I want to believe.

I'm exhausted and I desperately need sleep, but my head is still spinning a little from being out until 1:00, counting numbers and counties endlessly on the cliffhanger that was Indiana.

The primary is over. We fought a good fight. We registered at least 100,000 new voters. We had hundreds of volunteers working harder than anybody (and that's just in my little local city office), sometimes at the expense of our own health, while the Clinton campaign in my area had almost no one.

We passionately believe in something bigger than ourselves. We believe in the fundamental principles of goodness, justice, truth, and equality for all people; we want to change America for the better. We want to believe that we can achieve our dreams and that our government really will work for us. I have never met a more passionate, devoted, and determined group of people than the Obama volunteers and staffers.

We lost, but we tried our best.

I deeply want to believe that Americans want to, can, and will elect someone who doesn't use fear to repress our freedom, who doesn't lie and manipulate us to garner votes, who treats us, as citizens, with the respect that we deserve. I want to believe in the future.