Three Wins Today: Oct 6, 2025

This moment will be less than a paragraph in the history books if we do this right.

Change is slow.

I know, you don’t want to hear it, but that’s reality.

A lot of people are waiting for that thing that happens that literally snaps us back to Jan 19, 2025.

That thing doesn’t exist. That thing can’t exist. There is no amount of resisting that will lead to an instantaneous turning point. That’s just not reality, that’s a superhero movie.

But each action adds up.

Consider the Montgomery Bus Boycott. We think about the actual boycott as the bulk of the work. It started Dec 1, 1955 and lasted 13 months.

But that was just the event that got attention, not the work leading up to it. It started when a group of Black women got together to form the Women’s Political Council of Montgomery in 1946, and the idea for the boycott itself was born in 1953.

They had to figure out every little detail to make it successful. How can you get around without taking the bus? Who do they need to meet with to lay out their demands? What do you say are the demands? How do you get every Black person in Montgomery to follow the requirements for a successful boycott?

It was a process. And each little piece was instrumental in creating the final boycott.

I use the Boycott because so many people look at it and see a very successful thing without any of the background and truly think it just happened.

I created a really poignant quote today:

Every little win gives us the tools we need for history to look back and think we stopped this overnight

We WANT history to look back on this period and see a turning point and decide it happened out of thin air, but in the moment that couldn’t be less what needs to happen.

Every protest, yes, even the ones where people are just holding up signs on the sidewalk is a piece of the process.

Every single second we resist, we are creating the environment for that big event that brings about the end of this regime, and the pervasiveness of the MAGA ideology as a whole.

But it’s not December 1, 1955. It’s more like 1950. The boycott is maybe an idea that’s been thrown around a few times, but the focus is on brainstorming “what can we do to overhaul the Montgomery bus system?”

We are brainstorming, we are trying things and seeing what works, and we are succeeding time and time again.

But it’s going to be a while of this before we hit on that event that is in the history books in 50 years. This part might be a paragraph in a book exclusively about that event. And it’s the most important paragraph of that entire book.

So we MUST keep fighting every single day. Apathy now will ensure that book never exists cause we won’t succeed.

Use the power of one, figure out where you fit in and make sure to amplify everyone who already has.

Every single of one us has the power to change the world.

I hope you find joy in today’s wins. All three of them are inching us one step closer to taking back this country, and the world.

Hawai’i

Wed, Sept 17 - Back in 2021, a man named Charles Zuffante was arrested for possession of Meth. He wasn’t arrested from his car, he was arrested from his girlfriend’s. There was some in his pocket, but the vast majority was found throughout the car. When the trial came, the police just outright lied saying that Zuffante had confessed everything, like all the meth was his.

And there was nothing he could do about it. It ended up being his word against the police officer’s thanks to the fact that even though there were cameras in the interrogation room, the officer had never turned them on, so there was no evidence of his real interrogation.

So he sued, and last month, the Hawai’i Supreme Court reversed the lower court decision and full recordings of every single interrogation will now be required.

They said:

We hold that the Hawaiʻi Constitution’s due process clause requires law enforcement to record in-station custodial interrogations. We also hold that article I, section 5 of the Hawaiʻi Constitution requires the recording of outside-the-station custodial interrogations when feasible.

So going forward in Hawai’i, every single interrogation must be fully recorded with audio and visual, so something like this can’t happen again.

And in addition, the ruling is retroactive for open cases:

The rule is thus prospective in effect, but applies retroactively only to cases that are on direct review or not yet final as of the date of this case’s decision.

Meaning, certain previous interrogations may be thrown out if they weren’t recorded.

ACLU of Hawai’i legal director, Wookie Kim told Bolts that the rulling:

ensures fundamental fairness and integrity in the criminal legal system, and more specifically it ensures that people aren’t wrongfully convicted because of inaccurate or misleading testimony by officers about what happened in an interrogation room or during an interrogation.

Congrats to Hawai’i, hopefully other states can follow suit!

Des Moines, IA

Tue, Sept 30 - At 10:30am, around 200 students at 5 district high schools walked out. At 3pm, along with around 100 allies they met at the capitol to protest against the ICE abduction of their former Superintendent, Dr. Ian Roberts.

Ian Schaffer, one of the organizers told Des Moines Register:

The government hates people speaking out. This administration thrives on people being silent. However, it’s people like us who are keeping democracy alive and fighting fascism.

He’s right. We are at our most powerful when we speak out. Every time we speak out we gain power, every time we stay silent or become apathetic, we give them power. They took Dr. Roberts because they thought they could get away with it.

It’s people like Schaffer who will make sure they don’t.

This is another example of the power of one. These are high school students and they made a statement.

You can see more about the protests from the We Are Iowa Local 5 News below!

Moldova

Sun, Sept 28 - Moldova was at a crossroads, they were voting for a new government. President Maia Sandu called it “the most important election in the history of the country.” Sound familiar? She is the leader of the Party of Action and Solidarity party, or PAS. This is the pro EU party.

One canvasser for the party told DW:

I hope our country will decide to become part of the EU, as a democratic country that respects human rights. People must take responsibility for their vote because their vote decides our future and the future of generations to come.

Everything was at stake. The alternative was one of a handful of pro-Russian parties that encouraged staying neutral in the Ukrainian genocide. They said joining the EU would make the country poorer, etc. You know the grift. Except, it worked here, it didn’t work there.

PAS lost 8 seats, but still ended the election with over 50% of the vote.

Moldovan PM Nicu Popescu told France 24:

The levels of inflation, the economic shock of high energy costs have been bigger on Moldova than they were on Germany or France. And yet Moldovans voted this way because they want to live in a country that is democratic, European and at peace. And there was a big danger (in this election) that pro-Russian forces might have drawn Moldova into Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Democracy had to win this election, and it did. This should be getting way more play in the US. especially among resisters, than it is.

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So those are the wins I have for you. I hope they empower you to resist today!

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