The Trump Administration is now arresting and threatening judges who defy its unconstitutional and draconian attacks on immigrants. What makes you think you'll be safe?
I truly don’t know how people didn’t know this is what would happen. Mind blowing !! America is the one who did this wake up !!it astounds how people can stay this isn’t America oh it is America to it’s racist core. Racism is destroying this nation and won’t stop until it’s done.
If you don't know about/read Timothy Snyder, eight gets you five you know less than you should about what can happen to democracy. "On Tyranny" for starters, then onto his other 21 books. He wrote "Tyranny" in 2017...
The People, the protectors of Democracy, are out and about. What "people," out where, about what--and why? First, millions said "Hand Off"to Trump/Musk et al, then on the 19th via 50501" (50 protests, 5o states, 1 Movement) millions more protested the mess in WDC. Also on the 19th we celebrated the "the shot heard around the world at Lexington and Concord, starting the Revolution and our country. On the 22nd protectors of the environment cleaned up a different kind of mess on Earth Day.
As important as the participants in environmental mess cleanup and American history are, this post is dedicated to the named and unnamed protestors fighting the Trump/Musk Washington, DC, tyrannical mess. Or as Susan Grymes calls it: Protectors [of democracy, and so shall I in this post.
Who are the Protectors of democracy on April 5, 19th, May 1st--or all the everydays in between and into the future?? We will never know the names of each individual marcher, sign holder (or just standing together in solidarity). But we do know by name some people, advocacy groups, judges and law firms, and other entities who have not been cowed, and have fought back publicly--sometimes under threat of death.. Some, such as Sen. Cory Booker, with his 25 hour righteous speech on ethics, morality, and American democracy,have become an inspiration. Here then, in no particular order of noteworthy (except the first three), are the names of many of the army of protectors of democracy--and remember Courage is Contagious:
(Of course, the list is imperfect, Additions are welcomed. Also re-posting is permitted and encouraged.
PROTECTORS OF DEMOCRACY (By pen, voice, sign, or act)
(Updated April 25, 2025 Individuals
Heather Cox Richardson/"Letters from an American"
Jess Piper/"View from Rural Missouri"
Joyce Vance/"Civil Discourse"
Rep. AOC
AGs, 23 Blue States
Aaron Parnas
Adam Kinzinger
Sen. Adam Schiff
Adam Smith
Alex Wagner
Alexander Vindman
Ali Velshi
Alison Gill
Alvin Bragg (and the unnamed Manhattan jurors)
Amb. Susan Rice
Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales/Democracy Now
Anand Giridharadas
Anat Shenker-Osario
Andrew Weissmann
Andy Borowitz
Ann Telnaes
Anne Applebaum,
Annie Laurie Gaylor, FFRF (Freedom from Religion Foundation)
Ari Melber
August Flentje
Ben Meiselas
Beth Benike
Brett Meiselas
Brian Tyler Cohen
Cassidy Hutchinson
Charlotte Clymer
Chris Hayes
Chris Krebs
Col. Susannah Meyers
Congressman Jim Himes
D. Earl Stevens
Dan Barker, FFRF (Freedom from Religion Foundation)
Dan Pfeiffer
Dan Rather
Daniel Berulis
Daniel Morton-Bentley
David Hogg
Dean Obeidallah
Delia Ramirez
Sen. Elizabeth Warren
Sen. Elyssa Slotkin
Erez Reuveni
Rep. Eric Swalwell
Garrison Keillor
Garry Kasparov
George Conway
Glenn Kirschner
Gov. Beshear
Gov. Janet Mills
Gov. Kathy Hochul
Gov. Maura Healey (MA)
Gov. Tim Walz (MN)
Gov. Tony Evers (WI)
Greg Olear
J.B. Pritzker
Jake Auchincloss
Rep.Jamie Raskin
Rep. Jasmine Crockett
Jay Kou
Jeff Danziger
Sen. Jeff Merkley
Jeff Stein
Jeff Tiedrich
Jen Rubin And the Contrarians
Jeremy Seahill
Jessica Craven
Jessica Yellin
Jim Acosta
Jim Hightower
Jimmy Kimmel
J-L Cauvin
John Cusack
John Larson
Sen. Jon Ossoff
Jonathan Bernstein,
Jordy Meiselas
Josh Johnson (stand-up comedian)
Josh Marshall
Joy Reid
Judd Legum (popular Information)
Julie Roginsky
Katie Fang
Ken Harbaugh
Lawrence O;Donnell
Liz Cheney
Lucian Truscott IV
Marianne Williamson
Mark Fiore
Marvin Kalb
Mary L. Trump
Maxwell Frost
Mayor Michelle Wu
Mehdi Hasan
Melvin Gurai
Michael Bennett
Michel Zeitgeist
Miles Taylor
Nicolle Wallllace
Noel Casler (former and current staff of the Inter-American Foundation, a small but
mighty federal agency for Latin America)
Olga Lautman
Paul Krugman
Prof. Lawrence Tribe
Qasim Rachid
Rabbi Joshua Hammerman
Rachel Cohen
Rachel Maddow
Rebecca Solnit
Rep. Andrew Egger
Rep. Emily Randall
Rep. Jessica Denson
Rep. Jonathan V. Last
Rep. Noe Casler
Rep. Pramila Jayapal
Rep. Sarah Longwell
Rep. Al Green
Rep. Don Beyer
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde
Rev. William J. Barber II
Rez Reuveni (acting deputy director for the Office of Immigration Litigation, and his
supervisor)
Rich Wilson
Robert B. Hubbell
Robert Reich
Roger Parloff
Ron Filipkowski
Ruth Ben-Ghait
Sarah Inama
Scott Dworkin
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (whistleblower)
Sen. Andy Kim
Sen. Chris Murphy
Sen. Chris Van Hollen
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
Sen. Lisa Murkowski
Sen. Maria Cantwell
Sen. Patty Murray
Sen. Ron Wyden
Sharon McMahon
Sheldon Whitehouse
Simon Rosenberg
Stacey Abrams
Stephanie Miller
Stephen King
Steve Brodner
Steve Schmidt
Sue Nethercott
Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Tennessee Brandon
Thom Hartmann
Tim Snyder
Timothy Snyder
Tristan Snell
Will Bunch
Zev Shalev
ADVOCACY GROUPS, MEDIA NETWORKS
ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)
AICN (North Carolina)
American Oversight
Bill Kristol/all NeverTrumpers (North Carolina)
Blue Future
Blue Missouri
Blue Wave
Bluesky
Bulwark Media
CODEPINK
CREW
DemCast
Democracy Forward
Democracy Index
DemocracyLabs
Every State Blue
Feathers of Hope
Field Team 6 (North Carolina)
FiftyFifty one (50501)
Fred Wellman/On Democracy
"Hands Off"
Indivisible
Jessica Valenti/Abortion Everyday
Lambda Legal
League of Women Voters
Marc Elias/Democracy Docket
MeidasTouch Network
MoveOn
MSNBC (an exception to corporate news, and their suppressing news0
No Kings
Olivia Troy
Protect Democracy
Public Citizen/Co-president Robert Weissman
Run for Something
Seneca Project
Substack
The 19th/Errin Haines
The American Manifesto
The Bulwark
The Civic Center
The Dean's List/ Dean Obeidallah
The Dr. Martin Luther King Center
The Lincoln Project
The Politics Girl
The States Project (North Carolina)
The Union (North Carolina)
Third Act
Thomas Zimmer/Democracy Americana
We the People Dissent
Working Families Party
LAW FIRMS/ORGANIZATIONS, LAWYERS, COURTS, ACADEMIA
American Bar Association
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
Big Ten Universities
David Pepper
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher (representing the Amica Center for Immigrants Rights and others seeking to block funding cuts for immigrant legal services
Harvard/President Alan M. Garber
Hogan Lovells (seeking to block executive orders to end federal funding for gender-
Letter signed by 500 law firms joined a court brief supporting Perkins Coie lawsuit against the Trump Administration)
To paraphrase Churchill: We shall fight them in the streets, we shall fight them on the sidewalks, we shall fight them on the internet, we shall fight them in the courts, we shall fight them in the Congress, we shall fight them in the voting booth--We shall never surrender. YOU ARE NEVER ALONE. SOLIDARITY..
Probably would have to become Dem to have any chance against the MAGA mob, although what I know of him seems to color him more conservative. I myself am independent; at 83, I don't have that many ballots left to fill out.
You mean white Americans, right? Because last time I checked melanated Americans never went to sleep. We couldn’t afford to. We’ve always been WOKE, and then white folks bastardized WOKE, and penalized us for being wide awake. I am a 92%_er
They are already working on vote manipulation and voter suppression tactics to steal the presidency. Thats one of the reasons getting our data was of paramount importance! 🐓🍭
Where is our army, our national guard, our armed services? I think every state should activate their national guard by a state of emergency. They are falsely accusing our judges of obstruction when THEY are disappearing people that are here legally without due process! Now, they trying to send judges a message! They want judges to fear them just like they do everyone else. Soon tRump will invoke his militia which he has immunized and deputized. Why is this being allowed? 😤
We are out here in the wilderness and have all of you to thank for giving us hope, direction, and education that we are hungry for. Will are active, relentless, loud and determined.
The propaganda machine known as Fox Never Ever Worthwhile Stuff needs to somehow be made to level with the people who get their motivation from it. This large swath of the country is still in the dark about the regime and its workings.
We, the people, must take what belongs to us only: the power over this land and Constitution. We will need to take this to the streets as an effort focused solely on defenestration until the job is done. We have no other choice at this point. We either win or lose this battle. I move for enforcing equitable equality. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/equitable-equality?r=3m1bs
he will drop dead well before hes able to serve another term. i guess then people will know that there is only one God, a God of love and peace not lies and spray tan!
We won’t let this happen. America is better than this. 💯
Waj you are on 🔥🚒 lately
I truly don’t know how people didn’t know this is what would happen. Mind blowing !! America is the one who did this wake up !!it astounds how people can stay this isn’t America oh it is America to it’s racist core. Racism is destroying this nation and won’t stop until it’s done.
If you don't know about/read Timothy Snyder, eight gets you five you know less than you should about what can happen to democracy. "On Tyranny" for starters, then onto his other 21 books. He wrote "Tyranny" in 2017...
Willful ignorance!😡😡😡😡😡
We the People at Work
The People, the protectors of Democracy, are out and about. What "people," out where, about what--and why? First, millions said "Hand Off"to Trump/Musk et al, then on the 19th via 50501" (50 protests, 5o states, 1 Movement) millions more protested the mess in WDC. Also on the 19th we celebrated the "the shot heard around the world at Lexington and Concord, starting the Revolution and our country. On the 22nd protectors of the environment cleaned up a different kind of mess on Earth Day.
As important as the participants in environmental mess cleanup and American history are, this post is dedicated to the named and unnamed protestors fighting the Trump/Musk Washington, DC, tyrannical mess. Or as Susan Grymes calls it: Protectors [of democracy, and so shall I in this post.
Who are the Protectors of democracy on April 5, 19th, May 1st--or all the everydays in between and into the future?? We will never know the names of each individual marcher, sign holder (or just standing together in solidarity). But we do know by name some people, advocacy groups, judges and law firms, and other entities who have not been cowed, and have fought back publicly--sometimes under threat of death.. Some, such as Sen. Cory Booker, with his 25 hour righteous speech on ethics, morality, and American democracy,have become an inspiration. Here then, in no particular order of noteworthy (except the first three), are the names of many of the army of protectors of democracy--and remember Courage is Contagious:
(Of course, the list is imperfect, Additions are welcomed. Also re-posting is permitted and encouraged.
PROTECTORS OF DEMOCRACY (By pen, voice, sign, or act)
(Updated April 25, 2025 Individuals
Heather Cox Richardson/"Letters from an American"
Jess Piper/"View from Rural Missouri"
Joyce Vance/"Civil Discourse"
Rep. AOC
AGs, 23 Blue States
Aaron Parnas
Adam Kinzinger
Sen. Adam Schiff
Adam Smith
Alex Wagner
Alexander Vindman
Ali Velshi
Alison Gill
Alvin Bragg (and the unnamed Manhattan jurors)
Amb. Susan Rice
Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales/Democracy Now
Anand Giridharadas
Anat Shenker-Osario
Andrew Weissmann
Andy Borowitz
Ann Telnaes
Anne Applebaum,
Annie Laurie Gaylor, FFRF (Freedom from Religion Foundation)
Ari Melber
August Flentje
Ben Meiselas
Beth Benike
Brett Meiselas
Brian Tyler Cohen
Cassidy Hutchinson
Charlotte Clymer
Chris Hayes
Chris Krebs
Col. Susannah Meyers
Congressman Jim Himes
D. Earl Stevens
Dan Barker, FFRF (Freedom from Religion Foundation)
Dan Pfeiffer
Dan Rather
Daniel Berulis
Daniel Morton-Bentley
David Hogg
Dean Obeidallah
Delia Ramirez
Sen. Elizabeth Warren
Sen. Elyssa Slotkin
Erez Reuveni
Rep. Eric Swalwell
Garrison Keillor
Garry Kasparov
George Conway
Glenn Kirschner
Gov. Beshear
Gov. Janet Mills
Gov. Kathy Hochul
Gov. Maura Healey (MA)
Gov. Tim Walz (MN)
Gov. Tony Evers (WI)
Greg Olear
J.B. Pritzker
Jake Auchincloss
Rep.Jamie Raskin
Rep. Jasmine Crockett
Jay Kou
Jeff Danziger
Sen. Jeff Merkley
Jeff Stein
Jeff Tiedrich
Jen Rubin And the Contrarians
Jeremy Seahill
Jessica Craven
Jessica Yellin
Jim Acosta
Jim Hightower
Jimmy Kimmel
J-L Cauvin
John Cusack
John Larson
Sen. Jon Ossoff
Jonathan Bernstein,
Jordy Meiselas
Josh Johnson (stand-up comedian)
Josh Marshall
Joy Reid
Judd Legum (popular Information)
Julie Roginsky
Katie Fang
Ken Harbaugh
Lawrence O;Donnell
Liz Cheney
Lucian Truscott IV
Marianne Williamson
Mark Fiore
Marvin Kalb
Mary L. Trump
Maxwell Frost
Mayor Michelle Wu
Mehdi Hasan
Melvin Gurai
Michael Bennett
Michel Zeitgeist
Miles Taylor
Nicolle Wallllace
Noel Casler (former and current staff of the Inter-American Foundation, a small but
mighty federal agency for Latin America)
Olga Lautman
Paul Krugman
Prof. Lawrence Tribe
Qasim Rachid
Rabbi Joshua Hammerman
Rachel Cohen
Rachel Maddow
Rebecca Solnit
Rep. Andrew Egger
Rep. Emily Randall
Rep. Jessica Denson
Rep. Jonathan V. Last
Rep. Noe Casler
Rep. Pramila Jayapal
Rep. Sarah Longwell
Rep. Al Green
Rep. Don Beyer
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde
Rev. William J. Barber II
Rez Reuveni (acting deputy director for the Office of Immigration Litigation, and his
supervisor)
Rich Wilson
Robert B. Hubbell
Robert Reich
Roger Parloff
Ron Filipkowski
Ruth Ben-Ghait
Sarah Inama
Scott Dworkin
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (whistleblower)
Sen. Andy Kim
Sen. Chris Murphy
Sen. Chris Van Hollen
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
Sen. Lisa Murkowski
Sen. Maria Cantwell
Sen. Patty Murray
Sen. Ron Wyden
Sharon McMahon
Sheldon Whitehouse
Simon Rosenberg
Stacey Abrams
Stephanie Miller
Stephen King
Steve Brodner
Steve Schmidt
Sue Nethercott
Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Tennessee Brandon
Thom Hartmann
Tim Snyder
Timothy Snyder
Tristan Snell
Will Bunch
Zev Shalev
ADVOCACY GROUPS, MEDIA NETWORKS
ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)
AICN (North Carolina)
American Oversight
Bill Kristol/all NeverTrumpers (North Carolina)
Blue Future
Blue Missouri
Blue Wave
Bluesky
Bulwark Media
CODEPINK
CREW
DemCast
Democracy Forward
Democracy Index
DemocracyLabs
Every State Blue
Feathers of Hope
Field Team 6 (North Carolina)
FiftyFifty one (50501)
Fred Wellman/On Democracy
"Hands Off"
Indivisible
Jessica Valenti/Abortion Everyday
Lambda Legal
League of Women Voters
Marc Elias/Democracy Docket
MeidasTouch Network
MoveOn
MSNBC (an exception to corporate news, and their suppressing news0
No Kings
Olivia Troy
Protect Democracy
Public Citizen/Co-president Robert Weissman
Run for Something
Seneca Project
Substack
The 19th/Errin Haines
The American Manifesto
The Bulwark
The Civic Center
The Dean's List/ Dean Obeidallah
The Dr. Martin Luther King Center
The Lincoln Project
The Politics Girl
The States Project (North Carolina)
The Union (North Carolina)
Third Act
Thomas Zimmer/Democracy Americana
We the People Dissent
Working Families Party
LAW FIRMS/ORGANIZATIONS, LAWYERS, COURTS, ACADEMIA
American Bar Association
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
Big Ten Universities
David Pepper
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher (representing the Amica Center for Immigrants Rights and others seeking to block funding cuts for immigrant legal services
Harvard/President Alan M. Garber
Hogan Lovells (seeking to block executive orders to end federal funding for gender-
affirming medical care Law.com)
Jenner & Block (also seeking to block the orders on cuts to medical research funding)
Judge Hannah Dugan
Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III
(former) Judge J. Michael Luttig
Judge James Boasberg
Judge Paula Xinis
Judge Royce Lamberth
Justice Elena Kagan
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
Justices Sonia Sotomayer
Northwestern U
Perkins Coie and Covington & Burling (have resisted Trump, fighting back with the help of other courageous firms like Williams & Connolly)
Presidents of 328 U.S. colleges and universities have signed a letter condemning
“government overreach." (including St. Louis University)
Ropes & Gray (also seeking to block cuts to medical research funding Law.com)
Susman Godfrey law firm
UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr (per the ABA Journal, representing fired
inspectors general Law.com)
Wilmer Hale Keker, Van Nest & Peters,
Southern Poverty Law Center
Letter signed by 500 law firms joined a court brief supporting Perkins Coie lawsuit against the Trump Administration)
To paraphrase Churchill: We shall fight them in the streets, we shall fight them on the sidewalks, we shall fight them on the internet, we shall fight them in the courts, we shall fight them in the Congress, we shall fight them in the voting booth--We shall never surrender. YOU ARE NEVER ALONE. SOLIDARITY..
E pluribus unum ( "Out of many, one")
100%. Not without a fight.
And I add Sen. Angus King for his stemwinder of a speech three weeks back. He will be a great candidate in 2028.
I agree. Added to list. Re 2028: as a Dem or independent?
Probably would have to become Dem to have any chance against the MAGA mob, although what I know of him seems to color him more conservative. I myself am independent; at 83, I don't have that many ballots left to fill out.
I'm 91, so you several more ballots still to come. Forward togetherc as One.
Amen, brother.
You mean white Americans, right? Because last time I checked melanated Americans never went to sleep. We couldn’t afford to. We’ve always been WOKE, and then white folks bastardized WOKE, and penalized us for being wide awake. I am a 92%_er
They are already working on vote manipulation and voter suppression tactics to steal the presidency. Thats one of the reasons getting our data was of paramount importance! 🐓🍭
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1022348816456820?fs=e&s=TIeQ9V&fs=e&mibextid=wwXIfr&fs=e
Where is our army, our national guard, our armed services? I think every state should activate their national guard by a state of emergency. They are falsely accusing our judges of obstruction when THEY are disappearing people that are here legally without due process! Now, they trying to send judges a message! They want judges to fear them just like they do everyone else. Soon tRump will invoke his militia which he has immunized and deputized. Why is this being allowed? 😤
We are out here in the wilderness and have all of you to thank for giving us hope, direction, and education that we are hungry for. Will are active, relentless, loud and determined.
The propaganda machine known as Fox Never Ever Worthwhile Stuff needs to somehow be made to level with the people who get their motivation from it. This large swath of the country is still in the dark about the regime and its workings.
N-E-V-E-R. E-V-E-R. AGAIN‼️‼️‼️‼️HELL TO THE. N-O‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
We, the people, must take what belongs to us only: the power over this land and Constitution. We will need to take this to the streets as an effort focused solely on defenestration until the job is done. We have no other choice at this point. We either win or lose this battle. I move for enforcing equitable equality. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/equitable-equality?r=3m1bs
Does this guy think he's going to last forever?
Smdh
Trump's dementia is going to be in full flower and bloom by 2028. But why worry, it's likely that by then voting will be unnecessary.
💯🤯😱
he will drop dead well before hes able to serve another term. i guess then people will know that there is only one God, a God of love and peace not lies and spray tan!