Jack, wow. What a f—ing year.



We survived the first year of another Donald Trump presidency, but we’ve seen
a familiar pattern take hold again: protections rolled back, cruelty
normalized, and power concentrated in the hands of the wealthy and
well-connected. Immigrants attacked. LGBTQ+ people targeted. Federal agencies
hollowed out. Disinformation was elevated while truth was treated like an
inconvenience—or dismissed as "stupid."



None of this is accidental. It’s Trump’s same authoritarian playbook—just
louder, faster, and more shameless.



And yet, we’re still here.



What I think about most from Trump’s first administration—and from this past
year—isn’t just the damage he’s done. It’s what we did anyway.



While Trump empowered extremists, the Daily Kos community elevated organizers,
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democracy, you helped build and sustain independent media that refused to
sanitize what was happening—and held him fully accountable. While corporate
media chased access and “both sides,” Daily Kos named corruption, bigotry, and
abuse of power for exactly what they are.



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