Defiance in numbers: E pluribus unum" (out of many, One) With the anticipated thousands [million+?] of heroic protestors on April 5th (actually any and all days, including Women's March) here's an updated partial list of those fighting back every day [as of 3-28-25). I'm also adding courageous law firms who haven't caved. Besides upstanding lawyers, and law-abiding honorable (present and former) judges (including James Boasberg, chief judge, D.C. District Ct.), here's a growing list of Profiles in Courage men, women, and advocacy groups who refuse to be cowed or kneel to the force of Trump/Musk/MAGA/Fox "News" intimidation:
I'll begin (again) with Missouri's own indomitable Jess[ica] (à la John Lewis's "get in good trouble") Piper/"The View from Rural Missouri," then, in no particular order, Heather Cox Richardson/"Letters from an American," Joyce Vance/"Civil Discourse," Bernie Sanders, AOC, Gov. Tim walz, Sarah Inama, Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, Jasmine Crockett, Ruth Ben-Ghait, Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell, Chris Hayes, Ali Velshi, Stephanie Miller, Gov. Janet Mills, Gov. Beshear, Gov. JB.Pritzker, Mayor Michelle Wu, J im Acosta, Jen Rubin And the Contrarians, Dan Rather, Robert Reich, Jay Kou, Steve Brodner, Rachel Cohen, Brian TylerCohen, Jessica Craven, Scott Dworkin, Anne Applebaum, Lucian Truscott IV, Chris Murphy, Jeff Merkley, Elizabeth Warren, Tammy Duckworth,Sheldon Whitehouse, Adam Schiff, Jon Ossoff, Elyssa Slotkin, Delia Ramirez,Tim Snyder, Robert B. Hubbell, Ben Meiseilas, Rich wilson, Ron Filpkowski, Jeremy Seahill, Thom Hartmann, Jonathan Bernstein, Simon Rosenberg, Marianne Williamson, Mark Fiore, Jamie Raskin, Rebecca Solnit, Steve Schmidt, Josh Marshall, Paul Krugman, Andy Borowitz, Jeff Danziger, Ann Telnaes,͏ ͏Will Bunch, Jim Hightower, Dan Pfeifer, Dean Obeidallah, Liz Cheney, Adam Kimzinger, Cassidy Hutchinson--
American Bar Association, 23 blue state Attorney Generals, Indivisible. FiftyFifty one, MoveOn, DemCast, Blue Missouri, Third Act, Democracy Forward, Public Citizen, Democracy Index, DemocracyLabs, Fred Wellman/On Democracy, Hands Off, Marc Elias/Democracy Docket, Public Citizen, League of Women Voters Lambda Legal, CREW, CODEPINK, ACLU, The 19th/Errin Haines, Working Families Party, American Oversight, et al.
And, as Joyce Vance says, "We're in this together"--or via Jess Piper, from rural Missouri: "Solidarity." FIGHT BACK! WE ARE NOT ALONE! (Latest addition h/t , Robert B. Hubbell: Law firms, see below). All suggestions are welcome.
* Perkins Coie and Covington & Burling have resisted Trump, fighting back with the help of other courageous firms like Williams & Connolly. Per The ABA Journal,
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, representing fired inspectors general. (Law.com)
Hogan Lovells, seeking to block executive orders to end federal funding for gender-affirming medical care. (Law.com)
Jenner & Block, also seeking to block the orders on cuts to medical research funding. (Law.com, Reuters)
Ropes & Gray, also seeking to block cuts to medical research funding. (Law.com)
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, representing the Amica Center for Immigrants Rights and others seeking to block funding cuts for immigrant legal services. (Law.com)
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer.
Wilmer Hale
Keker, Van Nest & Peters
Perhaps I should add our nation's motto--and on our Great Seal--the phrase "E pluribus unum" (out of many, One ). Ii's 13 letters makes its use symbolic of the original 13 Colonies which rebelled against the rule of the Kingdom of George III . . .And now we protest together against King Donald. As my rural MO. indomitable Jess Piper always says: "Solidarity"
I’d like to offer one more value, and a slight reframe: Freedom. Freedom is the ability to dictate your own journey in life—to create what you want to create, live where you want to live, love who you want to love. Freedom is not just the absence of restraint, but the abundance of opportunity.
If Kroger is the only grocery store in your town, do you really have a free choice of food? If an insurance company can decide whether or not you get that MRI for the splitting headaches your doctor thinks might be something more, are you really free to make choices about your health? If you hang on to that job that treats you like shit instead of striking out to start your own business because your two young sons need health insurance, are you really free to choose your life’s path?
Nobody should have arbitrary power over your life, and a world where there is only one employer for your skills or a few suppliers for your parts, where your health or income or safety depend on the power of a small group of people is not a world where you are free.
While people like Truth and Democracy in the abstract, I think Freedom offers something more immediate and tangible to fight towards.
The New Democratic Party must arise up from the dormant Dead Old Party. There are many dem politicians who are using their platforms to protest the Trumphuk/Muskaini Cabal. But what are they doing to cohere an opposition? Wherever the Bernie/AOC Anti-Oligarchy rallies are held leading Dems should be there and stand up with them. They should expand the roadshow by adding prominent voices from such assaulted groups as veterans, health workers and researchers, defense and national security, fired government employees, etc., who can speak to a crowd of 10,000 or 100,000 in short sentences and clear words to 1) how the Trump /Musk Cabal has attacked and hurt what they do and America; 2) what we need to restore, what we need to change, what we need to prevent. There should be a clear set of what we all need to do now to congeal this opposition into a movement.
We must confront the Tyrants that only seek to destroy.
Defiance in numbers: E pluribus unum" (out of many, One) With the anticipated thousands [million+?] of heroic protestors on April 5th (actually any and all days, including Women's March) here's an updated partial list of those fighting back every day [as of 3-28-25). I'm also adding courageous law firms who haven't caved. Besides upstanding lawyers, and law-abiding honorable (present and former) judges (including James Boasberg, chief judge, D.C. District Ct.), here's a growing list of Profiles in Courage men, women, and advocacy groups who refuse to be cowed or kneel to the force of Trump/Musk/MAGA/Fox "News" intimidation:
I'll begin (again) with Missouri's own indomitable Jess[ica] (à la John Lewis's "get in good trouble") Piper/"The View from Rural Missouri," then, in no particular order, Heather Cox Richardson/"Letters from an American," Joyce Vance/"Civil Discourse," Bernie Sanders, AOC, Gov. Tim walz, Sarah Inama, Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, Jasmine Crockett, Ruth Ben-Ghait, Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell, Chris Hayes, Ali Velshi, Stephanie Miller, Gov. Janet Mills, Gov. Beshear, Gov. JB.Pritzker, Mayor Michelle Wu, J im Acosta, Jen Rubin And the Contrarians, Dan Rather, Robert Reich, Jay Kou, Steve Brodner, Rachel Cohen, Brian TylerCohen, Jessica Craven, Scott Dworkin, Anne Applebaum, Lucian Truscott IV, Chris Murphy, Jeff Merkley, Elizabeth Warren, Tammy Duckworth,Sheldon Whitehouse, Adam Schiff, Jon Ossoff, Elyssa Slotkin, Delia Ramirez,Tim Snyder, Robert B. Hubbell, Ben Meiseilas, Rich wilson, Ron Filpkowski, Jeremy Seahill, Thom Hartmann, Jonathan Bernstein, Simon Rosenberg, Marianne Williamson, Mark Fiore, Jamie Raskin, Rebecca Solnit, Steve Schmidt, Josh Marshall, Paul Krugman, Andy Borowitz, Jeff Danziger, Ann Telnaes,͏ ͏Will Bunch, Jim Hightower, Dan Pfeifer, Dean Obeidallah, Liz Cheney, Adam Kimzinger, Cassidy Hutchinson--
American Bar Association, 23 blue state Attorney Generals, Indivisible. FiftyFifty one, MoveOn, DemCast, Blue Missouri, Third Act, Democracy Forward, Public Citizen, Democracy Index, DemocracyLabs, Fred Wellman/On Democracy, Hands Off, Marc Elias/Democracy Docket, Public Citizen, League of Women Voters Lambda Legal, CREW, CODEPINK, ACLU, The 19th/Errin Haines, Working Families Party, American Oversight, et al.
And, as Joyce Vance says, "We're in this together"--or via Jess Piper, from rural Missouri: "Solidarity." FIGHT BACK! WE ARE NOT ALONE! (Latest addition h/t , Robert B. Hubbell: Law firms, see below). All suggestions are welcome.
* Perkins Coie and Covington & Burling have resisted Trump, fighting back with the help of other courageous firms like Williams & Connolly. Per The ABA Journal,
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, representing fired inspectors general. (Law.com)
Hogan Lovells, seeking to block executive orders to end federal funding for gender-affirming medical care. (Law.com)
Jenner & Block, also seeking to block the orders on cuts to medical research funding. (Law.com, Reuters)
Ropes & Gray, also seeking to block cuts to medical research funding. (Law.com)
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, representing the Amica Center for Immigrants Rights and others seeking to block funding cuts for immigrant legal services. (Law.com)
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer.
Wilmer Hale
Keker, Van Nest & Peters
Perhaps I should add our nation's motto--and on our Great Seal--the phrase "E pluribus unum" (out of many, One ). Ii's 13 letters makes its use symbolic of the original 13 Colonies which rebelled against the rule of the Kingdom of George III . . .And now we protest together against King Donald. As my rural MO. indomitable Jess Piper always says: "Solidarity"
This is brilliant
Organizing is key. And there are those in Congress who will rise to the occasion if they get fed up enuf. Cory Booker is the real deal.
I’d like to offer one more value, and a slight reframe: Freedom. Freedom is the ability to dictate your own journey in life—to create what you want to create, live where you want to live, love who you want to love. Freedom is not just the absence of restraint, but the abundance of opportunity.
If Kroger is the only grocery store in your town, do you really have a free choice of food? If an insurance company can decide whether or not you get that MRI for the splitting headaches your doctor thinks might be something more, are you really free to make choices about your health? If you hang on to that job that treats you like shit instead of striking out to start your own business because your two young sons need health insurance, are you really free to choose your life’s path?
Nobody should have arbitrary power over your life, and a world where there is only one employer for your skills or a few suppliers for your parts, where your health or income or safety depend on the power of a small group of people is not a world where you are free.
While people like Truth and Democracy in the abstract, I think Freedom offers something more immediate and tangible to fight towards.
I’d suggest that when you have a combination of real fairness, truth, responsibility and merit, that Freedom follows naturally
Not sure if you’ve seen this yet, but thought you’d be interested: https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/independent-american-national-party
The New Democratic Party must arise up from the dormant Dead Old Party. There are many dem politicians who are using their platforms to protest the Trumphuk/Muskaini Cabal. But what are they doing to cohere an opposition? Wherever the Bernie/AOC Anti-Oligarchy rallies are held leading Dems should be there and stand up with them. They should expand the roadshow by adding prominent voices from such assaulted groups as veterans, health workers and researchers, defense and national security, fired government employees, etc., who can speak to a crowd of 10,000 or 100,000 in short sentences and clear words to 1) how the Trump /Musk Cabal has attacked and hurt what they do and America; 2) what we need to restore, what we need to change, what we need to prevent. There should be a clear set of what we all need to do now to congeal this opposition into a movement.
We must confront the Tyrants that only seek to destroy.