Wright County Indivisible, along with hundreds of other Indivisible groups nationwide, hosted “The People Lead 2021” on January 13 in response to the attempted Capitol Coup on Jan. 6. 

This Zoom event featured state and national speakers, including MN Attorney General Keith Ellison; Indivisible Democracy Policy Director Meagan Hatcher Mays; and Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s Outreach Director Rommel Lee, who discussed the urgent need for an immediate response to Jan 6 as well as a more sustained effort to assure the adoption of proposed national democratic reforms to restore and strengthen our democracy going forward. 

Ellison spoke about “John Lewis Voting Rights Act”, named for the civil rights icon, which is vital to ending voter suppression and “Statehood for DC”, a key democracy and racial justice initiative. Hatcher Mays discussed “For the People Act”, comprehensive democracy reform legislation and Lee discussed “Court Reform” efforts to eliminate the current hyper-partisan process for judge selection. These four reforms together would provide much needed structural change. All speakers stressed the importance of people’s involvement in informing themselves, spreading the word and taking an active role in reaching out to their congressional representatives to assure passage of these and other non-partisan congressional reforms.  

Jan Kittok, the host of the People Lead, emphasized the importance of the event. 

“In the wake of the Jan. 6 Capital coup attempt, we need to impeach, remove, and disqualify Trump from ever holding office to save our democracy,” said Kittok. “However, it is not enough. We, the people, must lead the effort to restore the damage and strengthen our democracy once and for all so that this can never happen again.”

The People Lead 2021 closed with a discussion of activities that Wright County Indivisible and the People Lead Committee are mounting for people to become involved to assure accountability for the Jan. 6 insurrection and to participate in the campaign to assure passage of the reforms that the speakers had discussed. 

For more information, contact WrightCountyIndivisible@gmail.com.