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\n What they\u2019re saying<\/p>\n\u201cAyanna and Lateefah, both are women who are on the cutting edge of turning this world around back on its right side.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014 Barbara Lee, Oakland Mayor (San Francisco Chronicle)<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to be very clear, the halls of Congress are a horrific place. It is so racist, a place that was built by people from the African diaspora created to keep us in chains. And not much has changed. \u2026 I want you to hear this: We exist in the House of Representatives with the (Ku Klux) Klan.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014 Lateefah Simon, U.S. Representative (San Francisco Chronicle)<\/p>\n
\u201cAs I move in and out of many spaces and places with people, from Illinois to Massachusetts to Texas to California, people want us to advance solutions that go far and deep. They want us to be bold and aspirational. They don’t want us to shrink. And they want us to fight like hell. \u2026 There’s a dictator in the White House, and the only way to beat him is with defiance.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014 Ayanna Pressley, U.S. Representative (San Francisco Chronicle)<\/p>\n
What\u2019s next<\/p>\n
Pressley and Simon both voted for a measure to invoke the War Powers Act to restrict Trump’s bombing campaign against Iran, but it failed to pass. They vowed to continue fighting the administration’s actions through Congress.<\/p>\n
The takeaway<\/p>\n
Pressley’s call to action in Oakland reflects the growing resistance movement against the Trump administration, particularly among young and diverse voters seeking bold, progressive solutions. Her three-point plan of ‘raising good humans,’ ‘bringing your gift’ to the resistance, and ‘radically dreaming’ of a better future resonated with the crowd and underscores the Democratic Party’s shift toward a more progressive agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on Mar. 9, 2026 Got story updates? Submit your updates here. \u203a At an event in Oakland,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-213060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}