Nakima Levy Armstrong

And so it's really unfortunate for our industry in its entirety when I think people for the last decade in media have been trying to regain the trust of Americans to now see it weaponized

for political gain, for the political agenda of this administration is extremely dangerous because what a lot of people are not naming is that we actually have an information war that is ongoing right now.

But on the other side of that, I would say it is allowing an opportunity to emerge for independent journalists like us who are on the ground, who are with the people, who are continuing to amplify the facts.

Well, one, I was a law professor for 14 years.

So now I'm still a lawyer.

I'm out there with the people though.

So I guess that's my classroom, right?

When you're having elected officials tell lies before the public, gaslight the public, and when there's no counter,

the public is going to believe what they hear so that's what makes the press conferences that that we have as black activists so important people trust our voices because they've seen us out there for so long they've seen us be effective able to break down the law and the facts and provide a completely different perspective than what they may see in mainstream media or what they're hearing from the trump administration even from democrats

So we're being gaslit.

We all know this, but the public doesn't know this.

And when elected officials remain silent, people just fill in the gaps, either based on the lies from the Trump administration,

Or they fill in the gaps from the silence that's happening and they assume that our elected officials are doing all they can.

And so what we've had to encounter over the last week and a half is countering this disinformation and misinformation campaign, trying to activate those who are progressive.

to actually use their voices to fight back as we remind them, look, justice delayed is justice denied.

And our leverage is to push our governor to do more.

You know, he called in the National Guard and he said that he was calling in the National Guard essentially to preempt Trump

from trying to federalize the National Guard and take control.

But at the end of the day, the National Guard isn't helping the people, right?

The National Guard is really there to protect buildings.