Thread by @joshfoxfilm

1) I voted for @HillaryClinton in 2016, and campaigned for her.

I loathed her campaign and many of her positions.

I voted for her because the movement I am a part of helped shape the Democratic Platform and because I knew we could apply pressure.

But mostly I voted bc...

I wanted to own some small piece of responsibility for what came next.

I voted for her so that she would have been MY President and MY responsibility-to push her, protest her, goad her and move her at every stage.

Democracy is a responsibility. My vote for her was one small..

piece of the power we hold collectively. We must hold our representatives to account, and by my actions I was owning this responsibility- not excluding myself fro it. It was my commitment to the progress of our movement and to our mutual ownership of the government.

Of course, although I still hold no illusions about how terrible Hillary is, but should would have been much better for this country than Trump. We would never have known the names of Kavanaugh and Gorsuch. Our 2016 Dem Platform took real climate action. We would still be

In the Paris accords on climate change- a crucial first step. And so many other positive and important things.

I feel the same way about @JoeBiden. I will vote to own his Presidency and take part in the future of the nation.

I have seen Joe be moved by our movement -

Far more than Hillary, in fact. He is campaigning on a two trillion dollar climate plan. That is HUGE! @KamalaHarris is the first black and south Asian woman ever to run as VP. Also HUGE.

I believe in our movement to push them further.

I am voting my conscience. #BidenHarris

Please consider your vote as a commitment to progress and to change. Vote like you have “skin in the game” as @AOC said last night. Vote like your life is in the line.

Because it is.

Own your power and own your stake in all this.

We must stop fascism. We must have change.