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If we fail in that, everything else fails.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more at Common Dreams: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views\/2021\/03\/09\/war-democracy-and-voting-rights-under-way\"><em><strong>The War on Democracy and Voting Rights Is Under Way<\/strong><\/em>:  Witness the state legislatures: The Brennan Center for Justice has, as of Feb. 19, identified more than&nbsp;250&nbsp;bills that would roll back voting rights in 43 states.<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great fight right now in this country, in the Spring of 2021, has ramifications for every issue we hold dear; it applies to the fight against racism, it applies to the environment, it is critical to the support of science, to the work to stop the pandemic, and it applies hugely to the rights&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Great Fight Now - John Shirley Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/john-shirley.com\/blog\/the-great-fight-now\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Great Fight Now - John Shirley Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The great fight right now in this country, in the Spring of 2021, has ramifications for every issue we hold dear; 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