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i mean, hard but very, very clear truth. alexis, i have quoted you al year long ever since i heard you tell people to or, askin if they were going to step u or drive it like they stole it about democracy. and when i look at the dobbs decision, it left 34 million women and trans men living i some states with some kind o abortion ban in some places, though democracy is doing what it was designed to do because voters, they went to the polls and the changed the way they governed. every single state that ha abortion access on the ballo in november, they voted to keep, i think that is monumental but it s also important for us to realize that as we speak, reproductive rights are stil being fought for in courts all across our country so, what is next in this battl for women, for people wh believe that, you know politicians don t belong in ou doctors offices? well, you set a whole wor there, right, symone i think what we ve seen this