There’s something happening here. Can you feel it? Joan Walsh and her former colleague at The Nation, Micah Sifray, both wrote this week about the resistance. Or as they both prefer, the defiance. But whatever you call it, it’s here. And if you’re not participating in it, then you’re helping to take down our nation and our future.

Today, Joan Walsh joins us to talk about it, for what it’s worth. She wrote two articles in the past week that I want to point you towards: “My Weekend of Anti-Trump, Anti-Musk “Defiance”  and “Pramila Jayapal: “We Have to Stand Up and Fight Back”.

Senator Cory Booker has been speaking, holding the senate floor since 7pm ET last night. I’m writing this shortly before 4pm ET. I go on the air at 5. He’s not delaying a vote, so it’s not technically a filibuster. But he said he needed to do something different.

“John Lewis and so many heroes before us would say that this is the time to stand up, to speak up,” Booker said near the start of his remarks. “This is the time to get in some good trouble, to get into necessary trouble. I can’t allow this body to continue without doing something different, speaking out.”

As I’ve not been able to listen for the now 19 hours he’s been speaking, I can’t tell you that I’ll share the highlights. But we’ll share some of them. And perhaps we’ll hear him wrap it up.

** It’s now after my show ended, and Cory Booker is still going. It sounds like he’s wrapping it up with Sen Chris Murphy asking what appears to be the final question. To break Strom Thurmond’s record from 1957, they’ll still go for another 20 minutes or so.  You can watch the whole thing here.

I, for one, am grateful to Sen. Cory Booker for using the past 24 hours in an important way, spreading the truth.

You can do your part this weekend. Get details at fiftyfifty.one and handsoff2025.com. 

And continue doing whatever else you’re doing to save our country. Every voice matters.