Midterms are over. Breathe in and out. Now, continue the momentum.

It wasn't the blue wave the Democrats dreamed, hoped, and wished for, but it's a huge start. The GOP no longer control one aspect of the legislature. Finally, there is going to be some semblance of checks of power by the legislature.

However, the most important thing is the people who were elected last night during midterm elections: the young, women, LGBT, and nonwhites. My district is sending the youngest woman ever to be elected into the House and I'm proud to have voted for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

I am proud of everyone who voted for the Democrats and who went out there and volunteered for these candidates. I am also proud of the candidates themselves — and I'm not just talking about the candidates that won. They had hope. They fought hard.

Now the important thing is to keep this fight going. We must continue this momentum. This is one victory, but we need to go even further to protect the rights and health care. We need to fight harder, continue to campaign, to protest, to speak up, to hold our representatives – Democrat and Republican – accountable.

To the Democrats that were elected? No bargaining. No more bargaining of our rights. Say no to this insanity that's happening in our country. It is not causing division if you are fighting for our health care, for POC rights, for LGBT rights, for women's rights, for Jewish lives, for Muslim lives, for children, for veterans. Don't see refusing to bend on any of these topics as causing division. Instead, see it as protecting Americans and ensuring that each and every one of us is protected from a white nationalist president who would see everyone who isn't a rich, right-leaning white person burn.

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