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    It’s time to face the Big Truth

    Joshua Graham Lynn
    July 12, 2022
    Big Lie and Big Truth
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    Lynn is CEO and co-founder of RepresentUs.

    The Jan. 6 committee hearings are exposing the grotesque underbelly of what many of us witnessed in real time that day: the ongoing and unrelenting attacks on our democracy. Yet despite the overwhelming evidence of treasonous wrongdoing, despite tapes, emails, video and confessions, millions of Americans passionately believe in the Big Lie.

    The truth is that there was a coordinated effort leading up to Jan., 6, 2021, to overturn the results of a free and fair election. Incredibly, that effort was explicitly encouraged by the outgoing president. A year and a half later, a lot of the same folks who tried to overturn the 2020 election are still at it – laying the groundwork to undermine the 2022 and 2024 elections. That’s the truth.

    So why can’t we get America — all of America — to accept that truth?

    The answer is clear. We not only need to tell the truth, we need to tell the whole truth. It’s time for the media, influencers, politicians and concerned citizens across America to stop harping only on the Big Lie and get comfortable with the Big Truth.

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    Amid ongoing threats, democracy reform forges ahead in 2021

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    Amid ongoing threats, democracy reform forges ahead in 2021

    Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom starred in a RepresentUs ad this year.

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    As we turn the final pages on a tumultuous 2021, all this week The Fulcrum will share a year-end series of guest commentaries from a distinguished group of columnists on the current state of electoral reform and what we may expect in the upcoming year.

    Joshua Graham Lynn is president and co-founder of RepresentUs.

    As we approach RepresentUs’ 10-year anniversary in 2022, I want to celebrate all the work we’ve done and the continued momentum of our anti-corruption movement while also recognizing the severe threats to democracy ahead.

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