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Stacey Abrams

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Stacey Abrams is a prominent Democratic politician and activist from Georgia, known for her work in voting rights and social justice. She gained national recognition as the Minority Leader of the Georgia House of Representatives from 2011 to 2017, where she focused on issues such as education, healthcare, and economic development. Abrams is also the founder of Fair Fight Action, an organization aimed at combating voter suppression and advocating for fair elections. Her efforts in mobilizing voters in Georgia played a significant role in the 2020 presidential election and the subsequent Senate runoff elections in 2021.

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Mar 15, 2021

These bills are nothing more than a pretext for returning to Jim Crow and stopping voters they don`t want to hear from. And my belief is that voters across this country when they see that their right to vote is being thwarted, we`ll do…

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Mar 15, 2021

It is irresponsible for politicians and political leaders to simply pretend they don`t know or, when they learn, to try to gaslight the communities into believing it`s their fault that bad things happen.

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Mar 10, 2021

We can fix the system because we already put the pieces in place by electing a Congress that can pass HR-1, SR-1, and HR-4, the For the People Act, and the voting rights -- the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act that together will…

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Mar 10, 2021

When Republicans look at the changing demography of Georgia, they see the future of our nation, and they see that in competitive elections their only guaranteed route to victory is suppressing the right to vote.

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Mar 10, 2021

I believe that we need to offer a narrowly tailored version of the filibuster that is grounded in the constitutional principle that there are certain responsibilities that only Congress can meet.

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Mar 10, 2021

I understand why people may feel adrift because the hope was that the 2020 election and the absolute debunking of the lie of voter fraud would have solved the problem.

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Mar 10, 2021

We cannot hope that the courts will save us.

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Mar 9, 2021

Stacey Abrams with us here live tomorrow night.

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Mar 2, 2021

When you can win elections not by having the best ideas but by stealing the right to vote, then you do not deserve to win, and you don`t deserve to participate. So what we need is a call to action that not only stops these bills in local…

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Mar 1, 2021

The For the People Act is so important to the Democrats` agenda, it`s dubbed H.R.1 and S.R.1 in the Senate.

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Mar 1, 2021

In Georgia, mail-in voting has been primarily used by Republican voters for years, 2020 was first time Democrats won both early and mail-in voting. And to break that because too many Democrats voted, because too many black and brown people…

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