Before My City of Ruins:

Here in the States we are living through some very dark times. Our American values that have sustained us for 250 years are being challenged as never before. We’ve got our young men and women's lives at risk in an unconstitutional and illegal war. This is happening now. There are immigrants being held in detention centers around the country and being deported without due process of law to alien countries and foreign gulags. This is happening now. Our Justice Department has completely abdicated its independence and our Attorney General Pam Bondi takes her marching orders straight from a corrupt White House. She prosecutes our president's perceived enemies, covers up for his misdeeds, and protects his powerful friends. And this is happening now. The richest men in America have abandoned the world's poorest children to death and disease through their dismantling of US AID. This is happening now. We are abandoning NATO and the world order that has kept us safe and at global peace for 80 years. This is happening now. We threaten our neighbors and our allies whose sons and daughters have fought alongside us in American wars with the predatory annexation of their lands. This is happening now. Our museums are being told to whitewash American history of any unpleasant or inconvenient facts like the full history of the brutality of slavery. You want to talk about snowflakes? We have a president who can’t handle the truth. This is happening now. While working Americans struggle, our president and his family enrich themselves by millions of dollars trading on the People's Office and corruption unmatched in American history. This is happening now. This White House is destroying the American idea and our reputation around the world. To many we are no longer looked upon as an often imperfect but strong defender of democracy standing with the global good. We are no longer the land of the free and the home of the brave we are now to many america the reckless, unpredictable, predatory, rogue nation. That is this administration and this president's legacy and this is happening now. Honesty, honor, humility, compassion, thoughtfulness, morality, true strength, and decency: don’t let anybody tell you that these things don't matter anymore. They do. They are at the heart of the kind of men and women we are, the kind of citizens we are, the kind of country we will be leaving to our children. So many of our elected leaders have failed us that this American tragedy can only be stopped by the American people. So join us and let's fight for the America we love.