The battle for democracy is the fight of a lifetime

By: Brian Lyman

Outlets: Alabama Reflector

Published: May 12, 2026

Words: 839

Last Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago

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We’re going to save this country.

That’s not an aim or a goal. That’s a promise.

It’s what the men and women rebuilding Jim Crow should fear. And it’s what we Americans owe each other.

The Supreme Court made the law an arm of Republican policy. It spat on the blood shed on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. And it is doing all it can to nullify the 14th and 15th amendments.

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