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Your closing sentence puts our future in stark perspective. It drives home the scope of damage Trump inflicted on the nation with The Big Lie. He was like a fleeing army laying mines and other traps to cripple the advancing conquering force.

Given all that has happened since Trump's election, Democrats will not sit idle in the face of voter suppression, which they might have in the past. We know what's on the line, as you effectively captured. Millions of young people now have a taste of the power and influence they possess. African-Americans young and old are as motivated and engaged as they have ever been, not to mention organized. The fight to vote will be epic.

Key, however, is the Biden Administration continuing to deliver on major campaign pledges to keep new and occasional voters engaged. That's why, as you wrote, the filibuster looms over everything. Many voters don't understand or care about it. They only care about results.

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And we've seen how Stacey Abrams's determined approach, over about a decade, worked to win Georgia elections -- after she lost in a squeaker to Brian Kemp. She lost but came back.

As she has said: "I am relentless."

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Let us all follow her lead.

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