Stacey Abrams’s campaign to fight authoritarianism gains steam: ‘We are a force multiplier’

Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate has brought together a wide tranche of civic groups to build a groundwork to defend democracy

Stacey Abrams, the former Georgia gubernatorial candidate, will announce on Thursday that the campaign she launched last year to fight authoritarianism in the US has attracted dozens of new partners, representing millions of voters, to form a coalition.

Abrams, a Yale-trained lawyer and former minority leader of the Georgia house, was the first Black woman to win a major party nomination for a gubernatorial race in 2018. After her second loss to Brian Kemp in 2022, she receded from the spotlight, taking a teaching position at Howard University in 2023. In the wake of Donald Trump’s re-election, she launched 10 Steps, an initiative to organize and mobilize opposition to the threat to democracy posed by authoritarian policies in the administration and the Republican party.

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Source: www.theguardian.com

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