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Stacey Abrams: “My nieces and nephews have lost civil rights during their…”

Featuring: Stacey Abrams, Democratic | Former Candidate, Governor of Georgia

One-on-One with Stacey Abrams | Cap Times Idea Fest 2025

Published September 10, 2025 | Video Starts at 47:36

I'm the first generation of Abram's children to be born with full citizenship in the United States of America. That should not be so. And My nieces and nephews have lost civil rights during their lifetime. That also should not be so. And so gerrymandering is not an abstract concept. And anything that we can do to stop the erosion of democratic rights in this country, we should do. (47:36–47:41)

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