There are SO many people to be grateful for in Georgia. Regular, grassroots, brilliant af, folks that have been building for y e a r s w/very little resources (until recently & even now it’s not what they deserve) to make this “impossible” thing possible.
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The moral of the story is that a Black-led, multiracial—shoutout to the Latinx and AAPI organizing that got the goods—united front did it again. And all praise to Black women. The ones you know and the ones you don’t.
And...guess what...
There are folks that are doing the same damn thing in every Southern state.
Texas—i see you. You got next right? ( & Texas Working Families Party BIG love and solidarity)
Tennessee-i see you. ( whaaaaaats good?!?)
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Kentucky and North Carolina been doing big things!
Alabama—i mean! (Remember Doug Jones?....)
Mississippi—did y’all forget who the mayor of the capital city has been and is? C’mon!!!
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Florida—the Black/Brown organizing down there nearly won this round. You really think it’ll be that much longer before the numbers outweigh the voter suppression. (Hint: the win is coming)
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West Virginia—trying big and exciting things in the realm of electoral justice!!! In Appalachia!!!! (You should be dancing and shouting in celebration at this point...)
I. COULD. Go. On.
But i think you get the point.
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We’re not twiddling our thumbs down here waiting on coastal elites to save us. We’re building on the long radical traditions that are our inheritance to change the material conditions of our region ourselves.
And we’re winning.
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