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John,

I mentioned this in an email recently, but I think it's worth a deep dive.

Imagine a prison with a central guard tower with inmates living in cells
along the outer walls of the jail. From that guard tower, you could see
into every single cell of the prison — but the people in the prison cells
can't see into the guard tower.

[ [link removed] ]Panopticon

It would be impossible for a single guard to watch every single prisoner
at once. But each inmate knows that — at least theoretically — they could
be watched at any time. That changes the way they act all the time.

This is called a panopticon and — maybe you see where I'm going with this
already — we are living in a kind of panopticon right now. The Trump
administration and its allies on the far-right are trying to make us feel
watched. They're trying to make examples of people who step out of line
with their preferred way of thinking, of speaking, of acting — so that the
rest of us will fall in line.

That's why Trump's DOJ is going after people like James Comey and Adam
Schiff. That's why Trump's FCC threatened Jimmy Kimmel. That's part of why
ICE conducts its raids and its disappearings with such impunity. They want
us all to live in fear. They want us all to feel watched.

This should be alarming to each of us, and this is why I do the work that
I do: to push back, to fight for democracy, to build a politics where we
aren’t ruled by fear.

Because we aren’t in a prison. We aren’t being watched by a guard. For as
much power as Trump and the far right have right now, it’s nowhere near as
much power as they hope we cede to them. We still have a choice.

So we can’t cede that power to them. We can’t be intimidated just because
they want us to be. When they harm people, we have to keep speaking up.
When they do something illegal, we have to keep calling it out. And when
they tell lies, we have to keep fighting back.

[ [link removed] ]If you’re with me — and you want to join our fight for a different kind
of politics — will you rush a $5 donation to Leaders We
Deserve right now to help us elect bold, young leaders who will fight back
too?



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Thank you,

David Hogg





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