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Over 100 celebs come together to thwart Trump's White House bid

By Associated Press
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Over 100 celebrities are formally standing up to Donald Trump by joining a campaign that’s urging Americans to deny the Republican candidate the White House.

The campaign, which is part of MoveOn.org Political Action’s #UnitedAgainstHate campaign, rolls out as Democrats prepare to officially nominate Hillary Clinton as the party’s presidential candidate.

In an open letter signed by the celebrities, they say they believe it’s their “responsibility to use our platforms to bring attention to the dangers of a Trump presidency, and to the real and present threats of his candidacy.”

Donald Trump wants to take our country back to a time when fear excused violence, when greed fuelled discrimination, and when the state wrote prejudice against marginalized communities into law … Some of us come from the groups Trump has attacked. Some of us don’t. But as history has shown, it’s often only a matter of time before the “other” becomes me.

Among the communities it says Trump has attacked are Mexican and Latino people, black people, LGBTQ people, women and their health-care providers, Asians, refugees, people with disabilities, working-class people, American prisoners of war, and others.

“We call upon every American to join us,” the letter says, “to stand together on the right side of history, to use the power of our voice and the power of our vote to defeat Donald Trump and the hateful ideology he represents.”

Here’s the entire list of celebrities who have joined the campaign: 

  • Julianne Moore
  • Olivia Wilde
  • Taylor Schilling
  • Bryan Cranston
  • Kerry Washington
  • Chloë Grace Moretz
  • Mark Ruffalo
  • Neil Patrick Harris
  • Lena Dunham
  • Shonda Rhimes
  • Ryan Murphy
  • Macklemore
  • Ryan Lewis
  • Russell Simmons
  • Shepard Fairey
  • Adam McKay
  • Ilana Glazer
  • Abbi Jacobson
  • Moby
  • Michael Stipe
  • Third Eye Blind
  • Kathleen Turner
  • Franchesca Ramsey
  • Julia Stiles
  • Patricia Arquette
  • Meg Ryan
  • Michael Mann
  • Michael Moore
  • Paul Haggis
  • Tony Schwartz
  • Doug Liman
  • Lizzy Caplan
  • Woody Harrelson
  • Rain Phoenix
  • Jane Fonda
  • Tig Notaro
  • Rashida Jones
  • Clea Duvall
  • Kathryn Hahn
  • Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Alyssa Milano
  • Busy Phillips
  • Piper Perabo
  • Cynthia Nixon
  • Lea Delaria
  • Tamara Tunie
  • Dustin Lance Black
  • Jesse Tyler Ferguson
  • Jill Soloway
  • Mickey Sumner
  • Charles Ferguson
  • Lesley Arfin
  • Jesse Peretz
  • Christian Campbell
  • Neve Campbell
  • Paul Miller, aka, DJ Spooky
  • Laura Dawn
  • Benjamin O’Keefe
  • Sarah Sophie Flicker
  • Michael Skolnick
  • Mary Lambert
  • Christian Siriano
  • Vanessa Hope
  • Jeffrey Marsh
  • Diane English
  • Mara Wilson
  • JJ Feild
  • Kat Blaque
  • Emma Myles
  • Emily Robinson
  • Nik Dodani
  • Laci Green
  • Ilene Chaiken
  • Akilah Hughes
  • Trae Crowder
  • Mara Hoffman
  • Rebecca Woolf
  • Mickalene Thomas
  • Tanya Selvaratnam
  • Oskar Eustis
  • DJ Rekha
  • Elizabeth Streb
  • Lucy Walker
  • Catherine Gund
  • Xaviera Simmons
  • Chitra Ganesh
  • Laura Michalchyshyn
  • Hillary Jordan
  • Lisa Kron
  • Basil Twist
  • Dave Malloy
  • James Tigger! Ferguson
  • Stephen Winter
  • Carlen Altman
  • Jena Friedman
  • Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Natalie Joos
  • Rachel Sklar
  • Jill Greenberg
  • Rob Green
  • Romy Soleimani
  • Lori White
  • Luke Rathbone
  • Molly R Stern
  • Helen Stickler
  • India Salvor Menuez
  • Lisa Salzer
  • Sarah Lewittin (Ultragrrrl)
  • Hannah Rad
  • Marlon Taylor-Wiles
  • Dita Von Teese
  • Daron Murphy
  • Alice Roth
  • Talib Kweli
  • Andrew Kornhaber
  • Eric Brown
  • Mikki Halpin
  • David Ambrose
  • Isolde Brielmaier
  • Jen Gatien
  • Shruti Ganguly
  • Lisa Cortes
  • Eisa Davis