BOSTON (CNN) With the Iowa caucuses just 34 days away, Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants you to know she has hope.

The Massachusetts senator gave a rare teleprompter speech on the morning of New Year's Eve to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the launch of her exploratory committee for a presidential run.

Amid attacks from her moderate 2020 Democratic presidential rivals -- South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg and former Vice President Joe Biden -- and a drop in the polls that took her out of her frontrunner status from just a few months ago, Warren made clear she's not going anywhere.

"People tell me what's broken, but the fear always comes lit by a hope for change," she told an audience of more than 600 people in the historic Old South Meeting House in Boston. "Hope for change because they believe in America, and in each other. And I believe too."

Warren -- who often uses these speeches to tell the story of women who overcame adversity to improve the conditions in the country -- spoke about "a young, enslaved girl named Phillis Wheatley" who used to come to the Old South Meeting House and became the first black woman to publish a book of poetry.

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