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What Trump Has Taken From Us

He has made civic involvement a life-threatening proposition.
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I am appalled, as so many Americans are, that Donald Trump and his team assaulted our elections, but today I’m thinking about how the assault on election officials across the nation is an even deeper wound that will take years to heal.

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