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Friend,
I often repeat the best insight about hope I have heard: that hope is more
the consequence of action than its cause. That’s something I return to
every day in my work, and share everywhere I go. If we wait around for
hope to appear on its own, we’ll be waiting much too long.
When we choose to build hope – through the choices we make right now –
then we start to shape the future instead of just bracing for it.
Our own history teaches this lesson. We’ve lived through disorienting and
even terrifying periods as a country – moments marked by division, fear,
and a sense that the ground was shifting under our feet. Today’s chaos is
often described as “unprecedented,” but in many ways it is not. We’ve seen
upheaval before, and found our way through.
Knowing our past should fortify us for the work of building a better
future. The periods we look back on as the most consequential – eras that
produced the leaders we admire, moments when ordinary people stepped up
and changed the course of history – were far from pleasant and comfortable
times. They were moments of upheaval, confusion, even chaos. That’s
precisely why we admire the Americans who navigated them.
Now it’s our turn.
The more that gets torn down in this era – norms, customs, agencies,
institutions, alliances, relationships, trust – the more important the
work ahead of us to build new things up. The sooner we orient ourselves
toward the country we want to hand to the next generation, refusing to
obsess over some lost past or the disappointing present, the sooner we can
bring it into being.
Win the Era was built for that purpose: to prepare for what comes after
this moment, and to make sure that long after Trump fades from the
political stage, we have leaders in place who will strengthen our
democracy rather than degrade it.
But none of that work happens automatically. It happens because people
like you decide that the future is worth fighting for.
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but out of the belief that what we do now can shape the century ahead.
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Thank you,
Pete
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Pete Buttigieg is a husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner.
He formerly served as the 19th US Secretary of Transportation and Mayor of
South Bend. Now, he’s committed to supporting emerging leaders, showing up
in communities we too often ignore, and helping win more elections.
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