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Choosing Battles, Winning Wars

Rori Porter
8 min readNov 23, 2024

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The Pragmatic Leadership of Sarah McBride

The Fight Goes Beyond Bathrooms

I’m not here to fight about bathrooms. I’m here to fight for Delawareans and to bring down costs facing families. Like all members, I will follow the rules as outlined by Speaker Johnson, even if I disagree with them.

This effort to distract from the real issues facing this country hasn’t distracted me over the last several days, as I’ve remained hard at work preparing to represent the greatest state in the union come January.

Serving in the 119th Congress will be the honor of a lifetime — and I continue to look forward to getting to know my future colleagues on both sides of the aisle. Each of us were sent here because voters saw something in us that they value. I have loved getting to see those qualities in the future colleagues that I’ve met and I look forward to seeing those qualities in every member come January. I hope all of my colleagues will seek to do the same with me.

- Delaware Congresswoman-elect Sarah McBride

Moral Purity Often Undermines Progress

The moral purity that I see many of my leftist peers fiercely clinging to — the belief that any compromise amounts to a betrayal of…

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Rori Porter
Rori Porter

Written by Rori Porter

Queer Transfemme writer & designer living in Los Angeles. She. Stage name: Thirstie Alley

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