We get together to cheer on our sports teams. In the spring and summer, we go to fish fries and invite our neighbors to a game of cornhole. 

We don’t think twice about helping a stranger change a tire, or bringing a meal to a sick neighbor. We joined together across race and place to raise the minimum wage in 2006, protect workers’ rights to speak up together in 2011 and demand equal representation with fair legislative maps in 2015 and 2018. 

But today, in their desperate attempts to hold on to their power, certain politicians are pitting us against each other based on where we live, who we love, or what we look like — hoping we’ll look the other way while they rig the rules to profit their wealthy corporate backers. They’ve refused to pay us the value of our work, hurt our families, locked up our loved-ones and taken years off our lives.