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@sophiabush : This is what democracy looks like! And we are just getting started. • I know that we had some tough defeats yesterday. But we had so many great wins! For justice! Healthcare! Representation! Y’all. This is just the beginning. This is the start of restoring checks and balances. Women are going to lead us. And very specifically women of color. Black women, Latinx women, Muslim women, and Native American women have all won incredible victories! • We are celebrating Colorado electing the first openly gay governor, Jared Polis. And Key West, Florida elected its first lesbian openly lesbian mayor in the state. Former commissioner Teri Johnston! These are fantastic wins for the LGBTQ community, as is the #YesOn3 victory in Massachusetts. It’s an anti-discrimination ballot measure that explicitly protects “transgender people from discrimination in public spaces like restaurants, hotels and hospitals.” The Trevor Project called this a campaign “for fighting to protect the basic rights of transgender individuals across the state.” • Voting rights won major victories with Laura Kelly defeating notorious vote-suppressor Kris Kobach in Kansas. And Florida passed Amendment 4, restoring voting rights to over 1.4 million Floridians, who were being denied this right because of prior felony convictions, despite having paid their debt to society! This is major. • In Virginia, gun sense advocates won a major victory, unseating NRA darling Republican Barbara Comstock, who lost her race to Democrat Jennifer Wexton. This is what the tireless advocacy of groups like @momsdemand is capable of! • Both @laurenaunderwood and @ocasio2018 won incredible victories for young women! Underwood is the youngest black woman running for Congress this year, and Ocasio-Cortez is the youngest women ever elected to Congress! • In Wisconsin, Tony Evers won a major victory for public education when he unseated Scott Walker, who routinely attacked public schools and their teachers. • There is more work to be