In March, the Biden administration’s American Rescue Plan, a historic $1.9 trillion stimulus bill, was passed by Congress in response to the economic devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic. Among its many initiatives, it granted $1,400 to people earning under $75,000 a year and, with the Child Tax Credit, lifted approximately 5.5 million children out of poverty. It’s not hyperbolic to say that without the voter protection and registration efforts of Stacey Abrams in Georgia, this would not have happened. Her organization Fair Fight helped turn Georgia blue and sent Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, after close runoffs, to Congress. This, of course, gave Democrats control of the Senate and the simple ability, after years of obstruction, to get things done.
A former tax lawyer–turned–voting rights activist, Abrams has, rightly,…
