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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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Jan 31, 2022

Voter suppression does work. But one of the ways we were able to combat it in 2018, defeat it in 2020 and 2021, was the sheer volume of people who pushed against those barriers.

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Jan 31, 2022

The conversation about voting, the loud conversation about the intentionality of voter suppression started in 2014.

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Jan 31, 2022

We can energize and engage. But we have got to do the work.

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Jan 31, 2022

Voter suppression does work.

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Jan 31, 2022

We have to talk about what can be if we do the work together.

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Jan 31, 2022

It is insufficient to solve the challenges, the twin challenges of voter suppression and election subversion.

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Dec 6, 2021

My mission is service. And to serve people you have to care about them. You have to care about all of them. I`ve spent my time doing what I can to serve Georgia whether that was expanding access to vaccines, paying off 68,000 Georgians`…

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Dec 2, 2021

Opportunity and success in Georgia shouldn’t be determined by your zip code, background, or access to power. But if our Georgia is going to move to its next and greatest chapter, we’re going to need leadership.

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Dec 2, 2021

the first female governor of Georgia, the first black woman ever elected governor of a U.S. state

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Dec 2, 2021

I am very bullish on the likelihood that the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act will pass because we know that in lieu of their passage, what we saw happen across the states this year is going to be…

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Dec 2, 2021

The 2022 midterm elections just got a lot more interesting, with America`s leading voting rights activist, Stacey Abrams, announcing a run for governor of Georgia.

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Dec 2, 2021

I could not in good conscience say that in order to protect my political future, I’m going to be silent about the political present, which is that we have a system under a leader that sought to keep people from casting their ballot.

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