Now we must mourn another of our giants. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died.

Ginsburg, AKA the Notorious RBG, was a pop culture icon because she was surprising: a tiny, painfully shy woman who raised her soft voice to brutalize polite rationalizations for galling injustices. Even before she became a judge, she changed the world radically with her masterful skill in the stuffy, conservative legal establishment. She was practical, rational, and committed to her bedrock principle of human equality; she was also singular in her ability to speak her magic words, strip our collective civic truth bare, and bring power to heel.

What made her a hero and a legend was her relentless understanding of the stakes in every case. When the night was darkest, Justice Ginsburg had a clear-eyed view of its perils. When it felt like the day had been definitively won, she could see the dangers lurking around the corner. When the Very Serious People tried to lull you into complacency, she sounded the alarm. When the powerful wanted you to feel subjugated and alone, she piped up to remind them that she was no such thing - and neither, by extension, were you.

Ginsburg’s final public statement, as dictated to her granddaughter, was this: “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.” Her dying wish was that she would not be replaced at the whims of an impeached, illegitimate, lawless, pussy-grabbing bigot. Her final act was to use her inimitable voice to help us fulfill that wish.

Justice Ginsburg was second to none of her colleagues and predecessors on the bench in her commitment to Americans’ right to vote. To honor her life, you must share her iron grip on what is important. You must vote, yes. You must do what you can to help others vote. For the next few weeks, you must speak from whatever platform you have with urgency and precision about what we all stand to lose.

May she rest in peace and power. May her memory be both blessing and revolution.