Bring Your Union Banner to the Protest
Nearly 7 million people hit the streets October 18 to oppose Trump’s authoritarian actions. Demonstrators waved American flags and donned whimsical animal costumes. One sight we were especially glad to see in the crowds: union T-shirts, banners, and slogans.
We Who Believe in Democracy Must Fight to Make It Real
We wake daily to new spectacles of violence and humiliation: kidnappings in broad daylight, attacks on unions, LGBTQ people, women, and immigrants, the erosion of long-cherished rights. It’s no longer a tricky question whether we have tipped into authoritarianism. The answer is yes.
To fight back, we have to confront what the Trump administration is exploiting: fear.
We are living in fear, cowed by it. Each workplace and free speech crackdown, each violation of democratic norms, feeds on the paralysis that fear produces. Fear is the fuel of authoritarianism.

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