Ani Lucia Lopez-Bellosa

But I know that voting no is not enough.

Because what is at stake at this moment is not a single bill or a single nominee or even a single presidency.

What is at stake is whether the United States of America remains a democracy that works for the many or becomes a dictatorship that serves only the few.

We are living in a critical moment and we must fight back.

Trump wants to scare us into submission.

But when he rolls back our rights, we roll up our sleeves.

And that means we must be louder, we must push back harder than ever before.

So I'm here to ask every single person out in the crowd and online, will you fight for our future?

Will you fight for our democracy?

Because we know

that we must defund and abolish ice.

We must get ice out of our cities.

We must remove RFK Jr.

from any public health position that puts lives at risk.

We must say out loud that vaccines work.

We must fire Kristi Noem and Kash Patel.

for their lawlessness and complicity in the crimes that we have seen committed right before our eyes.

We must reverse Trump's disastrous tax cuts for the wealthy and instead invest that in relief for working families.

And we must save Medicare and Social Security and expand funding for Medicaid.

We don't need endless warfare.