Katie Phang

Good evening, everyone.

Good evening.

Thank you to MoveOn and to Midas Touch and everyone, but especially thank you to the activists and the organizers that are here today.

This is what a pro-democracy movement looks like.

Look around.

And back behind me here is the United States Capitol.

And inside that capital, I gotta say, I'm so glad I am out here with all of you instead of inside that capital right now.

Inside the capital, Donald Trump is lying about the state of this nation.

He is using division

to drive us apart, to make us think that we are not one nation, one community.

And that is why we are all gathered here today, because we are against the chaos and the corruption that he is spouting back there in that most precious capital of ours.

But tonight we are outside and I'm here to tell you this feels like resistance weather to me.

Because we want to tell the real story about what is happening in this country, what is really, really going on.

And we're here to offer an alternative that is not about sticking up for the billionaires.

It is about fighting for the working, the hardworking people in this country.

And that is why I am so grateful to be here with my special guest today, Brenda Lewis.

Give it up, Tal.

Thank you, Brenda, for being here.

Brenda is an educator.

She was the superintendent of the Fridley Public Schools.