Hi, everyone, 4 o'clock in New York, an alarming series of incidents beginning in the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump's election victory is compounding the fear,

fear that many in this country have about their futures. And it's sparking a conversation about how best to push back against a potential wave of hate.

The FBI is reporting over the weekend that a series of threatening text messages were sent to high school students and people in Latino and LGBT communities. FBI saying this, quote, some recipients reported

being told they were selected for deportation or to report to a re-education camp. The messages have

also been reported as being received via email communication. That is after text messages were sent to black Americans in more than a dozen states

after the election, the New York Times reports that the messages, quote, told them they had

to, they had been selected to pick cotton and ordered them to report for slavery.

Some of the messages also made a reference to Mr. Trump.

Some even claimed to be from his administration. But a campaign spokesperson said it had absolutely nothing to do with those text

messages. The New York Times adds this reporting, quote, misogynistic social media posts also

surged in the aftermath of the election with phrases like,

Your Body, My Choice, and Get Back to the Kitchen, proliferating online.

The threats are not happening in a vacuum, of course.

They come at a time when Latino communities are fearing what could happen if the Trump

administration follows through on those promised mass deportations.

The LGBTQ plus community right now fearing a rollback of legal protections and rights on the part of the Trump administration and maybe even the Supreme Court.

Not to mention, this is a moment in which many black Americans fear a

rollback of civil rights. Add to that, a moment in which women are anticipating, almost

girding, for a further erosion of their bodily autonomy in a post-Dobbs America. All of it

naturally leading to a question that millions of Americans have a right

to ask, which is this. What does the resistance against hate in America look like if many of the

institutions that have traditionally been a bulwark in protecting Americans are now in the hands of

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