The power of our democracy is that the people choose our leaders to represent us, not the other way around.
But in the face of the growing political power of Black and brown communities, the power-hungry politicians of Tennessee are doing everything they can to silence our voices and disenfranchise our communities.
They redrew congressional maps to break up Nashville to dilute the growing power of black and brown communities. They shrunk the size of the Nashville metro council from 40 to 20 members, forcing the city to redraw districts, eliminating leaders that represent our communities and throwing the city into political chaos. They're coming after local authority in every city that dares challenge them. They expel democratically elected members of the state legislature. All of these attacks are tied together. They see our power, and they're doing everything they can to stop it.
But we aren't backing down. We are registering voters and organizing our communities to turn out for every election and elect leaders that will build a state that works for all of us. For years our movements have been fighting to defend and build a truly multiracial and pluralistic democracy in our state–and we won’t give up now.
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