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Last week, voting rights advocate (and icon) Stacey Abrams testified before the Tennessee Senate Judiciary Committee in Nashville in opposition of the Republican (white supremacy) redraw of our state’s congressional maps that eliminates the Black-majority (and lone Democratic) district of Memphis.

During her testimony, Stacey said, “Democracy is an action — one that says I will share my power with those I disagree with because it is the only way to guarantee our common future. Backsliding into authoritarianism, where one party and one race holds dominion is unworthy of the Volunteer State. Whether by consequence or intention, it is wrong. It is unworthy of a nation that revolted when power was held by the few — a truth we celebrate 250 years hence.
Rigged maps that decide elections before a single vote is cast — and politicians who rig elections so it’s impossible for them to lose — this is not democracy. This is cowardice.”

Thank you, Stacey, for standing on the side of democracy, and on the side of Memphis!