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  Friends, the Declaration of Independence closes with a promise: “We mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.” That's a big thing to give up. Putting your country before yourself is real patriotism and requires making a conscious decision — a decision to devote ourselves to serving our neighbors and bettering our future. But my congresswoman in New Hampshire, Maggie Goodlander, has made that very decision time after time. She's sworn an oath to uphold our Constitution — not as a Democrat or as a Republican, but as an American. She treats it as a sacred obligation. Maggie stood up for her fellow servicemembers and the rule of law. The president threatened her by name, and tried to have her indicted. Maggie did not waver. Now, this president and his Republican allies want to see Maggie unseated, and they're spending a large sum to make it happen. If they succeed this time, Congress will lose someone willing to defend our Constitution, no m...

  Friends, this is Ken Burns, American documentarian and a proud Democrat. I’m writing to you with an urgent message about the stakes of the upcoming election. Maggie Goodlander, my own congresswoman, just won her primary election here in New Hampshire. Before I go on, will you make a contribution of $10 to help her get the strongest possible start on the general election? Maggie just became Democrats’ official nominee for Congress in New Hampshire, and we are now less than two months out from one of the greatest tests of American democracy in modern history. Control of the U.S. House could come down to just a handful of seats like this one. Maggie often says that, while fear may be contagious, courage is, too. This moment demands courage from our leaders, and it’s exactly what I’ve seen in Maggie. She is a leader we can trust to stand up and do the right thing, even in the face of threats from the President himself. If Democrats retake the House, leaders like Maggie will finally h...