We can do this — and show our children the power of community
If you have been living in the United States since 2025, you probably find it hard to keep track of the sheer number of illegal and corrupt attacks against our rights, freedoms, safety, financial stability, dignity, and the democratic rule of law.
Like many Americans, you might also be scrambling hard to get by – to afford housing, food, and utilities; to keep your job or find work after losing your job; to find ways to get your family health care or child care. Some are struggling so much with these needs they have little or no time left for anything else.
So, yes. It’s hard to keep track of it all. And the immensity of the transgressions can feel overwhelming.
The masked, secret “police”, with privately-run detention centers and insufficient oversight inspections. Reckless tariffs and cuts to health care programs. A catastrophic, unconstitutional war that has included a horrific, two-strike bombing of children at an elementary school. Corruption, cover-ups, and obstruction of investigations into child trafficking. Attacks on science and evidence-based health research. Attempts to pass a bill in Congress that would make it very difficult for millions of legitimate voters to register or update registration so they can vote (including many women who changed their legal names after marrying).
But it’s okay if you can’t remember all of this. It doesn’t matter if no single person can track all of the assaults and threats.
This crisis isn’t one that gets solved by an individual. It can only get solved by all of us working together.
One major step is to keep coming together, millions of us, to speak out for our common values – the values that will give our children a chance. That will make us feel less divided, less stressed, less isolated. And it allows us to learn from each other, and find ways to put pressure on those in power.
We have the capacity, and – collectively – we have the power, skills, knowledge, empathy, and practical know-how to make government work for us.
So – if you can – show up physically for local, non-violent demonstrations.
Encourage and help your friends and neighbors do the same.
Let’s use these public events to find solidarity, and learn what everyday actions we can take to make change happen:
- Look up your elected officials, and contact them by phone or email.
- Tell elected officials what you need. Tell them what we stand for.
- Hold politicians accountable for corruption and failure to uphold rule of law.
- Hold corporations accountable for supporting or enabling authoritarianism.
- Look out for each other — including children, elders, and folks with disabilities
- Donate to organizations that help people struggling with economic hardship, health crises, and attacks on their civil rights.
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