Dear John:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (z’’l) transformed our lives again and again: With her victories for women’s rights, with her galvanizing dissents on behalf of workers, with her guts and fortitude -- and, this weekend, with her loss.
I learned the news of her passing after logging on to Zoom Rosh Hashanah services on Friday evening. The chat filled up immediately with our heartbreak and some of our darkest fears. But also with our recommitment to carry on her fights.
May her memory be for a blessing, we said. And for a revolution.
Now it’s on us to make it so. As devastated and terrified as we are, thankfully, the path before us is extremely clear: Demand that our Senators do everything in their power (and then some) to heed her dying wish to not be replaced until a new president is sworn in. Fight like hell to flip the Senate. Mobilize every last voter to kick Trump out of the White House. And then, we can get to work rebuilding and transforming our democratic institutions to ensure justice and liberation for all of us.
We’re ready already. We’re phone banking every Wednesday evening to help Democrats win the Senate and the Presidency.
If you can’t make it, can you chip in to help us reach more people with this organizing effort?
In the coming weeks, we’ll be making calls to help Sara Gideon defeat Republican Senator Susan Collins in Maine and Jaime Harrison beat Senator Lindsey Graham in South Carolina. We’re partnering with grassroots organizations like Make the Road and Persist Brooklyn to get out the vote and prepare for the fights ahead.
We know that you are taking action in so many other ways too. Thank you for all you are doing. It’s what RBG would expect of us.
As Rebecca Traister wrote so powerfully: “The fate of American democracy and the planet should never have rested on this one woman’s small, old shoulders.”
It doesn’t. It rests on all of us.
-- Brad
