In the spring and summer of 2025, the United States — that grand experiment in democracy, or as some would call it, a long-running sitcom with laugh tracks and commercial breaks — witnessed a phenomenon: three to five million people across all fifty states decided, en masse, that they’d had enough of the usual bullshit. What started as a reaction to the latest round of ICE raids — where the government, in all its wisdom, decided the best way to solve immigration was to roll up to people’s homes in armored vehicles in Los Angeles, Austin, Dallas, and Seattle like it was the last day of a going-out-of-business sale — quickly turned into something bigger. It became a nationwide “Hands Off!” movement, because apparently, the concept of “don’t touch me” is now revolutionary.
Let’s be clear: this wasn’t about being a Democrat or a Republican, or even about being “Mexican” or “American.” No, this was about people waking up and realizing that when the government starts tearing families apart and militarizing the streets in one neighborhood, it’s only a matter of time before they come for yours. Suddenly, everyone from teachers to truck drivers, from retirees to restaurant workers, labor unions, civil rights organizations, grassroots activists, and even veterans — people who, in any other context, might not agree on the color of the sky — was out in the streets, united by a simple idea: maybe, just maybe, we deserve better than being treated like extras in a dystopian action movie…
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE… | by Christian Baghai | Jun, 2025 | Medium
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