In the face of chaos, I refuse to give in.

The callousness and cruelty from the Trump administration – from the militarization of DC to the ICE raids and so much more – is unlike anything I’ve seen in my lifetime. We’re up against a Republican Party that is willfully inflicting harm on everyone who calls this country home. It is overwhelming by design.

Every day, each one of us makes a decision. We could let ourselves grow weary. Or we could refuse to give in.

My sister Brittany Packnett Cunningham often reminds me to choose the discipline of hope over the ease of cynicism. To choose fortitude over fatalism.

Daily, I choose hope.

We find ourselves in unprecedented times, and these times demand unprecedented organizing, mobilizing, and legislating.

We cannot look away, check out, or wait until things take a turn for the better. Every morning, I ask myself what more I can be doing to mitigate this administration’s harm. And every night I go to sleep preparing for the next fight. The road is long but we cannot let up.

By refusing to give in, we got a federal judge to block Trump’s executive order ending the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship.

By refusing to give in, we got the Epstein files subpoenaed, despite the Republican party’s relentless efforts to keep them hidden.

By refusing to give in, we welcomed home Rümeysa Öztürk and Mahmoud Khalil, who were unjustly detained for simply exercising their fundamental First Amendment rights.

We’ve proven that when we refuse to give in, we can force them to reverse course. But we’re going to have to keep at it. Will you pitch in $25 or anything you can right now to help us build resistance against the Trump administration?

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In solidarity,

Ayanna