that doesn t just mean voting in election, even off-year elections, and it means organizing knocking on doors and running for office and donating. it means showing up at the protests when our democratic norms are violated. after all, if tens of thousands of russians can stand up it a regime that violently represses dissent, we can do it after we re burned out after four years of donald trump. after the shock of 2016, citizens got to work reorganizing, reaping and repairing our democracy, a rising multicultural america flooded the polls on levels not seen in a century using balance to push back on the reckless attempts on our country and institutions. we have organized, out volunteered and out marched and ran for office in thousands and thousands of record numbers and the hard truth about democracy is that any relationship worth its salt, it needs love and