The most valuable lesson a True the Vote co-founder took from being jailed for contempt of court a week before the 2022 midterms was the realization of how important the right to vote is in protecting people’s freedoms.
Catherine Engelbrecht, co-founder of the election integrity group True the Vote; and Greg Philips, True the Vote board member; were detained by U.S. marshals on the orders of the federal judge in connection with a civil lawsuit brought against True the Vote by Konnech, an election management software firm.
Engelbrecht told EpochTV’s “Crossroads” program on Nov. 11 she took many lessons from this incident, with one of the most valuable being “how precious freedom really is, and how seriously we ought to take our civic duties and our responsibility to vote and our responsibility to stay engaged.”…