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And it’s a battle we are at risk of losing.
And now, what the last several months and the results of this week’s elections around the country make clear is that we are no closer to ensuring the truth prevails over lies than we were last November.
Democracy prevailed in 2020 against an unprecedented attempt to lie and deceive because good people on both sides of the aisle did the right thing, followed the law, and protected the will of the voters.
That’s why we believe the path out of this moment is found in the success of 2020.
We need to spend the next year working, as we did in 2020, in the months leading up to the midterm election building a multiracial, bipartisan coalition of people in every industry, every community, every state, dedicated to telling the truth to the American people — about their voice, their vote, and their democracy. We need everyone and anyone to get off the sidelines and get to work defending democracy and rejecting those trying to dismantle it or be prepared to accept a country where leaders who are not accountable to the voters have free rein to exert their will over all of ours.
Those against democracy have spent this year showing us there may be no “bottom” to how far they will go to lie, deceive, and interfere with the will of the voters.
It’s time we believe them, and get to work spending every day of this next year working to make telling the truth and protecting democracy a paramount focus of our time.