Resistance Brief 11.26.25

In this video, I talk about what happens after the Trump era ends — whether it’s next month, next year, or years from now. America has been here before: Nixon was pardoned, Trump was impeached twice, and both times our leaders chose “unity” over accountability. But the real question is bigger than Ford, bigger than Biden, and bigger than Trump. It’s about us — the American people — and whether we will participate in our own freedom.

For 40 years, voter turnout has hovered around 60 percent. Wealthy voters participate at double the rate of working-class Americans, helping create a congressional re-election rate of nearly 90 percent. If we don’t change this dynamic, the post-Trump era could look exactly like the pre-Trump era — leaving us wide open for the next authoritarian who’s smarter, more disciplined, and just as dangerous.

This is a call to action: to return to the principle in the Declaration of Independence that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. That consent only works when we participate. If you want a future where the American Dream belongs to all of us, it starts with turning out, showing up, and refusing to give power back to the people who made Trump possible.

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