When Senator Cory Booker stood in the Senate for 25 relentless hours, he did more than break records—he broke the silence. His words rang out, not as partisan rhetoric, but as a call to conscience: "This is not right or left; it is right or wrong. This is not a partisan moment. It is a moral moment. Where do you stand?" His question is not rhetorical. It demands an answer from every one of us. It demands action.
Booker reminds us that we cannot wait for heroes to save us—we are the heroes we've been waiting for. In this moment of crisis, where Trump, Musk, and their enablers are dismantling the very foundations of our democracy, we must rise. The time to rise is now. The longer we hesitate, the stronger these forces of chaos become. As Booker said, "We're senators with all of this power, but in this democracy, the power of people is greater than the people in power." History has always proven this truth.
Throughout his historic speech, Booker drew from our nation's painful yet powerful history—the civil rights movement, the struggle for women's suffrage, the generations who got into what Congressman John Lewis called "good trouble, necessary trouble." Booker echoed Lewis: "Help redeem the soul of America." We honor that legacy by standing up today, not shrinking back.
Booker's voice, hoarse after hours of speaking, still declared, "My voice is inadequate… My efforts today are inadequate to stop what they're trying to do. But we, the people, are powerful." Yes, we are. But only if we choose to act.
This moment is not about political parties—it is about people. Booker said it plainly: "Let's stop worrying about the politics and get more focused on the people." Because people—our neighbors, families, and communities—are under attack. Republicans are slashing healthcare, gutting Medicaid, attacking Social Security, and dismantling public education. They are pushing a mass deportation agenda and abandoning our allies while emboldening our adversaries. They are working every day to make life harder for working families while shoveling tax cuts to the wealthiest and to corporations.
The danger is clear. But so is our path forward. "A gathering like this can't be the end of our activism," Booker warned. "This has got to be a moment in America where all of us begin to say, what more can I do?"
Cory Booker Calls Us to Rise Now
So what more can we do? We can show up. We can speak out. We can build people power and organize in every city, every state, and every community. We must build power to replace the corrupt politicians who sell out our future. Fascism thrives when people believe "it can't happen here"—but history teaches otherwise. Silence is surrender. Action is power.
We must rise together. Because when we fight together, we win together.
This is not the time for despair. It is the time for determination. Booker's courage reminds us that unity is our greatest weapon. Unity tears down the walls of fear and division that Trump and his allies build to keep us apart. And together, we are unstoppable.
Let us redeem the dream, as Booker challenged us to do. Let us be bold. Let us become the messengers this moment demands, the leaders our communities need, the fighters our democracy requires.
Remember: we are the heroes we've been waiting for.
The question is before us, as clear and urgent as ever. Cory Booker has asked it. History has asked it. Our children, our future, are asking it:
Where do you stand?
Let's answer with our actions.
Let's answer with our courage.
Let's answer with our power.
And together, we will win.
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