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The Amazon blurb says that: From New York Times bestselling author of Lead From The Outside and political leader Stacey Abrams, a blueprint to end voter suppression, empower our citizens, and take back our country.

"With each page, she inspires and empowers us to create systems that reflect a world in which all voices are heard and all people believe and feel that they matter."—Kerry Washington

A recognized expert on fair voting and civic engagement, Abrams chronicles a chilling account of how the right to vote and the principle of democracy have been and continue to be under attack. Abrams would have been the first African American woman governor, but experienced these effects firsthand, despite running the most innovative race in modern politics as the Democratic nominee in Georgia. Abrams didn’t win, but she has not conceded. The book compellingly argues for the importance of robust voter protections, an elevation of identity politics, engagement in the census, and a return to moral international leadership.

Stacey Abrams

Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America draws on extensive research from national organizations and renowned scholars, as well as anecdotes from her life and others’ who have fought throughout our country’s history for the power to be heard. The stakes could not be higher. Here are concrete solutions and inspiration to stand up for who we are—now.

"This is a narrative that describes the urgency that compels me and millions more to push for a different American story than the one being told today. It's a story that is one part danger, one part action, and all true. It's a story about how and why we fight for our democracy and win."—Stacey Abrams

A People Magazine Book of the Week

“Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America is not a political memoir or a long-form résumé; rather, it is a striking manifesto, a stirring indictment and a straightforward road map to victory...She portrays her constituents and their concerns in such a way that they feel more actual than symbolic, more individual than indicative. When she turns her gaze onto her family, her narrative gifts are in full flower." —Tayari Jones, The New York Times Book Review

The right to vote is the foundation of our freedom and a key pillar of our democracy, and we must all fight to ensure that all Americans have a say in their nation’s future

"Stacey Abrams’ powerful, deeply moving book shines a bright light on the ongoing attacks on the sacred, constitutional right to the ballot. Stacey provides everyday Americans and political leaders alike with the tools that are urgently needed to confront and defeat the forces that seek to deny Americans their voice in our democracy. The right to vote is the foundation of our freedom and a key pillar of our democracy, and we must all fight to ensure that all Americans have a say in their nation’s future." —Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

Brian Kemp seems to have cheated in the Governor's race against Stacey Abrams

“The tensions between patience and urgency, between fear and resolve, between the promise of someday and the demands of right now, are at the heart of Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America. Abrams covers plenty of territory—identity politics, voting rights, and the frustrations and revelations of her gubernatorial race but above all, she writes about the grinding work required to make real the compact of democratic participation.” —The Washington Post

"Stacey Abrams’s Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America outlines a dynamic blueprint for how each of us can reshape the future of our democracy. Her ability to rise above her own political struggles and transform her learned experience into a saving grace for marginalized communities is breathtaking. With each page, she inspires and empowers us to create systems that reflect a world in which all voices are heard and all people believe and feel that they matter." —Kerry Washington

The pushmi-pullyu from Dr. Dolittle is a perfect example or metaphor for our partisan gridlock, polarization, and hopeless debates about everything, leading to radicalism, Antifa, KKK increases, alt-right rallies, witch-hunts, impeachment, and political paralysis

“A detailed exposé of how our democracy has been eroded—and a plan to fix it, from an up-and-coming national leader. If you are feeling hopeless about politics, this well-informed blueprint for change may begin to restore your faith.” —Kirkus Reviews, *starred review*

"No one understands the dangers or realities of voter suppression quite like Abrams. Her expertise and passion for the rights of underrepresented people should be igniting to anyone who cares about democracy. Sign me up for the future that Stacey Abrams envisions." —Hasan Minaj, host of "The Patriot Act"

“Stacey Abrams' practical approach is inspiring, even comforting, in the current moment.” —People

"From climate change to income inequality, voter suppression is threatening to undermine the most important issues facing our country today. This book is a must read for anyone who wants to see our democracy reflect the will of all people, and not just the will of America’s most privileged." —Issa Rae, writer and producer

If U.S. polarization continues and radical Democrats keep pulling election interference stunts like indicting a popular former president with 91 'felonies,' we can kiss democracy goodbye and we're headed for Civil War

“For a nation in the throes of a pandemic and wracked by four years of polarized politics, this is an important and timely book.” —Booklist, *starred review*

"Stacey Abrams is not only a passionate advocate of democracy, but also an inspiring example of how to practice it. Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America, she exposes systematic voter suppression efforts across America, and tells us what we need to do to fight back. This book is an essential toolkit for citizens of all backgrounds who believe, as I do, that democracy is not a spectator sport." —Madeleine K. Albright, former United States Secretary of State

"Following her historic run for Governor of Georgia in 2018, Stacey Abrams led a nationwide effort to empower and enfranchise voters to participate in our democratic process. With Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America, she’s now set out a comprehensive roadmap for engaging those voters, tearing down barriers to participation, and making our democracy live up to its highest ideals." —Julian Castro, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Of course, if she really wants to be making our democracy live up to its highest ideals she will have to face the elephant in the room: today's liberals want nothing to do with democracy, the Constitution, or the Founders highest ideals. Instead they want wokeism, Marxism, critical race theory, and children exposed to porn, all of which would make the Founders and the Republicans and most Democrats upchuck.

You may need to upchuck once you read what the radical antiAmerican Marxists have done to our democracy and our schools (of course, you won't find these truths in this book!)

“[An] impassioned and carefully researched account…Blending personal history, statistical analysis, and detailed policy proposals, Abrams presents a persuasive, if wonkish, argument that any progressive legislative agenda must begin with voting reform. Liberals will be inspired.” —Publishers Weekly

“Stacey Abrams’s new book isn’t a traditional political memoir…[it’s] an in-depth history of voting rights in this country and an analysis of what the future may hold if lawmakers fix voter suppression nationwide—or if they do not.”—Fortune

Stacey Abrams is an author, serial entrepreneur, nonprofit CEO and political leader. After eleven years in the Georgia House of Representatives, seven as Minority Leader, Abrams became the 2018 Democratic nominee for Governor of Georgia, where she won more votes than any other Democrat in the state’s history. She has founded multiple organizations devoted to voting rights, training and hiring young people of color, and tackling social issues at both the state and national levels; and she is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Abrams is the 2012 recipient of the John F. Kennedy New Frontier Award and the first black woman to become the gubernatorial nominee for a major party in the United States.

"For the first half of the book or so I thought that she had a bad habit of lumping all Republicans and Conservatives together, that they are all complicit in voter suppression and in cahoots with Brian Kemp, Governor of Georgia. Kemp is a bad, bad guy, there is no question about that. However, she could have elaborated on what drives Republican and Conservative voters to vote for stricter voting laws; I don't believe that it is strictly a racial issue for the average everyday Conservative but can be derived from understanding Conservative values and morals. I was willing to give her the benefit of the doubt for the most part of the book though. Minus one star.

Abrams' chapter on Populism was oddly out of place and simply an unapologetic attack on Donald Trump. Pointing fingers and calling people names and hopping on the Trump hate train and blaming problems on one person does not help the situation

"The chapter on Populism was oddly out of place and simply an unapologetic attack on Donald Trump. Pointing fingers and calling people names and blaming problems on one person does not help the situation. And then in the afterword she essentially places all of the blame on America's fallen status on American conservatives harking back to the Ronald Reagan era. This was an unquantifiable claim that again, felt oddly out of place considering how she masterfully presented quantifiable facts about voter suppression earlier in the book. Minus one star. Overall good. I would suggest it. I also would suggest to her to not let her emotions overcome the facts as it weakens the argument and makes her appear incredibly bitter and biased." (Source: Drew, Amazon)

"“Our Time Is Now” is not a political memoir or a long-form résumé; rather, it is a striking manifesto, a stirring indictment and a straightforward road map to victory. Abrams is not governor of Georgia, and she begins her speeches reminding audiences of this stinging matter of fact. Nevertheless, she considers her campaign to be a success. After all, “winning doesn’t always mean you get the prize.” If the “prize” is the quantifiable electoral majority, the victory she embraces arose from her campaign’s activation of the “New American Majority — that coalition of people of color, young people and moderate to progressive whites.”" (Source: Book Review: ‘Our Time Is Now,’ by Stacey Abrams, Tayari Jones, NY Times)

"Abrams covers plenty of territory — identity politics, voting rights, and the frustrations and revelations of her gubernatorial race — but above all, she writes about the grinding work required to make real the compact of democratic participation.

"For Abrams, that “more” is the fight against voter suppression, and not only because she believes it played a significant role in her 2018 defeat. “Our Time Is Now” mixes the author’s experiences as a lawmaker, candidate and activist with America’s long history of slowly expanding — and sometimes receding — voting rights. Voting can be “a leap of faith,” Abrams writes. It is faith not just in a candidate or a party, but in a system, one that can be twisted and obstructed at multiple steps along the way." (Source: Stacey Abrams wants to be Biden’s veep. But her new book is about bigger hopes, Carlos Lozada, Washington Post)

Abrams is sure of herself that she's proven in her tome that whites are victimizers and blacks are victims, which is the main lesson to be learned in the propaganda factories they call colleges; we don't believe she's proven any such thing!

As Abrams says, "This is what voter suppression and its various iterations are all about: denying political power to anyone who isn't a white male -- and not even all of them. The rest of the book is a litany of ways to deny ballot access and ways to overcome those methods of suppression. "But the integration of voter access and identity is the fundamental purpose of democracy." Abrams ends with this stirring passage, In 2020, we endured the worst of humanity and saw glimmers of hope, heard cries for equality. We are capable of goodness and greatness in America. And I continue to believe, our time is now."

"In succinct but thorough chapters, she lays out the grim history of voting rights, both in policy and practice, from the crafting of the Constitution to the present day. The devious creativity of the techniques used to suppress votes is jaw-dropping, and Abrams provides detailed examples from around the country. Among them are obstacles to registration, voter ID “exact match” policies and other restrictions, unexpected poll closings, restriction of early and absentee voting, ballot rejection, miscounting, manipulation of provisional ballots, gerrymandering, and a broken infrastructure, including malfunctioning machines and interminable lines. The author’s plan to solve the problem “short-circuits” debate about identity politics, and she clearly explains how to enact change at the federal level. The census, for example, can be “an organizing tool we can use to salvage democracy.” (Source: OUR TIME IS NOW POWER, PURPOSE, AND THE FIGHT FOR A FAIR AMERICA, Kirkus Reviews)

Stacey Abrams' book reminds us of Hillary Clinton's crybaby book about why she lost the election to Trump. It is entitled What Happened, and in it she blamed her loss on everybody but her pathetic self. This is very much like Stacey Abrams' book where she lost and blamed it on the Republican opponent cheating by voter suppression against black folks

The book Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America by Stacey Abrams has a lot of useful facts about voter disenfranchisement and suppression. But it reminds us of Hillary Clinton's crybaby book about why she lost the election to Trump. It is entitled What Happened, and in it she blamed her loss on everybody but her pathetic self. This is very much like Stacey Abrams' book where she lost and blamed it on the Republican opponent cheating by voter suppression against black folks. It is a frequent occurrance that blacks blame losses on racism instead of personal weaknesses or serious errors. She followed the liberal narrative script to the letter in the blaming of her loss on white males and white supremacy and Republican cheating.