It has always been in our nation’s darkest chapters that our brightest lights emerge.
And we — each and every one of us, whether we like it not — are living history today.
From our nation’s beginning, American democracy has always reflected the struggle between humanity’s highest and lowest natures: between subjects and citizens, the Confederacy and the Union, freedom and bondage, labor and capital rights and regimes.
It is no different today.
The struggle of our time today is the single most unjust concentration of wealth in the hands of the very few, unseen in our nation’s and the world’s history.
It is a time in which demanding what should be considered the most basic tenets of human dignity is considered a radical and outlandish act.
It is a time such as today, when demanding affordable housing and decent wages is considered a radical and outlandish act.
That we could afford our lives, our groceries, our transit? Is considered a radical and outlandish act.
That we accept our neighbor as ourselves? A radical and outlandish act.
We must remember in times such as this: we are not the crazy ones. We are not the outlandish ones.
They want us to think we are crazy — we are sane.
To demand affordable housing, a decent wage, the right to healthcare, that we pay to care for our people instead of the flattening of Palestinians and oppressed people abroad is not a radical act — it is basic and core humanity.
We will send a loud message to President Donald Trump: his authoritarianism is no good here.
We will send a message to ICE: that secret police do not belong here.
When I think about what is happening throughout our nation today, and what Donald Trump has done in his demolition of the White House — we must let him know:
That house doesn’t belong to him. It belongs to us. It belongs to the people of this country.
There has been a day before this presidency, and there will be a day after.
And it belongs to us.
Help us continue the fight with a grassroots contribution today.
Thank you for being a part of this movement.
In solidarity,
Alexandria
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