Jane Fonda
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It's too soon.
We don't know what's going to happen between now and 28.
And also, the president is already telling us that he's prepared to mess with the midterms.
And we can see signs of that trying to do away with mail-in ballots, all kinds of ways in which they're trying to get in the way of a really fair election in the midterms.
And what this means is that registering voters and inspiring people to vote is an organizing tool.
We have to
We have to put all of our energy now into inspiring people to vote.
Not even so much to do with who the candidate is.
This is a tool that we still have.
And if we don't use it now, it's not going to be there later.
I mean, this is a real case of use it or lose it.
The Committee for the First Amendment isn't taking sides in terms of which party that's trying to merge is better than the other.
We're opposed to mergers because, A, a lot of people lose jobs.
We have less bargaining power.
We have fewer studios to go to to negotiate.
And because Trump has taken over, I can't remember what it's called, merger control, he has say-so now over who gets to merge.
He is imposing limits on the First Amendment.
He's saying you have to do this, you can't hire this, you can't say these things.
in our major cultural and media institutions.
We have to stop that.