There is simply too much at stake to retreat to the sidelines now.

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, America was in a period of tremendous upheaval. And the more we visualize what comes next, the clearer it becomes that the future won’t look like the past. Nor should it.

So many unsustainable features of our old status quo were both exposed and exploited by this crisis: the disempowerment of workers; the racial disparities in health care access; poor coordination with other countries and international bodies; the reduction of believing in science to a matter of political preference.

Now is our chance to work together to elect leaders at every level government who will build a better, more inclusive future for this country and the next generation.