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Gabby Giffords @gabbygiffords.bsky.social · 5d

Virginians are fired up and ready to elect @abigailspanberger.com and the Democratic ticket!

With safer schools and communities on the ballot, make your plan to vote at IWillVote.com

📍Williamsburg, VA

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Gabby Giffords @gabbygiffords.bsky.social · 7d

In honor of the victims, survivors, and their loved ones, I'll never stop fighting for the safer future they deserve.

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Gabby Giffords @gabbygiffords.bsky.social · 7d

In the face of such tragedy, Nevadans summoned hope and demanded change—and their lawmakers listened, passing several lifesaving gun laws. This progress was crucial, but there is more work to be done.

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Gabby Giffords @gabbygiffords.bsky.social · 7d

My heart aches for the 60 people killed eight years ago today at the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas—and the hundreds more who were injured. No family should ever carry this pain.

GIFFORDS @giffords.org · 7d

Eight years ago today, a shooter killed 60 people and injured 800 more at the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas.

Armed with 13 rifles equipped with bump stocks, the shooter was able to fire more than 1,000 rounds in 11 minutes, devastating the nation and shattering hundreds of families.

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Gabby Giffords @gabbygiffords.bsky.social · 10d

We know that more can be done to save lives and prevent targeted violence. Our leaders, on both sides of the aisle, must act now, before yet another community is altered forever by a horrific mass shooting.

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Gabby Giffords @gabbygiffords.bsky.social · 10d

Today’s news of a shooting in Grand Blanc, Michigan attacking the Latter-day Saints community during worship is devastating. Families deserve safety wherever they are, but being targeted while practicing one’s faith is especially horrific.

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Gabby Giffords @gabbygiffords.bsky.social · 11d

Today I met with Colorado lawmakers, community violence intervention advocates, and the recipients of the @giffords.org 2025 Lifesaving Service Award: Life-Line Colorado.

Community violence intervention saves lives, and we need more leaders like the ones I met today.

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Gabby Giffords @gabbygiffords.bsky.social · 13d

I know what it means to be shot in the head, to have doctors say survival is unlikely, and to fight for every step of recovery. Hearing that 12-year-old Sophia is healing is a miracle. I’m praying for her recovery and for the strength of her family 💜

Girl shot in head during Minneapolis Catholic school shooting making 'miraculous' recovery

Doctors warned that Sophia Forchas was "on the brink of death," but now she is due to be moved from an acute care ward to an inpatient therapy program.

www.nbcnews.com

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Gabby Giffords @gabbygiffords.bsky.social · 14d

While we await more information, it’s clear our country is in the middle of a gun crime crisis—and I urge our leaders to take action immediately.

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Gabby Giffords @gabbygiffords.bsky.social · 14d

My heart breaks for the victims of this morning’s shooting at a Dallas ICE facility. On top of enduring this administration’s cruel and inhumane immigration policy, these families have now seen loved ones killed or injured in a violent and awful way.

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Gabby Giffords @gabbygiffords.bsky.social · 15d

This year especially, I hope we extend grace, reach across divides, and work for safer, healthier, more just communities. May our prayers and our actions be filled with compassion and intention.

L’shanah tovah!

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Gabby Giffords @gabbygiffords.bsky.social · 15d

Since surviving an assassination attempt nearly 15 years ago, I see the New Year differently. What was once routine is now a miracle—each one a victory over despair, a reminder never to take life for granted.

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Gabby Giffords @gabbygiffords.bsky.social · 15d

As we gather to welcome Rosh Hashanah, I feel deep gratitude for the gift of a new year. Every sunrise, every turn of the calendar, is a reminder that life is fragile—and precious. ✡️🍎🍯

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Gabby Giffords @gabbygiffords.bsky.social · 20d

Freedom of speech and freedom of the press are big parts of what made this country great. The government threatening TV stations because our president doesn't like a comedian is dangerous. I'm proud to stand with my friend @jimmykimmel.com.

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Gabby Giffords @gabbygiffords.bsky.social · 20d

I will keep working hard and fighting to save lives so that no other family has to go through this.

It was rewarding to share my day to day with SELF Magazine.

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Gabby Giffords @gabbygiffords.bsky.social · 20d

I’m so grateful for everyone who has stuck with me through recovery — @captmarkkelly.bsky.social, my family, friends, my therapists, and advocates. Every day of progress (and setbacks!) reminds me that I’m alive for a reason.

Gabby Giffords Is Still Fighting

Her days are filled with rehab sessions and relentless advocacy. (And occasionally cars, motorcycles, and the French Horn.)

www.self.com

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Gabby Giffords @gabbygiffords.bsky.social · 25d

Former Republican Sen. Jeff Flake and I agree: America needs sound leadership to bring us out of this dangerous moment.

Fanning the flames of division will only make things worse and lead to even more violence and crime. Our op-ed 👇

We're a Republican and a Democrat. After Charlie Kirk's death, we agree on this. | Opinion

If we Americans allow ourselves to be dragged further down this path of violence and retribution, we will lose ourselves – and our country.

www.usatoday.com

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Gabby Giffords @gabbygiffords.bsky.social · 27d

I call on my colleagues in Washington to show courage, not cowardice. I call on them to do the single most important thing they can for their constituents: keep them safe.

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Gabby Giffords @gabbygiffords.bsky.social · 27d

So I want to speak plainly to my former colleagues in Congress: Do something. Take action. Pray also if you want, but understand: your job is action.

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Gabby Giffords @gabbygiffords.bsky.social · 27d

It is physically very hard for me to speak due to my injuries from getting shot, and after watching yet another political shooting violently steal someone’s life before our eyes, it’s even harder to find words.

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Gabby Giffords @gabbygiffords.bsky.social · 27d

Our stories are unique, but what Charlie Kirk, President Trump, Melissa Hortman and I all have in common is that someone who wanted to kill us had a gun.

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Gabby Giffords @gabbygiffords.bsky.social · 27d

Just as Melissa Hortman, the Speaker of the Minnesota State Legislature, deserved to be safe at home with her husband. Just as President Trump had the right to campaign without fear of being assassinated. Just as I had the right to meet with my constituents safely on January 8, 2011.

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Gabby Giffords @gabbygiffords.bsky.social · 27d

I mourn for Charlie Kirk’s family. I didn’t agree with almost anything he said, but he had a right to go on a work trip and return safely to his wife and two young children.

Like all Americans, he deserved to be safe from gun violence.

Gabby Giffords: I Mourn for Charlie Kirk’s Family

"Too many of us know the pain of having a loved one killed by guns," writes the former Congresswoman.

time.com

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Gabby Giffords @gabbygiffords.bsky.social · 27d

At just nine-years-old, Christina-Taylor was a leader at her school, a talented dancer, and a budding public servant who dreamed of making the world a better place.

I carry her memory with me as I work to build the safer future she believed in and deserved.

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Gabby Giffords @gabbygiffords.bsky.social · 27d

Today, I’m thinking of Christina-Taylor Green on her 24th birthday.

She should be celebrating with her friends and family, but her life was stolen from her in January 2011 when she was shot while waiting to meet me.

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