Vox Populi:

The U.S.’s political landscape — and our daily lives — are increasingly shaped by repression and violence, amplified by a media cycle designed to keep us fearful in the present, uncertain about the future, and depleted. Exhaustion is not a side effect of this system. It is one of its core tools.

Last year, I wrote that Donald Trump’s attacks were designed to exhaust us. Over the past year, I’ve watched communities build movements and adapt their organizing under this reality.

The Trump administration and the institutions aligned with it — including Project 2025’s policy influence — pushed that strategy to its limits. The chaos meant to break us instead revealed what it actually costs — mentally and physically — to live inside a system built on crisis and attrition.

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