Every now and then I need something that reminds me about who we are.
I go back to Election Night 2008.
https://youtu.be/jJfGx4G8tjo
After 8 years we had worked to get people to vote and get our government back.
Now here we are 12 years later, after 4 years of anxiety, stress and even this year of nightmares, possibly on the cusp of starting our way back to what we were that night.
I know this is not the end of this. This is hopefully the beginning of us getting back to where we thought we were.
And now all we can do is hope that the systems and institutions that run our elections are strong enough to resist this administration's attempt to wrest control from the democracy we have left.