We’ve been gathering together for 10 months protesting the trump administration over and over in the Eastern Panhandle and all across West Virginia with Senator Bernie Sanders.

We’ve protested their assault on history in Harpers Ferry and Charles Town.

We’ve protested in Martinsburg and Berkeley Springs and Shepherdstown. 

We’ve protested for ten months every week at the offices of Senator Shelley Moore Capito and Congressman Riley Moore.

We’ve been amongst the earliest in the nation to take our fear, love of country and neighbors, our anger, our faith and our courage to ask everyone to join us and lift up the values we were taught that shaped America.

AND IT IS ALL WORKING

This week, after a Thanksgiving Break and taking stock of where we’re at, we see the White House chaos, the courts ruling against trump’s retribution against his enemies, maga melting down, trump unable to stop the release of the Epstein files and the truth of trump’s assault on teenage girls, the utter revulsion of voters that resulted in Republican defeats literally in every race in the last election.

Voters now know that trump tariffs fuel inflation, forcing prices up as our government taxes imports even before we buy them.  

trump intentionally raising prices with his favorite policy of tariffs. trump is forcing costs to rise, not even trying to lower the costs of necessities.

trump’s ride or die badass fighter has left the stable. Marjorie Taylor Greene is retiring from Congress after her rejection of trumpism. Watching the Epstein/trump survivors must have revulsed and disgusted Greene like it did everyone else. Was it his loss of power? Or his corruption? Or the cost of healthcare for her grown kids? Or their costs of raising a family?   We all realize that trump has no plan, just does what makes him feel better in the middle of his dark, empty, terror filled nights.

Steve Miller’s fascistic, unforgivable Deportation Works has destroyed families, andleft our food rotting in the fields, again forcing up grocery prices.  In that evil, they’ve put agents of the USA wearing masks, unaccountable to anyone; looking like the gestapo to communities of color.

Much of all this failure is a result of trump’s very fragile and weak personality, his frightening intellectual inadequacies, his ignorance of anything that hasn’t come through a tv screen and the evil the entire world sees.

But mostly trump’s failure is because of gigantic movement building across this country, like we’ve worked for in West Virginia.

Without a call from on high, nor a secret vision shared in our dreams, without a plan; but with a defense of democracy and engaging our neighbors, demanding a better quality of life.

We must keep pushing until the demands of winning the elections next November require us to turn from protest to door knocking. Phone calling, and house meetings, turning out patriots to vote for the Constitution, for democracy, against corruption, for other people, for freedom for everyone. 

Scholars and strategic organizers will study what we’re living through: American fascism, the rise of trump/maga cultism, and the wonderful rising of this very powerful, autonomous social movement in every corner of our country. Out actions, our focus on everyday folks has forced our political debate onto our streets and country roads.

Those who would stop the maga/trumpism must focus on how our country can return to freedom to raise the living standards for every family with higher wages, universal healthcare, childcare, ending bigotry.

Our social movement can make ours a kinder, easier place to reach our dreams.

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