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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStacey Abrams is doing something new that is amazing!!!!
Latest email blast from her organization, FairFight.com :
Thats why its so important that young people and college students have access to the resources they need to vote. Unfortunately, college students access to voting is under attack in Georgia, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Florida, Texas, and across the nation.
So were launching Fair Fight U, a network of college chapters engaging students in the fight for free and fair elections on their campuses and in their communities. But we cant do this work alone.
Already, we're working with 14 campus chapters, including Howard University, Morehouse College, and Spelman College.
Together, we can protect the right to vote for generations to come.
- Team Fair Fight
the homepage is: https://fairfight.com/
please join &/or donate if you can!!!!!
tblue37
(65,403 posts)Faux pas
(14,681 posts)Go Stacey
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I don't know what Abrams must have been feeling when the returns came in and she had lost the Georgia gubernatorial race to a crooked Secretary of State who had ruined any chance of a fair election. Anger, frustration, disappointment to name a few. But whatever she was feeling, she shook off the invitation to be paralyzed by self-pity, and is back in the arena.
This is truly inspiring.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)sheshe2
(83,791 posts)You can't keep a good woman down. She could very well become the GOP's worst nightmare.
Wounded Bear
(58,666 posts)DrToast
(6,414 posts)If youre donating to a candidate this primary season, consider sending some money here as well.
TruthAlwaysWins
(32 posts)diva77
(7,643 posts)budkin
(6,703 posts)Sounds fantastic!
Buzz cook
(2,472 posts)Stacey is a fighter.
stuffmatters
(2,574 posts)And she is exactly right. University students have been a target of GOP voter suppression. eg. New Hampshire
Repugs war to keep out of state students from voting in New Hampshire with a (time and money) poll tax requiring N.H. drivers licenses, car registration.
Karadeniz
(22,536 posts)klook
(12,157 posts)and looking forward to rolling up my sleeves & getting involved!
If youre anxious and depressed about the state of things, joining the fight is the best antidote!
brer cat
(24,576 posts)Salviati
(6,008 posts)This initiative and the one started by Eric Holder tackling gerrymandering are going to be crucial fights in taking back democracy in this country.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Thank you Stacey!
MasonDreams
(756 posts)Couldn't register w/o "permanent" address. Lived in the dorm.
Nobody to vote for anyway.
Now there's BERNIE !!!
Politicub
(12,165 posts)MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)Stacey Abrams ROCKS our civic world.
RandySF
(58,899 posts)Collimator
(1,639 posts)(And worked damn hard to obtain.)
So, she turned that disappointment and sense of loss into positive action that will resonate beyond her lifetime.
Like Jimmy Carter, she represents what is best in the human spirit.
When Trump doesn't get something that he wants. . . Well, we all know how that goes. . .