’s at stake here. In the words of Mohammed Ali, ‘When the mission is right, the odds don’t matter.”

We cannot sit idly by while the  D.C. political class sleepwalks this country into disaster. Too many have followed the directives of the status quo for too long, but we are awakening now. We are ready to act, to take the wheel of history into our hands and turn it in another direction.

We need a President who stands for a new beginning in America, and whether I can help do that as President or in some other way, unsuspending the campaign is a necessary next step.

We will win on the promise of restoring America’s middle class and waging peace both domestically and internationally. From #MedicareForAll to #CeasefireNow in exchange for the hostages, from tuition free college and tech school to a guaranteed living wage, from waging peace to repudiating America’s forever war machine, from subsidized child care to ending America’s War on Drugs, our platform is the winning one.

I will respond to the cult-like personality of Donald Trump with a light-filled vision of hope and possibility. We will become once again a “government of the people, by the people, and for the people” at a time when corporate interests have taken Washington hostage.

I hope you are as moved by this vision as I am. You have supported the campaign before, and I hope you feel moved to support it again.

We must rise to the occasion like never before; so much is riding on what we do now. Even if the most I can do is influence the President, that in itself is a goal worth striving for.  For those of us who are deeply committed to Trump not returning to the White House, it’s imperative that we do everything possible to help mount a winning campaign in 2024.

I hope you will help me do this. There is no time to waste. Please give generously so we can restart the engines and race to the top.

With gratitude and conviction, 

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Dear Friends,

In 2016, there were two candidates telling people their pain was legitimate and their rage was valid – that the system indeed had been rigged against them. They were Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump.

Only one of them, however, wanted to do something about it. The other mainly sought to harness all that anger for his own political purposes.

And here we are.

The rage that people were feeling then is still felt today. Has the system improved economically in the last two years? In some ways, yes. But in fundamental ways, no. It’s now baked into the cake that our corrupted political system is at the service of the few at the expense of the many. And it will not disrupt itself.

One in four Americans still live with medical debt. A third of America’s workforce work for less than $15 an hour; half can’t afford a one bedroom apartment. Half our seniors live on less than $25,000 a year. The United States has the highest poverty rate of any advanced democracy.

If you’re in the top 20 per cent of American earners, the economy works well. And for that we can be grateful. But that 20 per cent live on an island that is surrounded by a sea of economic despair. Within that sea, a myriad of personal and societal dysfunctions breed easily – from chronic anxiety and addiction to ideological capture by genuinely psychotic, even fascist elements of our society.

We must respond to this situation, for it represents an unsustainable disquiet.

Franklin Roosevelt said we wouldn’t have to worry about a fascist takeover in America so long as democracy delivered on its promises. Yes, there is a genuine fascist threat in America today. But we can’t just fight the disease; we must build up our societal immune system, as well. That means we must build up our people.

We must provide a massive infusion of economic hope and opportunity to the over 70 per cent of Americans who say they feel no economic hope, who simply do what they can to survive what they know is an inherently unjust economic system. Their dreams, and the dreams of their children, are limited. They are depressed and angry about it, and if those feelings are not assuaged – if their needs are not met – then America will be in even bigger trouble than we are now.

That is why I am running for President. I have had a forty year career working up close and personal with people whose lives are in trouble, and too many are in trouble now.

Our government “of the people, by the people, and for the people” has become a government “of the corporations, by the corporations, and for the corporations.” Our public policies regularly do more to serve the goal of short-term profit maximization for corporate and billionaire donors, than to serve the goal of safety, health and well-being of the American people.

The humanitarian values at the core of our Declaration of Independence have been replaced by a soulless economics as the governing principle of our civilization.  The tentacles of hyper-capitalism, devoid of any ethical or moral consideration, now reach greedily into every corner of our society. A Second Gilded Age is upon us, income disparity as great as at any time in our history, and everything from climate catastrophe to AI catastrophe to nuclear catastrophe now loom as genuine threats to our civilization.

It is time to turn around.

In the words of President John F. Kennedy, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.” In the years ahead of us, America is going to change. It is up to us to make the change a conscious, wise and responsible one.  As President, I will make sure we do.

A corporate aristocracy – from insurance and pharmaceutical companies to Big Ag to Big Food to chemical companies to gun manufacturers to Big Oil to Big Tech to defense contractors – now tyrannize this country, and the days of their overreach and entitlement must end. No one thing is going to make that happen, but a president who is willing to use the power of the executive branch to stand up to what Roosevelt called the “economic royalists” is a good solid beginning. And I will be that.

As Americans, we need a season of repair, a new beginning, a renewed faith in what’s possible. Our political imaginations can flourish once more, if we allow the better angels of our nature to emerge among us. I dedicate this campaign to the people, to the spirit in our hearts, and to the possibility of fundamental change.

With your help, we can spread this message far and wide and set America on the path of a new beginning.

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