I think the young people of this country are our best hope. While the ruling White, Christian, older male class and those women who see their power only through that group, continue to strip away our rights - be they rights to our own bodies, right to vote, right to marry and love whom we choose, right to freedom of religion, right to read what we choose, and the right to actual representation without gerrymandering and other attacks against our democracy, it is the younger generation who are serving our military, marching beside us, and leading as we protest, fighting for the right to vote, to attend schools without the risk of being slaughtered as they learn, and standing up against book banning across this country.
Make no mistake democracy is a fragile right and just as the 1930s, fascism and autocracy are a threat to us all. I am a Daughter of the American Revolution, my people have served in just about every major war we have fought and currently my family members are active duty. I am willing to continue to fight for my country and our democracy.
In this time of villainy it is vital that all who can, do more than just vote and donate. If you can support a candidate who will work to preserve our right to free and fair elections, safe communities, freedom of religion, choice, expression and the right to read whatever you want, stand up and do so, volunteer to canvass, phone bank, work the polls, whatever you can do, do it.
My grandfather was shot and gassed in France in WW1, my father landed on Anzio Beach in WW2. They didn’t fight fascism and sacrifice so I could turn my back on our democracy and our country. I will stand between this country and fascism. I will fight for my daughters and sisters rights. I will call out extremist and hate mongers, antisemites and all those who attack my fellow citizens. American is awakening, the young people are massing beside us and we will take back our country and we will be free, despite a corrupt Supreme Court, gerrymandered districts, propaganda labeled as "news", hate mongers and politicians so corrupt they defer to a hostile foreign power.
I marched at the capitol of a red state with thousands for women's rights, and gun sense legislation - to be met by less than 100 of the opposite side - we made our voices heard and a super majority stripped us of our rights and made our lives less safe. So we organized, we canvassed, we phone banked, we educated and we have elected those who will speak for us, and so the fight continues.
Today, we face danger from within, and without as the Patriots did before us and as we have throughout history, in every instance, be it Father Coughlin in the 1930s, and the American extremists plotting with the Nazis to overthrow our government with the help of sitting members of Congress, to those who attempted a coup on Jan. 6 2021. We as a nation must work together to save this country and hold the liars, propagandists, insurrectionists, and those who wish to destroy our democracy for their own power accountable. I know I will work as hard as I can to do so, America deserves no less.