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Takeaways:

• This week showed us that noticing the wins is just as crucial as staying alert to the problems. When we only see what's broken, we forget our power to fix things.
• We watched ordinary people organize across party lines and actually force policy changes. Six billion dollars in education funding got restored because superintendents, families, and lawmakers refused to back down.
• A federal judge reminded us why independent courts matter. When the government tried to silence research it disagreed with, the judiciary stepped in and said you can't violate the First Amendment just because you don't like someone's work.
• The Supreme Court proved that even in tough times, voting rights protections can still hold. When lower courts tried to strip away safeguards for minority voters, the high court said not so fast.