{"id":45941,"date":"2021-01-06T23:58:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T04:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=45941"},"modified":"2021-01-12T13:24:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T18:24:53","slug":"impeach-trump-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/impeach-trump-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Impeach Trump Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t want the domestic terrorism that took place in Washington, D.C., today to sap all the joy out of the yesterday’s huge achievement: Georgia’s election of two Democratic senators, Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff<\/a>. Warnock is the first Black person to win a Senate seat in Georgia; Ossoff is the first Jew. Their wins gave control of the Senate to Democrats. With a Democratic majority in the House of Representatives as well, and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in the White House, we are going to get things done.\u00a0 How do I know that?\u00a0 I see first-hand in New York that the activism and organizing that got us here isn’t going away. In fact, I’ll be in touch with my senators — one of whom is the new Senate Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer<\/a> — even more than before, because they won’t be able to blame any stasis on Mitch McConnell anymore.<\/p>\n

And I’m utterly confident that the great organizers — particularly Black women — who labored for years to flip Georgia are going to continue their work with passion. Our heroes include Stacey Abram<\/a>s and\u00a0Lauren Groh-Wargo of Fair Fight<\/a>; LaTosha Brown and Cliff Albright, founders of Black Voters Matter<\/a>;\u00a0Nse Ufot, CEO of New Georgia Project<\/a> (check out NGP’s lively Instagram feed<\/a>);\u00a0Helen Butler, executive director of the Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda<\/a>;\u00a0Rebecca DeHart, the CEO of Fair Count<\/a>;\u00a0Deborah Scott, the executive director of Georgia Strategic Alliance for New Directions and Unified Policies (GA STAND-UP)<\/a>; Tamieka Atkins, the executive director of ProGeorgia<\/a>; and, of course, the many, many people who worked with these organizations and others.<\/p>\n

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"The way I talk about community power is like electricity: Thomas Edison didn\u2019t create electricity. What he created was a conduit to organize the energy and direct it. It was already there."<\/p>\n

\u2014@MsLaToshaBrown<\/a>https:\/\/t.co\/ridwrwLWsJ<\/a><\/p>\n

— GEN (@GENmag) January 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n