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To win this fight. - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Something very special happened this past weekend in the North Country of New York, where about 2,000 people from Elise Stefanik’s rural district showed up to talk about healthcare. It was a realization that to win this fight and get people the care they need, we have to be willing to get vulnerable. To share our stories.
This town hall was different - people shared both their questions and their testimony. And miraculous things happened. People started sharing and teaching each other how they were organizing to support the family of a local child with cancer. A trans woman stood up and said she wasn’t going to stop being herself in public and everyone rallied around in applause to embrace her. People began to look around the room and realize that they weren’t alone, and that maybe it isn’t so crazy to challenge the people in power after all.
In order to turn our country around, the changes ahead of us are not just political and intellectual pursuits. They are cultural, emotional, and spiritual shifts to connect and care for one another too - so that we have the knowledge but also the strength, the will, and the solidarity with our neighbors to demand a better world.
Thank you, Plattsburgh. Let’s move forward together. ❤️
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