John, as
President Joe Biden said Wednesday, “democracy has prevailed.”

Wednesday’s inauguration of President Biden and Vice President Kamala
Harris, and the swearing in of Georgia Senators Raphael Warnock and John
Ossoff, was proof that, though tested unlike any time in our lifetime, our
democracy still holds and that “the people have been heard.”

But for how long?

I don’t need to tell you that we’re confronted by the greatest set of
challenges known to any generation — vaccinating an entire country before
hundreds of thousands more Americans die; creating good jobs that get
people back to work and purpose in their lives; confronting climate change
before it’s too late — these are the kind of threats that will take a
nation working in concert to overcome.

And yet, at the moment we need a robust response from a government “of the
people”, our democracy is on the ropes. It’s not just the attempted coup
on January 6th, or the seditionist work from inside the Capitol led by Ted
Cruz and Josh Hawley. It’s decades of big money and corporate influence
corroding the connections between people and their representatives. And
it’s more than a century of voter suppression that has targeted
communities of color in an effort to restrict the franchise and
consolidate power.

You are receiving this email because you’re part of Powered by People, a
grassroots effort to strengthen and expand our democracy. We work to
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infrastructure in the most voter suppressed state in the country. And we
organize and empower volunteers, by the thousands, to do this work.

I can’t think of a more important moment for us to be so fully engaged in
the fight. Because, while it’s wonderful that Trump is gone and Joe Biden
is now our President, new leadership in the White House is not going to be
enough.

We won’t overcome the challenges we face if we aren’t pushing every day
to, as Governor Ann Richards said, “let the people in.” The enemies of
democracy aren’t taking a break, neither can we. No rest for the weary, no
respite for those in the fight.

That’s how we’ll save our democracy AND build lasting Democratic
majorities than can see through the most important and the most ambitious
national agenda America has ever had.

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This year we will build on the work of the more than 20,000 volunteers who
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than 200,000 new Texas voters ahead of the November election and one of
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We will work county by county to remove barriers to voting and improve the
ability of our fellow Texans to register and to be counted in our
elections. And we will continue the effort of transforming the most voter
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Thanks for being in this fight with us.

Beto


 


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