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With Trump on the ballot and the threats to freedom outlined in Project 2025, this was the time for fighting. No time to lose. Only 106 days till the election.
“Predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So, hear me when I say… I know Donald Trump’s type.”
“As a young prosecutor, when I was in the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office in California, I specialized in cases involving sexual abuse. Donald Trump was found liable by a jury for committing sexual abuse.
“As district attorney, to go after polluters, I created one of the first environmental justice units in our nation. Donald Trump stood in Mar-a-Lago and told Big Oil lobbyists he would do their bidding for a $1 billion campaign contribution.”
“During the foreclosure crisis, I took on the big Wall Street banks and won $20 billion for California families, holding those banks accountable for fraud. Donald Trump was just found guilty of thirty-four counts of fraud.”
He romanticized a time when freedom and rights were limited and denied to so many Americans.
No one wants a lawyer who is nervous in front of an audience.
But at 9:42 a.m., just as I was getting ready to head to the landing zone for Marine Two, a fourteen-year-old in Barrow County, Georgia, texted his father: I’m sorry, it’s not ur fault. And then, to his mother, a second text: I’m sorry. By 10:30 a.m., he had shot eleven people at Apalachee High School, where he was a freshman. He had killed Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both aged fourteen; a math teacher named Cristina Irimie; and a math teacher and assistant football coach, Richard Aspinwall.
Unless you live in Georgia, you’ve probably forgotten about that shooting, or maybe it’s blurred into the details of the other eighty-three school shootings that happened in 2024. Eighty-three. And 2024 is not even our deadliest year.
When I decided to become a prosecutor, I had to defend that decision to my family, like a student defending a thesis. I asked why, when we seek change, must it either be by breaking down doors or crawling on bended knee? I wanted a seat at the table. I wanted to make change from inside the system. Today I’m no longer sure about that. Because the system is failing us. At every level—executive, judicial, legislative, corporate, institutional, media—every single guardrail that is supposed to protect our democracy is buckling. I thought those guardrails would be stronger. I was wrong.
