To the Ones Who Warned Us First: A Signal in Reply

Carole Cadwalladr is a shining example of what we all need to be doing more of: truth-telling.

In the face of brazen disinformation campaigns and digital pressure, she spoke out when she saw something was wrong. Then the attacks came—lawsuits, intimidation, silence. But she did not back down. She is still speaking out, like the brave soul, patriot, and ally that she is.

To see her visibly shaken, yet still determined to call out injustice—to sound the alarm in the face of adversity—I was transported. It took me straight back to that moment when I watched the first executive orders being signed and a sense of dread washed over me that I could not name.

But I know it now. And I recognize it in her voice.

She felt what I felt. Maybe you feel it too. That gut-level knowing that this is not normal. That this is not safe. That it is all theater—organized chaos meant to be a smokescreen, drawing eyes away from the man behind the curtain.

She reminded me how helpless I felt when the alarm was ringing for me, but all around me I sensed apathy. People didn’t want to talk about it. They wanted to turn off the news and hope for the best in the next election.

Ignoring the fact that if this president gets his way, there won’t be a next election.

We are past denial. We are past waiting.

To Carole, and to all the ones who warned us early:

We heard you. And we are with you now.

Your voice didn’t echo into silence. It struck something. It cracked something open. And now more of us are stepping into the light.

We are cutting through the noise. We are reclaiming the truth. We are remembering our agency.

You showed us how to see it. Now we show them how to stop it.

**Clarity is the beginning of resistance.

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