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Analilia Mejia: Let’s be good ancestors for those who will come later, who will say in a moment in which a despotic authoritarian and…

On the recordMay 20, 2026
Let’s be good ancestors for those who will come later, who will say in a moment in which a despotic authoritarian and his cowardly lackeys attempted to revert to, frankly, pre-Civil War or Jim Crow-era level of politics, that we stood up and we stood strong and we said, ‘Oh hell no.’
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Analilia Mejia
New Jersey
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May 20, 2026

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Addressing rallygoers about the importance of activism.

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