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On this election eve, I want to speak directly to the campaign staffers and volunteers who have dedicated months (or years) of their lives exposing themselves to extreme stress doing thankless jobs on a daily basis on little-to-no sleep (especially lately) and dirt pay. It’s easy to be cynical about politics, especially now. It’s easy to say nothing will ever get better. That the system will always prevent change that meaningfully improves people’s lives. But you said “no, fuck that.” Every day, you got out of your shitty motel bed, put your shoes on that you should have replaced a few months ago, and grabbed your laptop or your clipboard or your car keys. And you kept putting one foot in front of the other — with no hope or expectation of employment, no guarantee or victory, family & responsibilities at home — to try to make this country just a little bit better. Make things just a little bit easier for people. So anyway, I just wanted to say thank you for not giving up and for putting in the work. (But only to the Democrats obviously, I’m a party man).