Ezra Levin

Rachel, I hate to take us back to early 2025, but if your viewers don't mind, I'd like folks to remember how dark everything was back then. It wasn't just that Trump was coming in with his regime and his Project 2025 agenda. Everywhere we looked, elites were collapsing, whether it was media institutions or law firms or universities or leaders of the Democratic Party. They were looking for ways to just bow down to Trump.

And I think the story of 2025 is the story of elites collapsing in the face of an authoritarian threat and normal everyday people saying, uh-uh, we're not going to accept this. Starting with hands off in April with 1300 events nationwide.

to no kings one in June on Donald Trump's birthday, to no kings two in October. We saw three of the five largest protests in American history last year, and we're 12 days into this year, Rachel, and we've already seen another one of the largest protests in history against this regime. And these were organic protests that came together, as you said, in the space of 48 hours.

Luulen, että nyt meillä on yksi hallituksen järjestelmä, joka on todennäköisesti vahvistunut, verrattuna siihen, missä se oli vuoden aiemmin. Sen tuottaminen on huomattavasti vähentynyt. Se on sopiminut taisteluaan taas ja taas valtioksiin ja järjestelmään ja järjestelmään järjestelmällä. Ja myös me, me pro-demokraattiset Amerikkalaiset, emme ole vielä vahvistuneet.

Because a weakened authoritarian regime is in many ways more dangerous. And I hate to say this, Rachel, but I believe it to be the case. I think it's going to be worse before it gets better. But I think it's going to get better because we're going to make it better. We saw what making it better looks like. We saw organic outrage, which is the responsibility of Americans everywhere to display outrage right now at what this regime is doing. That outrage is our job.

The event tomorrow is with elected officials. Elected officials can display outrage. I like some outrage from elected officials. But their job is to act, to use the leverage that they have to make our lives better. And that's what Chris Murphy does.

And that's what Maxwell Frost and that's what some leaders at the local level are talking about doing now. We as Americans need to cheer them on. And for those Democrats and other elected officials from any party who are not standing up in defense of their constituents, we need to put the pressure on them so we see some change.

Look, Congress is our voice in the federal government. The good news about the event tomorrow is while it is in Washington D.C. and it's at 5 p.m., please come on down if you're in the area. You don't have to go to Washington D.C. to have your voice heard, Rachel. You've got one U.S. representative and two U.S. senators. And at the end of this month, not after the midterms, not sometime in the distant future, at the end of this month,

Those representatives and those senators are going to vote on whether to empower Trump to launch more wars and send more secret police forces to your communities to terrorize and murder residents of those communities. They have power. The question is whether they use it. How do we get them to do their job, to use the power that they've got? We use our power, which is our voice. Now is the time to make some noise.

Rachel, now is the time to make some noise. So you should be calling your members of Congress if you're watching this tomorrow. You should be showing up at their district offices and telling them, now is the time for you to stand up for me. I'm outraged. It's your time to act. Ezra Levin, the co-founder of Indivisible. Ezra, thank you very much for your time tonight. Good luck. See you soon. We'll be right back. Stay with us.