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LIVE ELECTION NIGHT CHAT @ 5:00 pm PT TONIGHT!

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We Need to Stop Playing Trump’s Game

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It is long past time to stop playing Trump’s game of racism, hate, misogyny, and abject greed. If Trump is elected, he will end democracy as we know it. Harris will preserve it and work to make it better and far more inclusive so we can have it, as Lincoln said, a more perfect union. It will only happen if you vote.