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I remember Election Day 2016 like it was yesterday.
I’d been up until 3am the night before. The kids had cried themselves to sleep.
On the way to drop my middle schooler off at the bus stop, he asked me a horrible question.
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I’d been up until 3am the night before. The kids had cried themselves to sleep.
On the way to drop my middle schooler off at the bus stop, he asked me a horrible question.
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(2) “Mom,” he said anxiously, looking out the window at one of his friends who is Iranian. “Will Sophie have to leave?”
“I hope not,” I replied. But I couldn’t make any promises. I had no idea how bad it might get. The Muslim ban in the following weeks confirmed our worst fears.
“I hope not,” I replied. But I couldn’t make any promises. I had no idea how bad it might get. The Muslim ban in the following weeks confirmed our worst fears.
(3) When I walked my daughter into her preschool, it was strangely quiet. Moms passed each other in the hall, eyes downcast. There was no laughter or cheerful greetings.
In the parking lot, the woman in the car next to me was hunched over her steering wheel crying.
In the parking lot, the woman in the car next to me was hunched over her steering wheel crying.
(4) Those days we stumbled through felt shell-shocked. As if we’d fallen asleep in one country and woken up in another.
But gradually as the grief faded, our anger grew. And we organized. And amplified and fought side by side.
We created the blue wave in 2018.
But gradually as the grief faded, our anger grew. And we organized. And amplified and fought side by side.
We created the blue wave in 2018.
(5) The resistance ushered in a new era of activism and civic engagement. We all learned how to make kickass protest signs, put the number to Congress on speed dial, and learned how to wash pepper spray out of our eyes.
We are not the people we were in 2016.
We are not the people we were in 2016.
(6) No matter what happens, we will persist. American didn’t slide into authoritarianism overnight. It’ll be the work of a lifetime to dig it out again.
Tonight, tomorrow, this week, I hope we’ll celebrate victories. And then get back to work.
We’ve got a democracy to save.
Tonight, tomorrow, this week, I hope we’ll celebrate victories. And then get back to work.
We’ve got a democracy to save.
