I have not allowed myself to have any hope about the #GASen runoffs until now.

If you've seen me on here in recent years you know me as someone who welcomes all allies and wants the tent to be as big as possible. No more so than the past four years.

And yet...

...if Democrats manage to hold the presidency and both chambers of Congress for two years, you may not recognize me, because that will be *the* window to get years and years and years of backlogged progress all done.

I am old enough at this point in my life to know that with the multilayered ways the right has found ways to retain power, an opportunity like this is *extremely* rare, and the only way to make it less rare is to exercise that power.

We are fast falling behind the rest of the advanced nations. This is the window to regain some of our lost stature on so many fronts, both material and immaterial.

The opportunity cannot be squandered.

Big, fundamental reforms in:

Gerrymandering
Electoral College
SCOTUS
Voting Rights
Campaign Finance
Safety Net

From these reforms, critically important policy can be enacted.

Statehood for DC and PR (if it wants it), too.

Consider for a moment, if elected public servants represented the will of those they represented, rather than the need for big money or fear of RW media or a Trump tweet.

That's how gov't is supposed to work, and reforming gerrymandering, e.g., would be a huge step forward.

And you, newly or re-elected congressional Democrat, by your vote to loosen the straitjackets on our representative gov't, you may quickly lose your seat, and you may not get to that policy initiative you wanted to enact.

But your work will make your policy's future more viable.

I think about those - what was it, less than a year? - Democrats had this opportunity in recent history.

In that short time they saved lives and livelihoods and a lot of good Democrats lost their seats for it.

This time let's do that *and* make the civic reform needed to make those opportunities occur more often.

None of this matters if the #GASen runoffs don't work out.

For which, *thank you*, Georgia voters. You have already saved the nation.

I am grateful that you have, once more, a chance to save the future.