and what we are seeing with the fake audits, with the intimidation of election workers. with the criminalization of, simply, doing the job of managing democracy. we are seeing attacks, on all levels of our democracy. this is exactly what happens across the world, when -- you know, past, longstanding democracies, start to erode. it begins by undermining how people feel not about the democracy that they have. but about the administration of that democracy. jonae nelson, i know, when thurgood marshall was at legal defense fund, he was accustomed to, when he would gain some yardage and have some wins in this kind of arena. he was accustomed to the opposition, finding a new way. finding some, other way to block people from voting. always, adjusting to whatever progress he was trying to make. and -- and, here we are, this year, with -- with such a sharp