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Monday marks four years since then President Trump incited his far-right mob to storm the Capitol and overturn a democratic election.
A few months later, a few of us students founded the Task Force for Democracy on a mission to improve community-level faith in our institutions. Four years later, we’re working nationally to defend our democracy, secure voting rights, and organize students to resist Project 2025.
We embarked on our journey to protect democracy because the violence on January 6th didn’t happen in a vacuum. For years, the cynicism that led to Jan 6 had been fueled by contempt for our democracy—which has systematically disenfranchised working-class Americans, only responded to the wishes of the wealthy, and continues to be compromised by corporate cash. The apathy was there, all it took was Trump to weaponize that disdain against our democracy.
Today, the continued failure of those institutions has once again propelled the MAGA movement to power. In two weeks, the same white-supremacist and fascist figures will once again hold the White House. We must resist them and their autocratic agenda for America at every opportunity. But even more, we have to fight for a truly just & inclusive democracy. This includes:
- Enshrining the right to vote as a fundamental freedom;
- Overturning the disastrous Citizens United ruling & removing corporate money from our democracy;
- Halting a dangerous Constitutional Convention to rewrite our rights funded by special interests like the Heritage Foundation and ALEC;
- Organizing students to defend DC’s autonomy & democracy in our nation’s capital; and,
- Empowering communities to build a multiracial, multigenerational, and cross-class democracy at the local, state, & federal level!
To these ends, we ask that you join us in our New Years’ resolution to fight for our future and for the democracy we deserve!
In Solidarity,
The Board of Directors
