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Melody Barnes, Executive Director, University of Virginia’s Karsh Institute of Democracy, left, at a meeting at UVA. Photo courtesy Karsh Institute of Democracy
We often believe that democracy means whatever is important to us. Democracy means addressing climate change. Democracy means lowering taxes. Democracy means passing immigration reform. Democracy means eliminating regulation. In reality, democracy allows us to take on all these issues.
But democracy itself is much more foundational. It’s the way we govern ourselves. —writes Melody Barnes, Executive director, University of Virginia’s Karsh Institute of Democracy.
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Julie Hendricks, a Navy veteran, speaks with another veteran during training for poll workers in Fairfax County, Virginia. Hendricks is director of operations for We the Veterans and Military Families. Photos by Christopher Tyree // VCIJ at WHRO
After graduating from the Naval Academy and serving 12 years as a helicopter pilot and instructor, Julie Hendricks has taken on a new commission — poll worker.
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Lindsay Church speaking at a press conference in front of the Capitol building July 2020 demanding justice for murdered service member, Specialist Vanessa Guillén.
Navy vet and minority advocate Lindsay Church’s personal and public life merged when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade
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