“Tuesday gave us, for the first time, a politics of possibility," says TN Democratic State Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social of sweeping Democratic off-year election victories in states across the country. "A politics of redemption, of redeeming the soul of who America can be." #Velshi
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TN State Rep on working in the minority, against the odds: ‘Democracy is built up in the margins’
Tenn. Rep. Justin Jones is compelled to run for office even when the odds are stacked against him and to serve, even as part of a Democratic super-minority in a deep-red state legislature. “And even when I vote,” he tells Ali Velshi, “I always write out my dissents because I want to send them as a love letter to the next generation to say, ‘This is where we stood. This is why we stood. And we hope that by the time you read this … in the history books, you know that we were laying the groundwork for you
to inherit this victory.’”
