Want to stand on the front lines protecting democracy and knowing we could move forward but if all citis stand up as truth sell tellers and stay engaged because the goal is it is dangerous? it is, yes. but defending democracy throughout the history of our country has always met up against certain threats and particularly in a moment like this where violent threats, hateful rhetoric and divisive balance in our political arena, it is what we have to sign up to encounter if we re going to defend the basis of who we are as americans and make sure our democracy em ernls out of this moment. i hope stronger than ever. and there is a whole new, madam secretary, issue being thrown into this fire burping in our politics and that is the issue now over abortion. michigan is one of nine states that has pre-roe laws that criminalize abortion and those laws are on the books, if roe