When Boston area journalist Kathie Ragsdale reached out about writing the Eaton story, I chuckled to myself, saying, “Geezum Crow, these folks just can’t get enough.” History is written by the victors, and so I humbly weigh in one last time. Here’s the inside scoop.

In the summer of 2020 (the “Summer of Love”), a few close friends and I made a ragtag pact, deciding to get into a bit of “good trouble,” in the John Lewis sense. We had grown alarmed by the rise of white nationalism and were inspired by the protest movement sweeping across the nation in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. We called ourselves the League of Voters for Equality (LOVE), and our aim was to fundamentally shift the culture in at least one small town, ours.

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