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Warnock is the lead sponsor of the For The People Act, a bill introduced by Senate Democrats that seeks to override many measures by state Republicans on voting rights. He said, \"this bill seeks to push us beyond this kind of racial and partisan [divide].\"

\"I don't think anything is more urgent than this because voting rights are preservative of all other rights,\" he added.

Warnock said activism, like Montgomery's efforts, make the biggest cultural shifts.

\"It's not lost on me that I sit now in the seat of Herman Eugene Talmudge, who was one of Georgia's senators when I was born and an arch segregationist,\" Warnock said. \"And the fact that I now sit in his seat speaks to the arc of change in our country. ... There's a whole lot of work to do, and we need more voices, diverse forces.\"

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For Montgomery, the election was a personal victory.

\"Honestly, it felt like we were taking a lot of [losses] all 2020 and it just felt good to get a win,\" she said.

Montgomery's biggest win came last month when Loeffler and then-co-owner Mary Brock, who had been under pressure to step away from the team, sold their shares of the Atlanta Dream.

The new owners couldn't be more aligned with the team -- the Dream was sold to a three-person investor group that includes Montgomery and real estate developers Larry Gottesdiener and Suzanne Abair.

Montgomery said she first started to consider an ownership stake in the team after Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James tweeted a photo of Atlanta Dream players saying he wanted to put together an ownership group for the team.

\"Throughout 2020 the Atlanta Dream stood firm and I am so excited to represent players who are that bold and proud,\" Montgomery said.

Since leaving the WNBA, Montgomery has charted new territory in her career. In addition to her civil activism, she started working as a studio analyst for broadcasts of Atlanta Hawks games in 2020. She's worked as a color commentator during the 2021 NCAA women's tournament as well, and she was announced this month as the co-host of the \"Takeline\" podcast.

The athlete-turned-activist isn't ready to sit back just yet. She said there's so much more work to do in healing the country's racial wounds.

\"What's next is not letting what happened in 2020 just be that little moment. It needs to be a movement now,\" she said. \"Let's continue what we started. I'm very optimistic.\"

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