Take one step
29 May 2026
This is a great essay: Somebody Has To Make a Start - The lesson of Nazi Germany was never just about monsters. It was about the rest of us
One step. Then another. That is how ordinary people have always found their courage — not in a single dramatic moment, but in the accumulation of small decisions not to look away.
What you are doing right now may feel normal. It may even be normal. But normal, in the wrong moment, is how the worst things in history got started. And it is also how they got stopped — by people who decided that normal wasn’t good enough.
Get off the couch. Take one step. You may surprise yourself.
One easy step is to sign this petition, I Stand Against Trump. Then think about the next step.
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