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Students show their antifascist colors

North Carolina has been here before. From 2013 through 2018, Republicans had a veto-proof supermajority in the Legislature. They engaged in a series of power grabs. North Carolina’s citizens can rally to save the state’s democracy once again.

Why we need to learn that when we defend abortion rights, we’re defending democracy.

A really important piece of the abortion rights story has gotten little attention the past few weeks: even if mifepristone is severely restricted, we have another option.

By more than two-to-one, Americans say medication abortion should be legal in their state.

"Today's ruling from a MAGA judge—who was hand-selected to hear this case by the anti-abortion activists who brought it—is an audacious act of judicial meddling in our personal healthcare decisions," said one reproductive rights campaigner.

By forum-shopping their way to a hearing before a zealot judge, conservatives hope to win an unwinnable case—and not for the first time.

Ten thousand Americans turn 60 every day, and on average we’ll live another 23 years. We’ll vote in huge numbers, as we always do. One possibility is that we’ll help turn back the clock a little, toward the world we actually built in our youth.

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