With the passing of Dolores Huerta, Hillary and I have lost a dear friend, and we’ve all lost a stalwart champion of working Americans. Dolores wore many hats: voting rights advocate, human rights champion, die-hard Democrat, self-described “born-again feminist,” and co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America. To see her in action was to witness a living legend who never stopped pushing for progress and seeing every new obstacle as a fresh opportunity to educate, to organize, and to uplift—even as those efforts sometimes brought her grave consequences. I will never forget and always be grateful for her support for Hillary in 2008 and 2016. It was an honor to award her the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award in 1998 and a great gift to spend time with and fight alongside her. Our hearts go out to her family and the countless Americans whose lives were forever changed by her good long life.

Václav Havel believed that truth was better than fear, freedom was worth fighting for, and Europe’s future belonged to everyone. He devoted his life to those convictions and helped change the course of history. On what would have been his 90th birthday, I’m remembering my friend with gratitude for his courage, his love of our common humanity, and the work we did together to bring the Czech Republic into NATO and build a Europe no longer divided. We also shared a love of music. So today, I’m playing a few notes in his honor. Happy birthday, my friend. The world could use more of your spirit.

We’ve spent decades working to lower the price of HIV medicines and expand access to prevention and treatment. Country ownership is the goal. But a deadline isn't a transition plan. Cheaper medicines mean nothing if they never reach people. What kind of country are we if we knowingly allow treatment to be interrupted, prevention to stop, and people to be left to die? We should be building for the possibility of tomorrow. Destroying decades of hard work to score political points carries a cost measured in human lives. And no perceived, short-term political victory is worth that.

30 years ago today, I signed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. In the three decades since, the world has seen only 10 nuclear tests, compared with more than 2,000 in the five decades before. As AI gives us new capabilities we could only have imagined then, we should remember something we learned in the nuclear age: even when countries disagree, we can still work together to reduce the risks we all face.

This year’s Clinton Global Citizen Awards honored three organizations saving lives every day — and representing the thousands of frontline responders doing this essential work in communities around the world: Superhumans Center, Aaron E. Henry Community Health Services Center, and Mutual Aid in Sudan. If you’re able to help them continue doing it, please consider supporting them today:

For 20 years, @Unitaid and @CHAI_health have worked to lower prices, expand supply, and get lifesaving medicines and tests to people faster. I’m grateful for all we’ve achieved and eager to keep going. As we pursue the next generation of breakthroughs, access must remain the measure of our success.

“When the history of this moment is written – I know that I will be proud to have stood with people like you, with people who believed the future could be better than the present.” President Bill Clinton opened #CGI2026# with a reminder of what CGI is all about: bringing people together to turn ideas into action. Join us:

Our diverse workforce is the beating heart of the American economy. Today we all celebrate the ingenuity, capability, and productivity of the American worker and the labor organizations that support them. Happy Labor Day!

Dolly Parton was one of a kind—a great songwriter and performer who told the stories of everyday Americans with honesty, humility, and heart. She rose high from her East Tennessee roots and never forgot where she came from. And she always believed in giving back, especially in her efforts to promote literacy. Hillary and I were big fans and first saw her in 1974, and will always be grateful for the music and the memories. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family, her legion of fans, and everyone who loved her.

In this incredible piece, Hillary writes: “We can see the humanity in even the worst of our fellow human beings and still fiercely resist tyranny and repression. We can stand firm without mirroring the cruelty of our opponents.” Amen. Give this a read. You won’t regret it.