Now’s the time to roll up your sleeves and ask, “What’s next?”

Last Saturday was a beautiful sight to behold. As millions of people across the country took to the streets to protest this administration’s actions, I joined tens of thousands of people in Boston to resist and reject the cruel, dark vision that Donald Trump has for our country.

This is our chapter of the Civil Rights Movement, which we are still very much in. The great Coretta Scott King reminds us that freedom is never really won. We must earn it and win it in every generation. And this is our time.

This is our time to organize, mobilize, and agitate against the attacks on our freedoms. If you’re with me in the fight to defend our democracy, please chip in today to help keep up the momentum — here in Boston, in DC, and across the country.

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You see, history has a way of repeating itself. Forty years ago, our country experienced a similar national day of protest — where Black liberation leaders, women's groups, student organizers, and unions came together to call for an end to South Africa's system of apartheid.

They protested a system that disappeared political dissidents, suppressed free speech, and divided a nation. Sound familiar? It’s the same system that made millions for a South African segregationist by the name of Errol Musk – a man whose son went on to become the world’s richest white supremacist.

This is our time to take heed to what the past has taught us. That coalition out-worked, out-organized and outlasted those in power until the apartheid regime came crashing down.

Here’s the thing: There will always be an Elon Musk. There will always be a Jeff Bezos. There will always be a Donald Trump who will try to enrich himself at the cost of our freedom and our humanity.

But we all know that our freedoms and our destinies are tied.

So collectively, we must resist, we must reject, and we must say, hands off. We must meet this unprecedented moment of constitutional crisis with unprecedented organizing, mobilizing, agitating.

On Saturday, we showed up to match the Trump Administration’s energy.

Now, I have a call to action for you: That you summon the stamina and the spirit of our civil rights movement. That you continue to move with courage and center the dignity and humanity of all people.

Now’s the time to roll up your sleeves and ask yourself, “What's next?” Because stamina is how we win this.

Now’s the time we show up everywhere we can — in town halls, in rallies, at our babies’ schools, at the polls — to not only resist against far-right extremism, but to fight for a world where we do more than survive. We’re fighting for true economic and social liberation.

Sustaining this movement will take all of us. Thank you for continuing to lean in and stay engaged.

If you can, please chip in $25 or any amount you can to strengthen our progressive, people-powered movement.

I love you, movement family!

Yours in service,

Ayanna