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LAS VEGAS — Michelle Obama stepped into the tumult of November’s midterm elections on Sunday with a spirited call for citizens to vote, no matter how busy, discouraged or tuned-out they might feel.

“Our vote matters. It always does,” she said. “But only if we use that vote.”

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Headlining her first rally for When We All Vote, the nonprofit initiative she launched in July, Obama spoke of her own disappointment with the political moment and criticized efforts to suppress voting by making it more difficult to register or cast ballots.

“Believe me, I am frustrated, too,” Obama told a crowd that repeatedly rose to its feel to cheer her return to the political arena. “I am sick of all the chaos and the nastiness of our politics. It’s exhausting and, frankly, it’s depressing. I understand wanting to shut it all out.”