7) Our Voices Matter
I can’t pretend to know where this road will take me, or any of us, in the months ahead. But I do know this: our voices matter, our lives matter, and our stories deserve to be told—not as numbers, but as truth.

I am one of the 300,000. And I will not be silent.

6) This is not just survival—it’s resistance. An act of defiance against injustice, silence, and the systems that pushed us out. We may be counted as a statistic, but we are not invisible. We are here. We are grieving, we are rebuilding, and we are refusing to let the story end here.

5) And yet, here I am—still standing, still fighting. Being pushed out forced me to make a choice: to shrink back into invisibility or to rise and use what I can.

4)Being targeted in this way is disorienting. The ground shifts beneath your feet. You don’t know what the outlook will be in a few months—financially, professionally, emotionally. You wonder if you will ever get back what was lost, or if the path forward will always feel uncertain.

3) We’re told we are “not alone,” that “folks are with us,” but what does that really mean when no one is calling on our voices, our experiences, or our truth? It feels like being erased twice: once from our careers, and again from the narrative about what has happened to us.

2) And yet, like so many others, I found myself pushed out—forced into a transition I didn’t ask for and couldn’t fully prepare for.

Feeling Invisible
What has followed feels like invisibility. News outlets report the number—300,000—but the people behind that statistic remain unseen.

1) I am one of the 300,000 Black women whose federal career has been sidelined by the current political climate.

For years, I worked inside federal service—leading, coaching, and serving with the belief that my work mattered. I gave my best to the mission, my colleagues, and the people I served.

For the 300,000...

I am a former NOAA employee who took the buyout because morale was so low that it was overwhelming just going in each day.

I was also in the EEO field and knew it was a matter of time before inevitability.

As an act of service, I and others are finding ways to support colleagues.

Here's mine:

Win with Black Women is live on YouTube regarding the cloture and CR: www.youtube.com/live/jad8yLA...

These Dems are showing us that We The People are all we have. There is no one else.

I never liked Twitter, so I don't know how to do this post thing. But I am on here because I am frustrated with these spineless Democrats.

I am so tired of voting only to be disappointed by cowardice.