Insistence over Resistance, with Stacey Abrams
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MS NOW, Eugene Daniels, Symone Sanders Townsend
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Stacey Abrams wears a lot of hats. |
| 0:10.4 | She's served in the Georgia State House for a decade. |
| 0:12.9 | She's also a lawyer and author of both fiction and nonfiction, and she's an activist. |
| 0:18.1 | She was an absolute force in boosting voter turnout |
| 0:21.2 | in her home state of Georgia, |
| 0:22.7 | helping with a bunch of outside groups |
| 0:24.4 | to register over 800,000 new voters in the state |
| 0:27.3 | between 2016 and 2020, |
| 0:29.4 | leading to the first Democratic presidential win in Georgia |
| 0:32.0 | in almost three decades. |
| 0:33.7 | We talked a lot about how Democrats |
| 0:35.4 | can find their way out of the wilderness. We can't fight the last war and think we'll win the next battle. |
| 0:41.3 | That means we need to learn what we need to learn. |
| 0:44.3 | What mistakes did we make? What could we have done better? |
| 0:46.3 | But the environment also changes. |
| 0:49.3 | And so when we spend all of our time looking back at what we didn't do, |
| 0:52.3 | we're not looking forward to what we can create. She's run and lost some tough campaigns, but the thing about Stacy is she hasn't |
| 1:00.0 | stopped showing up and doing the work to expand accessibility and participation, and also to build |
| 1:05.9 | the tools to try to win the next fight. It is to me not just a call to action. It is a moral imperative |
| 1:12.3 | that I find ways to be involved. And that's why when I don't win an election, I don't disappear. |
| 1:17.7 | That's a tool. Politics is a tool for the world that I want to see. But it's not the only tool. |
| 1:23.5 | This is the blueprint with Jen Saki. |
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