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Good folks in Michigan saving our Democracy

 Yesterday, when two republican Wayne County Board of Canvassers (William Hartmann and Monica Palmer) refused to certify the votes of Black Americans in Detroit, the outrage from Michigan voters was so quick and so overwhelming that within hours they reversed themselves and certified the votes.  Keep in mind that Hartmann and Palmer were questioning a couple hundred votes (Trump lost Wayne County by more than 300,000 votes), and both made it perfectly clear that they were happy to certify white votes, just not black votes.

After the Constitutional Convention Benjamin Franklin was asked what kind of government had been created for America and Franklin famously responded, "A republic, if you can keep it."  If we do indeed save our Democracy from Donald Trump and his minions, I have no doubt that the actions of Michigan Democrats yesterday to cry foul and call for our better angels to guide us will be taught ages hence to our school children as an important moment in the salvaging of our great nation.

Ned Staebler, a Democratic activist and businessman, gave an impassioned speech that--and I say this with all due respect to hyperbole--may go down with Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty or give me death" speech as one of the most important and courageous in our history:

In the end, republicans like to talk about heroes, but Democrats actually become them and in so doing, come to represent the moral center that has held us together for 144 years.

256,000+ Dead Americans Because of Donald Trump's Incompetence

Fuck Donald Trump,

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