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How Everyday Americans Can Stand Up to Trump’s Agenda

Velshi

MS NOW, Ali Velshi

Politics, News, News Commentary, Ms Now, Versant Media, Versant, Ali Velshi, Government, Weekend News

4.7793 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The Indivisible Project's Leah Greenberg; MS NOW host Rev. Al Sharpton; former Executive Editor of The Washington Post, Marty Baron; Cybersecurity Reporter Joseph Menn; MS NOW Legal Analyst Melissa Murray

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0:00.0

Morning. It's Sunday, February the 8th. This weekend marks one month since the killing of Renee Good.

0:12.5

Her partner released a statement through her attorney, quote, Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last.

0:18.3

You know my wife's name and you know Alex Preti's name, but there are

0:21.0

many others in this city being harmed that you don't know. Their families are hurting just like mine,

0:26.2

even if they don't look like mine. In his decade in politics, Donald Trump has faced some of the

0:30.6

largest protests American presidents have ever seen. In fact, of the five largest single-day protests

0:36.4

in U.S. history, three have been in reaction

0:39.2

to Donald Trump or his policies, the 2017 Women's March, the day after he was first inaugurated,

0:43.8

and both No King's demonstrations, which took place last year. Only the first Earth Day, which drew

0:50.4

20 million people in 1970, was larger than October's No King's protests.

0:55.9

The next No King's rally, write this down. It's going to be important. It's scheduled for March 28th,

1:01.5

and it's aiming for 9 million attendees, which would place it second on that list if the goal is

1:07.7

achieved to attend that, by the way, you'll have to miss this show,

1:15.6

but I'm totally okay with that. Arresting Donald Trump's authoritarian rise is going to rely, though, on more than just record-breaking single-day protests, impressive though those things are.

1:21.3

What's needed to meet the moment, when Congress and the courts are failing to check Donald

1:24.9

Trump's power and the next election is still nine months away

1:28.0

is sustained defiance and resistance. Local groups, though they may be small, who will not give up,

1:34.7

individual people who show up consistently to stand against the seizing of our values and our institutions.

1:40.4

We've seen that before in this country, before major changes have occurred, and we've seen that happen again across the country now in the last year.

1:48.0

Each new city descended upon by unmarked vans carrying masked agents grows a new community of resistors who are dedicated to activism and solidarity.

1:56.7

The people of Minneapolis didn't ask for this confrontation with the federal government, but they rose to the occasion. Hundreds of businesses closed for a day-long economic blackout. Students

2:07.0

walked out of school and demonstrated at the state capital. Some local restaurants have transformed

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