Stacey Abrams
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50 appearances
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 7 Aug
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First of all, thank you so much for having me, Michael.
And, yes, we have seen that energy.
I was there.
I testified in front of the Senate committee, a committee that convened and passed a map it had not yet drawn.
The Senate Minority Leader, Ramesh Akbari, asked for a copy of the map, and they said, well, we haven't drawn it yet, but we know what we're doing.
And as you pointed out, they intended to dismantle black voting power because they intend to dismantle democracy.
And I think it's so important that we recognize that while they target black voters for their animus, their intention is to dismantle democracy for all of us.
They just start with the community they think is the easiest to attack.
But what has always happened and what we saw happen that day, I testified that morning.
But that evening, I was in a church that was packed with more than 200 people who gathered to protest those maps, but also to start planning what could they do in response.
And what we know is that...
It's taken them 61 years to get what they wanted, which is a return to Jim Crow, a return to a moment where the 15th Amendment didn't actually work for everyone in this country.
But if it took them 60 years to dismantle it, we don't have 60 years to wait to rebuild it.
And now is the time for us to believe that we not only have the power and the agency, we have the numbers.
And that's why they're so aggressively angry, because across Memphis, across Mississippi, across Louisiana and Texas and Georgia,
communities of color are rising, uniting and voting.
And the more we vote, the angrier they get, the more terrified they become.
And that means it's working.
And that means our power is real.
Well, we know that the way voter suppression works, there are three component pieces.
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