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Stacey Abrams: if you want to see action on police brutality, on climate change, on poverty, on women's reproductive choice, no matter…

On the recordJuly 18, 2021
if you want to see action on police brutality, on climate change, on poverty, on women's reproductive choice, no matter your issue is, if you don't have the right to vote and participate in elections, it is irrelevant.
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Stacey Abrams
Democratic · Georgia
Source
msnbc.com

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Abrams highlights the critical link between voting rights and addressing various social issues.

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