Summer Lee: “Women are intimidated. Vanessa Guillen is my neighbor, a neighboring district. Her death was unspeakable.”

Rather than pour billions more into the agency that murdered her, we must abolish ICE and build systems rooted in equity and basic human dignity.

This is how dictators take power. They manufacture crises, undermine our institutions, and erode our checks and balances.

Workers deserve the freedom to change jobs, seek higher wages, and leave unsafe or exploitative workplaces without being threatened with crushing debt.

As painful as it is, and as disappointing as it can be, we’ve got to go through it.