Good morning. It is Sunday, August the 31st. I'm Ali Velshi. We begin this hour with some crucial

dispatches from the front lines. The front lines of the citizens' resistance, your resistance,

that has taken shape over these past months,

as Donald Trump and complicit Republicans have waged relentless attacks on our Democratic institutions.

And that brings us this morning to the town of Cape May, New Jersey.

Might seem like an unlikely front line of the resistance, yet every Saturday, a small but

dedicated group known as the Bridge Brigade

gathers at the local pedestrian overpass with protest signs, refusing to let their neighbors

forget that their democracy is under siege. The first gathering in March drew maybe 10 people.

Since then, they've shown up nearly every Saturday, rain or shine. Now they average about

20 people. On the 4th of July, nearly 30 turned out. It's not a lot of people. It's not glamorous.

It doesn't make national headlines. But it is resistance. And those protesters are persistent.

Their goal is not simply the time-honored tradition of protest. It is also

community building. Their weekly presence is a civic drumbeat, a reminder that Trump's power is not

inevitable, nor is it impenetrable. It is a reminder that they will not get used to what is happening,

and that people still care enough to show up.

It may seem like a small gesture, but few of the greatest human-powered civil rights movements in history were sustained by one or even several grand moments.

Movements, protests, and democracy itself endure because of the steady commitment of ordinary

people.

Proof that the quest for freedom, equality, and liberty,

and the will to resist in defense of those things is stronger than any effort to silence it.

It's not just protest.

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