The Warnings Were Never Whispers — They Were Screams

America has never been free. It has only ever been free for a specific type of person: white, male, wealthy, and aligned with power.

The rest of us — Black, brown, Indigenous, immigrant, queer, disabled, or poor — were either sacrificed to build this nation or strategically excluded from its promises. And now, in 2025, with fascism creeping in through th…