Be So Loud for America

The Silence They’re Counting On

This weekend gave us Shroedinger's Trump: while we, the people were unsure if he was alive or dead, most major media refused to talk about his unusual disappearance. Just like they're refusing to talk about his occupation of our cities, because it's good for their bottom line when he causes mayhem.

Recently, Trump’s fervor isn’t drawing the same crowds it once did. His rallies are thinner, the applause quieter. But don’t mistake that for weakness. He doesn’t need a stadium if he’s got the state. And this today, he tried to prove it again.

Earlier today, a California court ruled that his deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act. But instead of backing down, he is doubling down. Hours ago he ordered the Texas Guard into Chicago and Baltimore, as if entire cities were enemy territory.

The message was clear: fall in line, or face occupation.

We’ve Seen This Before

Our founders gave us a list of 27 reasons to revolt. One of them was simple: “He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.” That warning echoes in every boot on our streets today.

First it was Los Angeles. Then it was DC, and now it's Baltimore and Chicago. Our standing military is being used against American citizens, on American soil. In response to this grave offense, Illinois governor JB Pritzker stood up and said plainly what others are thinking: this is unlawful, this is dangerous, and this is not democracy.

Military occupation doesn’t start with tanks. It starts with raids, with troops ordered into neighborhoods they don’t belong in, with citizens treated as suspects, as threats, as less than.

What Happens If We Do Nothing

Silence is the script they’re counting on. The tired shrug, the cynical laugh, the quiet retreat into private life as we bury our heads in the sand. That’s how authoritarianism wins, by convincing you that resistance is pointless, and that obedience is safer for everyone, so you might as well just go along with it.

But these are our cities. Our communities. Our neighbors. Our lives. 

What happens if we stay quiet? We wake up in a country where military crackdowns are routine, where laws don’t matter, where courts are ignored, where our rights are optional. We wake up in a country unrecognizable to the people who fought protect it, to build it, to make it what it is today.

Be Loud, America

We don’t have the luxury of politeness anymore. We don’t have the time to wait. We must raise our voices—in our streets, in our schools, in our churches, in our workplaces, in our families. We must speak up and speak out, not someday, but today. In every conversation, in every setting, in every way.

Be loud in defense of your neighbors. Be loud in defense of your communities. Be loud in defense of America.

Because this country was never built by the silent. It was built by the loud, the defiant, the unafraid.

And it will only survive if we remember how to be loud again.