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Hello #ChangeMakers!
While we’ve had a few setbacks this week — the confirmations of Betsy DeVos, Jeff Sessions and Tom Price right up there at the top of the list — we’ve also shown that we aren’t going to back down in the face of hard fights. And we’ve shown that, even if we lose, we aren’t going to go quietly into the night.Watching the silencing of Senator Elizabeth Warren on the Senate floor this week as she attempted to read a letter from civil rights leader Coretta Scott King, I couldn’t help but reflect on my own experience in the Texas Senate when fighting against attempts to pass a sweeping anti-abortion bill in my state. Like Senator Warren, I was warned. I was given an explanation. And, because of your help, I persisted.
That’s the point I want to leave you with this week. As elected officials, we are never alone in these fights. And, we are never successful without the support of our colleagues and, most importantly, the people that we represent. My 13 hour filibuster in Texas became known as “The People’s Filibuster” and rightly so. Because it wasn’t the bullying I experienced that made that day stand out. It was the fact that I was joined by so many of you - either in person or on-line from your dorm rooms, living rooms and offices throughout the country.
Advancing our interests is a team sport, particularly in a climate as tough as the one we are in right now. You have been a vital part of making sure that Elizabeth Warren is provided with the very microphone that she and her Democratic colleagues use to speak on our behalf. You vote, you have been making phone calls, showing up at legislative offices and marching under signs that express your values. And it is because of you, #ChangeMakers, that our values will ultimately be represented and heard.
I am so proud to be a part of this team with you! Because though you, too, have been warned. And though you, too, have been given explanations as to why your expectations won’t be met. #YouPersist! Keep it up you amazing fighters, you! This fight is far, far from being over.
xo,
- Wendy
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