Jamie Raskin

Well, let's just say that because we're experiencing an authoritarian, attempted authoritarian takeover of American society, the job has changed, right? There were people on all sides who thought the job is you stay in touch with your constituents and you go and you push a red button or a green button and that's your job. That's not our job anymore. We are organizers.

We are organizers and we've got to be leaders of a nationwide popular movement to arrest the dissent into fascism in America. And we haven't even gotten a chance to talk about Elon Musk and the Silicon Valley people because these people really believe that democracy is defunct. And they say we live in a post-constitutional America.

We are organizers and we've got to be leaders of a nationwide popular movement to arrest the dissent into fascism in America. And we haven't even gotten a chance to talk about Elon Musk and the Silicon Valley people because these people really believe that democracy is defunct. And they say we live in a post-constitutional America.

And, you know, if you if you listen to their intellectual guru, Curtis Yarvin, he did an interview with The New York Times about a month ago where he said the American people have got to get over their fear of the word dictatorship. He said, the corporations are just dictatorships of the CEO.

And, you know, if you if you listen to their intellectual guru, Curtis Yarvin, he did an interview with The New York Times about a month ago where he said the American people have got to get over their fear of the word dictatorship. He said, the corporations are just dictatorships of the CEO.

And just like we have CEOs dictatorships in the private sector, we need to have a dictator for the government. And by the way, that dictator does not serve the people. That dictator serves the other dictators. They're talking about a corporate state. And they're being very unvarnished and explicit about it. So our jobs have changed.

And just like we have CEOs dictatorships in the private sector, we need to have a dictator for the government. And by the way, that dictator does not serve the people. That dictator serves the other dictators. They're talking about a corporate state. And they're being very unvarnished and explicit about it. So our jobs have changed.

It's not enough just to go and cast our votes and to write a monthly newsletter. We've got to be involved seven days a week in the struggle to defend constitutional democracy in America. And when I say that. I believe constitutional democracy is not just a structure of laws and constitutional principles and practices.

It's not enough just to go and cast our votes and to write a monthly newsletter. We've got to be involved seven days a week in the struggle to defend constitutional democracy in America. And when I say that. I believe constitutional democracy is not just a structure of laws and constitutional principles and practices.

It is that, but it's more than that because constitutional democracy is always an unfolding and unfinished project. And if we're not moving forward, like Tocqueville warned in democracy in America, we're going to be lapsing back into some other autocratic or monarchical aristocratic form of government. We got to be moving forward. So, um, You know, you got to hand it to Donald Trump.

It is that, but it's more than that because constitutional democracy is always an unfolding and unfinished project. And if we're not moving forward, like Tocqueville warned in democracy in America, we're going to be lapsing back into some other autocratic or monarchical aristocratic form of government. We got to be moving forward. So, um, You know, you got to hand it to Donald Trump.

At least he's talking about Greenland and Canada and Panama. He's not talking about anything democratic. He's talking about taking them over like a dictator. Well, we've got to put on the agenda the millions of disenfranchised people in America. We need statehood for Washington, D.C. We need statehood for Puerto Rico. We need a constitutional amendment guaranteeing everybody a right to vote.

At least he's talking about Greenland and Canada and Panama. He's not talking about anything democratic. He's talking about taking them over like a dictator. Well, we've got to put on the agenda the millions of disenfranchised people in America. We need statehood for Washington, D.C. We need statehood for Puerto Rico. We need a constitutional amendment guaranteeing everybody a right to vote.

We need to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. We can't be in a constant quicksand struggle against voter suppression tactics. And they're trying it again. for 2026 and 2028, and the SAVE Act, which would conceivably disenfranchise millions of American women, because you've got to show, when you go to the polls now, your birth certificate, your driver's license, or a passport.

We need to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. We can't be in a constant quicksand struggle against voter suppression tactics. And they're trying it again. for 2026 and 2028, and the SAVE Act, which would conceivably disenfranchise millions of American women, because you've got to show, when you go to the polls now, your birth certificate, your driver's license, or a passport.

And if they don't match your birth certificate, then you've got to show your marriage certificate. And 80% of American women changed their last name. So they've got to bring their marriage certificate along with everything else. It's just more obstacles to voting for the people that they think are not going to vote for them. So we've got to deal with that. So I just believe...

And if they don't match your birth certificate, then you've got to show your marriage certificate. And 80% of American women changed their last name. So they've got to bring their marriage certificate along with everything else. It's just more obstacles to voting for the people that they think are not going to vote for them. So we've got to deal with that. So I just believe...

I'm kind of with John Dewey, who said that the only solution to the ills of democracy is more democracy. And what we're suffering from today is not democracy, but it's all of these attacks on it and all of these obstacles to it. But we do need to be not just legislative representatives today.

I'm kind of with John Dewey, who said that the only solution to the ills of democracy is more democracy. And what we're suffering from today is not democracy, but it's all of these attacks on it and all of these obstacles to it. But we do need to be not just legislative representatives today.

you know, which is hard enough, but we've got to be movement leaders along with everybody in the streets and everybody in the state capitals and the city halls and the church halls and the union halls across America.