as a nation, and the need to stay vigilant and keep fighting for liberty and justice for all.

Thanks if you've read this far.

under the false presumption of changing times, we will continue to watch as this movement rolls back all the progress we've made. Hopefully, to those unaware or those still young, these decisions wake them up to the message that many have long shouted, of ultimately how little progress we have made

erosion of these liberties we take for granted. Now, after decades of hiding in the wings, we see the goals of conservatives at their most potent and brazen.

I write all of this to relieve some thoughts and also to echo a warning. As long as we allow ourselves to be lulled into a sense of security

to the vigilant the quiet perseverance, patience, and everlasting power of the conservative movement. While the cases above are significant, they are only the most public of the moves made to strip away our rights. In decades past, we've seen states quietly chip away or passively allow further

in our democratic system with the VRA in 2013. We saw it with Roe, which shocked the public, but didn't surprise those keen legal scholars. And I have little doubt we will see it with many other cases, Obergefall to name one, in the court's crosshairs. These seemingly independent decisions highlight

provision that counters racial redistricting practices. This will be the latest success of an unsuspected, yet not so quiet, movement. We have seen them take shots and knock down many significant gains in recent years. This same court struck down another important tool to combat systemic injustice

SCOTUS decision; I have no doubts that it will roll back yet another significant achievement of the Civil Rights Movement. For those unaware, I am referring to the case of Louisiana v Callais, which will almost certainly lead the conservative majority on the court to rule unconstitutional a crucial

progressive rise in culture war issues dominating our politics. These topics push aside real problems in the name of supposed "common sense" and utilitarianism, blaming the less fortunate for our woes while protecting those who hurt us the most.

I write this in the pretense of an impending landmark

politics, times had changed. To reference Lee Atwater, you can't say things out loud anymore, but that meant there was a new front that had to be fought on for the conservative cause. Since that movement, which sparked a new round of self-reflection on our laws and institutions, we've seen a

Reconstruction, when freedmen and women saw what rights they had only recently gained stripped from them, and the era of Jim Crow emerged. This time, the perpetrators were patient, as they had to be, with their more radical agenda. Despite the deep systemic roots of racism still entrenched in our