Families woken up with guns in their faces. Kids zip-tied and traumatized for life. U.S. citizens cuffed and detained for hours without a warrant. Homes and personal belongings destroyed. A community and countless lives changed forever.
This is life in America today — where military raids against our own people are routine and Black and Brown communities are terrorized.
What’s happening in Chicago right now should horrify everyone in this country — and every elected official needs to speak out and stop normalizing fascism.
A South Shore apartment building where families, working people, kids, and seniors live was raided by the military and ICE in the middle of the night.
But turn on CNN or look at too many prominent Democrats' social media, and you’d have no idea our cities are under siege.
A lot of Democrats are staying silent — and it’s normalizing and enabling Trump’s shocking cruelty. They’re not showing enough urgency as our own government puts cities under siege and masked agents grab people from the street and disappear them to foreign countries without telling their loved ones.
We expect complicity from Republicans — but when Democrats are silent, it’s even more disgusting. They represent the communities under attack — and when their constituents need them most, many of them fail to meet the moment.
That’s why we started Leaders We Deserve. The only way to stop this twisted version of “law and order” that tramples over civil rights and common sense is by electing a new generation of leaders who actually give a damn about people and use their power to speak out and protect their communities.
It’s why we back people like State Senator Robert Peters in his run for Congress. He represents the South Shore community — and he’s showing up, meeting with impacted families, and demanding accountability.
We need more leaders like Robert — ones who meet the moment, use their power, and speak out — not ones who think putting out a press release and going M.I.A. while our rights are destroyed is acceptable.
The future belongs to us — not authoritarians. Let's claim it.
Thank you,
David Hogg
