Our republic did not arrive overnight. It was cultivated over centuries.


It took dedicated organizers and movements to help craft the multiracial democracy we have today.

It took a women’s movement, a labor movement, a Civil Rights movement, and a literal civil war to quash a violent white supremacist insurrection and extend basic rights to the vast majority of the population. That work is far from over!

Our republic is like a living, breathing organism. It requires attention and growth to meet the needs of its population. 

And just as it can be strengthened, it can be corrupted, weakened and destroyed.

Inequality, endless wars, a corrupt unaccountable elite can all lead to both violent overthrows or unprecedented democracy expansion.

The question now is: which path will we take? Democracy breakdown—represented by Donald Trump and his minions—or democracy reform?

Reform begins with full accountability and justice for everyone who led a violent insurrection against our democracy, however powerful they may be.

But we can’t stop there. We are doomed to repeat this cycle of instability and backsliding if we do not undertake a bold agenda to reimagine our democracy— from our elections on down.

We cannot fall into the trap of making policies guided by terror, treating the symptoms of the illness without addressing the root causes. If we do not abide by our principles now, then we cannot really say that we ever did.

The next Trump will be more competent, and more clever. The work to prevent the catastrophes we should all be able to see coming starts now.