Happy Monday, everyone, and we begin tonight with what I think is the question.

When you are in the midst of a crisis and specifically a crisis of democracy, how do you resist?

When fascism isn't just coming, it's already here.

So what, if anything, can you do about it?

Well, for one thing, you can try to learn from history,

from what people in this situation in countries around the world and in America have done

before. As my friend Rachel Maddo always says, history is here to help. America hasn't always

been a free country for everyone, and we've had resistance movements from day one, from enslaved people fighting their captivity.

Shout out to Harriet Tubbitt, who was a 92%er before 92%ing was cool.

And even taking up arms during the Civil War to the women's movement and the workers' rights

movement and the Stonewall, gay rights movement, they've all been versions of the fight to make this a free country for everyone and to have a true multiracial democracy.

And that is history's most important lesson, right? That the most important thing, the first rule is to fight back, to never stop resisting.

Do not obey in advance, as Tim Snyder put it. Do not take

the need to throw in a Game of Thrones reference. Even if it's scary or uncomfortable or inconvenient,

just keep saying no or finding creative ways to say no in small ways and large. Megger Ever said,

do not shop where they will not employ you. Dr. King, champion the

Montgomery bus boycotts to become the leader of the civil rights movement. The labor rights

movement, shut down factories and hobbled industries to win the 40-hour work week that you

enjoy right now and more recently to ensure the right of workers to work from home during COVID.

People have marched against the Vietnam War and the war in Iraq and against the decimation of Gaza using our tax dollars.

You don't always win every battle.

But the whole thing is about resisting.

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