Because every vote counts.
The most stunning people in this country right now are those who use their strength and grit to create, to challenge, to say no, to embrace yes. For our July issue, we spoke to journalists, athletes, actors, and political activists about the beauty of seizing, and boldly acting on, our power. You can check out all the interviews in our America the Beautiful seriesOur diversity is incredibly powerful.
There are those who have tried to transmute our beauty into an ugliness, but what is so resilient about America is the fact that we have resisted that notion that we are less than because we are different. Part of what makes beauty sustainable is not just its existence, but how it responds in times of trouble.
In the recent elections in Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, North Dakota, and around the country, we’ve seen attacks on the right to vote, and I think that’s a fundamental attack on our democracy. In neighborhood after neighborhood and state after state, people are standing up and saying we want more democracy and better democracy.
My parents were civil rights activists when they were teenagers, and they raised us to understand that democracy is made real by the votes of the people, and therefore your responsibility is to defend that right to vote. I’ve spent most of my adult life helping people get registered, not knowing that I would need to do that for an election that was 20 years in the future. I did it because I’ve always believed that our democracy is one of our hallmarks — it is why America is beautiful.
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