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Kimberly Sauber's avatar

We won’t let this happen. America is better than this. 💯

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Alie Mel's avatar

Waj you are on 🔥🚒 lately

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Phyllis Hargrove's avatar

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.

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Phil Johnson's avatar

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...

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Edie Sadowski's avatar

Willful ignorance!😡😡😡😡😡

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Larry McGinnity's avatar

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")

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Karen Silkworm's avatar

100%. Not without a fight.

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Phil Johnson's avatar

And I add Sen. Angus King for his stemwinder of a speech three weeks back. He will be a great candidate in 2028.

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Larry McGinnity's avatar

I agree. Added to list. Re 2028: as a Dem or independent?

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Phil Johnson's avatar

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.

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Larry McGinnity's avatar

I'm 91, so you several more ballots still to come. Forward togetherc as One.

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Phil Johnson's avatar

Amen, brother.

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Muriel Branch's avatar

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

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Annee' deClouet's avatar

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

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Laura's avatar

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? 😤

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Peggy Hulstine's avatar

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.

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BillyMakesnoise's avatar

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.

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Janey Gregory's avatar

N-E-V-E-R. E-V-E-R. AGAIN‼️‼️‼️‼️HELL TO THE. N-O‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

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Carl Selfe's avatar

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

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Patricia's avatar

Does this guy think he's going to last forever?

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Lilly's avatar

Smdh

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Truckeeman's avatar

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.

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Valerie Rounds-Atkinson's avatar

💯🤯😱

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Annee' deClouet's avatar

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!

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