The resistance on the ground matters not only because the regime’s ability to consolidate authoritarian rule is being put to the test here. It matters because it refutes the core premise of MAGA’s worldview: That a multiracial, pluralistic society cannot – it must not! – work.

The people in Minnesota are making a different choice, fueled and sustained by their belief in their own agency, the conviction that their resistance will not be in vain, that it is still in their power to avert autocracy’s triumph.

Now, they are not just going after corporate media: they are going after independent journalists too. But always remember, there are more of us than there are of them, and they can’t silence all of us. Keep speaking out, keep telling the truth.

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